Reader Steven Vore was there to take photos of the small fire that happened this morning in the parking lot of Downtown Disney – Westside. According to reports, a contractor was repaving the parking lot this morning when one of their tar trucks caught fire. The Reedy Creek Fire Department was dispatched to the scene… Read More »Fire at Downtown Disney Westside this morning
Disney’s MMORG Virtual Magic Kingdom (VMK) announced that as of June 3rd the In-Park quests at Disneyland will no longer be offered. The in-Park Questing portion of VMK will be ending at Disneyland on June 3rd, 2007. When the Park closes on Sunday night, June 3rd, VMK Central in Tomorrowland will close and no longer… Read More »VMK Ends Disneyland Quests
The Houston Chronicle has a small suite of articles useful for anyone still putting together vacation plans to Walt Disney World this summer. Including one on theme park secrets and one on the magic of Imagineering. One of the guests injured while evacuating Kali River Rapids last week at Disney’s Animal Kingdom talks about her… Read More »Morning Round Up – June 4th
Looks like Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End has long legs instead of the feared peg-leg of Davy Jones. It has retained the number one box office spot in its second weekend fending off Knocked Up and Shrek 3. Box office estimates are around $46 million bringing the domestic total to $218 million and… Read More »Pirates Loot Shrinks, but retains number one spot in Box Office
Remember those True Life Adventure films? It was Walt’s way of diversifying his studio by adding in Live Action. It was also a passion of his. So it’s very nice to see Disney returning to the nature trail with the addition of a new Studio Brand. Fan Boy over on LaughingPlace.com’s new blogs has the… Read More »Disney Returns to Nature
The Service Trades Council, which represents 21,000 of the 50,000 jobs at Walt Disney World, will vote for a second time on a new contract June 6th. The previous vote was defeated by a 2% margin of just a few hundred votes and I think Disney and the Unions are hoping that a re-vote will… Read More »Disney World Union Votes Again June 6
Alain Littaye has great photos and videos of the newly opened Toon Studio at Disneyland Paris’ Walt Disney Studios theme park. There’s a lot of Cars theming, A Cars Race Rally, and a new Crush (from Nemo) themed coaster. Maybe they should call it Pixar Studios. USA Network has bought the rights to air the… Read More »Morning Roundup – June 2nd
The SOAR project continues to grow steam in Anaheim. A recent poll in the OC register showed that most readers expect Disney to get its way and prevent non-tourism businesses from opening in the resort district. Let’s just hope they vote that way too. 2719 Hyperion has a look at a Donald Duck comic book… Read More »Morning Round Up – June 1st