I’m looking forward to my first chance to ride Stitch’s Great Escape. AP previews are coming up soon and it might soft open even sooner. (I hope!) The Orlando Sentinal has a great article with the voice of Stitch, also the director of the film, Chris Sanders.
Here’s some news that should make Disney’s many cruise line enthusiasts happy. The Disney Wonder has just been returned to service after an extensive refurbishing. For those of you on the west coast who wish Disney had a cruise line for you, well pick up the phone, cause they’re coming your way this summer for… Read More »A Bit of Cruise News
Hundreds of unionized Walt Disney World workers gathered Monday night to protest stalled contract negotiations with the company. “We’re here to embarrass the company,” said Joe Condo, president of the Service Trades Council. The employee’s union is turning up the heat on Disney. This looks like it could get ugly if both sides don’t come… Read More »Disney Employees Protest bad contract offer
Looks like many former Disney Animators are getting on with their lives, some even hoping to someday produce rivals to the mouse house works. Raven Animation is just one such studio.
Paris Disneyland has had its troubles recently. The second gate is underbuilt, its debt load makes it nearly impossible to operate in the black, and there is some evidence the tight fisted management policies beginning to drive away the tourist. It used to be that once you got someone to the park, they were overwhelmed… Read More »Lion King at Paris Disneyland
I’ve been hearing rumors of a book about Walt and the Golden and Silver era’s of the Walt Disney Company that tells the story through interviews with what could be called ‘Walt’s People’. Now comes word that it is actually a series of books edited by Didier Ghez and that the first one will be… Read More »Walt’s People
The parents of the man killed on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad are suing the park for wrongful death. Additional lawsuits were filed Tuesday on behalf of a friend of Torres and five members of a family who allege they also were injured in the accident. Now, it is in the nature of a thrill ride… Read More »Disneyland Sued for Wrongful Death
Union officials leafleted the opening of Disney’s NYC ‘World of Disney’ store yesterday. “We knew we had to do something to get the company’s attention,” said Juleeann Jerkovich, secretary-treasurer of the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union Local 1625, which is one of six unions that make up the Service Trades Council Union. “It’s… Read More »Disney World Union Protests in NYC???