Ever wondered what celebrities are immortalized outside the Great Movie Ride?

Here are the “official” Disney princesses who haven’t received their own castles yet, but maybe should someday.

Here are the “official” Disney princesses who haven’t received their own castles yet, but maybe should someday.

If you look at all of those attractions that we have, collectively, said are subpar, you begin to notice a few trends. It's those trends that I want to look at today – specifically, I believe there are five tell-tale signs that a theme park attraction is, for lack of a better, more American word, rubbish.

So, what does the near-future hold for theme park tourists? Let’s make a few educated guesses. Here are six likely improvements, along with one that is wildly unlikely, that could appear in amusement parks over the next few years.

This is the weekly news, rumors and refurbishments update for Walt Disney World for the week of April 6, 2015.

In 1992, to celebrate the 500th Anniversary of Christopher Columbus discovering the Americas in 1492, an expo reminiscent of Disney’s Epcot was developed outside of the United States.

It is difficult, perhaps even a fallacy, to measure Expedition Everest in terms of the Matterhorn, or to compare the Grand Floridian to the Grand Californian. A more relevant argument exists regarding those elements, attractions especially, which both resorts share similarly.

Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion and the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror are among the best that the Imagineers have ever put together. They are so complete and so evocative that they can and should be viewed as works of art on their own. Where things start to get interesting is when you look at the two attractions side-by-side. If you do this, something interesting resolves itself: The Tower of Terror is basically a sequel to the Haunted Mansion.

Just because Disney claims an attraction will reopen, and nothing is planned to replace it, doesn’t necessarily mean that it will actually reopen. With that in mind, here is a purely speculative and largely fanciful look at what could replace Captain EO at Epcot.

Over-planning a Universal Orlando vacation is silly at best and, at worst, could actually have a negative impact on your experience.

I worked for Universal off and on for more than a decade, and I never turned down the chance to work a special event.