One former Disneyland cast member who entertained guests as Captain Jack Sparrow as part of the park’s promotion of the popular Pirates Of The Caribbean films has written a revealing look at his life as a Disney character. From what it took to get hired,… Read More »Ex-Jack Sparrow Walk-Around Character tells all
One more day before the lives and friendships that were created in Disney’s Virtual Magic Kingdom are snuffed out. It’s beyond sad and irresponsible that Disney has not come up with some sort of plan to save the friendships and characters, even if the actual… Read More »Tuesday Trouble – Disney News and Links
Google does more than search, it provides free email, spreadsheets, word processors, photo storage, calendar and more. Even better each of those tools is extendable and customizable. LaughingPlace.com has just made available three Google Calendars for Disney fans wanting to keep tracking of upcoming Disney… Read More »Google Calendars for Disney fans from LaughingPlace.com
The OC Register reports that a study on the feasibility of implementing a monorail system to connect Disneyland to the Angel’s Stadium area has been approved. Other regional transportation solutions are being considered, including other monorail projects. This makes me very happy as it was… Read More »Monorail study approved for Orange County/Anaheim
Welcome Lisa Haines to the crown jewel of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, the original Magic Kingdom — Disneyland. Lisa will be taking on the role of Vice President of Communications for The Disneyland Resort. That means media relations, cast member and guest communications come under her watch.
Haines is a relative newcomer to the Walt Disney Company joining the cast in 2004. So, if she hasn’t already, I hope she’s secured herself copies of these two important books, unfortunately both are out of print. First is “The Nickel Tour” by Dave Mumford and Bruce Gordon because you can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been. Second is “A Window On Main Street” by Van Arsdale France because that book, more clearly than anything else in print explains why Disneyland is the success that it is today. When Haines is done with those, I hope she curls up with back issues of The E-Ticket and similar publications.
There are a lot of exciting things happening in the world of new media, social media, and online media. I hope she embraces each of those new tools and the relationships that come with it.
The full press release is below the cut:
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I’ll believe it when I see it, but it appears NY Giants Quarterback and Most Valuable Player of the NFL’s Superbowl, will finally make his promised trip to Disneyland. Brady MacDonald of the LA Times reports that the recently married Manning and his bride, and… Read More »Eli Manning, Superbowl Most Absent Player, to finally visit Disneyland?
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.
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