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...Adventureland, writer/director Greg Mottola's semiautobiographical ode to the languorous time just before adulthood responsibilities begin, makes you want to ditch your career (if it hasn't already ditched you), don some mildly humiliating uniform and return to the mundane summer job of your youth. Who can argue against cash flow, solidarity with a new peer group and no responsibility more strenuous than remembering who ordered the Sanka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventureland: Rides and Romance in an Uncertain Age | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...spent a lot of time Tuesday in Tomorrowland and Adventureland. I sat by Jack?s side and worked the pedal as he ?steered? our racecar around ?Indy Speedway.? It was great fun, and I realized that many of the venerables - a go-kart on a track, a float through a wonderland such as ?It?s a Small World? - are just as magic to a three-year-old as whatever the latest high-tech marvel is. Jack preferred the cars to the super-colorful and hyper-sensory ?Buzz Lightyear?s Space Ranger Spin,? which is essentially an arcade game with wheels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coasters, Big Games and Big Game | 2/21/2004 | See Source »

...plenty of French cuisine will accompany American fast food. Disney officials like to point out that one attraction, Discoveryland, is inspired in part by the works of French science-fiction writer Jules Verne. Disney also agreed that only its major attractions, such as Pirates of the Caribbean and Adventureland, will be called by their English name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monsieur Mickey | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

Perhaps Harvard should take a tip from Walt Disney and divide our requirements into Tomorrowland, Adventureland, Frontierland...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: The Crimson Sports Guide to Florida: | 3/22/1978 | See Source »

...their first inspection, visitors will rely on the 80-ft.-high Skyway gondola cars, or the narrow-gauge, coal-burning open-sided train that circles the area. The crowds head for the six theme areas of the Magic Kingdom amusement complex: Mam Street U.S.A., Adventureland, Frontierland, Liberty Square, Fantasyland, and the not-yet-opened Tomorrowland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Disney World: Pixie Dust Over Florida | 10/18/1971 | See Source »

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