Underunderstood

What happened to Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom?

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Billy helps a listener return to VMK, the online world where they remember “learning all the bad words.”


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Show notes:

  • Expedition Theme Park’s video about VMK (YouTube)
  • Sam from Expedition Theme Park also has a new podcast called Expedition Enthused
  • One Name, Two Games: Virtual Magic Kingdom (Pop History)
  • Habbo Hotel promotional videos from the mid-2000s (YouTube)
  • Isometric video game graphics (Wikipedia)
  • Amazing video about eBoy directed/edited by our editor Ryan Manning (YouTube)
  • Virtual Magic Kingdom (Fandom)
  • VMK Values (Disney VMK via Internet Archive)
  • Fans protest end of virtual Disney site in front of Disneyland (Orange County Register via Internet Archive
  • Investigation into Habbo Hotel (Channel 4)
  • Preserving Worlds (Means TV)
  • MyVMK
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