The Disney ecosystem is constantly updating. Theme Park Tourist peers into our crystal ball to predict improvements we can expect by 2016.

Everyone makes mistakes… But multi-million dollar ones?! When a theme park decides to invest in a new attraction, there’s very little they can do to guarantee that ride’s success. No amount of money or branding can promise you’ll make a fan favorite. Whether it’s risky technology, a questionable

It may come as a surprise, but not everything at the Disneyland Resort can be found at Walt Disney World. While you might think California's Disneyland Resort and Florida's Walt Disney World are carbon copies on different sides of the country, you'd be wrong. Disneyland is by far the smaller of the

Theme Park Tourist profiles the different types of icons that wander Disney's theme parks.

The Walt Disney Company famously purchased Marvel Comics in 2009 for a cost of $4 billion (the same price it would pay three years later for Lucasfilm, though only half of what it paid for Pixar three years previously).

.Theme Park Tourist's view on some of the things that make the Disney parks magical.

Missing Disneyland or Walt Disney World? Can't wait to visit again? Why not bring some of the magic home with you?

Is Disney creating enough original stories and characters to sustain its theme parks?

Theme Park Tourist's profile of the TV show based on the Disney parks' Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.

They’re iconic for a reason. They inspire breathless wonder. They’re orienting navigational centers. They’re feats of engineering. Though they come in all shapes and sizes, park icons all have one thing in common: they come to represent a park’s stories, settings, and style in our hearts and minds

Cloning. It's become a dirty word in the circles of Disney Parks fans. That's probably unfair, since it was Walt's idea to take the best of his California park and transplant it - with some additions, subtractions, and general changes - as Florida's Magic Kingdom. Cloning continues today, albeit

Walt Disney pushed the boundaries of amusement park technology when he opened Disneyland in 1955. What kind of rides and attractions might he build if he were still around today?