A TPG Reader’s Top Tips for Navigating Disneyland

A TPG Reader’s Top Tips for Navigating Disneyland Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not include […]

Disneyland Paris Blatantly Copies Universal, Adding Customizable Magic Wands

Harry Potter doesn’t own wizards and magic wands — though The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Orlando certainly popularized selling them in merchandise form. The magic wand is a particularly clever piece of marketing that also is deeply connected to the world of Harry Potter — there are whole subplots about the importance of a wizard’s […]

Carnegie Mellon’s ETC is like the Disneyland of video game schools

Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center became famous in part because of The Last Lecture. Computer scientist Randy Pausch and Donald Marinelli, a professor of drama, started the graduate school that combines entertainment, technology, and video games in 1999. Pausch contracted cancer, and he died in 2008. But before he did, the beloved teacher gave a final […]

Disneyland Paris Is Getting a Marvel Comics Hotel

Disneyland Paris is Getting an Immersive Marvel Hotel Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not include […]

UK Disneyland £3.5 billion plans SCRAPPED as agreements fail

The park was to be built near Dartford in Kent, covering an area of 872 acres.  The impressive attraction, called London Paramount boasted more than 50 rides, a 2,000-seat theatre and its own nightclub.  With it hoping to have attracted 40,000 visitors a day, it would have boosted the UK economy. However Kent Online reported […]

Mysterious ‘Avengers’ Hatch Appears Outside New Disneyland Ride, What Is It?

Disneyland Resort held the grand opening of their first Marvel-themed attraction Guardians of the Galaxy – Mission: Breakout last week (read our reaction here). Something new has popped up outside the attraction — an Avengers hatch of unknown origin. What does it mean? Let’s try to uncover the mystery of the Avengers hatch at Disney […]

Theme Park Bits: Pandora Uniforms, Disneyland Wi-Fi, and Next-Generation Projection Tech

In this edition of Theme Park Bits: The uniforms of Pandora: The World of Avatar are revealed. The “roles” that Pandora cast members play in the park. A peek at the Avatar-themed merchandise you’ll be able to buy at the park. Disney is researching how to projection map a human face. Disneyland is getting with […]

Disneyland Paris turns 25 and Star Wars is key to an unforgettable experience

GETTY Disney favourites dance down Main Street during the recent celebrations at the Paris resort On the fourth time in a row we walked through the turnstile of the relaunched Star Tours: The Adventures Continue ride, the staff started to laugh.  By the sixth, I was shamefacedly struggling to look them in the eye but […]