Category: News
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Give Kids The World Needs Help From The DIS
Give Kids The World (GKTW) is participating in the June “Refresh Everything” program sponsored by Pepsi. If they are one of the top two vote-getters this month, they will receive a cash donation of $250,000 for the Village. You can vote once a day, every day in June, to help ensure that all of the…
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Walt Disney Imagineer Tony Baxter Discusses Creativity
Can you teach creativity? Innovation? Or are people innately creative and innovative? What about companies? To learn how to foster creativity, why not ask someone who has led a few creative projects to successful conclusion? Why not ask someone whose official title has “creative” in the name (in multiple places actually). Tony Baxter, Senior Vice…
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Video: Film Stars Tour Wizarding World of Harry Potter
Universal Orlando recently hosted film stars Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane, James and Oliver Phelps and Matthew Lewis on a tour of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter led by President of Universal Creative Mark Woodbury. The group was invited for a sneak peek of the immersive environment before it officially grand opens on June 18. …
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Mom Will Love Her Royal Brunch at the Disneyland Hotel
How do you celebrate being a mother? Do you rely on your husband to pick the perfect place, or do you just make the reservation for the Mother’s Day Royal Buffet at the Disneyland Hotel’s Ballroom and tell them they have no choice? Well, guess what I did last year…. That’s right. I made reservations…
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Guy Fieri Dishes on Disney & the California Food & Wine Festival
Food. Energy. Entertainment. These powerful words can both be descriptive of a good Disney vacation, as well as of the life of one of the busiest men in television today. From his roots as a Northern California restaurateur to exploding on the scene as the host of four currently-airing network television shows, Guy Fieri has…
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Kennedy Space Center offers several up close tours
I am asked quite often by tourists if they should visit the Kennedy Space center on their Walt Disney World or Universal Orlando vacation. My answer is always yes. Let me say that I am a child of the Space Age. I can remember the days when we would have a TV in the classroom…
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Constructing the World of Color at California Adventure
The hot talk of the year is definitely the opening of World of Color at Disney’s California Adventure Park this April. It’s a little show. Not much really. It is only touted to be the most hi-tech water spectacular of its kind. Fountains, music, color, and imagery will come together to tell a tale of Disney…