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News, stories and links featured in this week’s show: Codename: Keychest. More here. Refunds for people who don’t have baby Einsteins after watching Baby Einsteins are available. Rich Ross is the new head of the Walt Disney Studios. Walt’s Chicago home is for sale. Disney gets (the rights to) Pooh. Disney is starting to use [...]

According to The New York Times, The Walt Disney Company is offering refunds for videos purchased between 2004 and 2009 because of claims that said videos did not improve infants’ intelligence and acted as nothing more than a mere video babysitter. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood lead the charge on this issue and went [...]

Walt Disney World has combined the undamaged parts of the Purple and Pink monorails to form a new monorail which will be designated Teal. The monorail is expected to be put into service later this year. Disney said the colors pink and purple would be retired after they were involved in a fatal accident earlier [...]

Disney has promoted Richard Ross, the former President of the Disney Channel Worldwide, to replace Richard Cook as Chief of the Walt Disney Studios. Hopes for the new chief include developing franchises and using them to span across the company’s multiple businesses, dealing with new film technologies, and reviving a brand that has become somewhat [...]

The Walt Disney Company has won the dismissal of the Segway lawsuit and had the original settlement voided according to Bloomberg.com. In 2007, two Illinois residents and one from Iowa sued the Walt Disney Company because the park refused them from using their Segways in the park. Disney had agreed to settle the case by [...]

The Walt Disney Company opened a digital bookstore today that gives guests a “media rich” book reading experience, online. Some of the books can be accessed for free, others require a subscription ($8.95/month or $79.95/year). A wide variety of books are featured on the site including books based on popular franchises such as High School [...]