Universal Studios' evolution from modest Tram Tour to the top challenger for the theme park throne was due to the fierce drive of one man: Jay Stein.Intense, ambitious and sometimes frightening, Stein let his competitiveness and, later, his seething rage against the Walt Disney Company forge an e...

Universal Studios Theme Park Visionary Jay Stein Dead at 87 He was the man who took a simple movie studio tour and changed theme parks forever. It would be hard to find someone more the opposite of …

Kelly McCubbin and Peter Overstreet take on all aspects of theme parks - Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, Six Flags - discussing them in historical context and then finding ways, to quote Walt Disney, to "plus them up!"   No considerations of safet...

Majority of The Vampira show footage was broadcast live and was not preserved and lost. However KABC did film segments of The Vampira show for a promotional ...

Boysenscary! The History of Knott’s Scary Farm on Lowdown on the Plus-Up Pete and Kelly Dive Deep Into the Godfather of Theme Park Haunts Before Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights, before …

The True Story of Ray Bradbury and Theme Parks with Dr. Phil Nichols Or… Pete and Kelly Become Desperate for Validation and Call an Expert! Ray Bradbury had a fascination with themed entertainment …

The Poet and the Boy Wonder — Orson Welles in The Fall of the City The strange tale of how a single poem created an auteur. 22-year-old Orson Welles must have thought his director had gone …

Kelly McCubbin and Peter Overstreet take on all aspects of theme parks - Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, Six Flags - discussing them in historical context and then finding ways, to quote Walt Disney, to "plus them up!"   No considerations of safet...