Welcome
The image above greets you just above the archways that mark the threshhold that sepparate the real world of our daily lives and the magical world of Disney's Magic Kingdom.


This site is to serve two main purposes: Share my vacations to Disney resorts as well as to provide useful information for others for planning their trips and vacations. This site is not intended to be a one-stop resource to get all your questions answered. This site is intended to be mainly a fan site, specifically my fan site. Having been heavily involved in the planning of two back to back vacations, one to Disneyland Resort in Anaheim and the other to the Walt Disney World Resort, perhaps some of you may benefit from my work. Perhaps the rest of you will merely enjoy the photographs. Then again, some of you may be thinking "what a luzer", and I would have to then wonder why you'd visit a site like this.

Some of the tools this site will offer will be reviews, worksheets and other informational documents. Many of these documents are designed to be printed and taken along with you to serve as handy reference material. In time, interactive features may be added, such as links and link exchange, guestbooks and a web-board/forum. This site will provide links to companies and other sites that I have found intersting and useful. Other pages I may provide links to may contain additional interesting information that you may choose to read or not read.

Due to spammers and other unethical practices by those who find pleasure in annoying others on the internet, there will most likely be no direct support via email. At no location in this site will my email be exposed. For those who wish to contact me, a form will probably be provided, or you could easily find my phone number and use that. If I'm not doing something else, I'd be more than happy to talk. In all honesty, I already am dealing with several thousand emails a day for various other business issues. Disney chat and email, as much as I enjoy it, is beneath the bottom of my priorities list.

Of course, this site willl offer unique content that will not be found anywhere else. We have access to vintage Disney footage and imagery. While this is not material coming by the authorization of Disney, these do come from home videos and photo collections. Some are current, while some show a Disney property of time that has gone by. All images used are either the property of Studio42 or have been granted usage licensing by Studio42. Studio42 will not display imagery collected from areas where video, filming or photography has been prohibited.


Stuff to see

  • Tips for International Travelers: Power, video formats, food, money, and getting around, for international travelers.
  • PAL Mickey: Your personal tour guide to Walt Disney World Resort(only works at WDW)

  • Disney Gunslinger: Thank goodness for security checks! A PDF.

    LINKS:

    So you have something to look at, here are a few links outside the site you may find interesting. Each of these links takes you away from this site in a new window:
  • Walt Disney: It may have started with a mouse, but someone had to draw it.
  • Walt Disney Company: Brief stats about the company.
  • Disneyland: The original Disney theme park.
  • Walt Disney World: Walt Disney World.
  • Reedy Creek Improvement District: The home of Walt Disney World Resort
  • Yesterland: A Site dedicated to discontinued attractions at Disney parks.
  • MouseSaversMouseSavers: A pretty good Disney vacation planning company.

  • The Disney Tattoo Guy: A really nice guy who really likes Disney!
    Not sure where to go?
  • Disney Travel Home Page, links to all the Disney Parks and much more.

  • Starting Page for the Walt Disney World Resort, which includes Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney's Animal Kingdom theme parks, as well as the Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon water parks.
  • Starting Page for Disneyland ResortStarting Page for Tokyo Disneyland and Disney Sea parks. In English.
  • Starting Page for Disneyland Paris. In English.
  • Starting Page for Hong Kong Disneyland. In English.
    Coming Soon:
  • Rides and Attractions charts: Showing basic information on rides and other attractions, including height, type and other information.
  • Ride Reviews. Covering both Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland and Magic Kingdom. Incomplete, but getting better.
  • Land and Park reviews.
  • Travel: Vacations from $1600 to Walt Disney World? Sure you can, and other travel tips and why perhaps you should stay on Disney property.
  • Photos. Lots of photos. I have over 1000 from my last trip to WDW alone! No, I'm not putting them all up.
  • Video, including MiniDV and 8mm films snippings.
  • Food. How to survive at Disney.
  • Disabled Disneyland: Written from the perspective of a non-disabled person. Don't let a handicap prevent you from enjoying Disney.
  • Pin Trading: Or, at least information on Disney tradin pins.

    This site is also a marketing site for media transfer services because Studio42 offers media transfer services. We can transfer your home movies and pictures to various digital formats to be enjoyed in a format that should be significantly easier to use. Remember old 8mm film? I do, and I can turn those into DVD's for you. I can handle that and many other formats. 16mm film, 8mm film, Super8 film, film negatives, film and 35mm slides can be captured into the computer. Perhaps you have video tapes? I can handle VHS/VHS-C, S-VHS, Betamax, Video8 and Hi8 formats. Looking for digital? I can handle your MiniDV tapes, no problem! Perhaps you did your home movies on U-Matic SP(3/4" tape) or Betacam SP formats? Probablly not, but if you did, I can transfer those as well. All "Disney Transfers" are half off whatever the current rates are, provided I may retain a digital copy of that to show quality of work.

    Disclaimer:
    The author of this site is a fan of Disney and is by no means an expert on anything Disney. The author as of current, has not been and currently not employed by Disney or any affiliates, partners or associates of Disney. I like many Disney movies, I enjoy visiting the various resorts, and I enjoy talking about Disney with people who also enjoy talking about Disney. The views of this author are not authorized by Disney, nor is the author affiliated by Disney. All images used are the property of Studio42 and are copyrighted, or licensed for usage by Studio42 and are posted here under the Fair Usage License. Images used here may not be used outside of this site, there are no exceptions.


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