Month: June 2010

  • Cirque du So-Magic Kingdom: a Party with Pow! Wow!

    Beer on Main Street?  Contortionists?  Ice billiards?  Imagineers at your beck and call?  Parade floats not seen for nearly two decades?  Has the Mad Hatter taken over Walt Disney World?   No, but there was an over-the-top private party put on by Disney Destinations for U.S. Travel Association’s International Pow Wow, and it was clear…

  • Silly Symphony Swings opens at Disney California Adventure

    Though it wasn’t scheduled to open until June 11th when the Summer Nightastic promotion begins, the Silly Symphony Swings quietly opened Memorial Day weekend at Disney California Adventure.  The attraction is inspired by the 1935 Walt Disney cartoon “The Band Concert”, where Mickey Mouse attempts to conduct an outdoor concert, eventually conducting in the middle of a tornado. …