New on my Substack tonight! My longest post to date, & as I'm sure you're all even more excited for, my first non-Disney one! This one's all about the highs & lows of owning my Chevy Bolt I got this past June. I promise it is more interesting than it sounds!! open.substack.com/pub/dreamfin...

I hope everyone at RetroMagic this weekend has an absolute blast!! I dearly wanted to attend this year, but life has been kicking my ass lately and I just couldn’t make it happen :( I got to spend my morning today down the street with The General, a small consolation for not being with y’all

I hope everyone had a wonderful time at the RetroMagic Living Seas event tonight! I would’ve loved to come, but I just couldn’t make it work with my finances. Spending tonight thinking about my first RetroWDW event in that same venue eight years ago. Feels like a lifetime ago.

Belated congratulations to Disney & GM on the opening of Test Track 3.0! With that being topical I’d like to take the opportunity to show off my new car, it’s a Chevy Bolt EUV! I fell in love with this car at EPCOT years ago, & when my old car bit the dust it was my first choice of replacement.

Test Track 3.0 soft opened to all guests today, marking a major milestone for EPCOT as its transportation pavilion becomes Future World's first to make it to a fourth incarnation. That said, I want to take one last moment to talk about 2.0, one of EPCOT's most misunderstood attractions (link below)

Bluesky friends! My car’s engine blew last week (world’s crummiest birthday present) and I unfortunately have no money to take care of that right now. I’m listing some stuff on eBay rn to try and help with costs if any of y’all may be interested in anything. Please check it out! 🫶 ebay.us/m/Fd7Aq7

Checking in for my monthly attempt at being active here. Did you know they’re opening up a new theme park in Orlando? I checked it out the other day, seems kinda cool

Me in the national security group chat

I know a lot happened in 2020 so it doesn't surprise me that it fell through the cracks, but I feel like we don't talk about the life and swift death of Quibi enough. That had to be at least a top five funniest thing to happen that year

Here’s the details on the Stolen Kingdom art show. Less than a month away! If you still want to submit art, it’s not too late. Looking to have everything by end of the month. If you’re local, come out on April 12, it’s free! See some art and Disney artifacts from Horizons Discovery Island and more!

I would like to show everyone my new son

Woke up from a dream I don’t remember and the only thought I had in my head once I was awake was “The AOL Instant Messenger guy is made of cheese” I feel like this is probably some kind of vital message to share with the world sent to my subconscious for reasons unknown

Who up loving their retro tech and EPCOT Center

Update on little TV! I tracked down an original remote for it on eBay, & once that arrived I was able to get into its service menu and calibrate a few issues with the picture. It’s still not perfect, but it’s working and looking great now!! Been using it for gaming and to watch old animated TV shows

I don't think I'll ever get over losing the Rivers of America to greed. This corporation is now charging a family of four $800 for park entry, $1,600 for special snowflake expedited entry, and $50 for VIP parking that's still a mile and a lagoon away — all before the park even opens.

Spent the last several years purging my DVD collection to replace them with Blu-Ray/UHD Blu-Ray as applicable, but ever since I got this TV suddenly I want DVDs of stuff mastered in Standard Definition (namely old animated shows that haven’t been remastered) to watch on it. What a world.

Sick Cranium Command reference at the pop up SNL 50 thing in the Race thru New York gift shop

Went thrifting today and found this lovely 13” Trinitron set. I’ve been looking for one of these for a reasonable price for years now so I am super excited!! She needs a little love but works like a charm.

It is with an overwhelming amount of love in my heart that I can say I saw Stolen Kingdom, & it has truly been worth the wait. It's a lovely look back at the history of WDW urbex leading up to the Buzzy story, which felt like a trip down memory lane for me. Oh, and I am in it!!

It's odd that for the last decade WDW has been focused on making all the parks (save for DAK which they're only now getting to) more like Magic Kingdom, & now Magic Kingdom itself is becoming lesser Sad about the Rivers. Don't think I can say much more than has already been said

Just got on the monorail to look at Future World in case anybody is wondering how life without my WDW AP is going

My thoughts on realism in movies and games

I know there is a lot happening in the world right now but WDW fans should really be sounding the alarms and raising hell that they’re losing their Rivers of America and really try to to everything they can to let D’Amaro and Iger feel the heat for killing it off.

