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Disney is joining the chorus of voices against ‘a la carte cable’ (where home owners buy each individual channel instead of in a package). Disney has some business reasons for this, not the least of which is they make a ton of money by forcing cable carriers to carry Disney’s lessor known cable channels if… Read More »Disney: Just say no to A la Carte Cable
If you’ve been to Walt Disney World in the last year and you stayed at one of the Disney owned hotels, there’s a good chance you took advantage of Disney’s free airport shuttle service – Disney’s Magical Express. This service has been making most guests happy (hey, free is a very good price and not… Read More »Disney’s Magical Express gets new lease on life
In another first for Disney and Apple, High School Musical, (link opens in iTunes) is the first full length movie to be sold on Apple’s iTunes Music Store. The price is $9.99 for the 1 hour and 39 minute made for TV musical. According to MacRumors, The video was released this morning for $1.99 but… Read More »High School Musical, first full length feature on iTunes
It’s a little early for the Video of The Week, but this was so neat I had to link to it today. It’s a little bit old (dated 1999 on the video), but this example of a replacement audio-animatronic for the Captain in the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction moves wonderfully. Plus you get to… Read More »The Sarcos Pirate
I can’t tell you the last time I was in a Disney Store. Part of that has to do with living so close to the theme parks, but also I was so disappointed with the product selection that there literally was no reason for me to return. If this story about The Children’s Place, the… Read More »Children’s Place turning The Disney Stores around?
After highlighting the Tie-Dye Cheesecake from Pop Century, Slashfood got tons of requests for the recipe. Unable to find one online, they’ve arrived at a simple way to recreate it from mostly off-the-shelf products. Here’s another Copy-Cat Recipe for the Tie-Dye Cheesecake. I also found this one for Twinkie Tiramisu at the AllEarsNet Disney Recipe… Read More »Pop Century Recipes
Mike Scott has started to mark up the Google Satellite Images of the Walt Disney World Resort with various highlights and other map features. Unfortunately we still don’t have detailed maps of a large portion of the property that includes Animal Kingdom and Disney-MGM Studios. But Mike’s done a great job with what he’s got.
There’s a rather interesting article in the Orlando Sentinel that talks with producers at SeaWorld Orlando about the influence they feel Montreal Canada’s Circque De Soliel is having on the themed entertainment business. I thought SeaWorld had figured that out 10 years ago when I first saw the Ice show at SeaWorld San Diego that… Read More »Cirque Influence Growing