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The Walt Disney Company has announced they will be building Disney’s Art of Animation Resort, which will be their first non-DVC hotel in seven years. The hotel will feature 2,000 rooms with construction starting this summer and a planned opening in 2012. The resort will be built across the lake from Disney’s Pop Century and [...]

According to a jury, Walt Disney World’s Tower of Terror ride did not cause a stroke for Marvin Cohen from Philadelphia in 1998. The man claims he suffered a stroke weeks after riding the attraction and the sudden drop tore an artery leading towards his brain. Jurors took only three hours to find that Disney [...]

The Register Guard is reporting that the Walt Disney Company has concluded the University of Oregon’s costumed Duck is no longer subject to Disney’s trademark on Donald Duck. Oregon has had a deal with Disney dating back to a handshake between Walt and the university allowing the university to use images similar to Donald Duck [...]

Disney’s Wide World of Sports has now become ESPN Wide World of Sports on Thursday, February 25, 2010. According to Mouse Planet, this change will bring about some new dynamics to games played at the arena including 42 high-definition remote video cameras that will tape games played at the resort. The taping will be broadcast [...]

The New York Times is reporting that Microsoft and Disney have had ‘in-depth talks’ about streaming ESPN content to the Xbox 360. Sources have indicated that ESPN could provide live streams of events, like what is available on ESPN 360, to Xbox users including interactive games about the event.

Last night a computer issue on the express monorail track left a monorail stuck between the Transportation and Ticket Center and the Contemporary Resort and took about 30 minutes to repair. The train had to be towed to the next stop along the beamway. This comes just three days after a major power outage knocked [...]

The Walt Disney World monorail system stranded passengers for hours early this morning due to a power failure according to the Orlando Sentinel that started at 1 a.m. Riders had to be rescued by Reedy Creek emergency crews via fire truck laders or through the roof of the monorail. No injuries were reported.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

According to the AP, The Walt Disney Company is purchasing Marvel Entertainment Inc. for about $4 billion in cash and stock bringing characters like Spider-Man and 5,000 other characters into the Disney universe. Disney indicated that Marvel shareholders will receive $30 per share plus 0.745 in Disney shares for every Marvel share they have.

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 [...]

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 [...]

On July 4th, Barack Obama will be making his appearance at Disney’s Hall of Presidents according to the Examiner. The show will open with a new film narrated by Morgan Freeman and Abraham Lincoln will deliver the entire Gettysburg Address. Additionally, George Washington will have a speaking role in the show. The President will be [...]