Imagineer and Legend Marty Sklar Is Retiring

Marty Sklar, former head of Walt Disney Imagineering, a man who worked very closely with Walt Disney, and the only Walt Disney Company employee to attend the openings of all 11 Disney theme parks worldwide, has announced that he will finally be retiring from the company. The good people over at Orlando Attractions Magazine have … Read more

Marty Sklar’s Letter to Imagineers Announcing His Retirement After 53 Years

Marty Sklar, former head of Walt Disney Imagineering, a man who worked very closely with Walt Disney, and the only Walt Disney Company employee to attend the openings of all 11 Disney theme parks worldwide, has announced that he will finally be retiring from the company. The good people over at Orlando Attractions Magazine have … Read more

April 25th Weekend News Roundup

A lot of news has popped up over the last couple of days, so I thought I’d post some of these smaller pieces into one big news update: –D23 reports: On April 29, for the first time in history, two people will receive a window on Main Street, U.S.A. on the same day. The windows … Read more

Matt Paul’s 4/22/09 WDW Report

Matt Paul spent a wonderful Earth Day 2009 at the Walt Disney World Resort and has plenty of pictures to share with us:

“Celebrate Parking!”

Some new flags outside of Animal Kingdom

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Mickey Monsters Inc.

From the What’s HapPINing blog on Disneypins.com: In other news, we mentioned we would be discussing Mickey Monsters this week. Guests who attended Disney Pin Trading Night last Friday at Walt Disney World® Resort had a first look at these new plush. We recently spoke with Denise Edelmaier, Product Developer for Dolls and Plush, and Wei … Read more

More Information on Summer Nightastic!

D23 has even more information on Disneyland’s new Summer Nightastic promotion: Disneyland Resort will glow like never before this summer as it debuts an all-new fireworks show, Magical, along with beloved characters and sensational new effects that will brighten the Summer Nightastic! Guests can see Disneyland Resort in a whole new light as Summer Nightastic! … Read more

A Summer Beyond Your Wildest Imagination!

As expected, today’s press event at the Disneyland Resort announced their summer 2009 marketing program focusing in nighttime entertainment: “Disneyland Resort Celebrates Summer Nightastic! Lighting Up The Night With New Shows And A New Glow!” ANAHEIM, Calif., April 24 – Disneyland Resort will glow like never before this summer as it debuts an all-new fireworks show, Magical, … Read more

More Details on the Pirates League

Dewayne Bevil of the Orlando Sentinel has more details on the “Pirates League” coming to Adventureland at the Magic Kingdom this summer, including pricing, an opening date, and when you can start making reservations: The new Pirates League will try to do for buccaneers what the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique has done for little princesses at Disney … Read more

Chuck Canzoneri’s Earth Day Photo Report

After a 3 month break, our very own Chuck Canzoneri returns with a new Disneyland Park photo report:

Spring Break is over, however summer certainly isn’t here yet

Construction around the Astro Orbitor and here (the old Cosmic Waves)

Timothy is missing from Dumbo, The Flying Elephant

And someone is missing from Small World as well

This duck on the Storybook Land Canal Boats is not to scale with his surroundings

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Non Southern Californians Not Eligible for Annual Pass Payment Plan

According to the OC Register’s Around Disney blog: Several months ago, Disney announced that guests could buy a year-long pass to Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure with monthly payments. Because of some errors in selling the passes, however, Disney is backpedaling on the deal for some northern California pass holders — they’ll be able to … Read more

Supernanny Star Jo Frost to Meet With Fans at Downtown Disney

LOS ANGELES, April 23 /PRNewswire/ — The star of ABC’s popular parenting series Supernanny, Jo Frost, will meet with fans at Downtown Disney to share parenting tips on Saturday, April 25th at 12:00PM. The casting team for the show will be on hand to meet with families who would like to be on the just … Read more

Imagine the Past (or the Future?)

While browsing the new-and-improved official Walt Disney World website, I stumbled over something interesting on an attraction information page. The page displaying information about the “Imageworks – The KODAK What If Labs”  at Epcot seems to have a few errors (or are they): ImageWorks – The Kodak “What If” Labs features a vast array of … Read more

Up at the El Capitan

After Disneynature’s Earth has finished it’s run at the El Capitan Theatre, the next movie to be featured will be Disney·Pixar’s Up. A couple of days ago I received an ad in the mail showing off what bonuses you can get if you see Up at the El Capitan (you can click both images for … Read more

WDW News Today Announces Exciting New Features

The WDWNT Network has once again reached out to our audience and made changes and additions based on their thoughts. After collecting responses from our 2009 annual survey, we have decided to add and enhance a few features of the WDW News Today website. The first major addition is a new calendar function powered by … Read more

DLR Photo Report :: 4/21/09

My parents visited the Disneyland Resort today while I was unfortunately in school. The reason for this visit was my father’s birthday, and he of course got his Birthday Fun Card. Here’s some photos they were able to get for us:

Monorail Orange pulling into the Downtown Disney Monorail Station

Food and Wine Festival banners in Downtown Disney

A tent has been set up in the middle of Sunshine Plaza for the Festival Welcome Center

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UPDATED: “The Pirate’s League” Coming to Adventureland

Since I see the Twitterverse (many people on Twitter) has picked up on it, I’ll let you what I know about thus far on ” The Pirate’s League”, coming to Adventureland: -It will be the Bibbidi Bobbiti Boutique for boys, dressing up kids (for a hefty price) in Pirate paraphernalia and giving them Pirate lessons very similar … Read more

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