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Blog Post: "Be Our Guest" features an unvarnished take on Disney Company history

Jim Hill

I have to admit that It's been kind of amusing to watch the reaction (both here and elsewhere around the Web) that Tuesday's "What's really behind the sudden change in Disney Parks & Resorts' facial hair policy" story has been getting. With all sorts of would-be Disney scholars...

on26 Jan 2012
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: How a Toon Elevator helped Mickey Mouse learn how to talk

Jim Hill

By now, you’ve no doubt seen those online videos that made many a theme park fan go gaga. Where a few lucky Guests – as they were making a stop at Mickey’s House at Disneyland earlier this week – suddenly found themselves face-to-face with a NextGen walkaround character. A Mickey Mouse who not only addressed...

on7 May 2010
Blog Post: Monday Mouse Watch : Why WDI is looking for a few good freelancers

Jim Hill

Remember back in October of last year, when the Walt Disney Company announced that it would be spending over a billion dollars to redo California Adventure ? The word coming out of Burbank then was that -- as soon as the Christmas decorations came down at the Disneyland Resort -- the bulldozers would...

on11 May 2008
Blog Post: Monday Mouse Watch : It's lights out for DAK's "Rivers of Light" parade, while Beastly Kingdomme makes a character-based comeback

Jim Hill

For Disney's Animal Kingdom fans ... It's one of those bad news / good news kind of day. The bad news is ... Plans for DAK's long-in-development nighttime parade -- "Rivers of Lights" -- have been tabled. Not because Animal Kingdom management lost confidence in Steve Davison's original concept. But ...

on23 Mar 2008

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Blog Post: "Be Our Guest" features an unvarnished take on Disney Company history

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

Blog Post: How a Toon Elevator helped Mickey Mouse learn how to talk

Blog Post: Monday Mouse Watch : Why WDI is looking for a few good freelancers

Blog Post: Monday Mouse Watch : It's lights out for DAK's "Rivers of Light" parade, while Beastly Kingdomme makes a character-based comeback