Let’s take this opportunity to go Behind the Ride to learn five tricks of the trade that have made It’s a Small World so iconic.

LOST LEGENDS: The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror: Hollywood, 1939... Submitted for your approval, the curious case of the Hollywood Tower Hotel, a beacon of Imagineering and storytelling; equal parts subtle, eerie, thrilling, and brilliant, the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney California Adventure served as a model for an unprecedented park's rebirth. Tonight's story chronicles the before, during, and after of this toppled E-Ticket.

Here are the eight most popular dark rides of the 2000s.

Here are three more mind-blowing facts about the conversion from Soarin’ Over California to Soarin’ Around the World.

LOST LEGENDS: Soarin' Over California: When California Adventure opened, successes were few and far between. But the ride's starring E-Ticket was Soarin' Over California, a hang-gliding adventure that proved so popular, it spread across the globe. Take flight on this lost wonder and explore the in-depth story behind its creation, what it was like to ride, how it spread Around the World, and why it's gone today.

The construction of Star Wars Land at Disneyland meant the loss of an iconic piece of the park's identity...

Let’s see how the other half lives…

DISASTER FILES: Rocket Rods: In 1998, Disneyland's New Tomorrowland crash-landed, tearing the last of Walt's DNA from the land of "new frontiers in science, adventure and ideals" that he imagined. The worst offender? Its "headlining" attraction, Rocket Rods. Frazzled computers, multi-hour waits, and the closure of a Lost Legend together made Rocket Rods one of Disney's most disastrous attractions ever. This is the full story.

Even those of us who aren’t prone to emotional outburst will fall apart from time to time at Disney. Why is that?

LOST LEGENDS: Star Tours: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... A new CEO had a radical plan to make Disney Parks into modern thrill destinations where guests could "ride the movies!" Today, we'll take a turbulent tour through the incredible behind-the-scenes story of the ride that changed Disney Parks forever. Star Tours announces the boarding of the Endor Express. All passengers, prepare for immediate boarding. Lightspeed to Endor!

Here’s my analytical evaluation of the price of admission at Disney theme parks over the years.

Sometimes, the choices that Disney park planners must select require the closing of the front gates. Such cataclysmic events have transpired only a few times in the history of the Happiest and Most Magical Places on Earth