Music festivals are their own kind of fantasyland, but if you want to party at the real Fantasyland, now's your chance.
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Seven Dwarfs Mine Train in Fantasyland under construction (ChinaFotoPress/ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)This is the Seven's Dwarfs Mine Train in Fantasyland.
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Fantasyland RecordsBuckhead is a garbage slice of Atlanta usually better skipped, unless your laptop demands a visit to Lenox Mall's Genius Bar, or you're strapping at Fantasyland for a pop 45 pilgrimage.
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So Trump is the culmination of America's descent into Fantasyland?
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Cameo videos merge, if only momentarily, the real world and fantasyland.
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"Donald Trump is a pure fantasyland being, its apotheosis," Andersen writes.
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I understand why some right-wingers hide in their fiscal fantasyland.
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People are living in fantasyland if they think they can stop it.
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Following the nighttime ceremony, cut loose at a candlelit reception in Fantasyland.
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Mickey Mouse Revue was once a popular attraction in Disney World's Fantasyland.
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"Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire - A 500-Year History" by Kurt Andersen
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FANTASYLAND: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, by Kurt Andersen.
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I've seen enough of the Tomorrowland area so I head towards Fantasyland.
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Resistance was futile: "It was like watching a nice fantasyland," he told me.
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Twenty years later in 2019, parkgoers have to walk between Fantasyland and Tomorrowland.
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"Instead of living in fantasyland, apply ASAP to jobs you're interested in," Salemi said.
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There's a reason Fantasyland is often the background of those celebrities-at-Disneyland photos.
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Further treasures are organized by "land" -- Adventureland, Frontierland, New Orleans Square, Fantasyland, and Tomorrowland.
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Yet here we are, in a fashion fantasyland, where no single jean matches another.
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So to me, that's all rolled up into Christmas: It's an other-world fantasyland.
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FANTASYLAND How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History By Kurt Andersen 462 pp.
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Fantasyland Charm Necklace by CRISLU, $125, available at shopDisneyThis necklace is well, quite charming.
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In 2012, Disney opened a $500 million expansion of Fantasyland at the Magic Kingdom.
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In addition to hopping on the carousel in Fantasyland, Halsey posed with Minnie Mouse.
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Ultimately my goal is for it not to remain in fantasyland, but to transcend that.
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They took in Fantasyland, took selfies on Dumbo and then went for a carousel ride.
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There's even a massage chair for unwinding after a busy day in your own fantasyland.
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The attraction called "Enchanted Tales With Belle" opened in Fantasyland in Disney World in 2012.
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The outage took out power in portions of the Toontown and Fantasyland areas, Brown said.
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This playful rendition by the London designer Mira Mikati is embroidered with fantasyland island scenes.
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Your dreams of living life with weeks between charges will have to stay in fantasyland.
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She lives in a loft in Brooklyn, a kind of expensively distressed fantasyland of its own.
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But these "conservative" proposals are as much fantasyland thinking as the rhetoric from the Democratic candidates.
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When people wanted to get from Tomorrowland to Fantasyland, they rode the Disneyland Skyway gondola lift.
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Children will be dazzled by this mini fantasyland, and adults may even find themselves feeling the magic.
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She's off here in some fantasyland where she gets to be noisy, which helps her sell books.
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Ignoring that is like waving away racial privilege with "I don't see color" — welcome to fantasyland, folks.
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It was also empty compared to Fantasyland, with some people taking the chance for a quick snooze.
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It features six themed sections — Mickey Avenue, Gardens of Imagination, Fantasyland, Adventure Isle, Treasure Cove, and Tomorrowland.
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Under Jackson's ownership, Neverland Ranch was a Peter-Pan inspired fantasyland with an amusement park, exotic animals ...
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This is not new, but the levels of vitriol now allow for outright lying and fantasyland scenarios.
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The classic carousel, located right in the heart of Fantasyland, hosts 68 unique horses to choose from.
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During Wednesday's "Squawk Box" interview, Barrasso ripped Warren's plan as a "fantasyland" with numbers that don't add up.
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But Disney's return to Lewis Carroll's absurdist fantasyland did have one element that was quite curious: James Bobin.
