Former president of Disneyland Jack Lindquist will be signing copies of his memoir, In Service To The Mouse: My Unexpected Journey to Becoming Disneyland’s First President, at the 2011 Los Angeles Times’ Festival of Books. Check out this FREE event, coming Saturday, April 30th and… Read More »Former Disneyland President Jack Lindquist book signing at LA Festival of Books
With Ed Grier recently forced out as President of Disneyland Resort there has been a lot of speculation as to whom would be the next candidate to jump into that high turnover position. Erin Wallace, currently the Sr VP of Operations at WDW, and Jim… Read More »New Disneyland President coming from Paris
Via the Whitehouse.gov blog we get this video of President Barack Obama as he records his speech for the Hall of Presidents attraction that officially reopens on the 4th of July. I’m guessing President Obama has never been to Walt Disney World since he asks… Read More »Video of President Barack Obama recording his Hall of Presidents Speech
Update: video of President Obama as he records his lines for the show. “I [name] do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution… Read More »The Hall of Presidents Transformed
Yesterday the Hall of Presidents at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom had previews for Cast Members, Annual Passholders and DVC members, and then opened to the regular guest as well. It was the debut of a new script, a new show, and a couple new… Read More »Hall of President Previews at Magic Kingdom
We’ve known for sometime that the Hall of Presidents attraction at the Magic Kingdom was getting a fairly large makeover. A new film, new narrator, and, of course, a new President. But the details as laid out in today’s NY Times are really impressive. The… Read More »Robobama coming to Walt Disney World
Today marks the 200th anniversary of Abe Lincoln’s birth, and sadly the Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln attraction at Disneyland remains shuttered after ‘temporarily’ closing for Disneyland’s 50th celebration. If this disturbs you as much as it does me, please write to Disneyland Guest Relations and share your desire to see Honest Abe, an inspiration for Walt Disney and our current President, returned swiftly to his place of honor in the Opera House.
(Previously: Will Lincoln Return to Disneyland?)
Click below the cut for the address to send your letters
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After a couple weekends of being too sick to make it out to the theme parks, I finally made it to the Magic Kingdom this Saturday. Just me and about 40,000 of my closest friends. Yep the park was that busy. They even parked Grumpy… Read More »Hall of Presidents disappearing act, MK020709