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POSTED Mon, 09/03/2012 - 02:30 | POSTED BY Melinda Gregory
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Mini Ear Hats to Hit Disney Parks This Fall

Anybody who sets foot inside a Disney park can see guests love Disney hats, and now those hat-loving guests will have one more option this fall: MousekeEars.

POSTED Fri, 08/31/2012 - 06:00 | POSTED BY Melinda Gregory
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Fairy Periwinkle To Join Tinker Bell at Meet and Greet

Tinker Bell will soon have a new friend helping her meet guests at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. Periwinkle, a frost fairy Tinker Bell meets in the Disney Fairies movie, "Secret of the Wings," will be joining Tinker Bell to greet guests at Disney parks in Florida and California.

POSTED Sat, 08/11/2012 - 06:00 | POSTED BY Melinda Gregory
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Disney World Discounts for U.S. Military

Disney has some nice discounts coming up for those who serve in this country's military for both Walt Disney World and Disneyland. Those in the military (including both active and retired members of the U.S. Coast Guard, National Guard and Reservists) and their families can benefit from discounts on resort stays and park tickets with purchase dates from August 17 of this year through September 25, 2013 and travel beginning October 1, 2012.

Details on military discounts for Walt Disney World are:

POSTED Sat, 05/26/2012 - 06:00 | POSTED BY Melinda Gregory
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'Poster Art of the Disney Parks' Book Coming to Disney Parks Soon

It's a book that's been four years in the making, and now it's almost ready to make its debut in Disney Parks Stores. "Poster Art of the Disney Parks," the creation of Disney Imagineers Vanessa Hunt and Danny Handke, showcases posters utilized by Disney to convey the essence of its theme parks and attractions.

The book includes over 300 posters and concepts, including some "never before seen" prints and almost all of the original 1950's Disneyland posters. Says author and Imagineer Hunt about her book:

POSTED Sat, 05/19/2012 - 20:00 | POSTED BY Melinda Gregory
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Disney Parks Expansions and Additions Exceed $3 Billion

When Disney improves upon its parks, it improves. The company has surpassed the $3 billion mark in its park additions and expansions - a first in its history. To give an idea of where all that moolah is going, here is a breakdown of recent work at Disney parks worldwide:

  • Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World: The Fantasyland expansion, the largest in the park's four decade history, will top out around $425 million when the construction is done.
POSTED Mon, 02/13/2012 - 22:00 | POSTED BY Melinda Gregory
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Finding Hidden Mickeys On Facebook Could Win You A Disney Vacation

Who couldn't use a Disney vacation? Starting today, you can search for "Hidden Mickeys" within several Disney-related Facebook pages, and finding one gives you the chance to enter for a vacation to Walt Disney World or Disneyland. Finding ten Mickeys gives you the option to add a VIP experience to your vacation for four should you win.

POSTED Sun, 02/05/2012 - 07:00 | POSTED BY Melinda Gregory
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Disney Makes Changes To Appearance Codes For Employees

Recently, Disney announced some changes in their policies affecting appearances of their employees. First, for the first time in sixty years, Disney will allow male workers in both Walt Disney World and Disneyland parks to grow beards or goatees. Next, the company will allow employees to partake in casual Friday.

POSTED Sun, 01/01/2012 - 22:30 | POSTED BY Melinda Gregory
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Magic Kingdom To Stay Open 24 Hours on February 29

In honor of 2012 being a leap year, Disney will mark the occasion with a historical first - keeping the Magic Kingdom in Florida and Disneyland Park in California open for a full 24 hours.

Look for both parks to open at 6 a.m. on February 29, 2012 and close at 6 a.m. March 1, 2012.

POSTED Wed, 11/16/2011 - 07:00 | POSTED BY Melinda Gregory
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Disney Nabs Four Thea Awards

The Themed Entertainment Awards announced their choices for this year's Thea Awards recipients on Tuesday, naming four that were Disney-related.

Disneyland and Walt Disney World shared an award for outstanding achievement in the "attraction refresh" category for Star Tours. The attraction reopened in May in both the California and Disney Hollywood Studios locations.

Disney World also nabbed another award with the nightly Magic Kingdom show, "The Magic, The Memories and You." Shown on Cinderella's Castle, it received outstanding achievement in the "show spectacular" category.

POSTED Sat, 11/12/2011 - 06:00 | POSTED BY Melinda Gregory
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New Character Coming to Disney Parks

"Jake and the Never Land Pirates" is a hit show on the Disney Junior channel, and now guests will be able to see Jake himself at Disney parks.

Starting this Sunday, November 13, fans can catch Jake at two different places. First, he'll join the Junior Play 'n Dine character meal experience at Disney's Hollywood Studios' Hollywood & Vine. In addition to catching up with Special Agent Oso, Handy Manny and "Little Einsteins" characters, guests will be able to participate in singing songs from Jake's show.

