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Disney's Living Characters (Chapter Four and Five)

Disney's Living Characters (Chapter Four and Five)

The previews continue with Chapter 4 and 5 of the 4.5 hour epic, Disney's Living Characters: An Unsettling Reality.

As previously stated, this is the last preview that A-Tickets will be able to see. After this, only B-Tickets will be able to view previews, until the week leading up to the public release, when I might ask a few more people to review it.

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Disney's Living Characters (Chapter Two and Three)

Disney's Living Characters (Chapter Two and Three)

In our continuing previews of our next project, here are Chapters Two and Three of Disney's Living Characters: An Unsettling Reality.

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Disney's Living Characters: An Unsettling Reality (Intro + Chapter One)

Disney's Living Characters: An Unsettling Reality (Intro + Chapter One)

Welcome to the first of many previews for our new video, Disney's Living Characters: An Unsettling Reality. This is a 4-hour follow-up to last year's animatronics video. This will be our longest video, and I have been working on it since January.

This preview of the Intro and Chapter One is being made available to all Patrons, but after Chapter Five (of the 10 total Chapters), they will ...

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Episode Twenty-Five: Boardwalk and Baseball

In this manly episode, Kevin and Jack are manly men that talk about manly things such as baseball and... uh... boardwalks... and the defunct theme park that had both.

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Episode Twenty-Four: SeaWorld x Baby Shark

We are so sorry. In this episode of Where We Parked, Kevin and Jack discuss the recent collaboration of two infamous aquatic entertainment meccas: SeaWorld and Baby Shark.

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Episode Twenty-Three: Litigation Land

Kevin, Jack, and Rob discover a treasure trove of lawsuits made against Walt Disney World in the 1970s of varying frivolity.

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Chuck E. Cheese's Got Talent: An Animatronics Ranking

Chuck E. Cheese's Got Talent: An Animatronics Ranking

In this episode of Defunctland After Dark, Kevin dives deep into the history of Chuck E. Cheese animatronic characters and ranks them based on their star power and exploitability.

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Episode Twenty-Two: Disney World Bomb Cops

In this explosive episode, Kevin and Jack discover a surprising amount of bomb extortion attempts made against Walt Disney World in the early 1970s.

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New Defunctland After Dark Topic Poll!

Hey everyone! Hope you are well. I am working on the next Defunctland After Dark Patreon-exclusive video, and I am letting all of you pick the topic! We will someday get to all of these unless one is uniquely unpopular. I am not giving much context on what I plan to discuss in these, so just choose based off of the title. Have a great day!

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Episode Twenty-One: John Publix

Kevin and Jack desperately try to make the founder of Publix, whose name is almost certainly not John Publix, fit into their rogue's gallery of Walt Disney types.

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Monthly Meeting Announcement: Join Us Tonight at 9 PM ET on the Discord

Hello everyone! Hope you are well. Tonight at 9 PM ET, I will be hosting our monthly meeting in the Defunctland Patreon Discord. ALL MEMBERS are invited to attend and hang out. It's usually a fun time. Here is some general information about the meeting for new members. Existing members should read the first bullet point!

  • NEW: I will no longer be posting time of meeting announcemen...

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Kevin's Top Ten Worst Commercials of 2024

Kevin's Top Ten Worst Commercials of 2024

A brand new Patreon-exclusive video essay, and the third addition to Defunctland After Dark. Over the past few years, television advertisements have become more surreal, mean-spirited, and purposefully confusing. In this 2-hour video essay, Kevin breaks down his top ten worst most hated commercials of 2024. If you enjoy positivity and praise, this is not the video for you. If you're a certified...

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Episode Twenty: World's Largest

Episode Twenty: World's Largest

Kevin and Jack free fall down the rabbit hole of World's Largest things. This episode has everything from the World's Largest Office Chair to the World's Largest Cherry Pie, and I weirdly becomes a sort of Chicken Soup for the Conspiratorial Soul.

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Monthly Meeting Tonight at 9 PM ET

Join us on Discord in 10 minutes for our monthly discussion of new projects, Q and A, and a celebration of 2 million subscribers!

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Episode Nineteen: The Year of a Million Dreams

Episode Nineteen: The Year of a Million Dreams

Kevin and Jack dive deep into Disney Parks' Year of a Million Dreams... all million of them.

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Disney Animatronics - Chapter Five

Disney Animatronics - Chapter Five

The final chapter of Disney Animatronics: A Living History. This ended up being our longest video yet. I hope you enjoy the end. Please let me know if you find any mistake/errors.

