All 53 contestants for the title of Miss America 2011 visited the Magic Kingdom today. Representing 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, the ladies restarted the Miss America tradition of walking together down Main Street toward Cinderella Castle.
After the Miami Heat gained two megastar free-agents (LeBron James and Chris Bosh), guard Dwyane Wade celebrated with a vacation to Disney World where he stopped by ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex to play a fun 3-on-3 game with Mickey Mouse and AAU girls basketball players from South Florida and Louisiana.
A few years ago some new technology was added to the characters in the Dream Along with Mickey stage show at the Magic Kingdom that allowed the characters mouths to move and eyes to blink. Well it looks like Disney has improved on that technology by enhancing a Mickey meet and greet by allowing him…
It was a grand opening befitting Disney’s new D Street store at Downtown Disney mixing music, art and pyro. Disney describes D Street as where urban-inspired product “intersects” with a Disney creative edge. The store’s main focus is on the collectable Mickey Mouse Vinylmation figures.
For the 2009 Christmas season, Disney has installed into the Magic Kingdom’s Emporium windows along Main Street U.S.A. the long out-of-view animated window displays based on the holiday favorite, “Mickey’s Christmas Carol.” Six scenes tell the classic story of Mickey Mouse as Bob Cratchit and Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge. These scenes were originally on…
Walt Disney World Sports Media Director Darrell Fry posted this hilarious video of Mickey Mouse showing off his hip-hop dance moves on the Disney Parks Blog. The video was recorded at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex (soon to be ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex), but there’s no word at which event or when…
On Oct. 1, 1971, exactly 38 years ago, Walt Disney World first opened to the public. The resort at the time featured just one theme park, the Magic Kingdom, and two hotels, the Polynesian Village Resort and the Contemporary Resort. Today, the ongoing celebration at Walt Disney World is called “What Will You Celebrate?” and…
Journalist and TV anchor Dan Rather visited with Mickey Mouse today, Aug. 16, 2009 at Epcot. Rather was on vacation at the Walt Disney World theme park. Photo by Matt Stroshane
More than 1,000 immigrants gathered on Main Street, U.S.A. early this morning to become American citizens. From more than 100 countries and ranging in age from 18 to 82, the immigrants took the Oath of Allegiance to the United States during a morning ceremony jointly hosted by Disney Parks and Resorts and United States Citizenship…
From orlandosentinel.com: Wayne Allwine, the actor who voiced Mickey Mouse for more than 30 years, has died. The Walt Disney Co. says Allwine died Monday of complications from diabetes, with Russi Taylor, his wife of 20 years and the voice of Minnie Mouse, by his side. He was 62. “Wayne dedicated his entire professional life…
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