The Lowdown on the Plus-up - A Theme Park Podcast
Theme park history with no guardrails. Kelly McCubbin and Peter Overstreet go deep on Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, and the forgotten amusement parks that deserve to be remembered — uncovering the stories behind the attractions, the Imagineers and showmen who built them, the culture that influenced them, and what could make them even better. A Boardwalk Times Podcast.
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Randotti Skulls - The Disneyland Souvenir That Doubled As A Bludgeon
A three-pound glow-in-the-dark skull from Disneyland sounds like a joke until you realize it was real, widely sold, and now weirdly hard to find. We’re talking about Randotti skulls: handmade chalkware souvenirs that once hung from hot rod mirr...
Disneyland's Indiana Jones Adventure and the Giant Ice-Maker of Doom!
A giant boulder looms, your jeep “panics,” and somehow you leave feeling like you just lived a 1920s Republic serial on steroids!We trace how Indiana Jones is born from the language of movie serials and classic adventure cinema, then fo...
Disneyland - Can We Still Find Walt? | A Lowdown Shorty
Something is quietly disappearing inside Disneyland, and it isn’t a single ride. It’s the feeling of Walt Disney himself: the founder's fingerprints, the hand-crafted oddities, and the design choices that made Anaheim’s original park feel like ...
Big Thunder Mountain - The Mine Train that Ran Away from History
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad feels like pure fun: a runaway mine train, a mountain of red rock, and a few perfect sight gags that hit at 35 miles an hour. But the ride’s real story starts way earlier, in the myths America told itself about the...
Roger Tofte and The Handmade Magic Of Oregon’s Enchanted Forest
Start with a finish-line smile and a hand-built castle. We open by honoring Jeff Galloway—the Olympian and Run-Walk-Run mentor whose you can do it turned marathons into memories for everyday runners—then spend most of this short episode salutin...
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