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Millions of people enjoy SeaWorld and the Wet-n-Wild water parks every year. Almost all don’t realize that their fun was made possible by the ideas and efforts of one man. That man, George Millay, just passed away at the age of 76. I consider myself lucky to have seen Millay speak at 2004’s IAAPA expo.… Read More »George Millay: SeaWorld and WaterPark Pioneer Dead at 76
Famous Internet Geek Wil Wheaton scored some free tickets to The Disneyland Resort and wrote up a funny and touching report: You know what would be so cool? If Disney redesigned Tomorrowland to look and feel very similar to the way it did in 1955. Bring back the people movers, and move the rockets back… Read More »Wil Wheaton’s Disneyland Day
Five years ago on this day I was camping out in the new Disneyland Parking Structure (and then inside Disneyland) for a chance to be one of the first to enter (I was number seven) the second theme park to be built at the Disneyland Resort – California Adventure*. Management was expecting tens of thousands… Read More »California Adventure turns Five
Bloomberg analyzes Disney’s latest profit report, which looks good. But the big news is that Toy Story III has officially been handed over to Pixar for development. The good news just keeps on coming from Catmul and Lasseter.
Disney CEO Robert Iger recently confirmed that there have been ongoing talks to build a Disney Theme Park in Shanghai. If talks are successful construction will likely start in 2008. It is thought that any Shanghai park would not be in the ‘Magic Kingdom’ vein (Disneyland, CA being the original Magic Kingdom). If so, it… Read More »Talks for Shanghai Disney Park Official
LaughingPlace.com has video and photos of yesterdays ‘Victory Parade‘ for Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers Stars Hines Ward and Jerome ‘the Bus’ Bettis at Walt Disney World, completing their ‘I’m Going to Disney World’ promise. Also in the parade was NFL Rushing Great Emmit Smith and the parents of The Bus. [ disney, disney+world, disneyworld,… Read More »Video of Super Bowl Parade at Disney World
Well the Pittsburgh Steelers won Super Bowl XL with an Extra Large helping of heart to beat the Seattle Seahawks. Ending the career of running back Jerome ‘the Bus’ Bettis on a high note was one of the Steeler’s driving factors. So it makes sense that Hines Ward, the MVP of the game, gave the Bus his due in his ‘What’s Next’ Commercial.
On Monday, Ward and Bettis were scheduled to go to Walt Disney World
Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., for a celebratory parade down Main
Street, U.S.A. in the Magic Kingdom. The procession, also including
football stars of the future from NFL Youth Football hosted by Emmitt
Smith, the NFL’s all-time leading rusher, was to cap Disney’s most
visible "I’m going to Disney World" presence in two decades of the TV
spot.
Here’s a link to the full commercials (they recorded two – one for Walt Disney World and one for Disneyland) and below the cut you can read the whole Disney press release. The Super Bowl parade is usually just before the regularly scheduled afternoon parade.
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Oh so long ago it seems, back in 1994-5, a little company called ‘Dreamworks SKG’ formed and it forever changed the course of hand-drawn feature animation. Jeffrey Katzenberg, the ‘K’ in SKG had been called ‘a little midget’ by Disney’s CEO Michael Eisner, and perhaps worse, was refused a promotion he felt promised to him… Read More »Dreamworks Doing It Again…