Disneyland's HalloweenTime promotion has been so successful that park management is calculating what other holidays they can tie into for a quick attendance boost.

Decorations and more now mark Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and Summertime. So the next big promotion? According to one source, "TDA (Team Disney Anaheim) managers are planning it to be Valentine’s Day. Expect to see hearts, lace, princesses, and all that fluff all over the resort next year. And it will be...

A computer glitch on Walt Disney World’s monorail system forced the resort to shut down the Epcot line yesterday—and opens up the possibility that July 5’s fatal crash may not have been entirely human error.

Disney World operates three separate monorail lines (Magic Kingdom Resort line running from the Ticket & Transportation Center to the park and three hotels; Express, which stops only at the TTC and Magic Kingdom, and Epcot, which runs between the TTC and Epcot. Since the Epcot...

There's something about a three-year anniversary that must have Disneyland presidents beginning to box up the trinkets around their offices, as they are suddenly overwhelmed with the urge to "spend more time with their families."

Sure enough, Disneyland's elusive leader "Senator" Ed Grier has now walked the plank, 72 days after celebrating the magical "3." My prediction on how long he'd last was made, yup, just under three years ago (http://www.mouseplanet.com/7042/Mous...ag_compilation)....

Common wisdom holds that last week’s firing of Disney Studios chief Dick Cook resulted from him greenlighting movies not enough people wanted to see, causing his division to lose $12 million dollars in the most recent quarter. Cook’s forté, after all, had not been financials, but was befriending big stars. Note that Cook received his pink slip a week after convincing Johnny Depp to publicly pledge to appear in "Pirates of the Caribbean IV."

Disney’s movie division has been in a downward...

Disneyland is sneaking in a little something extra for its Halloweentime promotion: the reopening of the long-missing cemetery on Tom Sawyer Island.

The construction walls that had been blocking guests from walking behind Fort Wilderness are down, and guests should be able to pay their respects at the cemetery in back within the next few days. The area will not be “pirated up,” according to one source. “The only difference will have the headstones facing the Rivers of America.”...