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POSTED Fri, 10/13/2017 - 11:00 | POSTED BY Kristen Kirk
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BaseLine Tap House Opens At Disney's Hollywood Studios

If you're looking for a great spot to stop in for a drink and a snack at Disney's Hollywood Studios, you may want to head over to the brand new BaseLine Tap House. The new bar is a highlight stop on the Park's reimagined Grand Avenue, a thoroughfare that will eventually lead Guests into Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.

POSTED Fri, 08/04/2017 - 11:00 | POSTED BY Kristen Kirk
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Adorable Art Captures The Spirit of Kawaii for Disney Food Lovers

In the context of popular Japanese culture "kawaii" represents all things cute. A multitude of adorable characters have become a true phenomenon in the modern era and can even be said to have taken over the more staided and refined national identity. The current art exhibit in the Bijutsu-kan Gallery at Epcot's Japan Pavilion showcases this movement, and you can read about it in our previous article Kawaii: The Culture of Cute.

POSTED Tue, 12/20/2016 - 12:00 | POSTED BY Guest Author
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Take A Guided Tour To Walk In Walt's Disneyland Footsteps

Tours are a great way to experience even more magic at Walt Disney Parks. Today's your review comes to you from Disneyland and, short of the Southern California Adventures by Disney trip, is the most comprehensive tour that you can take in Disneyland. We took the tour in March 2015 and like all Disney tours, your experience may vary slightly depending on your tour guide, refurbishment schedule, and changes to the tour itinerary.

POSTED Mon, 12/19/2016 - 12:00 | POSTED BY Traci C.
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What’s On Your Disney Bucket List?

It's that time of year when everyone is making a list and checking it twice. Currently I have a lot of lists, but my Disney Bucket List is a work in progress. I've been visiting the Walt Disney World Resort since I was a wee little one (way back in 1974) and I'll admit that there are many, many things I have yet to experience at Disney World. A few years ago, after a family vacation, I decided to start writing down things I wanted to do on future visits. I suppose one could say I'm starting my Disney Bucket List.

POSTED Tue, 11/15/2016 - 12:00 | POSTED BY Guest Author
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Disney History: The Nixon Years

Walt Disney's love of America and fascination with U.S. Presidents, particularly Abraham Lincoln, is well documented and if you've followed along with our history articles here at Walt Disney World for Grownups, you know that Nikita Khrushchev, but what about the American chief executives? Though he may seem like an unlikely candidate, President Richard Nixon has the strongest ties to Disney of any Oval Office occupant.

POSTED Wed, 09/21/2016 - 11:00 | POSTED BY Guest Author
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Disney History: Nikita Khrushchev In Disneyland

In 1959, everyone wanted to go to Disneyland, even the cold war leader of the communist Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev and his family. But it's tough to be a politician, and all magic comes with a price. Many sources reported that the visit actually happened, but unfortunately for the Khrushchev family, the Happiest Place on Earth turned out to off-limits to them.

POSTED Tue, 08/16/2016 - 11:00 | POSTED BY Kristen Kirk
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Disney History: Song of the South

Despite earning a seemingly permanent home in the famed "Disney Vault" due to its reliance on racial stereotypes to tell a story, Song of the South has an enduring legacy in Walt Disney World, even if many guests don't recognize the origin of some of Disney's most iconic elements. The Reconstruction Era film centers on Uncle Remus, a black man who is presumably a recently freed slave, telling stories to the children.

POSTED Thu, 12/03/2015 - 12:00 | POSTED BY Guest Author
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Classic Disney Attractions Influenced By The 1964 World's Fair

When Disneyland opened in 1955, Walt Disney's team of imagineers lacked the tools and knowledge to create most of the attractions that we see in the parks today. Many of the technological concepts that fuel todays attractions simply didn't exist yet and many exist today because of the research and experimentation of those early imagineers - with a little bit of outside help.

POSTED Tue, 09/29/2015 - 11:00 | POSTED BY Kristen Kirk
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Cuddle Up In Disney Kigurumi Halloween Costumes

It may be one of the cutest trends growing at pop culture conventions across the land, Cosplay Pajamas! These warm and snugly onesies are a whimsical combination of comfort and fun. Known as "Kigurumi" the trend has even spread to Disney fans with a range of characters from the Fab Five to The Hundred Acre Woods, to Infinity and Beyond!

POSTED Wed, 06/17/2015 - 11:00 | POSTED BY Kristen Kirk
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Yes, Again! Why I Keep Going Back to Walt Disney World

Disney fans that travel frequently to the Parks generally experience one great frustration at home that unites us. No, it's not the desire to get back down to our Walt Disney World home. It's not the wallet draining price increases when we begrudgingly fork over the cash for our next trip. What it is - is the friends, co-workers, and family members who just don't understand how we can spend so much time and money traveling to the same place.