Top Ten Favorite Posts of 2021

Another year come and gone, and a time to look at the past as well as the future. I pray your 2021 year was as blessed as mine: a wedding, a new granddaughter, a trip to Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando and a year filled with friends and family who joined together to love and support one another. More than anything, it was a year when, once again, God showed his faithfulness to those who follow Him. May your 2022 be filled with love and joy and fresh discoveries!

In no particular order, excluding ones about my family, are some of my favorite blog posts of the year: 

Why Every Disney Park Fan Must Visit Universal's Diagon Alley - Universal excels at Disney's game, surpassing Cars Land, Pandora: World of Avatar, and even Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. The Imagineers and the suits need to take a hard look at what their main competition has accomplished. Here's why.

Notable and Quotable: Dick Van Dyke - Beloved entertainer reflects on his life.

The Past Present and Future of Disney's Animal Kingdom: Part Eight - More photos, more rare concept art, more history on the evolution of this park and its development. One of the most read series on the blog.

EPCOT Center's Unbuilt Rollercoaster for Future World - Did you think Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind was the first coaster planned for the area? Here's proof that Imagineers were looking into this decades ago.

Top Ten Episodes of Friends - The reunion may have disappointed, but these top ten episodes will make your burst with laughter while warming your heart,

Carpenters Revisited: A Fresh Look at Horizon - With rare photographs and a fresh perspective, this album review will make you reconsider the impact this fine album had on the incredible but short career of Richard and Karen Carpenter.  

Disneyland Attraction Posters: The Fantasyland Collection - A new poster for Snow White's Enchanted Wish headlines this ever growing collection of beloved park posters.

Art Surfaces for Disneyland Paris' Log Ride - Long talked about but finally found. No, it's not Splash Mountain, but what is it?

Dine or Ditch: The Land's Garden Grille Room at Epcot - Dining at Disney World is expensive enough. Is this premier Future World location worth your money?

Bringing Life to a Dry and Thirsty Land - Political mandates, entertainment, and religion got you down? Time to try something new.

(Photographs copyright Mark Taft.)