Disney invites fans to celebrate 250 by Soarin' Across America (opens in new tab)

By Robert Niles: Who decides to devote space in a theme park to show off other places that their guests could be visiting? Is putting a travelogue in a theme park a sign that its management is confident, or clueless? When Walt Disney installed “A Tour of the West” in Disneyland in 1955, he may have done so for a third reason – desperation. Disney needed something – anything – to fill his Tomorrowland, and having a studio of filmmakers shooting Real Life Adventure movies, a travelogue worked t...