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I have those wonderful big brown tomes, despite already owning a goodly number of the previous collections. I highly recommend it. It’s unwieldy to pick up and read through, but you won’t find a better complete collection. I keep the very last Calvin and Hobbes strip, which I cut out of the newspaper, tucked lovingly… Read more

I was looking at the complete Calvin and Hobbes collection on Amazon just yesterday. I’m going to have to go back and click ‘add to basket’, aren’t I? Read more

I’m going to have to say something that’s probably going to get a lot of flack, but here goes. Read more

It really has, and it’s terrifying to read these stories of kids who felt like they had nowhere at all to go after their Facebook profiles and phones were buried. Especially when it comes out later that it was just one or two other kids doing it, using multiple anonymous profiles to create a virtual mob. There’s no… Read more

I’d also like to add (since the time limit for editing my initial post expired), thank you for posting this. Calvin & Hobbes was almost therapeutic for me as a kid, and did a phenomenal job with portraying what smaller, weaker kids (like I was) had to endure. The fact that Calvin so regularly retreated into his own… Read more

Karma is bullshit. You’ll be pushing up daisies before the universe ever gets around to balancing the cosmic scales. Read more

One of the most common phrases I hear with bullying is that “Every kid should stand up for themselves.” That the easiest way to defeat a bully is with strength.

I was going to write a wordy emotional response on what Calvin and Hobbes has meant to me growing up but I’ll just leave this here.

For a little kid, ethical high ground is a hollow consolation prize. Read more

My wife and I, between us, have every Calvin and Hobbes collection ever printed—some of them date all the way back to my middle school days in the very early 90's.

I remember being utterly heartbroken (I was 13) when Watterson put his pen away for good (at least as far as newspaper runs of Calvin and Hobbes were… Read more

Everyone else has covered how the kid would’ve gotten to Paterno, but I can possibly shed light on why someone would wait 40 years. Abuse, particularly sexual abuse in childhood, carries a lot of shame and pressure to keep silent, if only because you don’t know how to process it and you fear judgement. Couple that… Read more

I think the problem is that the joke that the ride was built up from - that the stately mansion’s a supernatural retirement home of sorts - has been ignored more and more over the years...

The attic isn’t the only part that has changed. They significantly redid the portion where the carts turn towards the wall to show off a cool effect that interacts with the riders. Originally you’d look in a mirror and see a ghost sitting in the cart next to you. I’ve heard rumors that it was replaced with computer… Read more

mmm... Oh a few years ago, I also loved how they set it up for Halloween, Ghost Galaxy was a fun version as well.

nice! thanks! Read more

I meant the Jingle Cruise holiday overlay. But yeah, the base ride needs some love as well. I think it’s ripe for an overhaul to Jungle Book.
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i’d still love to see how they did the floating head in the ball. I roughly have an idea how it’s done but there’s no sign of the projectors or anything to indicate the exact method. First time i went on the ride it broke down at that point and we were in the room for about 5 or 10 minutes. Still couldn’t see how the… Read more

I haven’t been to the Haunted Mansion in the form it should be since the 90s. Every time we’ve gone to Disneyland since then it’s been in the Nightmare Before Christmas Motif. I mean I could understand when it’s late November and December... But Before and During Halloween? It’s like I have to go there during February… Read more