Behind the Scenes
The Scoop stories — the millennium, Fantasmic!, SpectroMagic, the Parade, Telarc — finally as readable text instead of thirty image tiles.
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Closed for the day. Still turning, though. Now showing: the finale.
At the console since 1975
What people say"Wait — the fireworks guy had a number-one album?"
What Don says"Fourteen weeks at number one. Not that anyone was counting. (I was counting.)"
What people say"I've never heard of Don Dorsey."
What Don says"You've heard me. Nightly. Around nine."
What people say"So the parade music just… starts by itself?"
What Don says"You're welcome. — Mickey Track, est. 1980"
Sample copy, for placement only — every line ships with Don's sign-off, and the real quotes (Forbes, reviews, fan mail) rotate through here.
Fifty years is a lot of nights. Dial one in and see what was on the console.
The Scoop stories — the millennium, Fantasmic!, SpectroMagic, the Parade, Telarc — finally as readable text instead of thirty image tiles.
The shows, the records, the patents, the parks. Every credit exact, every number sourced. A museum wing, not a brochure.
The legacy corner returns as a slot machine. The house always wins; the house is Don.
"We're gonna need a bigger sky."
— Don Dorsey
Turn your phone sideways.