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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 28/05/2026

I’m so serious that I think they should use this as an opportunity to send components of the original back to Anaheim and have two shows. Disneyland gets Walt’s Worlds Fair version (1900s-20s-40s-60s) and Disney World gets its Horizons-esque sequel (1960s-80s-2000s-future).

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 28/04/2026

No ads. No clickbait. No "breaking news." Park Lore is different by design – a place supported by Members instead of pageviews, and filled with quality-over-quantity art and storytelling. If you can, support it for even $2/month. Thank you for visiting! parklore.com/join

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 28/04/2026

And that foundation opens up into worlds of "theme-park-able" ideas – from-scratch "armchair Imagineering," creative concepting, deep dive podcasts, and full Build-Outs that envision what could be if "what if...?" became real. parklore.com/links/

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 28/04/2026

Through #ParkLoreArt, I hope that "all who come to this happy place" can find fresh ways to see the parks – new perspectives! Deep histories! Unexpected contexts! Data viz! Real citations! Those are the "lenses" that change how we see rides, lands, parks, and the industry...!

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 28/04/2026

PINNED: Theme park fans! Armchair Imagineers! EPCOT historians! California Adventure apologists! Coaster counters! Dark ride nerds! ✨ Park Lore is my collection of stories & art meant to help us all see the parks we know and love through a new lens. parklore.com/links 🧵⤵️

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 21/04/2026

Here's an updated look at the refreshed BUZZ LIGHTYEAR'S SPACE RANGER SPIN. This original Buzz ride re-used the track layout of If You Had Wings and its aviation-themed successors, cleverly wrapping around Tomorrowland's CircleVision theater! #LayoutTuesday #ParkLoreArt

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 14/04/2026

This is seriously a beautiful ride, with incredible sets and animatronics. But its big innovation was using a trackless dark ride system (before Tokyo's Pooh!) to actually "eject" vehicles that don't score high enough to proceed. Two early exits separate riders from the Minotaur!

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 14/04/2026

#LayoutTuesday returns with LABERINTO DEL MINOTAURO at Spain's Terra Mítica. This trackless dark ride opened with the mythology-themed park in 2000. It's a genuine marvel, but it's most unique feature is that some riders don't get to the big finale at all... #ParkLoreArt 🧵

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 03/02/2026

The clock has run out, and extinction has arrived. Refreshed to commemorate this Lost Legend, my hand-illustrated inside look at DINOSAUR at Disney’s Animal Kingdom… The real goatasaurus of weird, ambitious, norm-breaking ‘90s Imagineering at its most unhinged & experimental. 🥹

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 08/01/2026

Riding on @tf1design.bsky.social’s coattails as he releases his Build-Outs of Disney World’s parks, here’s my Magic Kingdom reimagining from a few years ago! You can walk through every decision and ride at parklore.com/main/buildout-mk!

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 23/12/2025

Guests can battle & catch wild Pokémon in four wild zones around Dominio, healing and evolving at Pokémon Centers and challenging friends, family, and other visitors in augmented reality Battle Pods. The raft ride becomes the interactive Pokémon Snap Splash Safari, and we get an E-Ticket dark ride!

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 23/12/2025

One of the land's attractions is an interactive Pokémon Gym show, wherein viewers can help either the trainer or the Gym Leader make choices – a real-time special-effects show with live actors, puppets, and animatronics with multiple combinations.

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 23/12/2025

In Cipresso City's Pokémon Lab, visitors can get oriented to the land's mechanics, then (either via Universal Play app, or a physical Pokéball for purchase) select one of the land's three started who I love like children: Pompeiiano, Aquilonico, and Lontralier.

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 23/12/2025

One of my favorite projects I've ever drawn up is THE POKÉMON WORLD: DOMINIO REGION – my concept for converting Toon Lagoon at Universal Islands of Adventure into an Italian-inspired region in the Pokémon World, comprised of Cipresso City, Costa di Spruzzi, and Tempio di Losario. (1/3)

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 15/12/2025

Thank you to everyone who spent time with my deep dive into the history of Walt Disney Studios Park this weekend! (parklore.com/main/walt-di...) To help tell the story, I drew this pretty sobering look at this park's state when it opened in 2002...

