This vintage 8mm film, produced by Walt Disney Productions, was used to promote the new Florida theme park. Many of Disney’s extinct attractions are featured in this film such as, The Swan Boats, The Mickey Mouse Revue, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
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Bug’s Life and McDonald’s team up for this funny commercial.
Little girl sells Lemonade to get to Disneyland..Shut down
A California girl had her lemonade stand shut down, so she took her complaint to the steps of city hall.
Seven year old Daniela Earnest says she got into the lemonade business because she wanted to help her family pay for a trip to Disneyland. But, the city shut her down saying her stand was operating near a very dangerous intersection and without a permit. “Well, we were selling lemonade and a code enforcement person came and shut us down,” says Daniela. The Tulare mayor Craig Vejvoda says, “She was on a very busy intersection. Has no curb and gutter. Like I say, it was one of the most dangerous intersections in our community. It just was not a safe place to be.”
Councilmembers were moved by Daniela’s remarks. They promised the city would try to work something out so Daniela could keep selling lemonade somewhere. And after seeing her story in the paper, a local radio station gave the family 4 2-day passes to Disneyland. But, that was in exchange for 30 glasses of lemonade.
Michael Keaton as Ken in Toy Story 3
I posted this article a last week ago but wanted to put the video link up here. I cant wait to see some trailers as they start coming out.
Disney closes Epcot ride for upgrade
Walt Disney World has closed the Living With the Land boat ride at Epcot for refurbishment of the backstage area.
In a statement, the theme park said it plans to reopen the ride this fall after the work is complete. The boat ride takes visitors through a mock-up of the evolution of the land. It has 40 animatronics and takes people through the Disney World greenhouse where more than 30 tons of fruits and vegetables are grown annually.
Unofficial Disney Web sites say the ride was closed Aug. 2 without notice.
Disney’s Family Museum Update
At long last, construction at The Walt Disney Family Museum at the Presidio in San Francisco is almost done. On October 1, 2009, the world will be invited to step through the doors at last and take a tour through the life of that remarkable dreamer, Walt Disney. Tickets are now on sale at www.waltdisney.org, so fans can begin to plan their trips!
The Walt Disney Family Museum has been created by those who knew and loved Walt best, his family. It will offer an intimate view of the man through an unparalleled collection of personal artifacts and photos, as well as animation art and memorabilia. Says Diane Disney Miller, one of the Museum’s founders, “My father’s name is probably one of the most well-known names around the world, but as the ‘brand’ or trademark has spread, for many, the man has become lost. We are committed to telling the story of Walt Disney’s life, in his own words, and in the words of …
Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie
Mark your calendars for August 28th!
The cast talks about the action in Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie and some of the cool special effects below.
Disney’s Bay Lake Towers
A preview of Bay Lake Tower before it starts to fill up with people.
Shontell Crawford and Lou Mongello discuss The Disney Vacation Club’s newest resort, The Bay Lake Towers.
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Disney Magical Moments – Magic Kingdom
This is what its like to open Magic Kingdom..I would so love to do this someday!
Get your WDW Park Maps Here
Note, the Maps and Plans are in PDF format and require the Adobe Acrobat reader which can be downloaded from the Adobe web site.
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New Disney Hawaii Vacation Club Resort
Four massive cranes now tower over the palm trees at the 21-acre West O‘ahu site of the new Disney Vacation Club Resort Hawaii.
Concrete’s been poured for the foundations. But building 350 hotel rooms and 480 multi-bedroom vacation “villasâ€â€”not to mention spas, pools, restaurants, banquet spaces and kids clubs—takes time. At the moment, there’s just a vast, dusty, busy construction site, surrounded by a green fence.
“We’re magic,†says Disney Vacation Club spokeswoman Diane Hancock. “But even pixie dust takes time to work.â€
The project, first unveiled last October, is on schedule to open in 2011 at Ko Olina Resort & Marina—but Disney is reluctant to say just when in 2011 the resort will start accepting reservations.
There were some worries about how Disney’s powerful corporate brand would collide with a Hawaiian sense of place. “We realize Hawaii is a unique place to enter with a business,†says Hancock. “But we’ve been surprised at how graciously we’ve been welcomed to Oahu.â€
Part of that welcome may stem from assorted good works: Disney has given $100,000 to local high schools and sponsored the free-movies-on-the-beach program in West Oahu communities.
But will the resort be Disneylike? Or purely Hawaiian? Or some hybrid of both? “That’s in the hands of our Imagineering Group,†says Hancock. “We’re doing a lot of listening and learning, so plans are still evolving.â€
Here are Disney’s preliminary artist renderings from that group. Take a look for yourself.
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