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For one glorious summer, an experimental, sci-fi band rocked Disneyland's space stage. With a bass-playing Wookie and an acrobatic frog, the band's existence is nearly unbelievable, and the story behind its creation is just as incredible. This is Defunctland's first feature film, Live From the Space Stage: A HALYX Story.

Kevin deep dives into Disney's now defunct expedited queue service, FastPass and FastPass Plus.

Kevin deep dives into the history of the elaborate American Idol theme park experience that used to operate at Disney's Hollywood Studios.

In this episode, Kevin explores the history of kid cities, a series of fake miniature towns in which children can role-play as adults. Why do these exist, and who is behind them?

In the 1960s, Walt Disney carried the torch of one of humanity's oldest pursuits, the search for mechanical life. The result was Audio-Animatronics, a new breed of robots designed to mimic life.

In this first part of a two-part exploration into living machines in Disney Parks, Kevin explores the history of automatons and the initial development of Disney's Animatronics.

So you made a robot stand up and talk... now what? In this over 4-hour journey, Kevin follows the promise of Disney's Living Character Initiative, a dedicated effort to populate Disney's theme parks with free-roaming, interactive, mechanical beings. It was touted as the future of theme parks, so how'd it go?

This video is the second in a duology. While it can be viewed in isolation, consider watching the first video, Disney's Animatronics: A Living History.