Werner Weiss

Each balloon is around 45 feet tall, about the height of a four story building. And when passing down Main Street, with its reduced...

Instead of just presenting a condensed, live version of Disney’s animated Pocahontas, the show creatively retells the story from the perspective of the storyteller...

Disneyland Park has Mad Tea Party, loosely inspired by Walt Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951). Yester California Adventure has Mad T Party, loosely inspired...

A “roundup” of books that Yesterland readers might enjoy has become an annual tradition. The emphasis is always on theme parks—their secrets and history,...

It’s 2010 at Yester California Adventure. Sunshine Plaza and Hollywood Pictures Backlot have been transformed into Glow Fest. At night, it becomes an outdoor...

When you leave Yesterland, you might need a place to spend the night. Perhaps you’re hungry. Or you just want to get off your...

It’s not a Ferris Wheel. It’s the Sun Wheel. The California Sun smiles at you from the center of the 160-foot diameter amusement wheel. Read...

Have you heard of a brand new movie called Toy Story? They say it’s really good. It’s animated, but it doesn’t look like any...

It’s the Space Age. The centerpiece of Rocket Jets is a rocket that would look at home on a NASA launchpad, complete with three...

You’ve just completed your thrilling high-speed loop through Tomorrowland with Rocket Rods. What are you going to do next? Visit The American Space Experience! Read...

Welcome to Skull Rock Cove. You’re in the world of Walt Disney’s 1953 classic, Peter Pan. The secluded cove is hidden behind Captain Hook’s...

Just thinking about burritos might make you want one. Here at Yester California Adventure, there’s a counter service eatery that specializes in these these...

When the stars of Disney’s classic family movies and current television series travel to a red-carpet Hollywood movie premiere, they don’t use boring, conventional...

It doesn’t really look like copper or bronze. But pretend that it does. And try to like it. After all, colors like this are...

Hey Howdy Hey! Come and join the fun with fun with Jessie the Yodeling Cowgirl, Bullseye the Horse, Stinky Pete the Prospector, and, of...

The ride is decorated with a cartoony mural that folds in and out like a roadmap. In fact, it is a roadmap. It shows...

Most carousels have horses. Some also have African land animals. On King Triton’s Carousel of the Sea, the only horses are seahorses, and the...

It may seem that extolling the virtues of a car company by emphasizing car crashes makes as much sense as promoting an airline by...

This presentation puts you “in the middle of everything.” Eleven movie screens form a circle above your head. Eleven perfectly synchronized projectors show eleven...

Animazement begins with four singing, dancing animators working on large paintings. Animators are artists. They’re wearing vests and berets because that’s what artists wear. Read...