Why isn't my new apartment as cool as this?

Came home from work to find my Switch (which has been idle for months) was suddenly glowing bright orange and not responding to any input That’s good, right?

Thinking about how the Sonic the Hedgehog movie released five years ago today & how that premiere was the last time I ever got to hang out with all my high school friends together In retrospect I don’t think we talk about how Sonic was the last pop culture thing before a major cultural shift enough

The trailer for Stolen Kingdom is finally here. Get your first taste of the chaos: youtu.be/OGB0flK0AGI?...

I respect the hell out of Zemeckis and Gale for putting their foot down and not letting it happen, but with a new stainless steel shitbox on the road that everybody likes to laugh at it really does feel like society is primed for a Back to the Future reboot

Just saw the new Captain America and opened this app right after for a change. Immediately saw other people talking about the movie. Opened Twitter, saw walls of nonsense. I think I’m really starting to warm up to this place, it’s great to be somewhere that feels more positive and genuine and human

Last month I happened upon something enormously cool - some prototype NES games from Taito. A video game preservation group graciously loaned me the hardware to dump the contents of these cartridges today, which has been a really fun way to spend my afternoon.

how to ruin a good shirt 😭 i would 100% wear this if the back was blank

Saw this screenshot last night and thought it was satire until I kept scrolling and saw each of these tweets individually. It really is burning down over there.

Does anybody remember that one old distwitter account that posted about these pancakes and their post went viral and suddenly they wouldn’t shut up about being an ihop influencer for like a month

I think what is finally gonna push me over the edge is how many people I follow on Twitter disappearing completely from that platform and only posting here. There’s gonna hit a point where I’m abandoning less people by jumping ship with them.

Just gifted an outrageous collection of Horizons blueprints from Josh Harris / www.epcotlegacy.com! It's ridiculous how much I needed these exact prints. Here are some highlights:

Little known fact: Prior to Epcot’s opening, each pavilion entombed an imagineer for good luck.

Last year I wrote an article chronicling my thoughts on MuppetVision closing, the concept of the defunct attraction, and what preserving an experience like MuppetVision really means. Unfortunately, I never published it. But today feels like a good day to do that! open.substack.com/pub/dreamfin...

fun and helpful laserdisc mascots of yore

Every social platform is becoming insufferable but I just can’t seem to migrate here completely…I think I am going to try again. Sucks watching everything become enshittified and being powerless to do anything about it

It is almost 1 AM and I find myself again hit with the overwhelming desire to go ride Living with the Land

Philips Video Telephone prototype (1973)

One of my friends recently acquired the head of one of the Flight into Imagination scene Dreamfinder animatronics and I’m enamored by everything about it. The fact that just his head was saved from the attraction, how different he looks with no hair anywhere… (Forgot to crosspost here from twitter)

There's nothing more Epcot '94 than walking through the breezeways.... Unaware when exactly a Balzac was going to whiz by your face.

Funniest thing about the bluesky migration so far is seeing people who’ve blocked me on twitter follow me here and people I’m moots with on twitter not refollow me here

Theme park community intro post! 🎢👋 Fav park - EPCOT Fav coaster - Hagrid's Magical Creatures Fav dark ride - Spaceship Earth Fav season - Winter Bucket list park - Tokyo DisneySea Last park visited - Islands of Adventure Last coaster ridden - Hulk Coaster count - Never paid attention to this... 🫣

General PSA for whoever might be finding me here: I exist on twitter under two handles; DreamfinderGuy and Lorange27. The former I post about theme parks on, the latter I post about everything else on. In the move here I'm only using the latter handle, and I'll be posting about all my interests.

Haven’t been to EPCOT in months, probably the longest amount of time I have gone without visiting in the last eight years, but today I woke up with the overwhelming desire to go ride Living with the Land Alas, school and work all day… 😪

Going through my twitter following using an extension to find bsky matches and it has me kind of emotional seeing the handles of mutuals I've not thought about in years. I feel like I've lived four lifetimes on that platform. I've been there for eight years, nearly half my life...

After months of feeling less and less comfy on the other app it feels like this is the true end of whatever was left of what it used to be. I can't scroll through today without feeling sick at almost every post. I truly hope that someday this platform starts to resemble old Twitter.

Live look at me coming on this app for the first time in a year having to unfollow all the friends I’ve lost since the last time I logged in