Beginning this Friday (Jan. 8), Kermit, Miss Piggy and Sweetums will be featured in a pre-parade celebration at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom and at Disneyland in California. Muppets characters and parade dancers will join to celebrate volunteerism and honorary VoluntEARS, in theory guests who at… Read More »Give A Day, Get A Disney Day Muppet Promo
Did you miss the Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade on ABC this morning? Pretty much what you expected, a giant ad for Disney parks and cruises next year. But entertaining if that’s your thing. It is mine. No need to fret or frown, you can… Read More »Tilt-Shift Disney Christmas Day Parade Video
Today Walt Disney World received the OSHA report listing its findings following its investigation of the Monorail accident last summer that resulted in the death of a cast member. The Resort was also fined $44,000 and provided a list of changes it needs to implement.… Read More »Disney World reports on Monorail Safety Enhancements
I’m getting a lot of reports about the troubles Disney had with the Magic Kingdom monorail system this weekend. Turns out the worst was some inconvenience for guests that Disney could have handled better. However, they’re really playing with fire. I have a report from… Read More »The Monorail Troubles
File this one under jokes not to make while getting your bag inspected at a Disney themepark. Local Fox 35 news is reporting (no story to link to online, alas) that a man was detained by Orange County sheriffs after telling Disney security at the… Read More »Man detained after joking about bomb at the Magic Kingdom
No subtlety from Disney merchandising. This awaits you the moment you step out of the Space Mountain exit queue. On Sunday we went on a quick visit to the Magic Kingdom to ride Space Mountain. It’s hard to tell exactly how much they did to… Read More »Space Mountain – Merchandise in Space
Update: Apparently this news is no news at all. For NTSB is still on their approximately 1 year from incident timeline for the accident. For a while lit looked like the NTSB report on the Disney World fatal monorail accident would be swift in coming.… Read More »NTSB Report on Fatal Monorail Accident to be delayed