Bright Idea

Six Flags Over Texas is introducing a new parade to their theme park! Get this...the parade takes place at night! "The Glow in the Park Parade" will feature the classic Looney Tunes characters on floats made of fiber optic lighting. Isn't that a novel idea!? Where did they come up with that....?


You can read the whole story here.

Loose Shoes

I've been a little out of the loop lately not only with my own posting but with catching up on all the other great Disney blogs out there. If I repeat something that someone else has already covered or mentioned...I apologize.

I wanted to share a couple of links with ya, that I've had sitting around the BWTS offices for a while:

• The Washington Post ran an article on the cover page of their Style & Arts section back in July about the new Innoventions Dream Home attraction in Disneyland. The Future Is So Yesterday by Joel Garreau was accompanied by plenty of full color photos. However, instead of scanning the article you'll be able to read it better if I just post a link instead.
• I'm not really into the whole religion thing, but my mom gave me an article from a Catholic newspaper which talked about priests blogging. One of the blogs featured is called Jesus Goes to Disney World. It's not an exclusive Disney site and it's also not an exclusive Jesus site. This page, run by a campus minister at Towson University, uses pop culture as a spring board for discussions on many life lessons. Disney is a popular topic on the site, so if you scroll down and check out some of the archives you'll find some interesting reading with a different angle on the Disney universe.
  

Taking A Little Break...

We'll be back soon!

Disney World Without the Jell-O Pops

Going back to the 1980's, I guess Bill Cosby was too busy appearing in every other commercial on television to find the time to do this commercial staring his mega-popular TV family...

Wells Expedition

Former President of the Walt Disney Company and mountain climbing enthusiast Frank G. Wells is the subject of this article from the Disney Beat department of the May 1991 issue of Disney Adventures magazine (issue #7).


Wells served as the company's president from 1984 until the time of his death in a helicopter accident on April 3, 1994.

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges!

When you're on Disney property you just never know who's going to stop you and spread a little magic. While walking back to our car from the World of Disney store (with $300 less than we went in with) a Walt Disney World Security office pulled up to my family in his patrol car. Instead of having the kind of experience you usually have when a security guard stops you, this cast member reaches out of his car and hands both my kids Mickey Mouse Junior Security badge stickers. Of course, I had to persuade my children to not stick the stickers on their shirts and instead let Daddy save them for his collection of everything from Disney World...but it was a nice surprise and a magical touch that you wouldn't expect in a Disney parking lot.

The Blog Wore Tennis Shoes will be putting on it's flip-flops as we close our offices and spend the week and the beach with the family. The Blog will be on auto-pilot until next week. We'll have some light posts throughout this week.

Jack Wagner: The Official Voice of Disneyland

Going back to my list of WDW memories again, I had listed the voice of Jack Wagner on the monorail system as one of the things I miss when visiting Walt Disney World. If you've never heard Jack Wagner's work, or you don't remember it - we'll fix that in a moment. Mr. Wagner served as the official announcer for Disneyland beginning in the 1970's. He could also be heard doing announcements at Walt Disney World. He was named a Disney Legend in 2005 but had a rich career that stretched outside the Walt Disney Company. You can read his official Disney Legends bio here. There is also a nice list of his voice over credits over at Wikipedia. And then there is this nice little video that I found on Youtube. It features plenty of photographs, old and new, of the Walt Disney World monorail system with an early 80's Jack Wagner spiel for audio. Enjoy: