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Blog Post: How come Hong Kong Disneyland can have a frightening Halloween event but the Anaheim original can't?

Jim Hill

So how did Disney diehards react to the recent news that Walt Disney World would soon be getting a brand-new interactive experience, " Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom " ... Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved ... and Disneyland Park would soon be bumping out the borders of...

on11 Sep 2011
Blog Post: Company insiders share all sorts of great stories at the Disneyana Fan Club's annual convention

Jim Hill

Disneyland Park celebrated its 56 th anniversary of its opening yesterday. But for those who couldn't wait to get that party started, there was the Disneyana Fan Club 's annual convention . Photo by Paul Schnebelen Held just down the road from the Park at the Anaheim Crowne Plaza Resort in Garden...

on17 Jul 2011
Blog Post: Marty Sklar honored with Window on Main Street

Jim Hill

Early this morning, Martin A. Sklar ’s friends & family gathered at Disneyland . Where this Disney Legend was then honored with his very own Window on Main Street . And it was kind of appropriate that Marty spent his last official day as a Disney employee at the very place where his career with the...

on17 Jul 2009
Blog Post: Monday Mouse Watch: Is there really such a thing as putting too much Walt into a Disney theme park?

Jim Hill

Last month, theme park fans the world over rejoiced at the news that the Walt Disney Company would be spending more than a billion dollars to redo DCA . With a large chunk of this cash being committed toward the retheming of the entrance portion of this troubled theme park . Which will soon be turned...

on25 Nov 2007
Blog Post: WDI's X-Scream Makeover of WDW's Haunted Mansion: Part 3

Jim Hill

Picking up where we left off on Tuesday ... I know that this is going to sound a bit bizarre. Particularly given that -- back in 1955 -- Walt Disney built an entire theme park for just $17 million . But $30 million doesn't go as far as you might think these days. Which is why WDI really had to pick...

on23 Oct 2007

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Blog Post: How come Hong Kong Disneyland can have a frightening Halloween event but the Anaheim original can't?

Blog Post: Company insiders share all sorts of great stories at the Disneyana Fan Club's annual convention

Blog Post: Marty Sklar honored with Window on Main Street

Blog Post: Monday Mouse Watch: Is there really such a thing as putting too much Walt into a Disney theme park?

Blog Post: WDI's X-Scream Makeover of WDW's Haunted Mansion: Part 3