I’m reading reports on another lawsuit aimed at the embattled Hong Kong Disneyland outpost. This time park officials allegedly delayed appropriate levels of health care for an ill elderly guest who later died at the hospital. Sometimes I wonder if they can do anything right over there. [ disney, disneyland, hong+kong, hkdl, themepark, theme+park, lawsuit,… Read More »Hong Kong Disneyland’s Troubles Continue
Mark Glaser, of PBS’ MediaShift Blog, ponders the mysteries of how the Disney Company gets consistently high placement for its podcasts on Apple’s iTunes store. While they might not accept payments for these slots, there might be other corporate or commercial considerations for Apple when choosing slots. For instance, one of the 12 top slots… Read More »How Disney Gets Placement for its Podcasts on iTunes
Disney’s consumer products division has announced they’ll stop printing and mailing catalogs of their product to consumers. If you want to shop the Disney Catalog, you will now have to do so at their online website, DisneyShopping.com. They expect to save over $18 million this way. As the NY Times article points out… The move… Read More »Disney ends print catalog, moves to web-only shopping
Ronald Glover at Business Week looks at the recent rash of moves by the new power in Hollywood, Disney’s CEO Robert Iger. When Eisner turned over the reins to Bob Iger last October, Disney stock was trading at less than $24 per share, or about where it was in 1998. But just as frogs turn… Read More »BW: Iger, is he Magic or Mirrors?
I’m pleased to introduce to you a new sponsor for The Disney Blog: Pretty As A Princess is an online boutique that captures the spirit of the Disney Princess for princesses of any age. Here’s a little blurb from the owner: "Pretty as a princess, beautiful as a rose, sweet as chocolate candy" was the… Read More »Growing up Like a Disney Princess
Meghan posts a short cautionary tale about relying on Disney’s Photopass Service to keep your vacation photos. I just logged on to Disney’s PhotoPass to buy our vacation photos. But they’re gone. They expired on the 17th, not the 19th. Uh-oh. This makes me very sad. They do have an expiration date of 30 days… Read More »Disney’s Photopass, a cautionary tale
The Baltimore Sun ran a great piece yesterday on the trials and tribulations of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit; including exactly how he ended up back in the Disney stable. "It was really a low point in his career when he [Walt] lost Oswald," said Dave Smith, archives director at the Walt Disney Co. "He thought,… Read More »More on Oswald
Want to own a piece of the Walt Disney Company’s theme park operations but don’t want to be saddled with the rest of the company’s operations? Well then you might consider investing in the IPO for Kingdom Holdings, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin AbdulAziz al-Saud’s previously private investment firm. Prince Alwaleed holds at least 10%… Read More »Own a piece of Disney’s Theme Parks