Well, what do you know? They are actually looking for specific items when they search your bags at the entrance to Disney’s theme parks. Today the bag screeners found a semi-automatic pistol in the handbag of a 63-year old woman. After Orange County Sheriff’s were called over the woman was arrested for carrying a concealed… Read More »Woman arrested trying to bring gun into Magic Kingdom
It’s funny, I just read a mystery novel that starts in the same place as this episode. The opening shot is in a bar as we watch a performer singing and dancing. But it quickly becomes apparent that this is not an ordinary nightclub. The singer is a drag queen, and we soon head into… Read More »Women’s Murder Club: To Drag and to Hold
Update: LiftHill has a photo of "Steve Jobs", or at least the figure that is rumored to be "Steve Jobs". It’s hard to tell. But that ‘box’ on the desk is clearly meant to represent an early ‘Macintosh’ type computer. Apparently Spaceship Earth opened for a few lucky guests last night. With MouseFest on property… Read More »Spaceship Earth Soft Opening Reports
The two hotels that everyone speculated would be Disney operated hotels at the Anaheim Gardenwalk were announced today. Only no one would say if the hotels would in fact be operated by Disney. That seems to be the general consensus, however. If Disney does operate these two locations, it would be a reversal of roles… Read More »Gardenwalk Hotels coming into focus
The Orlando Sentinel has an article on the changes to Epcot’s central SpaceShip Earth attraction that reveals some of the changes made to the attraction. There is also a 2 minute video with some behind the scenes footage. Maddeningly, the footage doesn’t include any of the new stuff. Just rehabilitation one existing scenes. It’s still… Read More »Roundup, Friday
60 years ago, Toys for Tots delivered their first toys to needy children in the Los Angeles area. Since then, they have distributed over 370 million toys to over 173 million needy children all across the United States. But did you know their logo was designed by Walt Disney? It was created back in 1948… Read More »Toys for Tots and Disney’s Heart of Gold
Disney.co.uk is set to relaunch with an update that sounds very familiar to the extreme makeover Disney.com received here in the US a few months ago. Disney is launching an elaborate new version of its UK website on Monday, combining its retail and content offerings with virtual worlds, widgets and interactive tools as it tries… Read More »United Kingdom to get updated version of Disney.co.uk
The land portion of MouseFest 2007 begins today. Event registration is mostly closed, but everyone is welcome to the MegaMouseMeet on Saturday. I’m going to try and be there for at least a bit and look forward to meeting some of you. Anne Sweeney, co-chairman of media networks at the Walt Disney Company and president… Read More »Roundup, Woody’s