New photos added to the WDW gallery (no theme parks, just some resorts and Disney Springs stuff):
This brings the total to over 43,000 images, going back to 1996.
Category: Photos
New Lost Island photos in the Theme Parks gallery
My Theme Parks photo gallery has been updated with new photos from Lost Island Themepark in Iowa. Check them out here:
http://themeparks.disneyfans.com/
I also have nearly 100 VR360 photos/videos to process and get posted. The photos will end up at my Park Hopping in VR Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/parkhoppinginvr/
…and the videos will be shared to my Park Hopping in VR YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@ParkHoppingInVR
I will post an announcement here or on my DisneyFans/Park Hopping Facebook Page when these are posted.
https://www.facebook.com/@disneyfanscom
More to come…
More Branson photos…
More photos have been added to the Misc (“Other Places”) photo gallery:
There are now over 26,000 photos in this gallery. New additions include:
- Branson Treehouse Adventure – tour the “Captain’s Quarters” treehouse.
- Branson Landing – including the water and fire show designed by W.E.T. (former Walt Disney Imagineer, if I recall).
- Showboat Branson Belle – Built in 1995 (?), this large paddle boat cruises Table Rock Lake while visitors dine and watch a live music/dancing stage show.
- Retromania – revisiting their New Wave Cafe.
- Flaming Margarita’s – both the original Mexican food location, and the American Kitchen restaurant. These are hidden gems in the area, with top notch service and food offerings — a very surprising find.
- Downtown Branson – check out Farmhouse Restaurant, establishedin the 1970s.
- Billy Gail’s – a phenomenal “Southern cooking” eatery. Sweet tea, fried okra, and 14″ pancakes!
- …and more.
Over 200000 photos?
It looks like the most recent batch of photos increases to total on this site to over 200,000 images. Or, at least, close to it. There are still a number of galleries that have yet to be sorted and posted.
Over 44,000 Universal Studios/SeaWorld Orlando photos…
As of today, March 6th 2024, my Universal Studios-SeaWorld photo gallery now has over 44,000 photos. The most recent ones include SeaWorld’s Seven Seas Food Festival and Universal Studios Florida’s Mardi Gras.
New to the gallery are photos from Universal’s Endless Summer Surfside hotel – one of the two “value” hotels over there. The gallery now includes photos from many of the resorts – Dockside, Surfside, Cabana Bay, Aventura, Sapphire Falls, Hard Rock Hotel.
I did visit Jake’s at Royal Pacific (the first time I ever explored the Water Taxi’s) but I do not know where I would have sorted those photos. I also remember having a drink on a rainy day at some outside bar at Hard Rock Hotel, and walking around Portofino Bay one morning, but I cannot find any photos to back that up.
Needless to say, sorting and organizing these galleries is an ongoing project here.
More to come…
3500 more Orlando photos to be added…
Including Universal’s Holiday with the Holiday Tour and Breakfast with The Grinch, and some from SeaWorld’s Christmas.
More DisneyFans photos on YouTube…
Today, Poseidon Entertainment posted a new YouTube video called “Even More Weird Things in Disneyland.” It’s a fun watch — but be sure to watch the first installment as well.
It’s always a surprise to see one of my photos pop up in videos like this (along with some from Yesterland), though it is a bit annoying they do not ask for permission. They even crop off the watermarks! At least Poseidon Entertainment does add it’s own credit (“Source: Allen Huffman”) when they “borrow” other folks images 😉
Check it out…
I think the image may have been taken from this Yesterland article:
https://yesterland.com/sbwalkthru.html
Request: If you run in to one of my photos in a video, please send me the link and I’ll post it here, too.
I’ve been taking and sharing digital photos since 1996, and do not recall ever turning someone down who wanted to use one of my photos. I can provide the original, full-size version without the watermark, as well, and can even enhance my old photos so they look much better.
SeaWorld and Howl-O-Scream photos coming…
I have now sorted the latest SeaWord Orlandos enough that they are ready to share. This batch includes a daytime visit to the park when family Halloween festivities were going on, and an evening/night visit to Howl-O-Scream. This will bring the total Universal-SeaWorld photo gallery to over 38,000 images.
It will take a few days to get everything processed and uploaded, but when complete, they will appear here:
More to come…
Over 3600 new Orlando Halloween photos coming soon…
Photos from this year’s Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Florida and Howl-O-Scream at SeaWorld Orlando will be added to the gallery in coming weeks. We were able to visit all ten haunted houses, the scare zones, and the one (!) show at Universal, and also all five haunted houses, the scare zones and three (!) of the four shows at SeaWorld Orlando.
While Universal’s offerings had zero scares (the only time we heard anyone scream all night was from a chainsaw in a scare zone), they sure were amazing walk through theatrical experiences.
SeaWorld, however, actually had real haunted houses — letting in groups rather than a large conga line. The groups were too big so most scares were spoiled, but we were certainly startled many times during that four hour event (mostly in the scare zones).
Over at my Des Moines Haunted Houses website project, folks there know I scream like a little girl and am a pretty easy target. Seeing these two big theme park haunts be so tame was a surprise — especially with the reputation of HHN being one of the biggest haunt events in the nation.
More to come, and much more to say…
Huge photo gallery update
The Theme Parks gallery has been updated with a batch of photos from Lost Island Themepark in Iowa:
http://themeparks.disneyfans.com
The Other Places gallery has also received a huge update, adding photos taken as far back as 2015 from events and places in Iowa, Texas, Illinois and more.
These include:
- Amana Colonies – including Wurst Fest 2023
- Living History Farms – including Christmas
- Jolly Holiday Lights
- Blank Park Zoo “Wild Lights” Asian lantern festival
- Trek Fest in Riverside, Iowa
- Texas Pinball Festival
- Galloping Ghosts Arcade near Chicago
- Pella Tulip Time
- …and probably more.
There are still dozens of galleries to be sorted and added, but this is at least progress.