Strange Ride

It is not enough for the 80s child to reflect wistfully on a simpler time. Rather, we often want to revive the mass cultural products of our youth in a way that maintains their appeal despite or perhaps because of the cognitive and hormonal shifts that come with adulthood. 80s children have done a decent job of keeping our favorite popular cultural icons alive through the last forty years—whether...

The Disney theme parks have been known to push the boundaries of immersive entertainment since they were first created. In March 2022, they would push that boundary even further. Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, or it might be better known as “the Star Wars hotel” sought to take immersive entertainment to a new level, to truly get to live in the Star Wars galaxy for a few days. For many it sounded...

August 8th, 2014 the first Five Nights at Freddy’s game released, and nine years later the game series has grown to feature 11 main series games, a novel trilogy, an anthology book series, graphic novels based off of the different book series, and a movie coming out later this year in October! This series in particular is special for many different reasons. It was created by one man, it had a uniq...

In theater there is a part of the rehearsal process called tech. This is where you watch your show you’ve worked so hard on for the past few months fall apart on you when all of your technical elements such as lighting, sound, and other effects are added to the scenes. In a normal production once the show falls apart you are able to pretty quickly put it back together, and make it better than ever...

The Broadway Mega Musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark had many things go wrong while the creative team was trying to get this project off the ground. Between arguments about the script with Marvel, firing and then hiring script writers, composers who are too busy to compose, and then the lead producer having a stroke and dying while signing a contract for this very show, it was to say the least,...

The story behind the creation of the spiderman Broadway musical, Spiderman: Turn off the Dark is more compelling than the musical itself. It is a story about a group of creatives coming together and making some of the strangest decisions ever seen put into a Broadway show. It was a group of people who said they would make a Spiderman musical, but really didn’t want to even attempt to make a Spider...

It would be hard to find a single person that hasn’t heard the name Walt Disney. The way he was able to defy expectations and naysayers to make the impossible possible is how he left behind such a grandiose legacy. He changed the world of entertainment completely, from movies, shows, and even immersive entertainment with theme parks. Even with all these amazing accomplishments under his belt he st...

The Walt Disney World resort currently sits on 47 square miles of land in Orlando, Florida. Within that land they have 4 theme parks, 2 water parks, 31 hotels, a giant shopping outlet, golf courses, a man made lagoon and more. And all of that stuff only takes up 7100 acres, out of the 30,000 that they currently own in Orlando. For reference Disneyland, which was the Disney company’s first theme pa...