Pete and Kelly take on Disneyland's Big River. boardwalktimes.net/t... #Disneyland

Errata for our most recent episode: Peter Renaday's voice is no longer heard on the Disneyland Mark Twain at all. Oddly, the character no longer speaks on the ride. At some point we might do a breakdown of all the narration differences throughout the years. It might be cool! #Disneyland

We are back, just in time for Christmas! This Hidden River Is Disneyland’s Quiet Magic | Lowdown on the Plus-Up Available wherever you get your podcasts!

After our Autumn Bradbury-fest, I thought I'd share with you all a couple of dramatized version of one of my favorite of the master's stories, "There Will Come Soft Rains." The first version is wonderful, the second strikingly strange. #RayBradbury New Lowdown on the Plus-Up coming soon!

Join us for all things Universal as The Lowdown on the Plus-Up pays tribute to the late Jay Stein. What a story! What a life! Link in the thread. #UniversalStudios #JayStein

This week we salute Jay Stein on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up. He passed away on November 5th at the age of 88. If Walt Disney invented the American theme park, Jay Stein modernized it. While other companies chase Disney, Disney seems to be chasing the Universal that Jay built. Link in the thread.

Jay Stein - Universal Theme Parks First Visionary: Dead at 87. The news is trickling in, but it looks like Jay Stein, the most important person in theme parks after Walt Disney, has passed away. More in the thread...

Corrections from recent episodes: Sinister Seymour wasn't in a 3 Stooges movie. He was a voice for "The New 3 Stooges" cartoon. Wolfman Jack grew up in Brooklyn, not Jersey. Irving Kirschner wasn't a producer of "Star Wars". Kirschner directed "The Empire Strikes Back." More in thread...

Before Elvira was the Queen of them all, Vampira! We couldn't do a show about Knott's Scary Farm without talking about her. Here's a little taste of her TV show (in the comments). It's the newest Lowdown on the Plus-Up podcast: Knott's Scary Farm! #KnottsScaryFarm #Vampira

Before Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights, before Oogie Boogie Bash and Mickey’s Not So Scary, before Six Flags’ Fright Fest there was Knott’s Scary Farm. Join us as Pete and Kelly explore the wild and wonderful history of the Godfather of Theme Park Haunts! Link in the thread. #KnottsScaryFarm

Last time on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up we invented a theme park based on Ray Bradbury's writings. This week, we invited a Ray Bradbury expert to tell us the reality of the relationship between the great writer and theme parks, Walt Disney, and lots more! Dr. Phil Nichols joins us! Link below...

With AWS knocking out half the internet earlier, I thought I'd hit this again... In 1937 Orson Welles read a poem live on the radio, Though few people recall the event now, it changed everything. My piece on "The Fall of the City." Link in the thread... #OrsonWelles #CitizenKane #WaroftheWorlds

Last time on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up we invented a theme park based on Ray Bradbury's writings. This week, we invited a Ray Bradbury expert to tell us the reality of the relationship between the great writer and theme parks, Walt Disney, and lots more! Dr. Phil Nichols joins us! Link below...

In 1937 Orson Welles read a poem live on the radio, under extremely strange circumstances. Though few people recall the event now, it changed everything. My piece for Fanfare on "The Fall of the City." Link in the thread... #OrsonWelles #CitizenKane #WaroftheWorlds

A couple of errata for this ep of The Lowdown on the Plus-Up: Bradbury's book about the making of "Moby-Dick" is "Green Shadows, White Whale." We mispronounced an Imagineer's name; it's Joe LanZISero.) The story that made Marta Becket famous was in National Geographic, not Time or Life. Mea Culpa.

We talk about Marta Becket quite a bit in our new episode: Here's Ray Bradbury talking about her, too! youtu.be/P869Tf-h9m0... Listen to the new Lowdown on the Plus-Up, Ray Bradbury’s Theme Park — The Great Electric Time Maze wherever you get your podcasts! #Disney #RayBradbury #ThemePark #EPCOT

We talk about Marta Becket quite a bit in our new episode: Here's Ray Bradbury talking about her, too! youtu.be/P869Tf-h9m0... Listen to the new Lowdown on the Plus-Up, Ray Bradbury’s Theme Park — The Great Electric Time Maze wherever you get your podcasts! #Disney #RayBradbury #ThemePark #EPCOT

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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

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/...

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...

When we did our last episode, it hadn't even really occurred to us that we were approaching Star Trek Day! But hey, synchronicity, right?! Check it out. boardwalktimes.net/t... #StarTrek

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

Kelly's in the engine room of The Enterprise for our new episode: Star Trek - Roddenberry's Dream Escapes the Screen! Join us! boardwalktimes.net/t...

Coming soon on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up... #startrek #themeparks

Happy Labor Day! We have a new episode in the pipeline and it's related to this picture. lowdown-plus-up.com/ #startrek

Kelly wrote this article 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/d... #Disney #LionKing

We're back! It's part 2 of our look at The Jungle Cruise at DIsneyland! Join us for Jungle Cruise: Evolution - The Indy Years! boardwalktimes.net/t... #Disneyland

Is there any better tribute the the magical world of Disneyland than this room-sized model at the Walt Disney Family Museum, "The Disneyland of Walt's Imagination"? We think not. Happy 70th Birthday Disneyland!

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.

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...

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...

In our Tomorrowland episode, we talked about the influence of Victor Gruen on Walt's ideas about urban living. If you look very closely at the books on the shelf to Walt's left, you'll see Gruen's "The Heart of Our Cities"! Nicely done, Imagineers. #Disneyland #WaltDisney boardwalktimes.net/w...

Current events meet our last episode in this classic DC cover! It's the newest episode of The Lowdown on the Plus-Up:The Amity Inversion — Jaws at Universal lowdown-plus-up.com/

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

In "The Amity Inversion - Jaws at Universal" (boardwalktimes.net/t...), we talk about the cool trackless Aquatopia vehicles at Tokyo DisneySea. The Aquatopia boats are not actually boats, they're cars wading in a couple feet of water. The effect is pretty cool, nevertheless! #UniversalStudios

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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/

We talked about the relationship between Conan and He-Man toys on our episode, Fire and Baby Oil - Conan: A Sword and Sorcery Spectacular. Our friend @Carnivius sent a breakdown of the whole crazy story. Check it out! battleramblog.com/he... lowdown-plus-up.com #Conan #HeMan #UniversalStudios

How do you sell kids’ toys from an R‑rated movie? You… don’t. Mattel’s abandoned *Conan* line morphed into **He‑Man and the Masters of the Universe.** Yep—Skeletor owes his grin to a real outlaw’s mummy. #Universal Find out more on The Lowdown on the Plus-Up podcast: lowdown-plus-up.com/...