Lowdown on the Plus-Up presents: Ray Bradbury's Theme Park - The Great Electric Time Maze lowdown-plus-up.com/

"the fossil fuel industry has a real interest in funding panic over transgender people: It distracts the public from the very real and ongoing risks that climate change creates.” 🤬

Portland = Ghorman

boardwalktimes.net/alien-earth-... Now that Alien: Earth is done, it's interesting to see how much more resonant this is than I thought it was when I wrote it. #disney #alien

Let's just take a moment to revel in a picture of one of my favorite Doctors - Sylvester McCoy, The Seventh Doctor Who - out in the streets last week protesting Donald Trump being in England. He is so much more than JUST a Time Lord.

Today is "Talk Like a Pirate" Day. The dialect that we refer to as "pirate" actually had a modern origin: the 1950 Disney film "Treasure Island." So maybe I'll just talk in my normal voice today.

Ok, this was not the antifa warrior I was expecting, but heck, I'll take it! wdwnt.com/2025/09/mich...

Holy...! Thank you Morgan Fairchild!

When freedom is under fire you can count on me to ramble and mutter incoherently.

They've stopped even pretending. If you criticize Republicans, you're done. www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Disney has been weirdly obsessed with the Alien franchise since the '80s. Now with Alien: Earth, they have finally merged with the Xenomorph. Was it worth it? boardwalktimes.net/a... #Alien #Disney

The Walt Disney Company has been chasing the Xenomorph for 40 years, including various attempts to bring the ALIEN franchise into the Disney Parks, but even with the brilliance of FX's ALIEN: EARTH, was catching the white whale worth the cost? boardwalktimes.net/alien-earth-...

person on reddit looking to hire for art in GTA style high contrast, but about appalachia, so posting example. did this as a fan art originally for @lowdown-plus-up.bsky.social and their very fun history of the jet pack episodes. I have yet to watch The Rocketeer. archive.org/details/the-... #art

2 of our favorite things in the world are Star Trek and Doctor Who. Did you know about the very subtle crossovers between the 2 this year? The Doctor told Belinda that he ought to "go visit" the Star Trek Universe.... More Star Trek goodness on last week's episode! boardwalktimes.net/t...

We were surprised to see the great Jeri Taylor's face during the "In Memoriam" section of the Emmys. An important Star Trek writer who wrote one of TNG's greatest episodes, "The Drumhead" as well as creating the Cardassians and presiding over Voyagers best years. #StarTrek lowdown-plus-up.com/

Today would've been the 105th birthday of the greatest of all Disneylanders, Wally Boag. If you loved the Golden Horseshoe Review, or The Enchanted Tiki Room, or gunfights in Frontierland; you loved Wally. Lots about him and his contributions on our episode: Calamity Boag! lowdown-plus-up.com/...

The half marathon is also completed!

10k achieved.

🚨🎙️NEW POD ALERT🎙️🚨 @kellymccubbin.bsky.social & Pete take a look at the complicated history of STAR TREK. From Lucille Ball to Las Vegas to a remarkable Elvis impersonator in upstate New York, they explore America’s most resilient science fiction franchise. boardwalktimes.net/the-lowdown-...

I love that Timothy Oliphant seems to be channeling UFO in Alien Earth.

Boardwalk Times columnist @kellymccubbin.bsky.social takes a deep dive into how one song's complicated past connected two South African composers, almost a century apart, in THE LION KING. boardwalktimes.net/disney-a-to-...

I've been working on this for a while. It's about the complicated and troubling history of the only song in Disney's "The Lion King" to originate on the African continent, and how Lebo M paid tribute to it. boardwalktimes.net/disney-a-to-... #disney #lionking

Star Trek Original Series Set Tour in Ticonderoga, New York. #startrek

My wife has been a teacher of one sort or another most of her life. Now she is starting her first job as a public school Kindergarten teacher and she needs help to build her classroom in a school with little money. Please help if you can. www.donorschoose.org/project/firs...

I found that the opening of the celebration for Disneyland's actual 70th Birthday by Bob Iger ringing the bell to open the markets on Wall Street was really distasteful. Yes, Mr. Iger, we know that most decisions made in the parks are tied into the movement of imaginary money in a New York building.

