Tag: Disney’s Hollywood Studios

  • A Week Before your Walt Disney World Vacation

    If you are anything like me, you start planning and counting down to your next Disney World vacation many weeks or even months prior to the day you depart for Orlando.  However, there’s something special about the last week before your vacation starts.  It’s the realization you are soon to leave your job, everyday stresses,…

  • Analyzing the Disney Parks Starbucks Announcement

    What do you think?Vote in our survey and let us know what you think about Starbuck on Main Street! Let me raise my hand.  Hi!  I was one of them.  Yup, I asked, even begged over the years for better coffee at the Disney theme parks.  It was a mission of mine most mornings to…

  • Disney agrees to purchase Lucasfilm for $4 billion

    The Walt Disney Co. has just announced that they have agreed to purchase Lucasfilm Ltd. from George Lucas for $4.05 billion in cash and stock.  George Lucas has been well-known for maintaining creative control over all details that bear the Lucasfilm name, so it comes as no surprise that he will continue as a creative…

  • Disney’s Tower of Terror 10-Miler Weekend – A Reflection

    Runners from 50 states and 14 countries gathered at the Walt Disney World resort for the Inaugural Tower of Terror 10-Miler weekend.  The collection of races saw children all the way to seniors running various distances all the way to the featured night time race; The Tower of Terror 10-Miler.  Continue through the page break…

  • Rumor Mill: The Executive, Avatar, and Downtown Disney Shuffle

    The interesting thing about the rumor mill is that it gets really lively, dies off, then repeats.  Read on to discover which executives are slated to move around, the latest state of Avatarland, and what’s hot in the rumor mill at Downtown Disney.  

  • 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…

  • 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…