A new street show coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios and California Adventure in October now has a name — “Disney Channel Rocks!” The show is replacing “High School Musical 3: Senior Year — Right Here! Right Now!” Expect music from Camp Rock, StarStruck, and some… Read More »New show coming to California Adventure, Disney’s Hollywood Studios
This video has been making the rounds for a few days. It shows Alice and the Mad Hatter inspecting the new look for the Alice in Wonderland attraction. It’s a good thing he’s mad, because I don’t think any other Disneyland Cast Member could get… Read More »The Mad Hatter’s Take on new Alice safety rails
LaughingPlace.com has some interesting news about the changes coming to the popular Star Tours attraction. Pixar and Lost composer and Academy Award winner Michael Giacchino will be scoring the soundtrack for Star Tours: The Adventures Continue, the new version of the attraction coming in 2011.… Read More »Michael Giacchino to compose Star Tours soundtrack
Walt, CV Wood, and Buzz Price discuss the location of Disneyland.
Some would say that Harrison “Buzz” Price played as big a role in the success of Disneyland as Walt himself. After all, if Buzz hadn’t figured out the ideal location to build Disneyland, it might have floundered as a studio tour add-on, or been misplaced too far from what would eventually become the demographic center of Southern California, Anaheim. Buzz repeated that trick 20 years later when helping narrow down the final location of what was to become Walt Disney World.
We learned today that Buzz died after an illness at the age of 89. Buzz was a Disney Legend and continued to impact the theme park industry with his numbers based research.
In the last few years Buzz became a regular fixture at industry events like IAAPA or NFFC. His humor, wit, and feisty attitude were memorable and enduring. He was living history, not just a connection to the past, but a great insight into today and the future as well. A giant empty spot exists now.
The full obituary released by the family is below the jump:
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The Star Wars convention Celebration V is in Orlando this weekend and Disney has used the moment to debut a new video that teases the upcoming changes to its Star Tours attraction. The video was introduced by Imagineer Jason Surrell, and C-3PO himself, actor Anthony… Read More »New Star Tours video released
After abruptly closing on July 15, the Alice in Wonderland attraction at Disneyland has reopened. Guests will notice a new safety barrier along the outside, elevated track where the caterpillar cars descend. The barrier will assist cast members and maintenance who might have to walk… Read More »Alice in Wonderland reopens at Disneyland
Here in Orlando we have the Tron-o-rail, which is nice if a bit of a moving billboard, but in Anaheim, word on the street is that they’ll get a whole dance party and show called ElecTRONica to promote celebrate the films debut. They’re also considering… Read More »Tron Show Coming to Disneyland
When I first started writing the vignettes that were to become the Dispatch from Disneyland stories, my goal was simple — share some of the magic I felt when in the park with people who couldn’t be there. I was thankful that Doobie gave them… Read More »Dispatch from Disneyland: my book project.