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Disney Park News

  • Where at Disney Parks Can You Find…
    You bet it’s time to share another image in need of an ID. And to begin this week, we have a smiling face at a park we haven’t covered yet in this hidden image series - a clue for those of you playing at home. Do you know where it’s located? (answer after the jump)
  • Winners of the Fifth Annual Disneyland Half Marathon
    Here they are - the winner of the men’s, women’s and wheelchair divisions of the Disneyland Half Marathon. They received their medals Sunday after the race.
  • Making a Splash at Magic Kingdom Park
    One thing about taking photographs on Splash Mountain at Walt Disney World is you never need to tell people what to do.
  • Disney Parks Blog Weekly Recap
    How about that for a party? It’s a first look at ElecTRONica coming to Disney California Adventure Park in October. The new party will be set amidst the world of “TRON: Legacy!” and offer an opportunity to peek inside the world of the movie. If you’re curious, take a look at the [...]
  • One-Stop Searching: Disney Sports
    Thousands of athletes are gathering at Disneyland Resort this weekend for the fifth annual Disneyland Half Marathon Weekend. At Disney Parks, we see record-breaking and history-making sporting events all year long. Here is a look back at some of our Disney sports blog posts.
  • ESPN 101 High School Career Panel Offers Students a Glimpse at Potential Futures
    Hundreds of Central Florida high school juniors and seniors recently got a lesson in how to take their dreams one step closer to reality as part of the ESPN 101 Career Panel hosted at the Walt Disney World Clubhouse of Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Florida.
  • New ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’ Cast Members Find Inspiration at Disneyland Park
    The film may not open until next May, but during a break from filming recently, new ‘Pirates’ cast members Stephen Graham and Paul Bazely made a special trip to where it all began when they rode the original Disney attraction that inspired the hit film franchise.

News from Disneyland

News from WDW

  • Disney Cruise Line: Kids sail free on select 2011 Caribbean cruises
        Disney Cruise Line has announced its second kids-sail-free offer for 2011. To qualify for this offer, you must book a verandah stateroom (categories 4A to 7A only) with two full-fare guests. Kids must be 17 or younger and stay in the same stateroom. Most seven-night Caribbean cruises from Jan. 8, 2011, through March 5, 2011 — [...]
  • Marketing of ‘Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam’ focuses on music, not merchandise
        We joined 8 million other viewers on Friday night to watch the U.S. premiere of Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam. Kids and their families made the long-anticipated sequel — the original debuted in 2008 — the top cable movie so far in 2010. Marketing this movie has been different than the first installment — and [...]
  • High-energy dance festival Disney Step Classic begins today
      Fancy footwork is on display this weekend at Walt Disney World when the Disney STEP Classic returns for its third year. Today, the dance teams are participating in workshops taught by performance judges who are also National STEP Show Alliance certified STEP coaches. The workshops are geared for all levels of proficiency — from beginning enthusiasts [...]
  • Scenes from grand opening of Disney’s luxury kennel, Best Friends Pet Care
                                                                                           
  • Disney-created situation ‘virtually certain’ to end in crash, mother of worker who died says
    By Jeff Weiner, Orlando Sentinel In new court documents, the mother of a Disney monorail worker killed last year accuses her son’s former boss of “flippantly” vacating his duty, creating a dangerous situation that “was virtually certain to result in injury or death.” 21-year-old Disney monorail pilot Austin Wuennenberg was killed on July 5, 2009 when two [...]
  • Space Mountain music: Hear all about it from an Imagineer
    Disney World visitors this week are among the first to hear something new: Space Mountain set to music. An uptempo, futuristic soundtrack has been added to the Magic Kingdom roller coaster. I talked with Alex Wright, a show designer with Walt Disney Imagineering, about the change, which is an extension of adjustments made to Space [...]
  • Got game? Check out these fan scavenger hunts at Disney World
      What better way to enjoy Disney World’s theme parks than with like-minded guests? Two upcoming fan meet-ups will take participants on scavenger hunts through two different parks in October. In honor of Epcot’s International Food and Wine Festival, the Disney Food Blog is hosting its 2010 WDW Foodie Fest. The open house is from 11 a.m. [...]

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