Archive for August, 2008
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Disney To Host ‘Happiest Race On Earth’ Through Anaheim
Sunday, August 31st, 2008A field of about 13,500 runners is expected for Sunday’s third annual Disneyland Half Marathon, dubbed by organizers as “The Happiest Race on Earth.” The 13.1-mile course begins near Downtown Disney, continues through Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure, passes Honda Center, then goes through the Angel Stadium parking lot, with the finish at Downtown Disney. […]
Ex-Surgeon General calls Disney kids’ hospital home
Sunday, August 31st, 2008As a newly minted vice president of Disney’s Children’s Hospital at Florida Hospital, Dr. Antonia Coello Novello has an ambitious agenda. She wants to create a pain center that combines conventional and alternative medicine, fund a program that would send doctors to local schools and open an umbilical-cord blood bank. Novello knows she’s set the […]
Disney Channel Extends ‘Wizards’ Second Season
Saturday, August 30th, 2008Disney Channel this week announced it has extended the second season of its popular live-action comedy series Wizards of Waverly Place, doubling its production order from 13 to 26 episodes. The series for kids launched in October 2007 and has become one of the channel’s biggest hits, ranking No. 1 among kids 6-11 and tweens in […]
Fans flock to Disney’s Club Penguin Times
Saturday, August 30th, 2008The newspaper industry is constantly bewailing its need for a new economic model, as the Internet upends the old one. Maybe it could take a page from the Club Penguin Times. The Club Penguin Times, after all, is more widely read than New York’s Daily News, the Chicago Tribune or the Dallas Morning News. And […]
‘Quinceañera,’ Disney style: A rite of passage for Hispanic teenage girls
Saturday, August 30th, 2008Walt Disney World is intensifying its Hispanic culture offerings with the introduction of a quinceañera event, which culminates today with a grand ball built for princesses. Disney’s Royal Quinceañera Weekend centers on the rite of passage of 15-year-old girls. Families of a dozen teenagers have paid several hundred to several thousand dollars to share in […]
Disney Cruise Line is considering Alaskan cruises
Saturday, August 30th, 2008Disney Cruise Line is apparently considering cruises in Alaska. Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve in Alaska revealed last week that Disney is one of half a dozen cruise companies that have submitted proposals seeking contracts to sail in the park sometime between Jan. 1, 2010, and Sept. 30, 2019. Other prominent companies competing for […]
Michael Phelps at Walt Disney World: Video
Friday, August 29th, 2008Here is a video of Michael Phelps Day at Walt Disney World today:
(Source: News Infusion)
Michael Phelps celebrates Olympic gold at Disney World: UPDATED
Friday, August 29th, 2008Direct from the Beijing Games where he won a record eight Gold Medals, world champion swimmer Michael Phelps celebrated his unprecedented achievement with an all-American homecoming parade in his honor at Walt Disney World Resort. In a star-spangled salute amidst confetti and thousands of flag-waving fans in the Magic Kingdom, Phelps was honored for his […]
Disney no stranger to copyright issues
Friday, August 29th, 2008Although losing Mickey Mouse would be the greatest rights setback for the world’s biggest family entertainment company, it wouldn’t be the first. One of Walt Disney’s earliest creations was Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. After the cartoon proved popular, a New York distributor used an advantage in its contract to take control of Oswald, then hired […]
Disney employees honored in parade down Main Street
Friday, August 29th, 2008During a parade down Main Street in Disneyland today, Disney honored two employees who have recently been recognized as local heroes. Robert Olvera, an ager and painter at the Disneyland paint shop, and Juan Morales, a server at Hook’s Pointe, have both been called heroes for saving the lives of two different men. Last July, Robert Olvera risked his life […]
Southwest to trim some flights at Orlando
Friday, August 29th, 2008Southwest Airlines will trim seven daily flights from its schedule at Orlando International Airport, part of a nationwide cut the airline is making to compensate for high fuel costs. But the low-cost giant — Orlando’s busiest carrier — will add one extra daily flight between OIA and Baltimore-Washington International Airport. Southwest will cut one daily […]
Fire at Disney Studios
Thursday, August 28th, 2008A small brush fire broke out at 12:47 p.m. Tuesday off the Ventura (134) Freeway, a quarter-mile before the Buena Vista Street exit. Shortly after it started, it moved toward the animation department at Walt Disney Studios, said Steve Briggs, battalion chief for the Burbank Fire Department. The Burbank Fire Department sent three engines to […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: New Quests & Monsters
Thursday, August 28th, 2008This month, Disney Online introduces three new Quests to Pirates of the Caribbean Online that will give Unlimited Access Pirates a chance to suit up in some prime Pirate gear.
Players can stop by the tailor shop on Port Royal and start the Pirate’s Life Quest after which they can earn a new five-piece outfit that […]
Disney Cruise Line navigates around high fuel costs
Thursday, August 28th, 2008No part of Walt Disney Co.’s vast corporate empire has been buffeted more by record oil prices than the 10-year-old Disney Cruise Line. Although Disney has never broken out separate financial results for its cruise line, which has its headquarters in Celebration, company executives recently disclosed to investors that they expect its fuel bill will […]
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