Theme Park Tourist features a wide-range of in-depth features and articles, covering rides, attractions and restaurants at theme parks all over the world. As well as previews and reviews of new rides, look out for "Top 10" lists and tips for saving time and money on your next park visit.

Five INSANE Reasons People Sued Disney

it’s hard not to laugh at the nonsense Disney lawyers face on a daily basis.

7 Secrets About Disney Castles You Never Knew

Disney castles are amazing and a source of continued intrigue among Disney lovers. Here are seven stunning facts about the various Disney castles.

You Might Not Know These Disney Icons. But You Should

here’s a list of the dozen biggest Disney icons of all-time

The Ride Count Countdown: How Disney & Universal Parks Stack Up

The best theme parks are balanced places, where rides, shows, restaurants, stories, walkthroughs, dark rides, and thrills coexist. But when it comes to your favorite can't-miss, must-see theme park experiences, chances are that rides make up the bulk of the list. How many rides does your favorite Disney or Universal park really have, though? Which resorts have the most sheer rides? The numbers may surprise you...

Behind the Ride: The Haunted Mansion

There’s no turning back now! Prepare to learn four of the ghastliest tricks at The Haunted Mansion…

Hidden in Plain Sight: the Main Street, U.S.A. You Never Noticed

Main Street, U.S.A. is a kind of comfort food to theme park tourists. We have a tendency to take it for granted since we’ve walked the pathways so many times before.

Revealing the Secret Disney Laws of Storytelling

When Disney Imagineers build theme park attractions, they must thread the needle in terms of respecting and relaying classic tales in a timeless way that guests of all ages and walks of life will embrace as thematically parallel.

8 Amazing Things You Never Knew About the Original Pirates of the Caribbean

all the Hollywood glamor and box office success began with a single Disneyland ride.

Behind the Ride: It's a Small World

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: Why Disney Designed, Dropped-In, then Disassembled California Adventure's Tower of Terror

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.

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