Earlier today, a security dog at the Disney Cruise ship "Disney Magic" sniffed a package mailed to one of the crew members in just that way that alerts security personnel to a suspicious article. Out of caution, the ship was evacuated and the package examined. It turned out to be a harmless wireless device for… Read More »Suspicious Packages Forces Disney Cruise Evacuation
Fans of Donald Duck, Panchito, and Jose Carioca (the stars of Walt Disney’s The Cabelleros) will be happy that they are now featured in Epcot’s Mexico Attraction. Those who are expecting to be not so happy with the change, may want to wait to experience the attraction themselves before rendering final judgement. If you can’t… Read More »Epcot Mexico Attraction reopens with Three Cabelleros overlay
In a move I expected Disney to make eventually, Walt Disney World has opened their ‘Wedding Chapel’ and wedding planning assistance to gay couples. The company announced out of California that same-sex couple "commitment" ceremonies will be allowed at the Disney Wedding Chapel and other locations at Walt Disney World and at Disneyland in California.… Read More »Disney to open Wedding Chapel to gay couples
Speaking of Dennis Rice, in what was probably his last quote in an LA Times story as a Disney Executive, he’s quoted speculating what spin they can put on the recent story making the rounds that Rolling Stone, and cameo bound Pirate as Captain Jack’s father, once snorted his own father in lieu of drugs… Read More »PR Problem for Johnny Depp’s in film Dad
Tom Cruise recently took over running the United Artist studios. Now he has scored one of Disney Studios top film executives to help him run it. Dennis Rice will be in charge of worldwide marketing and publicity, ie, what drives people to the theaters. At Disney Rice got his start at Miramax and later moved… Read More »Tom Cruise hires away Disney film exec
TEA/ERA and Park World Magazine have picked up where Amusement Business left off with amusement and theme park attendance estimates for 2006. Disney has the top 8 parks and the only US Disney park to not be included in top ten is California Adventure, which rings in at #13. That park needs some help. Disney’s… Read More »Theme park attendance in 2006
As I’ve said before, if you’re not reading Jeff Pepper’s 2719 Hyperion, then you’re missing out on some great analysis of the Walt Disney Company, past and present. Today Jeff has an important takeaway from the latest Disney Animated film, Meet The Robinsons. While other Disney pundits are deep in Monday morning quarterbacking, [ed. guilty]… Read More »Keep Moving Forward
If you own the The Nightmare Before Christmas (Special Edition) DVD then you’ve seen how wickedly funny Tim Burton’s short film Vincent is. It’s a clever spoof on the Frankenstein story (oops) with narration by Vincent Price (which makes it worth the price of the DVD by itself). Now comes word that Vincent will get… Read More »Tim Burton’s Vincent to enter 3D world