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Starbucks Grounds First Location in Downtown Disney Orlando

The flavors of Seattle have finally arrived at Walt Disney World’s most popular shopping marketplace. Starbucks has opened the first, and smaller, of two locations at Downtown Disney. This location is located on the marketplace side attached to the World of Disney store and near… Read More »Starbucks Grounds First Location in Downtown Disney Orlando

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy – Trailer #2

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The second trailer for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy was released exclusively on Facebook today. A practice I deplore because, I don’t find Facebook to be that reliable when it comes to embeds functioning cross-platform. So, I apologize for Disney Marketing’s clumsiness but I’m embedding a copy from YouTube instead.

Full plot synopsis below the jump:

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Disneyland has an Annual Passholder Problem

If you were a business owner and had so many customers who wanted to visit your establishment that it became over crowded and unpleasant, you’d still consider that a good thing, right? The question becomes, what do you do with those extra people who just… Read More »Disneyland has an Annual Passholder Problem

Million Dollar Arm, a Disney Sports Film That Delivers Exactly What You’d Expect

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John Hamm stars in “Million Dollar Arm,” the latest Disney feel-good sports genre movie. It delivers everything that you would expect from such a film and a few extras. It is based on a true story, which always adds a little extra in the inspirational column.

Hamm, plays JB Bernstein, a sports agent prone to rushing around Los Angeles in his Porsche. You meet him at a cross-roads in his career. He’s trying to save his agency, but can’t get an important deal to close. So he decides to come up with an out of the box idea — find undiscovered talent on the Cricket fields of India.

That’s where the million dollars come in. JB will organize a contest for Cricket Bowlers with the winner earning a chance at $1 Million and an MLB contract. The movie then jumps to India where we are served some fun jokes with a side of travel montage. Eventually the winners are spotted and the whole kaboodle moves to America.

Once in America, the relationships of the main characters become more involved and twist around in slightly unexpected ways, but not too unexpected. Read More »Million Dollar Arm, a Disney Sports Film That Delivers Exactly What You’d Expect

How to use Augmented Reality App at Star Wars Weekends

Disney’s Gary Buchanan and Star Wars Weekends celebrity host James Arnold Taylor demonstrate some of the ways you can have even more interactive fun at this year’s Star Wars Weekends. Disney has leveraged the technology of Aurasma’s Augmented Reality App to add a new dimension… Read More »How to use Augmented Reality App at Star Wars Weekends

Instapic: Where can you find this Goofy character?

from Instagram: The two Disney Earport stores at Orlando International Airport are often the first and last encounters guests have with Disney Magic on their Orlando vacations. Do you have any special routines that involve the MCO Disney stores?

Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy – New Teaser Trailer and Poster

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Disney and Marvel are starting to pump up the excitement ahead of their August film “Guardians of the Galaxy” with a new teaser trailer and a poster that might remind you of some other outer space film.

Also, don’t miss a Q&A with the GOTG cast including Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, and Director James Gunn, and the exclusive world premiere of the trailer on Monday, May 19th at 10:00am PT only on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/guardiansofthegalaxy

Official synopsis below the jump:

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