Category: News
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One Minute Peek at the Walt Disney Archive Treasures
Moviefone Minute was at the recent 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Walt Disney Archives and its Founder and Chief Archivist Dave Smith. They released this short video recorded directly at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, CA. In the video Jenna Busch speaks with Dave Smith, and he shows Ticket #1 for Disneyland once owned…
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Video: Youth Baseball Player Fights Cancer to Play at Disney World
Disney Sports released an inspiring video with the story of 13 year old Chris Siders of Pensacola, Florida – one of the competitors in the Amateur Athletic Union’s (AAU) 13U Baseball National Championship held at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex June 26-July 1. Chris was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at age 11. After…
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Retired NFL QB Kurt Warner Hosts Wish Families at Disney World
Retired National Football League quarterback Kurt Warner (two-time NFL MVP & Super Bowl MVP) treated 10 families with a child in medical crisis to a week in Orlando, FL as part of the outreach work of his First Things First Foundation. All families stayed at Give Kids The World (GKTW) Village from June 17 –…
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Next Generation Disney Store Helps Shoppers with “Imagination”
Imagination. That’s been the driving force behind the Walt Disney Company since its inception. Now, The Disney Store has called upon that force to create its next generation of shopping experiences. Okay, hold on. Did I really say that? Shopping experiences? That’s what Disney is calling it. The official press states that they want this to be the…
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Need More Star Wars? Celebration V Orlando August 12-15
Were you not able to make it down to Walt Disney World for the recent Star Wars Weekends and feel like you missed out? Or did you attend Star Wars Weekends at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, but it left you wanting more? Well there’s another Star Wars event on the horizon that promises to be even…
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Video: Phineas and Ferb Walk Around Characters Coming?
Phineas and Ferb is a very popular Disney Channel show, and folks have wondered when the characters might arrive in the Disney parks. At a recent Disney event at the 2010 Licensing International Expo in Las Vegas, a Perry the Platypus walk around character was unveiled. Could we be seeing a walk around Perry in…
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Jodi Benson, Voice of Ariel, Performs at Disneyland Resort
Members of the media and special guests were treated to an unexpected surprise during a press conference on Friday, June 11 promoting “What’s New and What’s Next at Disneyland Resort.” After Walt Disney Imagineer, Lisa Girolami, described the concept of the new “The Little Mermaid ~ Ariel’s Undersea Adventure” dark ride, Jodi Benson – the…