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As the discounts at Walt Disney World continue, the price of a one day, one park ticket will increase from $75 to $79 (a one day, one park ticket for a child between the ages of 3-9 will now be $68), beginning Sunday.  The price to upgrade a ticket to “Park Hopper” status or “Water Park [...]

Epcot has just released this year’s list of narrators for their annual Candlelight Processional from November 27 through December 30: Isabella Rossellini Nov. 27-29 John O’Hurley Nov. 30 – Dec. 2 Steven Curtis Chapman Dec. 3-5 Anika Noni Rose Dec. 6-8 Andy Garcia Dec. 9-11 Vanessa Williams Dec. 12-14 Abigail Breslin Dec. 15-17 Whoopi Goldberg [...]

This week’s episode takes a look at conferences at WDW and features footage from the IBM/Lotus event “Lotusphere” which is held at the Swan and Dolphin resort every January. YouTube version of the video: Discuss this episode here.

Two weeks after a crash of two monorails which killed the pilot of one of the monorails involved, the company has a number of new safety procedures in place to ensure the safety of monorails. Some of these procedures include: Addition of more employees at the monorail stations to oversee operations of the monorail system [...]

News, stories and links featured in this week’s show: The Disneyland Hotel is undergoing major renovations Workers at Disneyland protested shutting down a portion of Harbor Blvd. Space Mountain in Disneyland will soon get a scary overlay Dallas McKennon, voice of many Disney movies & attractions including Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, passed away at age [...]

Just 11 days after the monorail accident at Walt Disney World, two Disney buses crash in front of the Contemporary Resort injuring 12 people according to the Orlando Sentinel. The accident happened around 2:40 p.m. on Thursday when a southbound bus stopped to merge on World Drive. The second bus which was traveling northbound did [...]

Links to stories discussed in this episode: More news continues to emerge about the monorail crash at WDW Disney Parks has a new Twitter feed with lots of helpful information Disney and Hong Kong have come to agreements about expansion plans for the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort expansion The Swan and Dolphin resorts (at WDW) [...]

Walt Disney World re-opened their monorails today within a day after shutting them down after an accident where two collided early Sunday morning. According to a note sent to employees this morning, the company says they are reopening the monorail system with new safety sensors which have been added to monorail track switches. While Disney [...]

At 2 a.m. on Sunday, July 5, the Pink monorail, which was moving into the Ticket and Transportation Center, ran into the Purple monorail, which was stationary. One driver was killed while the other was injured (none of the guests riding were injured). The monorail will be shut down until further notice. Walt Disney World issued [...]

Disney Theatrical Production’s “The Little Mermaid” will have its last performance at the Rialto on Broadway on August 30, 2009. There are speculations that the show did not recover its initial investment (around $15 million) during its year and a half run. Possibilities for the show include a traveling version (with a retooled set that [...]

ABC has decided to take a retro look at promoting Castle, one of its sophomore shows, by producing one chapter at a time from Richard Castle’s debut novel Heat Wave. The first chapter will show up on ABC.com on August 10th. For the next nine weeks after that, the subsequent chapters will be released. On [...]

Over 1,000 immigrants were at the Magic Kingdom were they took the Oath of Allegiance to the United States in a citizenship ceremony Friday morning. The group then went to the premiere of Disney’s updated Hall of Presidents that officially opens today. Actor Andy Garcia, a naturalized citizen originally from Cuba, gave a keynote speech [...]

The White House released a video with some behind-the-scenes footage from when Disney Imagineers met with President Obama to record his speech for the audio-anamatronic representation of him at the Hall of Presidents attraction in Walt Disney World.