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Blog Post: What's really behind the sudden change in Disney Parks & Resorts' facial hair policy?

Jim Hill

You're going to read a lot today about how - by revising their long-standing policy on facial hair - Disney Parks and Resorts is now turning its back on nearly 60 years of tradition. Which isn't entirely true. I mean, if Walt Disney himself really insisted that no one with a beard or a mustache...

on24 Jan 2012
Blog Post: Mickey always plans a few moves ahead when it comes to Walt Disney World

Jim Hill

There have been lots of looky-loos lately over that Fantasyland Forest construction fence. Which has resulted in an equally large number of theories floating around online about what's currently going on with this $300 million project. Take - for example - all that soil that's been piled up towards...

on23 Aug 2010
Blog Post: "Mousejunkies!" takes an affectionate, irreverent look at Walt Disney World's appeal

Jim Hill

Okay. It's confession time. I know that the following statement may be hard for Disney hardcores to hear. But when you make your living as I do -- writing about The Walt Disney Company five days a week, 52 weeks a year, year in, year out -- there really is such a thing as too much Mouse. So when...

on18 Aug 2010
Blog Post: WDW's Galaxy Palace Theater to be replaced with ... Cast Member parking ?!

Jim Hill

"Don't it always seem to go, That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise and put up a parking lot." -- Joni Mitchell , " Big Yellow Taxi " I doubt that anyone -- not the choirs or the cheerleaders or all of the Cast Members that have performed here over the years -- would ever...

on28 Oct 2008
Blog Post: Will pirates soon be returning to Treasure ... er ... Discovery Island?

Jim Hill

Christy S. writes in to say: Jim When I was a little girl, my father and I flew down to Walt Disney World . This was just a year or so after the resort opened and I distinctly remember taking a boat ride with my father out to some island. Once we got there, these pirates led us on a treasure hunt which...

on5 Jun 2008

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Blog Post: What's really behind the sudden change in Disney Parks & Resorts' facial hair policy?

Blog Post: Mickey always plans a few moves ahead when it comes to Walt Disney World

Blog Post: "Mousejunkies!" takes an affectionate, irreverent look at Walt Disney World's appeal

Blog Post: WDW's Galaxy Palace Theater to be replaced with ... Cast Member parking ?!

Blog Post: Will pirates soon be returning to Treasure ... er ... Discovery Island?