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The entire gray market was a fantasyland of pure finance, and it all centered on the Starcitizen_trades subreddit.
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Thanks to Hollywood, travelers fly to New Zealand expecting to be transported back to a quasi-medieval fantasyland.
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Any genuine interest in objective reality left the building a while ago, replaced by a self-sustaining fantasyland.
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"A campy, over-the-top, overtly sexual image can be part of a visual fantasyland," Ms. Arnold said.
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Making animals and supernatural beings too realistic takes viewers out of fantasyland, even if those animals are wearing pants.
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Inside, Hof and his girls have outfitted the sexual fantasyland with paper alien statues and bottles of strawberry syrup.
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The Entireworld world, a fantasyland in Disney colors (Disney World is an acknowledged influence), is a cheerful, welcoming one.
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It's one of his best books, drawing its terror from human nature, not from a voyage into fearsome fantasyland.
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The classic steel coaster in Disneyland's Fantasyland area houses a hidden secret at the very top: a basketball court.
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The area closed permanently on February 12, 2011 so that Disney World could expand a new area of Fantasyland.
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When it opened, Disneyland featured 18 attractions scattered throughout five lands: Adventureland, Fantasyland, Frontierland, Tomorrowland, and Main Street USA.
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According to Fandom, Mickey Mouse Revue was an animatronic attraction found in Magic Kingdom's Fantasyland section between 1971 and 1980.
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Then, still clutching the teddy bear, she lined up for photos with Disney characters in Fantasyland, including Cinderella's Fairy Godmother.
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An issue with a transformer that supplies power to the Toontown and Fantasyland areas in the park caused the outage.
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It was one of the most celebrated R&R destinations for military personnel in Vietnam, a so called fantasyland for adults.
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As Kurt Andersen writes in his book "Fantasyland," for roughly three centuries America's fantasist and realist impulses existed in rough balance.
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Trump invites people to join him in a fantasyland that bears no resemblance to what they can see with their own eyes.
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The 14-acre Galaxy's Edge takes up Disneyland's back left corner, where it will be accessible from Fantasyland, Critter Country and Frontierland.
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The pastel ride was located in Fantasyland and allowed parkgoers to board 18 life-sized teacups that spun around a circular platform.
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His work can be seen at Fantasyland in Disneyland Paris, Mickey's Toontown in Tokyo Disneyland, and throughout most of Disneyland in California.
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Disney dreamt up Fantasyland, pictured in the 1960s, as a fairy tale town inspired by Sleeping Beauty's castle in the animated movie.
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Many mainstream critics panned the film (The New York Times said that it appeared to be set in a "strangely retrograde Fantasyland").
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Mahadev's protocol probably won't be feasible within, say, the next five years, but "it is not completely off in fantasyland either," Aaronson said.
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Augusta National is sometimes likened to Oz. For one thing, it's a Technicolor fantasyland embedded in an otherwise ordinary tract of American sprawl.
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Snow White's Scary Adventures in Fantasyland at Disney World's Magic Kingdom closed permanently at the end of operating hours on May 31, 2012.
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We get to see it in this episode when Bobby Briggs (Dana Ashbrook) takes the Twin Peaks police department crew to his forest fantasyland.
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At Disney's Animal Kingdom, for example, guests can access Pandora – The World of Avatar, and in Magic Kingdom, they can visit Fantasyland and Tomorrowland.
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Located in Disney World's Fantasyland, this "Snow White"-themed roller coaster travels both inside and outside, giving guests a cool view of the park.
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" A spokesman for Mr. Cuomo shot back, saying that the governor had campaigned for Democrats and that Mr. Lipton was living "in a fantasyland.
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For those who long for a pricklier age, the seventies have become something like an escapist fantasyland, and, honestly, I can see the appeal.
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The company scouted the country for old, hand-carved horses to be used on a merry-go-round erected in the center of Fantasyland.
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After undergoing renovation, a new plaza in front of the Fantasyland castle is available for weddings with up to 100 guests — for a cool $75,000.
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The resort will feature characters with new stories tailored for the Chinese people, with attractions such as Gardens of Imagination, Tomorrowland, Treasure Cove and Fantasyland.
