Disney suggests simple ways to Green your Vacation

Near the Disney Vacation Club booth in the 2009 International Flower and Garden Festival at EPCOT there’s a sign with a few suggestions Disney has to help green your vacation. It’s easy to vacation green. Here are 5 simple ways Keep your cool Shut the doors when the A/C is running.

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Flower & Garden Festival Highlights

With the first weekend of the 2009 International Flower & Garden Festival in the past now’s a great time to look at some of the event’s many highlights. Four beautiful sets of Topiaries greet guests as the enter EPCOT each day. Sleeping Beauty has all the gracefulness given to her by Marc Davis’ animation.

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Disney starts work on Ko Olina, Hawaii Resort

The AP reports that Disney has started to prepare the construction site for their first themed resort located off theme park property that isn’t entirely a Disney Vacation Club location. That location, of course, is Ko Olina, Hawaii. MouseExtra found some additional concept art for the resort in the most recently DVC newsletter.

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Disney Reminds Guests to “Spring Forward” with Frog-Focused Activities

Disney’s Animal Kingdom guests will get a “leap” on this weekend’s time change with a series of frog-focused activities reminding them to set their clocks ahead. Plus they’ll get some tips on how to help preserve a ‘frog friendly’ environment to help combat their dwindling numbers.

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New York Yankees pitchers C.C. Sabathia and Joba Chamberlain experience three dimensions of fun on Toy Story Midway Mania!

click for larger version New York Yankees pitchers C.C. Sabathia (left) and Joba Chamberlain (right) experience the “Toy Story Midway Mania!” 3-D attraction March 1, 2009 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. The two hurlers were at Walt Disney World Resort for “ESPN The Weekend,” a special event in the theme park.

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Shanghai’s Disney Theme Park, an early visit

Theme Park Guy, whose mission is to visit and chronicle every theme park on the planet, has an extra-early report from the future site of Disney’s next theme park. As has been rumored for months, it will be located outside of Shanghai, which is on mainland China, and will be Disney’s third resort in Asia. Visit Theme Park Guy’s report from the scene and you’ll enjoy beautiful scenes of trees, farmland, and a village (which may or may not need to be moved to make way for Disney).

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Daft Punk Does Disney: Band To Score Tron Sequel

Daft Punk have agreed to score an update of Walt Disney Pictures’ 1982 film Tron. The film, currently in production under the moniker TR2N, revisits the vintage Sci-Fi hit, and shouldn’t be too much of a stretch for the French robot electro-rockers

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Disney ends “Life on Mars”, fans will get closure

TVweek is reporting that Disney/ABC has told the producers of “Life on Mars” to wrap the show up with a 17th episode after chosing not to renew the series for a second season. This should make fans happy that they’re going to get some closure, but unhappy about chances to see how the American version would differ from the original British series when it entered new territory. Ironically the original series only had 16 episodes, but that’s the way they do it on the BBC.

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What’s Disney’s Creative Inspiration?

FastCompany asked six Disney creative-types where their inspiration came from and put it up in a slide show . Some interesting insight into some people who are obviously very important at Disney, but you may not have heard about otherwise.

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Paging Mr. Lincoln, Please Return to Disneyland

Here’s some great news.

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