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Smoke from a short circuit aboard a monorail near the Magic Kingdom brought the monorail to a halt Wednesday around 10 a.m. All passengers were evacuated safely when the monorail was brought back into the Magic Kingdom station. No more details are available at this time.

News, stories and links featured in this week’s show: Costumes from The Lion King Broadway show will be preserved in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. The Walt Disney Museum will open Oct. 1. WDW buses were temporarily shut down after a strange device was found on one bus. Cypress Gardens shuts its gates. [...]

News, stories and links featured in this week’s show: Disney buys video game developer Wideload Disney buys the rights for ESPN to air the US Open Disney buys Naruto, a new animated series for Disney XD Disney buys Marvel Lots of news coming out of the D23 expo The Disney Wonder will soon go to [...]

Richard Cook, Chief of Walt Disney Studios, has resigned from the company, effective immediately. He served with the company for 38 years, starting as a ride operator for Disneyland’s steam train and monorail. In recent times, Cook has come under scrutiny for the quality of his films (most notably by CEO Robert Iger earlier this [...]

An unknown device was found attached to a Walt Disney World bus Thursday leaving thousands of guests stranded as all Disney buses were recalled to the bus maintenance facility near Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Disney had all the buses inspected at the facility to find any additional devices on their 300 other buses. A device was [...]

Disney/PIXAR is being sued by a Norweigian lighting company, Luxo, over upcoming sales of a Luxo Jr. toy with the Blu-Ray discs of Up. The Norweigian company claims sales of the desk-lamp character (as well as the walk-around character in Walt Disney World), created by John Lasseter in 1986, will be devestating to Luxo. The company [...]

The Disney Wonder cruise ship rescued a man who fell off the Carnival Sensation ship in to the Atlantic Ocean according to U.S. Coast Guard reports. The man had fallen off the ship shortly after 11 p.m. on September 2nd, and the Wonder rescued him around Midnight of the shore of Port St. Lucie, Florida. [...]

The 2009 Disney Legends are as follows: Tony Anselmo: voice of Donald Duck since 1985 Harry Archinal: former president of Buena Vista International (which distributed Disney movies worldwide) Beatrice Arthur: Dorothy Zbornak in The Golden Girls (1985-1992) [Awarded  posthumously] Bill Farmer: voice of Goofy since 1986 (he’s also voiced Pluto and Horace Horsecollar) Estelle Getty: Sophia [...]