Disney Parks & Resorts

At the shareholder meeting, after talking about the opening of Toy Story Mania at Disney's California Adventure, Disney CEO Bob Iger just said that the attraction will also open in Orlando "later in the year." Later in the year? I thought that they were supposed to open at the same time? Or is everything relative and "the same year" is close enough for "at the same time"?

Aside from that, nothing out of the ordinary at the meeting, except for the fact that they've done very little ...

Now that the Orlando Sentinel has found a filing indicating that Disney has received approval to start selling units there, can we now officially say that the new building next to the Contemporary is a DVC resort?

I first reported the intent back in late 2005, before the target moved and moved again before getting more confirmation in mid-2006, with official paperwork for the construction compound being discovered later in 2006 and paperwork on the resort itself being found in early 2007. ...

Yeah, so Walt Disney World has announced that they will be building an "American Idol" attraction in the old Monster Sound Show/Superstar Television theater row. I guess it fits in with the "Hollywood Studios" theme.



While it seems to go along with the "more interactive attractions" push, it just doesn't seem "Disney" to me. I guess they want to give the Studios park more of an ...

Well, I've officially given up on trying to enter the Dream CMO contest. I know that I said in a prior post that I was going to use it as a way to try to recapture the magical feeling of Disney, but real life kind of got in the way.

It's not that I didn't come up with a great idea for the video. (I had a good script written, with an idea for the accompanying visuals.) It's not that I didn't want to do the job. I still think that it would be cool to work for Disney, and this was ...