Disney Memes

Every year or so an anonymous cast member takes it upon themselves to share the funny, frustrating, and otherwise random bizarre moments that contribute to their experience while working for the Mouse.

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Disney Memes

Disney Parks: What’s new in 2012

2011 was a crazy year. A Tsunami nearly wiped large portions of Japan off the map and earthquake damage closed Tokyo Disneyland Resort

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Disney Parks: What’s new in 2012

First Tree Planted in Fantasyland Expansion

The first major tree was added to the Magic Kingdom’s Fantasyland Expansion earlier this week. It’s the first of many as the whole area is supposed to have a forested feel

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First Tree Planted in Fantasyland Expansion

Disney Parks readies Augmented Reality Experience in Times Square

This weekend New Yorkers, and a couple thousand lucky tourists, are in for a special Disney treat – Disney Parks is bringing a unique interactive experience to Times Square with a brand-new augmented reality play space.

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Disney Parks readies Augmented Reality Experience in Times Square

Health & Wellness Chief at Walt Disney World Wins Award

When you have a cast of 60,000 employees managing their care and well-being can be quite a challenge. This is one area where Disney has been known to excel. From Health & Wellness centers on property to safety and risk management programs, Disney Parks is a known leader

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Health & Wellness Chief at Walt Disney World Wins Award

James Cameron walks the future site of Avatar-land with Joe Rhode and Tom Staggs

When Disney parks chair Tom Staggs announced a partnership with James Cameron to bring Avatar to Disney’s Animal Kingdom , I sort of assumed that Cameron and his production partner Jon Landau had already toured the park with its chief creative influence Joe Rhode.

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James Cameron walks the future site of Avatar-land with Joe Rhode and Tom Staggs

Walt Disney World Halloween Trick-or-Tweetup A Great Event

Some of the ghoulish entertainment for the evening. Thursday night my family and I joined nearly 300 other guests at the Magic Kingdom for a special Halloween Trick-or-Tweetup event. The Disney Parks Blog organized this fun, engaging, and magical event for the few lucky guests whose fast fingers got them and RSVP before the event filled up

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Walt Disney World Halloween Trick-or-Tweetup A Great Event

Risk and Reward, is Disney Parks & Resorts on the Right Track?

With the recent announcement of an Avatar themed land and attractions coming to Disney’s Animal Kingdoms and the troubled opening of Disney’s first Hawaiian resort, Aulani, a lot of the conversation has settled on the types of risks the Walt Disney Company’s parks and resorts division has been taking lately. It’s a bouillabaisse of different complaints: The monorail and bus system is no longer inpsiring, future world has stagnated, Tomorrowland is now toontown, with the result that Disney’s position as a company with vision has been lost. That Disney should believe in its own artists to come up with compelling stories and themes instead of buying properties like Avatar or Prince of Persia

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Risk and Reward, is Disney Parks & Resorts on the Right Track?

Disney Parks Chief Is Every Cast Member

I love this little skit from D23 that Ricky Brigante caught and put up on youtube. It shows Disney Parks & Resorts President Tom Staggs doing a variety of cast member jobs as he takes over the position from Jay Rasulo. Quite funny, huh! It’s stuff like this that makes me think Stagg’s gets it.

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Disney Parks Chief Is Every Cast Member

Disney Parks Mobile Magic App Now Free for Verizon Customers

Are you a Verizon customer with an Android phone? Then you’re in luck, Disney Parks and Verizon have just reduced the price of their “Mobile Magic” application down to nothing.

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