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Green Flag to Checkered Flag – Give Kids the World Fun in Indianapolis
Ladies and gentlemen…..Start your engines! It all starts back in January when committee members turn the key to the ignition and it finishes over Labor Day weekend. It’s the Indianapolis Disney Meet, a Give Kids the World fundraiser. This year the meet was celebrating its 5th anniversary. Continue through the page break to learn more…
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Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party 2012
Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party Photo Gallery Boo to You Halloween Parade Video Well it’s that time of year in Orlando. It truly is Fall when Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party opens at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. The park feels different to me on party nights. Main Street is decorated so…
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Fundraising for Give Kids the World
In 2010, the DIS Unplugged Podcast put forth a challenge to its listeners and their communities. The premise was simple: help us raise a million dollars for Give Kids the World (GKTW). Wait a second…a MILLION dollars? That’s simple?! Yes, you heard it right! Pete Werner, host of the DIS Unplugged, proposed this scenario: find…
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Orlando and Southern California Theme Park Results in the 2012 Golden Ticket Awards
It’s the top award for theme park and amusement parks worldwide. Each year, ‘Amusement Today’ magazine hands out its Golden Ticket Awards for the best of the best in several amusement park categories. On September 7th & 8th, several amusement and theme park officials and fans gathered at the Dollywood Resort in Pigeon Forge, TN…
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Mineral King – Walt Disney’s Last Lost Project
Walt Disney was an innovator. He changed expectations people had for animated films and amusement parks. Earlier this year at The Walt Disney Family Museum, urban planner and Disney historian, Sam Gennaway, hosted a presentation with Walt Disney’s son-in-law Walt Disney Family Museum Co-Founder and former Disney Company CEO, Ron Miller, and Dave Price, son…
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Dive-In to the Hollywood Drive-In Miniature Golf at Universal’s CityWalk
It’s time to remember when. Let’s take a journey back to the 1950s; specifically, the sci-fi era when alien movies and scary haunted ghost stories were part of the silver screen. Universal Orlando has brought this era back to life in the form of two elaborate, well-themed miniature golf courses. Get your alien ray gun,…
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Don’t overlook Disneyland’s Paradise Pier Hotel
Back in March of last year, I spent one night at the Paradise Pier Hotel. It was the night before a 7-day cruise on the Disney Wonder and I don’t remember much about it. If you pressed me, I would have probably said it was like staying at the Hilton or Marriott. Either I was…
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