As reported by wdwmagic.com, last week, Disney Enterprises, Inc. published a patent for "a way to make a flat ride track feel like it's climbing or dropping, without the track actually changing height."

The core version of the trick needs no moving parts and no screens at all, just angled walls and stairs, though the patent leaves room for add-ons like video projection and set pieces that shift or change dimension as a vehicle passes, layered on top of the static illusion for a stronger effect. — Read the rest

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In 1958, London's Daily Express newspaper started running a comic strip adapting Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. This was well before the first James Bond movie (Dr. No, 1962), so cartoonist John McLusky created the first non-literary published images of the fictional spy. — Read the rest

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Disney made many announcements for the future of its theme parks at the D23 Disney fan event in Anaheim, California, Saturday night. One headline is that an upcoming refurbishment of the Imagination Pavilion in Disney World's EPCOT (Orlando, Florida) will feature beloved but neglected characters Figment and Dreamfinder. — Read the rest

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The upcoming hour-long film on Disney+, "Disney Worldbuilders," focuses on how the cinematic visions of seven filmmakers have been realized as physical, immersive areas of Disney theme parks.

The film has more than its share of Disney and former CEO Bob Iger corporate P.R., — Read the rest

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In 1976, NASA's Viking 1 lander found strong "life affirmation" results in a Martian soil sample. Robert Jastrow, then director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, said, "Short of seeing something wiggling on the end of a pin, the case for life on Mars is now as complete as the Viking experiments could make it." — Read the rest

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Tom the Dancing Bug: The Top-Secret Truth About Trump and the Reflecting Pool

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