Author: mouse skywalker
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Imagineer Kim Irvine’s Child Eye Stewardship of Disneyland
Each Disney destination including Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland has its own Imagineering team to maintain and develop the parks. Long-time Walt Disney Imagineer Kim Irvine founded Disneyland’s Imagineering office in the early 1980’s, and currently serves as the Art Director for Disneyland. On Saturday, March 12, she…
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ESPN’s Trey Wingo Runs Through Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Part of the activities of ESPN: The Weekend included the Champion 5k race held Saturday, March 5th through the streets of Disney’s Hollywood Studios. runDisney billed this race as a blending of Sports and Hollywood, and there were certainly plenty of athletes as well as ESPN personalities on hand. In fact, ESPN broadcaster Trey Wingo shot video along…
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Kim Possible Japan Mission – Got 2 Minutes to Save the World?
The Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure debuted in Epcot a little over 2 years ago. If you’re not familiar with it, the adventure is an interactive mystery game using a hand-held cell phone device (Kimmunicator) to maneuver through a mission in one of the World Showcase pavilions. Characters from Disney’s Kim Possible television show lead you…
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Video: Talking Mickey Mouse Makes His Magic Kingdom Debut
Disneyland tested a talking version of Mickey Mouse in California last summer. Walt Disney World fans have wondered if this talking version of Mickey Mouse would also be appearing sometime in Florida. Friend of the DIS, Mike Holland (DISboards name k5jmh) captured video on Friday, March 4th of the new “talking” version of Mickey Mouse appearing during…
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Greeny and Golic Talk Disney’s ESPN: The Weekend with the DIS
Spring is in the air at Walt Disney World, and the International Flower and Garden Festival has opened with the theme “Epcot Springs to Life.” Well another Disney theme park is also “springing” to life as Disney’s Hollywood Studios hosts its 8th Annual ESPN the Weekend March 3rd – 6th. The co-hosts of the event, ESPN’s Mike…
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Video Preview of Epcot Flower and Garden Festival Topiaries
Buzz and Woody! Buzz and Woody! “Toy Story 3” just won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature Film, what are you doing next? We’re going to Disney World!!! The 2011 Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival opens Wednesday, March 2nd, and for the first time the Disney/Pixar characters from the Toy Story film franchise are included among…
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Record Field “Survives” Disney’s Princess Half Marathon
Quick on the heels of January’s Walt Disney World Marathon weekend comes Disney’s Princess Half Marathon. Early Sunday morning, February 27th, a record field of over 17,000 princesses laced up their running shoes (or glass slippers) to run or walk from Epcot to the Magic Kingdom and back. The field also included two past winners of the reality television show…