This morning, during Disney’s Animal Kingdom’s 10-year anniversary celebration, I was surprised to see that a new name and a new logo was introduced for Disney’s conservation outreach efforts, changing the Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund to the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund. Erin Wallace, Dr Jane… Read More »Disney Wildlife Conservation Fund renamed
On this day 10 years ago Walt Disney World’s fourth gate, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, officially opened to the public and a new era in theme parks was born. Animal Kingdom combined the animals of a zoo with the theming and lush landscaping Disney is known… Read More »Happy Birthday Disney’s Animal Kingdom
I have been lucky enough to come across a small clip of the audio that will be used in Toy Story: Midway Mania, the attraction opening next month in Disney’s Hollywood Studios. At least that’s what they told me. It does contain what some may… Read More »Toy Story Midway Mania – Audio Spoiler
The Walt Disney Company announced today that it is launching a new film label called Disneynature. The label will release wildlife focused and environmental movies for theaters starting with the 2009 release “Earth.” “Our goal at Disneynature is to bring big event films as only… Read More »Disney to Launch Nature Movie Label
I hope you had a nice weekend. Feel free to chime in with anything you did that was Disney related in the comments. Here are some of the highlights I found over the weekend:
If you’re planning on attending this year’s Newport Beach Film Festival starting this week, you’ll get to enjoy twenty-seven different animation programs. One of these is Roy E. Disney and Don Hahn with some rarely seen Disney animation and experimental films.
Leslie Iwerks will also be showing her documentary, The Pixar Story.
The full press release is below the cut:
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All the competition videos are now online for the Disney Parks’ Chief Magic Official (CMO) competition. Go see Tripp, Justin, and David as they perform on stage in a variety of events and competitions to determine which is best suited to become the first CMO… Read More »Vote for the first Chief Magic Official of Disney Parks
Disneyland has released it’s “2007 Connecting with Our Community” report. It details the over $12 million in cash, in-kind donations, and volunteer service that the Disneyland Resort team has contributed and examples of some of the tens of thousands of individuals they’ve helped. Anyway you look at it that’s no Mickey Mouse contribution. Congrats to everyone at Disneyland Resort for this wonderful showing of how much you care.
Please visit www.disneyland.com/publicaffairs to download a copy of the report.
The full press release is below the cut:
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