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Disney cancels Indiana Jones stunt show performances today following death

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From the Orlando Sentinel

Walt Disney World has canceled all performances today of a popular stunt show, following the death of a worker during a rehearsal yesterday.

Anislav Varbanov, 30, died Monday evening after he was hurt while performing a tumbling roll during a rehearsal for the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular, the 30-mimnute show at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

The Indiana Jones show is typically performed five or six times a day. But a Disney spokeswoman said this morning that resort opted to cancel all performances today “out of respect for the cast.”

From the Orlando Sentinel

  • Disney performer dead after accident at Hollywood Studios
  • Disney performer dies days after performance fall

From other Orlando sources

  • Disney Cast Member Dies After Stunt Show Accident|wftv.com
  • Disney Performer Dies After Tumbling Roll|clickorlando.com
  • Cast Member dies after Indiana Jones Stunt Show Rehearsal Accident|thedisneyblog.com

Around the Web

  • Disney Worker Dies After Show Accident|news.aol.com

Disney On Ice “Celebrations” Coming Soon

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Celebrate with Disney On Ice and turn an ordinary day into an extraordinary one! Disney On Ice presents Celebrations! kicks off this fall as Feld Entertainment’s newest ice production featuring a magical montage of Disney characters celebrating holidays and festivals from around the world. Launching September 2009, Disney On Ice presents Celebrations! will be the first time audiences see Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen, live on ice, from the upcoming film, Walt Disney Pictures’ The Princess and the Frog, opening November 25, 2009, in New York and Los Angeles, and nationwide on December 11.

Classic and contemporary Disney songs, an original storyline, brilliant costumes and high energy action will have audiences celebrating some of the world’s most popular events right in their hometown — from Halloween with the Disney Villains, to a Valentine’s Day Royal Ball, featuring the Disney Princesses. In a fun-packed, ice extravaganza, more than 50 characters from 16 Disney stories will converge and take audiences on a thrilling world tour to exotic destinations like Brazil for a Carnivale parade, Hawaii for a luau party and Japan for a Cherry Blossom festival.

“Disney On Ice presents Celebrations! gives families a reason to celebrate no matter what time of year it is,” says Producer Kenneth Feld. “This uplifting and unforgettable spectacle showcases different celebrations around the globe, and families will walk away remembering to celebrate the everyday joys and successes in their lives.”

Movie Nights at the Disney’s Beach Club Resort

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Shontell is joined this week by Lou Mongello, Host of The WDW Radio Show, to discuss another bit of magic that occurs each night outside of the Beach Club Resort. Grab a chair and stick your toes in the sand while you enjoy a Disney movie on a large inflatable screen.

More Disneyworld Anislav Varbanov Video’s

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Third work-related death at DisneyWorld this summer – with video

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A Walt Disney World cast member is dead after an accident Monday evening at Hollywood Studios.

Stunt performer Anislav Varbanov, 30, was fatally injured during a rehearsal for the ” Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular.” He was doing a tumbling roll after 7 p.m. when he was hurt.

Disney workers dialed 911 at 7:34 p.m. to report that a cast member sustained a head injury. Varbanov was rushed to Florida Hospital Celebration Health, where he was pronounced dead at 8:53 p.m., Orange County sheriff’s deputies said.

Varbanov was the the third cast member in seven weeks to die after sustaining injuries while working.

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Cat Cora’s Kouzzina at Walt Disney World Video

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The lobby & dining room of the new Cat Cora’s Kouzzina restaurant (where Spoodles used to be). You can find a review with photos here. Thanks again to Jeff Lang for the video!

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Disney’s Princess and the Frog Display Video

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Another great video from Jeff Lang on youtube. Be sure to check out his channel for some great Disneyworld videos!

Snow White Exhibit, Disney’s Hollywood Studios

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A video from Jeff Lang on youtube. Just like Jeff I never noticed this exhibit before either..

Four arrested for selling worthless Disney World tickets

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The latest in a series of busts aimed at stopping scams that prey on tourists near Disney World ended up with four ticket sellers being arrested. Each was allegedly selling worthless Disney World and Universal tickets at four locations on and around the Highway 192 tourist strip.

The tickets were being sold at:

  • 4880 W. Highway 192
  • 7421 W. Highway 192
  • 8130 W. Highway 192
  • 2979 Vineland Road (between 192 and Osceola Parkway)

All four locations are in Kissimmee, on a strip thick with gas stations, restaurants, souvenir shops, discount electronics outlets, miniature golf courses, timeshare recruitment booths…and discount ticket resellers.

The arrest underscores the importance of never buying theme park tickets from an unknown seller. The bust was initiated by complaints from tourists who were purchasing the tickets, then being turned away from the theme parks when they turned out to be worthless.

The Osceola Sheriff’s Office Tourist Policing Unit teamed up with security personnel from Disney World and Universal to carry out an undercover operation. Based on what they discovered, they arrested the four suspects and seized $6000 in cash and over $130,000 in theme park tickets.

Tourists were also allegedly ripped off by a group of people running a phony credit counseling services and buying tickets for resale with the stolen number. Click here for the details. A couple was recently enticed by a trickster to trash their Orlando hotel room, doing thousands of dollars in damage. Click here to read about that.

Probably won’t be seeing any “Up” rides

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From the Orlando Sentinel

Tucked inside an animation building in Disney’s HollywoodStudios, costumed versions of the characters from Up, the most recent hit film from the Walt Disney Co.‘s Pixar Animation Studios, have emerged as a modestly popular attraction this summer.

At any given point of the day, a small line of families waits for autographs and photos with Carl Fredricksen, the movie’s 78-year-old hero, and two other characters. Fredericksen sometimes sets aside his walking cane to waltz with a waiting mom.

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Zac Efron & Vanessa Hudgens get engaged?

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The UK’s News of The World newspaper is reporting that Zac Efron and girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens have gotten engaged.

The story is that Vanessa confirmed the engagement during an interview with the newspaper – but we have heard this story so many times before we don’t know if we believe it this time.

Vanessa said, “We haven’t set a date and if we did we’d keep it secret for as long as possible. Why? What if one of us was offered a major film part? Then we’d have to postpone our marriage and people would say we’d split up. And we don’t want that.”

In recent interviews both Zac and Vanessa have said that they want to wait to get married until they are older – was that all a lie then to keep us off the trail of thinking they were engaged?

Alright, so if they’re really engaged where’s the ring!

Muppets spotted in Disneyland

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It looks like Disney is trying to bring back the Muppets craze – and we doubt it’s just to promote the Muppets 3D show at the Disney’s Hollywood Studios park.

Rumor has it that Disney has been filming numerous scenes of the Muppets around the Disney parks to create a promotional campaign for the visiting the theme parks that will debut in 2010.

We doubt that the Walt Disney Company chose to use Jim Henson’s Muppets characters just because – since the Muppets aren’t as popular now as they were a few short years ago. We are betting that there is a Muppets movie coming out that we just don’t know about yet.

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