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 12/12/2025

It's been a long time since I've published one of my in-depth histories, but the newest entry is here – the full story of WALT DISNEY STUDIOS PARK at Disneyland Paris. It's an absolutely gargantuan feature, but if anyone will read it, I know it's you all. parklore.com/main/walt-disney-studios

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 02/12/2025

One of my favorite #LayoutTuesday comparisons – the before-and-after of JAWS at Universal Studios Florida becoming The Wizarding World of Harry Potter: Diagon Alley. See them overlaid at parklore.com/main/then-now! And join for $2/month to support ad-free theme park storytelling!

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 29/11/2025

If you're doing any small business shopping this weekend, consider becoming a supporting Member of Park Lore for even $2/month. It's a great way to support the kind of theme park art & storytelling (with no ads or clickbait) that we all say we want more of! Join at parklore.com/join!

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 13/11/2025

I've added both individual stickers and a Mountain Badge sweatshirt to my online store – shop.parklore.com!

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 13/11/2025

One of the first things I drew in the early days of Park Lore were "badges" to commemorate the "Disney Mountains." Just for fun, I thought it would be a good time to refresh and upgrade those rough sketches into more refined sticker designs! I think it's a fun collection! #ParkLoreArt

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 11/11/2025

A brand new #LayoutTuesday illustration this week – a peek inside THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS: OFF THE LEASH! If you're still thinking Universal can't deliver in this genre, this ride will prove otherwise. 60+ animatronics, phenomenal gags, so much detail... A home run! #ParkLoreArt

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 04/11/2025

For #LayoutTuesday, here's a look at the before & after of Islands of Adventure's Jurassic Park. The world-building walkthrough TRICERATOPS ENCOUNTER and the high speed VELOCICOASTER both bring guests close to dinosaurs...! Just, y'know, at a different speed #ParkLoreArt parklore.com/main/then-now

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 31/10/2025

Earlier this year, I shared my hand-drawn Build-Out (and accompanying in-depth written walkthrough) of a dreamy, armchair-Imagineered version of Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's one of the projects I'm proudest of. Take the journey at parklore.com/main/buildou...!

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 28/10/2025

Before Nemo, there was THE LIVING SEAS. Guests would access this pavilion through a complex, multi-phase introduction that included a pre-show film, a "descent" in underwater Hydrolators, and an arrival at SeaBase Alpha via an Omnimover through the ocean. #ParkLoreArt #LayoutTuesday

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 24/10/2025

The annual TEA / AECOM theme park attendance estimates for 2024 have been published! So of course, I took that as an opportunity to do some data visualization, then write a 3,000 word reflection on 2024's trends. 😎 Check out my thoughts at parklore.com/vault/attendance-2024! #ParkLoreArt

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 23/10/2025

I have been trying to diversify beyond the “X” ecosystem for obvious reasons, so if you happen to be on Instagram (bc meta is so great 🙃), join the fun there I guess! Hahaha

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 23/10/2025

Disneyland’s absolutely spectacular Evil Queen (subject of many deservedly viral moments) seems to be hinting (in character!) that the Queen will be switching from year round to seasonal (Halloween) appearances, ending November 1. tiktok.com/t/ZTMHPVnoS/

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 22/10/2025

This is so great and if it was $59.99 it would be in my cart, but $160?!?! For 12 mini-plush in a cardboard Advent calendar?! 😩

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 22/10/2025

In 2024, Antarctica became home to a ride better fitting SeaWorld's modern focus. PENGUIN TREK is a launched family coaster by tried-and-true Swiss manufacturer B&M. It even includes a brief "dark ride" section. And still ends with penguins. See more at parklore.com/main/then-now!

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 21/10/2025

What *was* notable was that the compact dark ride was part of a sort of "home-grown" Living Land – ANTARCTICA – a sort of immersive (but y'know, SeaWorld-budget-scaled) take on the Wizarding World formula! Later today, we'll see how the dark ride space was re-used... parklore.com/main/then-now!

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 21/10/2025

It was shocking that the tech we all watched bring Mystic Manor to life would make its U.S. debut in a ride at SeaWorld...! But ads showing riders joyfully sliding atop icy, blue-skied glaciers sort of mis-sold what was a fairly claustrophobic, uneven ride looking for a reason to exist...

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 21/10/2025

It's a brand new #LayoutTuesday, featuring SeaWorld Orlando's EMPIRE OF THE PENGUIN! The product of one of SeaWorld's periodic eras of (invariably doomed) ambition, the ride beat Disney & Universal to the trackless LPS dark ride punch! But the results? Well... 😬 #ParkLoreArt

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 15/10/2025

Another #ParkLoreLandline has joined the villa. UNIVERSAL KIDS RESORT in Frisco, Texas will open with seven lands centered on DreamWorks, Illumination, and Nickelodeon properties. What will its landline look like in 25 years? 🤔 See all my hand-drawn land-timelines at parklore.com/main/landlines!

