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I found these photos back in the day when I was a kid. Man Universal Studios out did themselves with He-man and Transformers charcter meet and greets.

TRAVELERS, WE HAVE NEVER BEEN SO BACK!

BY POPULAR DEMAND, THE BELOVED BEAR OF THE COSMOS, CAPTAIN CACAO IS FINALLY GETTING A MEET AND GREET!!!

But I hope the other Celestians become walkaround characters as well, cause what's Captain Cacao without Maya?

Nevertheless, I'M SO GLAD THAT UNIVERSAL FINALLY LISTENED!

I guess getting loud does solve your problems after all.

four hard facts. all verifiable.

fact 1. the Mayor of Phantom Canyon, the malevolent animatronic figure who presides over the haunted town in Phantom Manor at Disneyland Paris, uses the exact Dreamfinder face mold. confirmed by imagineers. documented on Disney parks wiki. the casting is not in dispute.

fact 2. Phantom Manor opened in April 1992. the Mayor was installed then. Dreamfinder was still actively operating at EPCOT in 1992. so the duplicate face existed in Paris while the original was still in Florida. six years before the original was retired.

fact 3. Dreamfinder was abruptly removed from Journey Into Imagination in October 1998. Disney has never given a meaningful public explanation. fans revolted. the replacement ride was so disastrous it had to be redone within two years. and yet Dreamfinder still never came back.

fact 4. the Mayor of Phantom Canyon presides over a town full of trapped souls who can’t move on. people frozen in place forever in a cursed waiting room. that is Phantom Manor’s entire premise.

now put it together.

Dreamfinder’s original job at EPCOT was collecting children’s dreams and storing them in the Dreamport. he was a literal collector of trapped imagination, kept in a pavilion you couldn’t leave without exiting through a gift shop.

the Mayor of Phantom Canyon’s job is presiding over the souls of trapped townspeople who can’t move on.

it’s the same job. one is the optimistic version. one is the cursed version.

Disney didn’t kill Dreamfinder. they cursed him. they built his replacement in Paris in 1992, a darker, malevolent, ghost-town version of him, and waited six years until they could quietly retire the original. now if you want to see Dreamfinder’s face still moving, still speaking, still operating, you have to fly to Paris and ride a ride about being trapped forever in a haunted town.

the Dream-Catching Machine is in the Disney Archives.
the man who operated it is in Phantom Canyon.

his only friend, Figment, is in a literal prison cell in Mission Breakout at California Adventure.

three pieces of the same character. three different parks. each preserved in a context slightly off from how they originally existed. like Disney needed to dissolve the original carefully, piece by piece, so nobody noticed the body was missing.

next time you fly through CDG, take the RER to Marne-la-Vallée. ride Phantom Manor. look at the Mayor’s face.
that’s Dreamfinder. that’s where he went. that’s what he is now.

Hi, Disney World reddit!

My husband was showing off his autograph collection to our daughter, and we ran into this mystery from his trip in 1996 (he remembers the cake castle well!)

We can't find any reference to who this is, and are hoping you fine experts can help us out!

Can you tell us who Lala VanGolden is?

I live somewhat close to Pigeon Forge and for Mother's Day my wife and daughter wanted to go to the Titanic museum. It essentially shares a parking lot with the Hatfield and McCoy dinner show, which I plan on making them do over Father's Day. I'll have a full write up after the show to see if it really earned its victory of the dinner show final four.

The boys really need to come out and spend a week or two here doing all the insane things up and down the strip. It's like I-Drive in Orlando but somehow even more I-Drivey.

Yeah, it's like $45, but it does sound tasty.

First time at the Family Museum and this podcast has warped me enough that I was seeking out Hazel throughout. She got mentioned twice! Somehow not in the polo section?!?
The second time was unfortunately in relation to Walt’s death at the end of the museum 🙃🙃

Thought I’d share my signed Jimmy Angel CD. Favorite tracks are Bad Girls Do It For Fun and House Cat Blues. Shout out to The Tastemaker for recommending his shows. The 50s are the best, forget the rest!