What happened to Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom?
Mar 15, 2023•51 min•Season 6Ep. 6
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Episode description
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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