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How Bowers

@goawaygreen.bsky.social
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Frequent WDW visitor from ’72-’99. Co-host of RetroWDW podcast. Cocktail maker, tiki fan, font finder, and UX/UI professional. Witty theme park-inspired merch at store.maka.link/goawaygreen

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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 50m
I bet @wfdaveensign.bsky.social knows. I think he and his wife used to eat there occasionally.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 8h
Didn’t that used to be a pancake restaurant?
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 18h
In you’re a Disney parks fan and don’t know much about tiki, Tiki-A-Go-Go is a great intro event. I’ll be there with presentations on Journey Into Imagination and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, and there are a couple other presenters who are Disney-focused. Tickets and info at tikiagogoevent.com
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Tiki A Go Go | Annual tiki gathering in Orlando FL
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 18h
Tiki fans and the tiki curious should come out to Morgan’s Cove in Tampa this Sunday for awesome cocktails. The organizers of the fantastic Tiki-A-Go-Go event will be there to answer questions and giveaway prizes! And I’ll be there, too.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Imagineer is so good at building next-gen robots, I need to get into the curtain business.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He could drive 55 any time he wanted to, he just didn’t want to. Nothing prevented him from doing it.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I heard the ghost of Bob Chapek wanted to raise the price of character breakfasts by $30, but Josh held a seance in the Haunted Mansion and convinced him to only raise the prices by $10. He’s a hero!
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When I first scrolled past it, I thought it was a wait time sign and the middle of the Blumhouse logo was a time of 1 minute.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Somebody has got to stop Bob Chapek from ruining the guest experience!!!
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RetroWDW @retrowdw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Another addition to our already incredible guest list: Disney Legend, Disneyland "Club 55" member, and RetroMagic "Five Timer-Club" recipient Tom Nabbe will be taking the stage in Anaheim this upcoming Feb. 6-7 with us. Tom started his career hustling Disneyland Newspapers outside the park in 1955.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I can’t believe Bob Chapek is STILL doing this!
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Making money
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
September 30 / October… uh, wait, what?
Sept 30 - October 1 Meme but Mickey and Minnie dressed in normal outfits on one side labeled August 6 and in Halloween outfits labeled August 7.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
September 30 - October 1 Meme:
Bob Iger as September 30, Bob Chapek as October 1
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RetroWDW @retrowdw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's Bob Weis just before the opening of Disney-MGM Studios, talking about the pressure to make that park as good as Magic Kingdom, which celebrates its 55th anniversary today. Come see Bob live at our RetroMagic California event February 6-7, 2027. Tickets are still available at retromagic.net
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
But Tito and Rummy don’t rhyme, so it’s 100% more factual, but 25% less funny.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Eric Schmitt once called me a dirt bag using a FastPass to ride Flight of Passage, but it was really an Express Pass for Flight of the Hippogryph.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I guess the mug is of Rummy’s Russian cousin, Stoli.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is Geordi never looking at the camera?
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RetroWDW @retrowdw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We are thrilled to announce that noted author and former WDI President, Bob Weis, will be joining us at RetroMagic 2027 in California this upcoming February. We have a handful of tickets available still those those who would like to join us.
Former WDI President, Bob Weiss, who will be appearing at RetroMagic California, February 6-7, 2027, at the Embassy Suites Anaheim South.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
They should open an upscale escargo restaurant at Disney Village in Paris named SNL.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m also available for birthdays and bar/bat mitzvahs!
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Bryan Mon @monstergram7.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Rhinoceros (“it’s a small world”)- “I see you” #disney #itsasmallworld #rhinoceros #hello #stickynoteart
A flower deco rated rhinoceros happily plays a large drum. Sawubona means “I see you.”
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That’s so corny. 😉
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I just figured it was like “Office Space” and they didn’t like printers or something.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
You have to add the text at the bottom to complete the sentence: A FEW OF THE MILLIONS WHO HAVE MADE DISNEY-MGM STUDIOS THE MOST POPULAR MOVIE AND TV STUDIO IN THE WORLD!
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Well, that hasn’t changed!
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
People who for decades listened to Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Marvin Gaye, Creedence Clearwater Revival, CSNY, Peter Gabriel, U2, and Sting are complaining that music has suddenly become political.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Producer: You get those drawings of Bea Arthur’s costume done? Bob Mackie: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Producer: what
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There were early plans for what was essentially a Sea World clone that probably only got cancelled because of the oil crisis and Sea World actually opening up in Orlando.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Live feed of Mitch McConnell showing up in Congress today to vote to take away health care from everyone.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There were many claims at the time that The Living Seas was intended as a Sea World spoiler despite the experiences being so different.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I believe it was the Bass brothers who told Eisner that he was leaving money on the table by not having more Disney resorts. That’s when Caribbean Beach got built and flurry of resorts followed. Some speculate Animal Kingdom was approved to keep people from going to Busch Gardens Tampa.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Oof.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Our non profit restores home movies (and some official releases) of Walt Disney World material and color correcting from old film is a giant POTA. It really takes an artist’s eye to do it properly and we have debates all the time about AI making images too sharp and removing too much film grain.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
He was, which is not what Disney needs to do.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Disney’s problem to solve is digitally re-outputting from its CAPS computer system with colors that emulate film stock. They aren’t scanning prints whose colors have degraded.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t want to say that it’s trivial, but they could certainly output color cards, measure the before and after values, and code a filter that makes the adjustment. It’s absolutely feasible. These kinds of filters exist on camera phones to simulate photographic film stocks.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It was officially called “The Good Neighbor Policy,” and I believe it was Dick Nunis who championed it. The thought was that people wouldn’t come and vacation for one attraction, so by banding together, they made the area more attractive for tourism. Eisner abandoned the practice.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So in the same attraction little kids will meet and greet these oversized, fluffy costume characters, plus see smooth-skinned, non-moving fiberglass versions of them, and see animated versions of them in picture frames. THIS IS INCEPTION FOR TODDLERS!
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For when only the most authentic Polynesian popcorn will do.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Good news! You can still get Tenderflake lard in Canada!
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I couldn’t find a match to the one in Paris but I didn’t check every variation.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I just accidentally found your seat on an Intamin Gyro Drop
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I really hope she imitated the voice when she said they to you.
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Chefs Kiss French Chef
ALT: Chefs Kiss French Chef
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Is this the third or fourth time they’ve done this attraction? DisneyQuest, somewhere else, Rakiki’s Planet Watch…
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Cosmic Rewind has crotch bump.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
How buckety? This is Incredicoaster.
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How Bowers @goawaygreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I think I jumped because a logo with a ™️ may never be federally filed. But I didn’t realize that you could see pending applications as I only look up old things that are active or abandoned.
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