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179. The Overlooked Details of 1971 WDW Peter Pan's Flight: Topless Mermaids, Mistakes, & Rare Photos - Peter Pan Part 4
Season 5 Episode 179
Why did the mermaids change in Walt Disney World’s Peter Pan’s Flight, and how is their scandalous past connected to a classic Disneyland attraction?…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
178. Why Peter Pan Shouldn't Exist: How the Magic Kingdom Rewrote Fantasyland - Peter Pan Part 3
Season 5 Episode 178
Peter Pan's Flight wasn't planned to be in Walt Disney World at all... in fact, Disney's Imagineers had an entirely different Fantasyland mapped out …
3 months ago
177. Disneyland’s Original 1955 Peter Pan’s Flight: Rare Imagineering Art & a Virtual Fly-Thru - Peter Pan Part 2
Season 5 Episode 177
How was the ending of Peter Pan’s Flight more terrifying (and disappointing) in 1955? And what object did guests tend to tear off the attraction to …
3 months, 1 week ago
176. Peter Pan Stories You’ve Never Heard: The Hidden History of Disney's Peter Pan Animated Film - Peter Pan Part 1
Season 5 Episode 176
What bizarre technique did Disney's artists use to make Tinker Bell glow? And what disturbing story elements did Disney change from the original nove…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
175. Distorian's Lounge - Two Imagineers, One Love Story: The Beautiful Dance of Marc & Alice Davis
Season 4 Episode 175
Marc and Alice Davis’s love story is one for the ages, intertwined as it is with Disney history. But they also loved us through their imaginative, cr…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
174. What the Tower of Terror Borrowed from the Haunted Mansion: The Lost Concepts That Changed the Ride - DCA & DLP Tower of Terror - Part 29
Season 4 Episode 174
How did lost concepts from the Haunted Mansion inspire the Tower of Terror?
Drop in with us on this episode of Distory with Kate & Kirk as we check in…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
173. Horrifying Storytelling in the Tower of Terror Boiler Room: The Man Disney Left to Burn - DCA & DLP Tower of Terror - Part 28
Season 4 Episode 173
There were hidden secrets in the Boiler Room of the DCA Tower of Terror that made it the most TERRIFYING version of all, but most people walked right…
4 months ago
172. How Disney Rewrote the Tower of Terror Library - True Confessions, Monarchs, & Lost Artifacts in the DCA & DLP Libraries - Tower of Terror - Part 27
Season 4 Episode 172
How did the Imagineers alter the storytelling of the Tower of Terror libraries for the California and Paris versions?
Drop in with us on this episode …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
171. BONUS EPISODE - The Christmas Disney Doesn’t Talk About: Six Forgotten Stories from Disney’s Holiday Past
Season 4 Episode 171
Christmastime in the Disney parks is a wonder to behold, but its history is something even more magical than snow falling on Main Street. But there a…
5 months ago
170. The Lost Secrets in DCA's Tower of Terror Lobby: Creepy Dolls, Hidden Relics, & 1939 Hollywood Mysteries
Season 4 Episode 170
A doll, brochure, and magazine in the DCA Tower of Terror Lobby were all telling a story, but no one has ever fully understood their significance... …
5 months, 1 week ago