I'm a little behind in catching up on last Tuesday's Walt Disney Company first quarter earnings conference call. On the call, Walt Disney Company CFO Tom Staggs announced that, effective tomorrow, the "Buy Four, Get Three Free" promotion will be extended through August 15. The end of the window for you to make your bookings will remain at March 29, though.

It's still unknown whether, once we hit August 15, we'll see another extension of "Buy 4/Get 3" or the return of free dining....

On Wednesday, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts announced a Voluntary Separation Plan (VSP) for domestic Parks and Resorts executives to achieve further reductions in the cost of running the company's massive theme parks business.

In a statement regarding the offering, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Executive Vice President for Worldwide Public Affairs Leslie Goodman said that "[t]his immediate action is designed to allow us to effectively manage our business while we continue to deliver...

The 2009 Proxy Statement released by the Walt Disney Company has announced that the 2009 annual shareholder meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 10 in Oakland, California.

For the entire text of the proxy statement, please see this post on our MousePad discussion forums.

I talked about it on today's MouseStation podcast, but realized that perhaps I should also post this here for those that don't listen to the show.

Animation legend Ollie Johnston, the last surviving member of Walt's Nine Old Men, passed away from natural causes at age 95 on Monday at a long term care facility in Sequim, Washington. Johnston served as animator and directing animator of some of the best-loved Disney animated classics, including Show White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio,...

I see that Disney has just announced the complete slate of animated features from now through the end of 2012. Four from Walt Disney Animation Studios and six from Pixar. Plus two more Pixar films in the release of the 3-D editions of the first two Toy Story films.

Oh, yeah. There'll also be four dreck-to-video Disney Fairies movies.

I've got to wonder how the WDAS folks feel, with Pixar films outnumbering theirs 2-to-1 over the next four-plus years (including the re-releases)....