Yesterland: Midget Autopia, the third Autopia
Are you too young to drive a Tomorrowland Autopia car or even a Junior Autopia car? If you’re around four years old, the answer...
Yesterland: Innoventions Dream Home at Disneyland
It’s 2008. The park has brought back a new version of the long-gone Monsanto House of the Future—just without Monsanto. Well, actually, there are...
Yesterland: Streets of America at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
You’re in an eerie city. It’s as if the city has been abandoned. Although everything is clean, and there are plenty of people walking...
Yesterland: Red Wagon Inn at Disneyland
Red Wagon Inn was an opening day restaurant at Disneyland.
Swift’s involvement was not just a sponsorship deal. Although the Red Wagon Inn was designed...
Yesterland: ElecTRONica at Disney California Adventure
As they say around here, “Greetings, Programs!”
Step into ElecTRONica—a party in the world of the TRON: Legacy, the long-awaited 2010 follow-up to TRON.
Read the...
Yesterland: “This Week at WDW” from Summer 1972
It’s summer of 1972. Walt Disney World has been open less than a year. Walt Disney World wants you to know that there’s a...
Yesterland: Engine-Ears Toys at Disney’s California Adventure
It’s a toy store. It’s a candy store. It’s two… two… two stores in one!
And there are two sides to Engine-Ears Toys at Yester...
Yesterland: Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride at Magic Kingdom Park
It really should be called Mr. Toad’s Wild Rides—with an “s” at the end. Although it looks like one ride from the outside, there...
Yesterland: Tarzan’s Treehouse at Disneyland
Your first stop is the room where Sabor is ready to pounce on you. Unlike the brilliantly animated Sabor in the film, this Sabor...
Yesterland: Gilbert Gottfried’s Enchanted Tiki Room
Gilbert Gottfried, the comedian and actor who voices Iago, dominates the tone and content of the revised show. It’s essentially become Gilbert Gottfried’s Enchanted...
Yesterland: Lilo & Stitch’s Ohana Luau at California Adventure
It’s 2002 at Yester California Adventure. Lilo and her “dog” Stitch—actually a dangerous extra-terrestrial fugitive—invite you to hang around the Pizza Oom Mow Mow...
Yesterland: When FASTPASS at Walt Disney World Meant Paper Tickets
Yesterland takes you back to a time when paper FASTPASS tickets were dispensed from themed kiosks. Click for more photos and details.
Which was best:...
Yesterland: Ken-L Land Pet Motel at Disneyland
Sorry. You can’t take your pet into Disneyland. So let your pet stay at the Ken-L Land Pet Motel.
Look for the wide building with...
Yesterland: Four More Disney Vacations Clubs That Might Have Been
Some of these four Disney Vacation Clubs that never opened were officially announced. Others were not announced, but also not secret.
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Yesterland: Astro-Jet at Disneyland
You won’t break the sound barrier, but you will have fun circling around. Control the elevation of your craft with a small lever. The...
Yesterland: Wine Country Market (2001-2001) at Disney California Adventure
Wine Country Market at Golden Vine Winery seemed like a good idea, but it didn’t last long. It opened in February 2001 — and...
Yesterland: Village Haus Restaurant at Disneyland
Five years ago — February 24, 2017 — Disneyland’s Village Haus Restaurant “temporarily” became Red Rose Taverne. It’s still Red Rose Taverne. Click below...
Yesterland: Fly ’n’ Buy Souvenirs at Condor Flats
According to the backstory, the airfield attracted brilliant aircraft designers and highly skilled test pilots to the flat, arid, wide-open Southern California location. Their...
Yesterland: Monsanto House of the Future
You’re visiting Yester-Tomorrowland between 1957 and 1967. Get ready to say goodbye to plaster walls, wooden furniture, wool carpets, and other traditional home items—and...
Yesterland: Disneyland Paris, February 2001
My first visit to Disneyland Paris was in February 2001. That was 21 years ago.
I didn’t pick the month of February for the “refreshing”...