I am a big fan of amusement parks, theme parks, whatever you want to call them. But I don’t think I experience them in the same way many guests do. I think it has a lot to do with my relationship with theme parks over the years. It happened pretty young. I grew up in the Dallas and Fort Worth area where we had Six Flags Over Texas. It was a regional theme park and something we did as a family a few times a year. It had a few coasters, an observation deck, a handful of dark an

Every time I get in the middle of an online discussion of what’s next for Universal Studios Islands of Adventure, I see a lot of suggestions about Pokémon or Zelda or DC Comics or One Piece or SpongeBob or Wicked… And with the Lost Continent section having been bulldozed for a replacement, those all have serious positives and negatives. But I think there may be another idea that at least a small portion of Lost Continent could be used for. This is largely based on personal ex

I am by no means affiliated with Disney. I know the parks, love the rides, watch the movies… But I am literally a thousand miles away from any meeting room where their decisions are made. But I still wonder how it’s done. Especially when it comes to choosing which IPs to associate with a new attraction. Why is it that Finding Nemo has a ride and Cars is getting a themed land while Atlantis and Treasure Planet are not represented? I think in my head as a kid there was a group