As a long time fan of Disneyland on of my biggest thrills was my first visit to Club 33. When Walt built New Orleans Square he wanted to have a place where he could entertain VIPs, particularly the CEOs and owners of the various corporations, who helped build Disneyland and its various eateries, stores, and… Read More »The secret rooms of Epcot
Gary Gentile of the Associated Press brings us an update on the DVD format battle.
People who own an HD DVD player can forget about watching "Spider-Man 3" in high definition when it goes on sale during the holiday season. The movie from Sony Pictures will only be available in the Blu-ray DVD format. Likewise, people with Blu-ray players won’t be able to enjoy the action-thriller "The Bourne Ultimatum," which Universal Pictures will release only in HD DVD.
These exclusive arrangements, plus aggressive price cuts for high-def DVD players, are designed to persuade consumers to finally embrace one format or the other.
More after the jump.
Theme park price wars continue in the Orlando area. Only the trend isn’t downward, instead Universal has raised prices to match Walt Disney World‘s recent increase. Newsflash, adding four dollars to your price doesn’t suddenly make your theme park better or more of a deal… how about offering some value and really compete for the… Read More »Friday Roundup
A few comments on the new name for Disney-MGM Studios before I toddle off to bed. If you go look at the whois for the new domain names, you’ll see they were just registered August 3rd. So either the folks at Disney are incompetent or too cheap and don’t spend the $8.95 to register a… Read More »Disney’s Hollywood Studios, some comments
Rebekah at LaughingPlace.com just posted the official news, Disney-MGM Studios will be changing its name to Disney’s Hollywood Studios effective January 2008. As I noted the other day, the recently registered domain names for DisneyHollywoodStudios.com was the best indication yet that the name change would be coming. Still no website or redirect for those domain names, however. Maybe the change is still propagating through the DNS servers… if not someone at Disney Interactive should change the Domain Forwarding rules pronto.
The full press release is below the cut!
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Happy Haunting to the Haunted Mansion, 38 years old today 38 years ago today, Disneyland’s final resting place for 999 of the happiest haunts you’ll ever met opened in New Orleans Square. The Haunted Mansion remains one of the pinnacles of Disney Imagineering and theme park attractions even today. I’m proud to say this is… Read More »Thursday Roundup – August 9th
This is a great find. This ultra rare color film from the early days of Disneyland is the first time I can recall seeing such great shots of the Mickey Mouse Club Circus. The circus is the exception that proves the genius of Walt Disney. Opening around Thanksgiving of 1955, the MMCC featured Mickey Mouse… Read More »Rare 1955 Disneyland Color Footage of the Mickey Mouse Club Circus
Disney has announced that the Year of A Million Dreams promotion will be extended to run a full 24 months making it the Two Years Of A Number Larger Than A Million But Probably Less Than Three Million Dreams (or TYOANLTAMBPLTTMD for short). There is some word that new prizes will be introduced. We know… Read More »Wednesday Roundup – August 8th