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How to spend your Christmas holidays in an exciting way?

So I am looking towards a trip near the end of February. I know I can only get reservations 60 days out but I have been seeing something strange on the dining calendar. I can push out to a date 60 days from today and nowhere can I find mention of the Blue Bayou… Am I missing something. Usually if a restaurant is full for the day, it will show up in the unavailable list. But for BB, it just seem to not be anywhere. Is there a reason for this?

How do you take care of your health during the winter?

The “controversy” over Walt’s wishes that he not ever become an animatronic figure ignores some big elephants in the room. While those were clearly his wishes (and his family should have been consulted), why is this the hill too far compared to all his other wishes broken? Non-family entertainment, adult R-rated movies, sequels and remakes of his classics, warning labels on his films, price-gouging and schemes to pick the pockets of park guests, socio-political content, mergers with networks and other studios, money over creativity, a decrepit Tomorrowland, sweeping away of nostalgia, unavailability of much of his film library… I think if Walt were to come back he would have much bigger concerns about the state of the studio he left behind than becoming a tribute animatronic.

Just saw a couple YouTube videos featuring NOS/Frontierland Station and the new HM gift shop. O. M . G. Disneyland is becoming unrecognizable. What have they done to the station across the tracks? What’s with the boarded up bull pen? What’s with the construction wall hiding the burned-out CM break room/freight shed? And not being allowed to use the water tower to fill the locomotive tenders is a crime. I’m at a complete loss regarding the HM gift shop. An absolute monstrosity that all of Imagineering should be embarrassed about. Years ago Kevin Yee and others warned us against being like frogs in boiling water, sensitized as bits and pieces of Disneyland’s charm was being meticulously whittled away, only to be poo-pooed and shamed by the “Disneyland will never be completed…” and Disneyland isn’t a museum” crowd. And now we’re seeing the results of that mentality. I hope they’re happy.

It feels like the forum is low on steam lately, so I thought I’d devise a creative game we can play. If and when we want to, that is. For this game, one person comes up with an Armchair Imagineering prompt, other people offer ideas to fulfill it, the first person chooses the one they like the best, and that person can suggest a new prompt. Prompts can be as broad or narrow as you like, and you can throw in all kinds of requirements to keep it challenging. Pretend to be possessed by the ghost of Walt, taking back control of the company! Pretend to be a half-dozen empty gray suits from Marketing, giving impossible conditions to the Imagineers and refusing to understand the assignment you yourself handed out! Pretend to be an Imagineering head, getting your team to make a silk purse out of the sow’s ear Marketing just handed you! Pretend to be a Disneyland fan stretching your creative muscles! Let’s see how long we can keep this going! I’ll start since it’s my idea. What with the holiday season just getting underway… PROMPT: A seasonal live entertainment offering for Fantasyland. CONDITION: Must involve several Disney Princesses in important roles. CONDITION: Must “roam” throughout Fantasyland rather than being confined to one location. CONDITION: Must suggest tie-in souvenirs. I release it to you all!