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 14/10/2025

I would argue that Pinocchio is probably the least essential of the Fantasyland dark rides... so I'll ask you: what other Fantasyland-flavored dark ride would you like to see in this space, born of that same '83-style design language? Here are some floorplans to play with! 🤓 #armchairimagineering

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 14/10/2025

A new #LayoutTuesday entry this week! PINOCCHIO'S DARING JOURNEY debuted at Tokyo Disneyland in 1983, built in tandem with one in Disneyland's New Fantasyland the same year. Then, it was an Opening Day Original in Paris! #ParkLoreArt See more hand-drawn ride layouts at parklore.com/main/then-now/!

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 12/10/2025

I’m gonna NEEEEEED someone to be honest with me about what’s going on here. Fantasmic with ZERO pyro. Not even a cannon blast for Peter Pan. This happens at least weekly now, and it is totally unacceptable. I love Fantasmic, and my feelings rn? Just end it. Let’s be done.

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 08/10/2025

A major expansion to the Y-axis today with Disneyland's annual ticket price hike. A 1-Day, 1-Park ticket now ranges from $104 to $224. Add up to $90 for Park Hopper access and up to nearly $50 for Lightning Lane access.

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 08/10/2025

It’s actually wild that my Magic Key is blocked out on Saturday when my friends are in town and I can’t upgrade my pass. The only choice is to buy two 1-day tickets for THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS EACH. 😭 This has really gotten out of hand and I’m embarrassed. BUT my motto will be…

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 07/10/2025

NEW! At Hong Kong Disneyland, the JUNGLE RIVER CRUISE was one of just two opening day headliners. Serving as the park's "Rivers of America" (with Tarzan's Treehouse as its Tom Sawyer Island), this unique version ends with a battle of the fire & water gods. #ParkLoreArt #LayoutTuesday

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 02/10/2025

If you catch me at Disneyland wearing my own merch over the weekend pls be sure to say in a loud, clear voice how much you enjoy my work so the friends I’m bringing (for their first visit!) will know I’m not a loser and people actually read my stuff! 🥰

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 30/09/2025

Once the Big Bad Wolf was felled, a "spiritual sequel" arose in its place. VERBOLTEN is a multi-launch family coaster filled with surprises that literally recreates Big Bad Wolf's finale! Compare their layouts with a slider at parklore.com/main/then-now #ParkLoreArt #LayoutTuesday

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 30/09/2025

There's maybe no more legendary lost coaster than Busch Gardens Williamsburg's BIG BAD WOLF – a suspended, swinging Arrow classic that turned a generation into a rampaging storybook creature terrorizing a German village. #ParkLoreArt #LayoutTuesday

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 28/09/2025

As someone with a Verbolten tattoo..

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 26/09/2025

Over the years, a few people have asked for Park Lore logo merch! Since I'm headed to the parks in a few weeks, I whipped some up for myself. If any of you are interested, check it out at shop.parklore.com, and keep an eye out for me in Anaheim... 👀

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 23/09/2025

I realized this week that somehow, I had never drawn the layout for Disneyland's version of Tiana's Bayou Adventure! So for #LayoutTuesday this week, we're goin' down the bayou. See how it compares to Magic Kingdom's at parklore.com/main/here-there #ParkLoreArt

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 21/09/2025

The sad thing is that this kind of thing was always that intangible but perceptible “Disney difference” people talk about. That the little stuff matters and people can feel the difference even if they don’t have a specific tangible thing to cite.

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 16/09/2025

In parks where you often "save the day" by just riding along, it's kind of cool that you play the part of a coerced, corrupted file working for the "bad guy" (even tho yes, it turns out you were a double agent, yadda yadda). Anyway, I went from a skeptic to thinking this should happen every autumn!

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 16/09/2025

The wings are there if you look closely! I feel pretty confident this is a hardware duplicate of the “DCA TOT” model with the show building out front, the motor wings, and the wider three-shaft combined show/drop VVC tower.

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Park Lore✨ @parklore.com · 16/09/2025

Given recent permit filings, let's kick off a new #LayoutTuesday series with a look at the LOST CONTINENT – a legendary land at Islands of Adventure, once containing three mystical, literary realms. Read more: parklore.com/main/lost-continent Compare then & now: parklore.com/main/then-now

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