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This is all amusingly pathetic, but it's also a dark depiction of a the fantasyland Trump inhabits, where embarrassing him is or should be illegal.
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In 2015, I was deep into work on my first big nonfiction book, "Fantasyland," when I realized I was once again standing on his shoulders.
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Highlights include an original Fantasyland bench, an Opening Day program signed by Walt, and a Mark VII Autopia car, as well as props, costumes, and souvenirs.
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It glistens with period fashions and furnishings — Shanghai here is a fantasyland, yet to a modern urban Chinese audience, probably familiar in its activity and opulence.
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The park is full of rides and Disney characters, and a new expansion to its Fantasyland will open in 2020, according to the Disney Parks Blog.
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The Seven Dwarfs Mine Train opened in Walt Disney World on May 28, 2014, and was the final addition to the long-running New Fantasyland project.
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The first place we look for inspiration is the le catwalk, where outfits inhabit a fantasyland free of subways, inclement weather, and budget limitations of any kind.
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"It's more accurate," says a master watchmaker at A. Lange & Sohn, who declined to give his name because that is how things are done here in Fantasyland.
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In 2014, New Fantasyland was completed, Toy Story Land opened in 2018 and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge is set to open at the end of this month.
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With so many classics, like the Matterhorn and It's A Small World located in Fantasyland, it's not really a quintessential trip to the parks without passing through.
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"'Ambitious' is not really an adequate word to describe it, 'fantasyland' might be more appropriate," said Bernstein's Max Warburton, who has an "underperform" rating on FCA stock.
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Disney brass not only went for it, they put Trowbridge in charge, telling him to build a new land every bit as significant as Tomorrowland or Fantasyland.
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The gold charms look sophisticated against the gold chain, and features the King Arthur Carrousel, Mad Tea Party, Fantasyland Castle, Dumbo's ears, and it's a small world.
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It's a story of personal victory over a city that often feels more like a temple of despair and regret and cheesiness than it does an adult fantasyland.
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In fantasyland, it is the absolute worst, at 26.8 F.P.P.G. It's safe to say that would not have been the case if Aaron Rodgers had been behind center.
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"If you drilled down into it, it was fantasyland given what the Senate landscape look liked," said Brian J. Walsh, a Republican strategist, of Mr. Bannon's attempted insurrection.
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It's going to be a bit before our group is called, so we head to Fantasyland and take our time going on some rides and meet Steamboat Mickey.
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We're told the famous family stopped and snapped some pics in front of the 'Tangled' area in Fantasyland ... but no one's seen them get on any rides yet.
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On June 15, 2012, Casey Jr. Splash 'n' Soak Station did a soft opening in the Storybook Circus area of New Fantasyland in Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom.
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" Gingrich asserted that Mueller was hiring "paid killers" for his team and claimed that anyone who denies the DOJ has a bias against Trump is "living in a fantasyland.
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The park extended that closure through part of April — pushing the opening of its new Beauty and the Beast ride and Fantasyland expansion at least one month later than intended.
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Reflecting the administration's propensity to inhabit a fantasyland, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has offered a ridiculous 12-point plan that essentially called for Iran to roll over and surrender.
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Disney Parks Rolling Luggage – Small, $159, available at shopDisneyThis sturdy suitcase includes images of Mickey, Minnie, Fantasyland Castle, Space Mountain, the Mad Tea Party, The Enchanted Tiki Room, and more.
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Nor am I. That notion, too, belongs to some fantasyland in which college doesn't demand the time and money that it does and in which good incomes are easily secured.
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But where other games like Animal Crossing restrict themselves to a preindustrial idyll, the untamed fantasyland of Pokémon exists side by side with the scientific quagmires of the modern world.
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Harry Enten: Shalom Christoph(er), You know I do enjoy a little make-believe, but it's important to know when we're in the real world ... and when we're in fantasyland.
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From Our Archives Kurt Andersen, the author, most recently, of "Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire," reviewed Thomas Mallon's latest novel, "Landfall," which is set during the George W. Bush years.
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Furthermore, the divide between the country's poorest citizens and the propped up fantasyland built in the name of entertainment and advertising revenue will surely inspire a lot of raging music.
