As part of the Orlando Sentinel\u2019s 150th birthday, theme park fans and experts will discuss Central Florida attractions that have come and gone, shaping the current tourism landscape.<\/p>\n
Watch live and join the discussion<\/a> at 1 p.m. today (Thursday, Feb. 26) as Theme Park Ranger Dewayne Bevil chats with a travel agent\/podcaster, a travel writer\/blogger and a theme park super fan about now-defunct attractions in Central Florida including Jaws, Mr. Toad, Boardwalk and Baseball, Great Movie Ride, Wonders of Life, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Cypress Gardens, Alien Encounter and more.<\/p>\n Missed our coverage this month? Check out theme park and tourism memories we\u2019ve written about so far:<\/p>\n Orlando Sentinel 150: Tourists have long loved Orlando; Disney made it a whole new world<\/a><\/p>\n Orlando Sentinel 150: Disney World news was biggest scoop in Sentinel history<\/a><\/p>\n Orlando Sentinel 150: Monday Memory of Cypress Gardens\u2019 long, fabulous run<\/a><\/p>\n Orlando Sentinel 150: Friday Flashback to opening Universal Studios Florida<\/a><\/p>\n Orlando Sentinel 150: Friday Flashback to Marineland Florida<\/a><\/p>\n Orlando Sentinel 150: Friday Flashback to Boardwalk and Baseball<\/a><\/p>\n More stories and features from the Orlando Sentinel\u2019s 150 years of covering Central Florida can be found at OrlandoSentinel.com\/150<\/a>. Sign up for our free history newsletter at OrlandoSentinel.com\/newsletters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of the Orlando Sentinel\u2019s 150th birthday, theme park fans and experts will discuss Central Florida attractions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2659,104,53370,114,19041,266,115,139,141,140,53371,2043,109,76686,76687,76688,76689,2411,106,107,3434],"class_list":["post-170165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-disney-world","tag-entertainment","tag-flashbacks","tag-latest-headlines","tag-legoland","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-sentinel-150","tag-seaworld","tag-social","tag-social-business","tag-social-entertainment","tag-social-theme-parks","tag-social-travel","tag-theme-parks","tag-things-to-do","tag-travel","tag-universal-orlando"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}