That's right, sometimes we relax with Sean Holland's amazing simulated version of 1982 EPCOT, Futureport '82. Give it a try! futureport82.com/hom...

You may know that Kelly had surgery for cancer last year. Now he's raising money for the American Cancer Society and will be running for the ACS team at the Disneyland Halloween Half Marathon. If you'd care to donate to a very good cause, here's the link: main.acsevents.org/g... Much appreciated.

A person shouldn't have to do this twice in a month. RIP Bobo. He was such a good guy and we really really loved him.

This week on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up... boardwalktimes.net/t...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

If you rode JAWS at Universal between June–Sept ’90 and it actually worked…you’re in rare company. 🦈💥 Learn the secrets of "Scene 4" on this week's episode of The Lowdown on the Plus-Up: The Amity Inversion - Jaws at Universal. lowdown-plus-up.com/ #UniversalStudios #JawsRide

Imma ask that nobody post a picture of the drained Rivers of America in Florida without a spoiler warning. My heart can't take it.

Holy cow!

Pete and I take on the troubled, and terrifying, history of Universal Studios' Jaws ride in this week's The Lowdown on the Plus-Up. It was a make or break attraction for the Orlando park... it broke. Join us! Wherever you get your podcasts. boardwalktimes.net/t... #UniversalStudios #JawsRide #Jaws

I'm working on a piece about how a single poem, recited by Orson Welles on radio in 1938, changed movies (and radio itself) forever. In the meantime, I'd love it if you'd read this piece I wrote for Fanfare about what, I think, is the greatest movie ever made. fanfare.pub/why-id-bring...

Coming on Monday, Pete and Kelly are going to need a bigger boat. Subscribe to The Lowdown on the Plus-Up wherever to you injest your podcasts.

Coming next Monday on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up: are your ready for the big chomp? Jaws, the movie, turns 50 and so we visit Jaws, the ride! #UniversalStudios #Jaws

We are obsessed with the rotating ice tunnel from the Universal Hollywood Tram Tour. Many of us remember it as the "Six Million Dollar Man meets Bigfoot" tunnel, but it was originally created to simulate a scene from "The Eiger Sanction". More vintage Universal coming in the podcast on Monday!

The greatest representation of Metropolis on screen is from the Fleischer Brothers. We imagine the theme park that could've been in our episode "Folks Here's a Story 'Bout Minnie the Watcher - Fleischer Land!" @JamesGunn, we're available for theme park consultation if you're hiring! #Superman

Did you know 1965's *Conan the Adventurer* with Frank Frazetta's genre-creating cover cover was the first paperback ever to move a million copies? #FrankFrazetta #PaperbackHistory #SwordAndSorcery #LowdownPlusUp #Podcast Check out Lowdown on the Plus‑Up: FIRE & BABY OIL → lowdown-plus-up.com/

Truth be told, we can't find a fault with this argument... mcsweeneys.net/artic... #themeparks #disneyland #EPCOT

It is the 50th Anniversary of Disney World's Tomorrowland Transit Authority (aka PeopleMover), and Disney hasn't forgotten! To hear a special recorded message from Mr. Tom Morrow in celebration, The Mouse has set up a hotline at 407.939.5233. It's delightful! #WaltDisneyWorld #Tomorrowland

Tomorrowland guests lined up for Space Station X‑1. It showed Earth from “orbit” using a backlit painting. It was a 19th‑century cyclorama with an atomic‑age paint job! More on WHEN THE MOTION STOPPED — TOMORROWLAND LIVE AT THE HOJO! → lowdown-plus-up.com/ #Disneyland #Tomorrowland

Did you know that at one point Walter Knott owned 2 Gravity Shacks? He had one built in his fake Calico and one in real Calico. The Knott's Berry Farm one is gone, but the other is still kicking! More in AMERICA’S ADDICTION TO GRAVITY – MYSTERY SPOTS → lowdown-plus-up.com/ #knottsberryfarm

Yikes!

What is the best musical that no one has heard of and why is it Starstruck?

Two masters. #lugosi #karloff