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Certified fossil. Theme parks, Route 66, tiki, and classic Americana.

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · Apr 22

To commemorate Animal Kingdom’s Birthday, I’m going to repost my very silly Twitter thread reading the also very silly (& somehow officially licensed ???) Countdown to Extinction book — all 42 pages of it.

🚨 Featuring Grant Seeker lore! 🚨

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Book on wooden desk. Book cover features a Carnotaurus standing aggressively, with the title COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION in blood-red Chiller font across its chest. The side margin says DISNEY CHAPTERS.

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 1d

One of my favorite memories of my mom is how we would repeat “Brilliant!” anytime someone on tv said it, because of these ads.

I still do it even today!

Retired Mascots @retiredmascots.bsky.social · 1d

Brewmasters
Guinness
2005-2007

This Moo Studios-produced series of comic American ads for Guinness followed two old-fashioned Irishmen who invented just about anything, not limited to bottles, telephones, bread slicers and bear traps, remarking on their every little accomplishment with "Brilliant!"

The Guinness Brewmasters, two moustachioed men composited from vintage photographs, clinking two bottles of Guinness after inventing a contraption that slices bread

Screencap from the Guinness website's All Sports Invitational promotion, featuring the Brewmasters wearing hockey helmets

Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like a wonderful day (and fantastic hair too!) — Happy Birthday, friend!!

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 2d

Had a dream that all of Distwitter pooled their resources to buy and design a theme park. In Japan.

It didn’t go well.

Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 4d

I’m *hoping* this is a temporary shift ahead of Restarantosaurus’s closure, but if not, this is a real loss.

Some folks don’t want to try something new on vacation, and that’s okay. What I liked about Harambe Market is how it showed how unique, fresh(er) meals could still be operationally viable.

WDW News Today @wdwnt.com · 4d

Harambe Market Now Closed to Become Burger & Chicken Nuggets Restaurant at Disney’s Animal Kingdom

<p>At Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Harambe Market has closed for a months-long update, while Trilo-Bites and Dino-Bite Snacks are permanently closed. Harambe Market The Harambe Market seating area is still open to walk into. Despite the restaurant no longer serving, there are still some signs advertising it’s menu. The menu on the board at the main … <a title="Harambe Market Now Closed to Become Burger & Chicken Nuggets Restaurant at Disney’s Animal Kingdom" class="read-more" href="https://wdwnt.com/2025/10/harambe-market-closed-trilo-bites-dino-bite/" aria-label="Read more about Harambe Market Now Closed to Become Burger & Chicken Nuggets Restaurant at Disney’s Animal Kingdom">Read more</a></p>

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Henry Taylor @tgrahammemories.bsky.social · 4d

Bring back America Sings

ThrillGeek @thrillgeek.bsky.social · 4d

JUST ANNOUNCED - Soarin' Across America will be coming to Disneyland and Walt Disney World Summer 2026

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wendy 🫦 @wendypleakley.bsky.social · 5d

I’m weak af 😍😩❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 5d

@enchantedcaballero.bsky.social I saw Panchito and José and just assumed you had posted this

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 5d

It brings me such joy to see Huell celebrated. He got his start on our local NBC affiliate in Nashville and I remember him making appearances there well into the ‘90s.

My child self saw the La Brea tar pits on California’s Gold once & thought hey, if Huell is there, it must be a short drive away!

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 7d

It’s apparently Florida week on Wheel of Fortune and I can’t stop laughing at how they slipped Kissimmee in there

Wheel of Fortune with four great Florida locations (Tampa, Pensacola, the Keys, St. Pete). For unknown reasons, Kissimmee is also listed

Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 7d

I would never leave

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Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 8d

Great story from the making of THE ROCKETEER (1991). After saving a victim, The Rocketeer was to land in wet cement in front of the Chinese Theater (to be shot at Disney-MGM Studios) & take off again leaving blast marks. The scene got cut but the blast marks & the opening date of the movie made it.

Footprints and blast marks from The Rocketeer outside the replica Grauman’s Chinese Theater at Disney-MGM Studios.

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 8d

It appears in my feed, but it’s only the first post and the last that show up (which is usually the summary “that’s it for the epic costumes, next we move to legendary” ones).

I’m not a fan of excessive self-reposts, but I think it’s completely fine to repost some you found esp noteworthy.

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 8d

Happy Birthday!! 🎂🚢

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 10d

Special shout-out to when you could still buy toy pistols at Magic Kingdom and wear a real holster for Mickey’s Not-So Scary

A much younger me, wearing a homemade skipper costume, brandishing a particularly blue metal popgun

Safari me, talking into a microphone, while in the Swiss Family Robinson Tree House

Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 10d

Repost with your favorite Halloween costume.

My 2020 hair meant I could do a “wolfman drinking a piña colada at Trader Vic’s” costume

A guy (me??) in a Wolfman costume (consisting of a sport coat, hairy hands and ears, and too much home grown hair), drinking a piña colada. In the background is a panic-inducing amount of tchotchkes and keepsakes.

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 10d

I know this is a ton of work, but I *thoroughly* enjoy these threads.

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Dinoland Dan @dinolanddan.bsky.social · 11d

In the throes of 2020, I almost wrote Lynch a letter asking what theme park experience he would make. Would love to see how some Disney project manager would approach that.