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As the final hours of 2009 and the decade pass by us, we here at Netcot.com wanted to share with you what we thought were the top stories (or news areas) of the year from around the Disney Company: 1) Transportation Woes (July 17) Two WDW Buses collide. The driver of one bus failed to stop [...]

Marvel shareholders approved the merger with Disney. Back in August, it was announced that The Walt Disney Company purchased Marvel Entertainment Inc. for about $4 billion in cash and stock bringing 5000+ characters. Disney indicated that Marvel shareholders will receive $30 per share plus 0.745 in Disney shares for every Marvel share they have.

It’s official. Disneyland has announced that Captain EO (starring Michael Jackson) will return to Walt’s first theme park for a limited engagement. Beginning in February of 2010, the 3D film can be found in Tomorrowland.  ”Honey, I Shrunk the Audience” is scheduled to go down sometime in the next few weeks to make way for [...]

Roy Edward Disney was born to Roy Oliver Disney and Edna Francis Disney in Los Angeles on January 10, 1930 (and is their sole child). As a child, he traveled to the Studio where he viewed the films the animators were working on (i.e. “Snow White”, “Pinocchio”) and acted as a sounging board to his [...]

Roy Edward Disney, son of Roy O. and nephew of Walt, who led two revolutions that changed the company has passed away at the age of 79. Roy E. started as a director of nature films with the Disney Company before taking an administrative position after his uncle and father died, but was declined. He [...]

After a long hiatus, the Disney’s Magic Makers series is back! We return with a look at the Comic Strip side of the Studios. This week, we’ll focus on Floyd Gottfredson. Floyd Gottfredson was born in 1905 in Kaysville, Utah (in a railroad station where his parents lived). His father would regularly take him on [...]

The Walt Disney World Company has chosen Swindon in Whiltshire, UK as it’s twin town. Rebecca Warren, a 20 year old building society worker, created the winning video and poem which eventually caused Disney management to choose the village. In 2010, a Swindon exhibit will be unveiled at Epcot.

Rich Ross has assigned the Tron: Legacy crew a new script to work on, and yes, it’s a remake of Disney’s 1979 The Black Hole. Tron Legacy’s director (Joseph Kosinkski), producer (Sean Bailey), and writer (Travis Beacham) will lead the reimagineering of the sci-fi cult classic. The film is going to serve as a replacement [...]

According to the Miami Herald, Myron Rosner, paraplegic and Mayor of North Miami Beach, took his family to Walt Disney World for Thanksgiving weekend. The problem? Rosner’s wheel chair is the iBOT 4000, capable of moving on 4 or 2 wheels. Rosner keeps the machine running on 2 wheels to be at eye-level with his [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

From here on out, new posts will be out on a semi-regular schedule. If there’s a specific person you’d like to know more about, drop a comment below. With that said, let’s take a look this week at Fred Moore. Robert Fred Moore was born on September 7, 1911 in Los Angeles, California. While attending [...]