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Disney Animatronics - Chapter Four

Disney Animatronics - Chapter Four

The penultimate chapter of Disney Animatronics: A Living History. Please let me know if you find any mistake/errors. Chapter 5 preview is coming by Wednesday. The video premieres a week from tomorrow.

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Disney Animatronics - Chapter Three

Disney Animatronics - Chapter Three

In screenwriting, the middle of Act II, or in this case Chapter Three, is often referred to as fun and games of the promise of the premise. This 20 minutes is the reason I wanted to make this video, so I hope it's your kind of thing. Please give it a watch and let me know if there are any errors/ommissions/typos and what you thought (without using words like boring or unnecessary). If you reall...

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Disney Animatronics - Chapter Two

Disney Animatronics - Chapter Two

This is Chapter 2 of 5 of Disney Animatronics: A Living History. Please let me know what you think and if there are any glaring errors.

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Disney Animatronics - Chapter One

Hello everyone,

This is a rough version of Chapter One of Disney Animatronics: A Living History. This is the section I am most nervous about, so I hope you will take the time to watch it and review it. As always, the main feedback that I am looking for are typos/mispronunciations/incorrect facts/technical errors.

All of the graphics are temporary and have some glitches. The black-an...

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Disney Animatronics: A Living History (Intro and Title Sequence)

Disney Animatronics: A Living History (Intro and Title Sequence)

Hello everyone. It's been a minute since a notable update on this year's big project, so this preview is going out to everyone. This is the first two minutes of the next video. While some of this will be improved, such as the music mix and some of the graphics, this is pretty much set. Hope you enjoy and that this excites you for the rest of the documentary.

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Monthly Meeting Starting Now on Discord!

Come join us and hang out and discuss project updates and more!

If you are not in the Discord, connect your Patreon account to your Discord account and you will be automatically added.

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Out of Office: Hurricane Milton

Hello everyone.

Hope you are well. I am currently in the track of Hurricane Milton, although I am not in an evacuation area. I am anticipating losing power for some time and am not sure what the rest of the week will look like. I wanted to update you in case I am away for several days. When I return, we will resume our normal schedule of meetings.

I hope everyone stays safe. As alw...

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Diving Into Early EPCOT Center: The Shape of Confusion

Diving Into Early EPCOT Center: The Shape of Confusion

In the second episode of Defunctland After Dark, Kevin adds what was missing from his documentary Journey to EPCOT Center: A Symphonic History... his dumb voice. In this first part, Kevin covers everything from the origins of the post-city EPCOT concept to the beginnings of EPCOT Center as we know it.

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September Update: Projects in Development

Hey everyone! Hope you are well. I wanted to give a few updates on the things that I am working on for the main channel and for the Patreon. Been hard at work on these simultaneously and discussing them on Discord, so some of this might be repetitive for some of you, but just to have it all in one place, here are our current projects...

Disney's Living Characters: A Messy H...

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Next Big Video Poll

Hey everyone. As many of you know, I am currently trying to lock down a topic for this year's end of year video that will release late November/early December. Unfortunately, it seems that Deal or No Deal will have to be delayed to next year, because I don't want to rush it. I have narrowed my selection to two ideas at the moment, and I want to hear which you like better. I cannot guarantee tha...

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Episode Eighteen: Up on Cripple Creek

Episode Eighteen: Up on Cripple Creek

Kevin tells Jack about his childhood trip to Cripple Creek, Colorado, a real-life Frontierland with a rich history.

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Walt's (Deadly?) Airport: Exploring the Abandoned E.P.C.O.T. Plans

Walt's (Deadly?) Airport: Exploring the Abandoned E.P.C.O.T. Plans

In the first Patreon-exclusive Defunctland After Dark video, Kevin follows up on his Walt's E.P.C.O.T. documentary by digging deeper into the plans and giving more insight into his personal feelings on the plans.

This is the first in a series of exclusive videos made for Patrons. Please do not share links to non-Patrons. We will have more videos to come but do not have a set schedule or f...

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Episode Seventeen: The Swiffer Effect

Episode Seventeen: The Swiffer Effect

Kevin asks Jack if he recalls the 2010-era rock band OneRepublic.

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Update: Sickness and Where We Parked

Hey everyone. I wanted to write a quick note before posting ANOTHER episode of Where We Parked to the Patreon feed. I know many of you are not subscribed to the Patreon for the podcast specifically, so I apologize for all of the episode posts in a row on the Patreon feed. This past week, I have been very sick with Covid-19 and the only thing that I have been able to do through my symptoms is ed...

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