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Photographs taken today also show snow on the banks of the lagoon at the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, as well as the hedge maze at Alice's Curious Labyrinth in Fantasyland.
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At least in the comfort of her fantasyland, she could startle herself awake, but she knew that now, since this was a real-life moment, she couldn't do none of that.
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Fantasyland will also include Peter Pan's Flight, a suspended-track ride in both Disneyland California and Disney World which should be pretty impressive, if the latest suspended carriage tech is used.
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According to a Disneyland spokesperson, crews are currently working to restore power to the Toontown and Fantasyland parts of the park, adding that the outage was caused by a transformer problem.
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For Frishman, the pictures returned from Juno's mission over Jupiter—showing a fantasyland of jets and tornadoes swirling like cream poured into the solar system's largest coffee—are a driving influence.
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According to Yesterland, a blog about retired Disney attractions, the Skyway was one of the first rides built in Disney World in 1971, and could transport travelers from Fantasyland to Tomorrowland.
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Now, according to TDR Explorer, the entirety of Tokyo Disney Resort including hotels will close until at least April 231, with its Fantasyland opening pushed to mid-May at the earliest.
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Aladdin (Mena Massoud) is a thief plying his trade in the marketplaces of the vaguely, vividly Middle Eastern fantasyland of Agrabah, where he meets and falls for Princess Jasmine (Naomi Scott).
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MAGICAL THINKING: Kurt Andersen's cultural history "Fantasyland," about America as a breeding ground for conspiracy theories and other mass delusions, makes its debut on the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 3.
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To the consternation of travellers who are not thrilled at the prospect of having their seat neighbours turn and flail about in a fantasyland, in-flight virtual reality is only getting started.
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Nibble on Matterhorn Macaroons from Jolly Holiday Bakery Cafe on Main Street, USA, pineapple Dole Whip soft-serve in Adventureland, Mickey Mouse beignets in New Orleans Square, and Turkey Legs in Fantasyland.
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It's safe to assume that the wackier details do not correspond directly to Ms. Golden's experience, although the show makes specific references to her career before it spins off into freaky fantasyland.
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It's something I only learn when I first arrive at the Fantasyland Hotel (an apt location if there ever was one) for the two-day International Flat Earth Convention in Edmonton, Alberta.
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All was going swimmingly until it began to drizzle, and then to pour, and before we knew it Toontown was flooded and cast members rushed through to evacuate us "backstage" to Fantasyland.
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And Black Panther got flack from the LGBTQ community for creating a fictional black fantasyland with no queer people, and cutting a scene that had some flirty queer vibes between Okoye and Ayo.
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For those who are really good at fashion, they're able to take us along on their ride, transporting us to a fantasyland, a different time — or at the very least — a different mood.
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Democrats continue to wander in the fantasyland of impeachment when they ought to be embarrassed by the Mueller hearings and be shocked at the abuse of the justice system to attack political opponents.
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Wegmans is a fantasyland where all the produce is fresh, all the people are nice, everything is affordable, and all the products you could possibly want or need live together in kaleidoscopic harmony.
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We were strangers lodging in a strange American fantasyland wrapped in the enigma of Asia, watching a family of misfits come to grips with their oddities and unite in triumph at the end.
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E. and I are talking about joining the Resistance and while channeling the intensity and aggression of General Hux, I end up shouting "and burn the First Order down!" in the middle of Fantasyland.
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Though it began as a lifesaving fantasyland I cultivated decades ago, that oasis is a place I return to even now, sometimes paying no mind to the fact that adulthood has grounded its mythology.
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Coming in from Frontierland or just outside Fantasyland, you're presented with 'laser cut' rock tunnel that creates a blank slate that then opens up into a cinematically framed vista that varies depending on your entrance.
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The paragraph concludes with a typical metaphysical twist, with the narrator stating that, in addition to being a father and husband, he is a "much published and much renowned poet" in a fantasyland called Helvetia.
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Kurt Andersen, author of "Fantasyland" and (with Alec Baldwin) "You Can't Spell America Without Me": In college, I couldn't get through Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism"; it just didn't seem applicable to modern America.
