# Wonderland Video

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderland-video/1021575>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 1, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderland-video/1021575 "2025-08-01T11:34:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderland-video/1021575/1 "2025-08-01T11:34:06Z")

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The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has started releasing short videos about how the individual stations got there names.

The one on Wonderland (the Blue Line stop) uses images and material from my book **Lost Wonderland** and my website.

[https://youtube.com/shorts/AYljiltzFAM?si=8jEElTuxXntq1Et2](https://youtube.com/shorts/AYljiltzFAM?si=8jEElTuxXntq1Et2)

> **[26K views · 467 reactions | 🐇 Follow us down the rabbit hole to learn how...](https://www.facebook.com/reel/1443067313404460)**
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> 🐇 Follow us down the rabbit hole to learn how Wonderland got its name.
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> \#MBTA #Wonderland #RevereMA #PublicTransportation.

My website: [www.lost-wonderland.com](http://www.lost-wonderland.com)

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderland-video/1021575/2 "2025-08-01T12:03:00Z")

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Wicked pissah!

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**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderland-video/1021575/3 "2025-08-01T13:26:05Z")

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That’s cool!

(I thought this thread would be about Janelle Monae, who started and supervised a house-sized creative arts lab a decade ago called Wondaland, named for one of her best songs.)

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**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderland-video/1021575/4 "2025-08-01T13:40:28Z")

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What’s your cut?

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wonderland-video/1021575/5 "2025-08-01T14:06:24Z")

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Sadly, nothing.

I was hoping for a little exposure and free publicity, but my name doesn’t appear. I wrote to the MBTA asking about this and they said that there had been a brief credit and a shot of the book cover (which is almost identical to the first historical shot of Wonderland), but it apparently all got removed during the editing. But I could use the publicity.