A huge congratulations to Lou Mongello on publishing the 100th episode of The WDW Radio Show. I’ve only had time to listen to the first part of it and already I’m ready to rank it up there with the best of his podcast. Here’s what… Read More »Lou’s 100th Show – WDW Radio
It’s not that synergy was no longer working for the Walt Disney Company, but something was wrong with the model that had developed. It didn’t make sense to try and tie every division of the Mouse House together with every major vehicle. Consumers were wising… Read More »Bob Iger remakes Disney’s Business Model
As I twittered, I hit the Magic Kingdom on Saturday to see what changes the new year had brought. As it turns out, not much. I guess it takes a big place like Walt Disney World a few weeks to fully switch over from one promotion to another. That makes sense.
I did see a few small signs of the 2009 “What Will You Celebrate?” promotion. For instance, a couple booths at the Ticket and Transportation Center had some decorations indicating this is where you go to get your Free Admission or Birthday Fun Card.
Additionally, in the parks any location that is listed as fastpass, but was not offering fastpass for the day had a special sign up and one open terminal for those who choose the fastpass+ option for their birthday gift.
Once in the park, things were nice. The park was busier than usual in the morning, but real crowds didn’t materialize until early afternoon. By then we were wrapping up our day. We had a nice ride on the ponies.
Then went over to ToonTown Fair to have another visit with the fairies in Pixie Hollow. We entered the queue 20 minutes before the fairies were scheduled to open up their land to guests and there were already a number of families in front of us. By the time we left, the queue had grown very long. It’s a very slow moving queue too, so those families were in for quite a wait.
[ lots more including a new Hidden Mickey on the otherside of the cut ]
A few links for the first Sunday of the new year. Trey Ratcliff takes amazing pictures. He loves the subject of Disney, and we’re all a little richer for it. Everyone else is linking to these iPhone Sketches by Disney artist Stef Kardos, so I… Read More »Disney News and Links – Lazy Sunday Morning Edition
Ron is an Annual Passholder to Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA. His birthday was Friday the 2nd and he decided to spend it at Disneyland and take advantage of the special offer that’s part of the new “What Will You Celebrate?” promotion.
I’ve asked Ron to provide us with some details of how the day went. Considering it was the second day of the promotion, it sounds like everything went swell.
Got in late from a great day at Disneyland so this is the first chance I’ve had to send you an update from our birthday experience. Either good or bad, there isn’t a whole lot to tell about the birthday promotion but I’ll do my best to provide as much detail as possible.
There’s at least one nice thing to say about the bad economy, it makes getting credit difficult. For fans of the SeaWorld/Busch Parks (recently rebranded “Worlds of Discovery”) that’s good news as it means AB-InBev will have a hard time finding a buyer should they… Read More »SeaWorld Sale Unlikely Soon
Beginning on January 2nd, 1938 Disney and RKO broadcast the “Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air” a radio-variety show on NBC. It featured many regular Disney characters including Walt Disney doing the voice of Mickey Mouse for the first four episodes. The final show was… Read More »Today on Mickey Mouse Theater of the Air 1938
Someone has done a brilliant trailer mashup of High School Musical and Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Zac Efron as a dog is too funny. (Via The Inquisitor)