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But one of the last adjectives you'd use to describe the show is "fun," despite the setting of an Old West fantasyland where sex and violence are presented to guests like a Vegas buffet line.
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For Pink Mamma, the group's sixth and most ambitious project this year, they enlisted the help of Martin Brudnizki to transform a former hospital in the southern section of Pigalle into a four-storey dining fantasyland.
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" Milo's deliverance from intellectual and spiritual torpor is the titular tollbooth, a gift left in his bedroom by persons or forces unknown, which grants him entry into a fantasyland of his own: the "kingdom of Wisdom.
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All politicians and reformers should be informed and bound by science — no small caveat, given the fantasyland in which the GOP dwells these days — but science will always under-determine what they can or should do.
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President Trump's tax giveaway is only feasible in the current deficit-fueled political fantasyland that Krugman has so energetically promoted, where nothing ever has to be paid for and such choices never have to be made.
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Nagabe's fantasyland is as splendid as it is eerie — even as Shiva naps in forest glades, snacks on buns and fried eggs, and crowns Teacher's horns with flowers, negative space and inky darkness threaten to swallow her.
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The BBC's recent Merlin series made it a madcap buddy-cops-in-fantasyland show; Guy Ritchie's new King Arthur: Legend of the Sword uses it as the launchpad for a new superhero-in-all-but-name franchise.
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Mr. Uhry and Mr. Waldman brought Welty's shadowy fantasyland down to earth and into the light, setting the plot to the rambunctious rhythms of a hootenanny, where tall tales are swapped and party drinks come in jugs.
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You pull up through a fantasyland where flamingos and African cranes stroll peacefully along the sward, a vibrant motley of Japanese koi bask in the pools and a hutch of bunnies—the furry kind—do what bunnies do.
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It featured such now-familiar elements as Main Street, a railroad, Fantasyland and Frontierland, as well as True Life Adventure Land (they'd eventually drop the "True Life" part), World of Tomorrow (which became Tomorrowland), and the Painted Desert.
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If you're as excited about Disney's upcoming live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast as we are, you'll love this news: Ahead of the film's March 17 release, Fantasyland at Disneyland Park is pulling out all the stops to celebrate.
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I got the sweep of war and romance; world-building previously preferable with cards and dice; a fantasyland in which a queen's psychotically enraged entitlement and not unjustifiable arrogance (Daenerys Targaryen, "Freer of the Damn Slaves," too) can break your heart.
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For the occasion, the florist Emily Thompson created a fantasyland of flora inside of the Roman and Williams Guild, the SoHo furniture and flower store run by the designers Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch, in which the restaurant is located.
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A story weaving empires, kings and queens, gods and goddesses into its telling, it's as epic as fantasy gets, a 560-page behemoth that takes me back to my teenage reading, when I measured my fantasyland sojourns in mass-market inches.
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The ballet The Nutcracker, the operetta Babes in Toyland, and countless early Walt Disney cartoons imagined childhood as a tumultuous fantasyland where the inanimate occupants of any given nursery could leap off the shelf and have little adventures at almost any time.
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It's "fantasyland," Carbone says: travel to exotic locations, over-the-top expressions of love and the idea that you too can be fought over by two dozen beautiful people of the opposite sex with the possibility of meeting Mr. or Ms. Right.
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They have countenanced the fabrication of gross slurs about Europe and foreigners to further a campaign to lead Britain out of its neighborhood (and the greatest political invention of the second half of the 20th century) into some fantasyland of bygone glory.
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The appeals court's cursory dismissal of Friedrichs's complaint demonstrates that it never had much doctrinal substance to begin with, and while Republicans may stall the president's nominations to the Court, Alito's marvelous adventure in a jurisprudential fantasyland has ground to a halt.
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In "Big Sky," he's working a routine infidelity case on behalf of a suspicious wife (whose husband, it is discovered, has "indulged in bridled passion" with his girlfriend) when he stumbles onto something awful enough to subvert that little girl's princess/unicorn fantasyland.
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We were walking through Fantasyland and there was a song that was playing coming out of the trees, and we were all doing this — dancing through — and I think at one point we all started looking around going, 'We're all doing the same dance.
