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(News | Source: Sky News)
Disney Online has announced that they will offer new content for Pirates of the Caribbean Online including the increased ability to customize user’s pirate avatars. Guests can already select over a million combinations including gender, body type, face, hair and clothing, but beginning in February guests will able to select [...]

(News | Source: Central Florida News)
Today, New Years Eve, the Magic Kingdom closed its gates at 11:15 a.m. to any new guests for the rest of the day due to the park reaching guest capacity. There is the potential for additional guests later in the day but it is unlikely. Guests staying at [...]

(News | Source: WCDB, WFTV)
The Disney Channel Hits CDs have been pulled from the shelves of a Daytona Beach, Florida, Toys ‘R’ Us after one of the CDs actually containing music with explicit rap lyrics. The CD was to include music by Hannah Montana and High School Musical but in fact had rap songs [...]

(News | Source: Silicon Alley Insider)
Disney will officially announce in January at MacWorld that it will join Apple’s iTunes movie rental service. The service will allow users to rent downloaded movies for $2-$5 per day. Apple hopes the service will compete with Netflix, Blockbuster and On-Demand rentals.

(News | Source: North County Times)
Hong Kong Disneyland will get four new shows, a new ride and lower tickets in 2008. Disney’s it’s a small world will be opening up this spring at the park while four new shows will be opening as well. Muppet Mobile Labs, High School Musical, Turtle Talk with [...]

(News | Source: Press-Enterprise)
The University of Southern California Trojans and the Illinois Fighting Illini Footballs team visited Disneyland after doing prep work for the Rose Bowl. The players and coaches from both USC and Illinois were introduced on stage with Mickey Mouse on stage. This is USC’s third Rose Bowl and offical visit [...]

(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel)
Disney’s EarPort and the Magic of Disney, the two Disney Stores at Orlando International Airport, have been doing exceptionally well selling up to $1.2 million in a single month and $58 million since opening. Many of the shoppers are trying to get last minute gifts before flying home. Guest [...]

(News | Source: Walt Disney Company)
The Atlanta Braves will return to Disney’s Wide World of Sports for an 11th year in 2008. The Braves will play a 16 game schedule at Champion Stadium that will include games against the Mets, Tigers, Cardinals, Indians, Rays, Phillies, Nationals and Dodgers. Braves pitchers and catchers will [...]

(News | Source: Orlando Business Journal)
The University of Florida Gators will practice at Disney’s Wide World of Sports in preparing for the Florida Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida. The Gators will use the two newly constructed practice fields at the complex and will be used by future bowl participants.
“The Capital One Bowl teams deserve [...]

(News | Source: Times Online)
Factory workers in southern China claim that they are spending up to 18 hours per day making Disney toys for as little as $0.32 per an hour. The workers also claim they have been forced to stay in cramped dormitories housing up to 16 people per room and fined if [...]

(News | Source: UPI)
Alan Wagner, the first president of the Disney Channel, has passed in New York of unspecified causes at the age of 76. Wagner was hired by the Walt Disney Company in 1982 to run the startup channel. The station began broadcasting April 18, 1983. Wagner was survived by his [...]

(News | Source: Walt Disney Company)
Disney’s web site has been updated replacing Disney-MGM Studios with Disney’s Hollywood Studios. The website (see source) has been updated with a new splash screen, graphics and text to indicate the parks new name. The name will officially be changed on January 1st, 2008.

(News | Source: Fox Business)
A.D. “Bud” Albers has been named as the new chief technology officer for the Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG). Albers will be responsible for new technological breakthroughs on existing systems and developing new technology solutions to support the group. WDIG has gained importance since the demise of Disney Mobile.

(News | Source: C21 Media)
Disney-ABC International Television and the Russian television station Channel One have signed a multi-year deal to begin showing shows and movies in a timeslot titled The Wonderful World of Disney. The broadcast will features Disney movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Wild Hogs, and Finding Nemo. Other Disney [...]

(News | Source: Orange County Register)
Disneyland will be receiving new monorails for the first time in two decades. Five flat-bed trucks transported the first five cars of the redesigned monorail built in Vancouver, Canada. One of the biggest changes is the colors: one will be red with blue glass, blue with purple glass [...]