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The country — Lilliput, from "Gulliver's Travels," which, lo and behold, exists in Maher's fantasyland — proceeds to sink its entire treasury into building a court and signing Michael Jordan, a journeyman point guard who just happens to have the same name as the iconic star.
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Tokyo DisneySea, which recently opened Nemo & Friends SeaRider will bring Soarin' to the park in the next few years, and Tokyo Disneyland will add a new "Big Hero 6"-themed ride to Tomorrowland as well as a "Beauty and the Beast" section to its Fantasyland area.
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The director Mel Stuart's sugar rush also stars Peter Ostrum as Charlie, one of five children who discover golden tickets hidden in Wonka Bars and are treated to a tour of Wonka's fantasyland factory, with its Everlasting Gobstoppers, Fizzy Lifting Drinks and assembly line of Oompa-Loompas.
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Under the direction of Mimi O'Donnell, Ms. O'Connell, who played the role of Mom in the play's premiere production at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, displays an earthy good humor that partly makes up for her tedious forays into a fantasyland where no adversity cannot be overcome by spunk.
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"While the president and his O.M.B. director live in budget fantasyland, I will be in the real world negotiating a responsible, bipartisan appropriations package that invests in American families and communities," remarked Representative Nita M. Lowey, Democrat of New York and the ranking member of the Appropriations Committee.
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Within the condensed framework of the suite, they've kept the basic elements of the Nutcracker adventure: a family gathering; a struggle between a young girl, her friend the Nutcracker, and a mouse king (or a Rat King in this case); and finally, a celebratory voyage to a fantasyland.
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Though the record at times flirts with space opera-like motifs—"The Tracers" tells of an evolved version of humans who've come to rescue Earthlings, for example— Call the Comet is less a fantasyland or sci-fi backdrop than Marr's own magic realism—the happy place he's created inside his head.
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Meanwhile, the real black hole is in the National Football League's heart: a dark void where its funkiest franchise used to be, before the league's endless panting for infinite profit exiled the Raiders to a plastic-neon fantasyland, commissioner Roger Goodell's supreme and final admission that it's the corporate economy, stupid.
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Representative Mark Meadows, Republican of North Carolina and a close ally of Mr. Trump, said Democrats were living in a fantasyland to think that there were still minds to be changed about Mr. Trump or that Mr. Mueller, put under cross-examination by Republicans, would be able to do it.
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" Greenblatt goes for the jugular with this particular parallel: "Drawing on an indifference to the truth, shamelessness and hyperinflated self-confidence, the loudmouthed demagogue is entering into a fantasyland — 'When I am king, as king I will be' — and he invites his listeners to enter the same magical space with him.
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Sergey suggested, proudly, that a wooden seal had recorded conversations for eight years at an American embassy—which does make you wonder, as you meander through this fantasyland, if perhaps what we're looking for has always been there, if only we looked a little harder, if we dug a bit beneath the surface.
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That finally changed when I boarded a riverboat this year in Santarém, an outpost at the confluence of the Amazon and Tapajós rivers, and made the six-hour trip to the place where Ford, one of the world's richest men, tried turning a colossal swath of Brazilian jungle into a Midwest fantasyland.
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However, give Neumann credit: stories may have made him sound like a pot-smoking surfer dude who lived in a hallucinatory fantasyland, but — unlike his employees, whose dreams of IPO wealth were suddenly and completely shattered — he managed to walk away from the business he drove nearly into the ground with a reported $1.7 billion windfall.
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Killers songs inhabit a sweeping fantasyland steeped in all flavors of romantic myth, American and otherwise, where small-town kids sneak around making out behind the Ferris wheel in the amusement park after hours, dream of becoming urban sophisticates who wear makeup and drink martinis at exclusive cocktail parties, grapple with the devil, and find each other on the dancefloor.
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Discussing his earlier experiences writing about Trump on this week's podcast, Andersen says: He went on to go bankrupt and become a reality television star, and I went on to other magazines and to write novels, and I had a 15- or 20-year interregnum where I spent almost no time thinking about or writing about Donald Trump until he was running for president and I was in the middle of this other book — "Fantasyland," which was not about Donald Trump, but then he kind of barged into it and became a poster boy in its final chapters.
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