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Guests at the Walt Disney World Resort will be able to get into the parks a bit earlier tomorrow. All four parks will open at 8 am, DisneyQuest at 9am, and the AMC Theatres at Downtown Disney opening at 10 am. This move has been made in order to let guests enjoy an extra hour [...]

If you’re planning a trip to WDW during the next week, keep an eye on the weather. Tropical Storm Fay (Soon to be Hurricane Fay) is set to ride straight up the Floridian Peninsula and into Georgia. Therefore, all major cities in the state should keep an eye out for the storm to come ripping [...]

The Walt Disney Company made public the information that has been suspected for the past week. Along with rising food and gas prices, tickets to Walt Disney World and Disneyland will increase.

One-day tickets for guests age 10 and above for the Orlando park will increase from $71 to $75 (a 7% increase) and tickets for [...]

(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel)
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Disney’s Animal Kingdom $21,000 for five safety violations at the Primeval Whirl due to an employee’s death last year. OSHA also fined Disney for two other serious violations (not tied to the death) due to an employee tripping over some supports [...]

(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel)

If you’ve been to the Restaurantosaurus at Animal Kingdom recently, you may have noticed a change to the menu. Starting this past Sunday (5/4), the McDonalds’ Chicken McNuggets and french fries have been replaced with chicken nuggets and french fries made by Disney. However, McDonalds will still have [...]

(News | Source: Press Release)

Today, the Chief Magic Official was announced. After several months of grueling competition among 1,300 other candidates and online voting, Disney Parks and CareerBuilder.com today announced that Justin Muchoney from Seven Fields, Pa., is the first-ever Disney Parks Chief Magic Official (CMO) .
Muchoney was one of three CMO finalists, [...]

(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel)

Today (also Earth Day) is a special day for Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
The park turned 10 today. Yes, Animal Kingdom has been open for 10 years. The park opened in 1998 with the Oasis, Safari Village, Camp Minnie-Mickey, Africa, and Rafiki’s Planet Watch. In 1999, the [...]

(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel)

Change is a good thing…isn’t it?
Maybe not when it empties your wallet at the same time.
As of April 6, 2008, the price of single-child strollers rose from $10 to $15 a day, and the price for two-child strollers went from $18 to $31 a day. The price for ECVs [...]

(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel)

As part of the Year of a Million Dreams, a Eustis, FL teenager has won the chance to be the Grand Marshal in a parade at each of the Disney Parks around the world.
His tour of duty starts Wednesday as the teenager and his family join the parade at [...]

(News | Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Kashata, a western lowland gorilla, is leaving Zoo Atlanta to find a mate at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Walt Disney World. She has been at Zoo Atlanta since her birth in 1993. Once at the park, she will join a family of gorillas. Her finding a mate in [...]

(News | Source: Local 6)
Disney’s Animal Kingdom welcomes its newest additions; a rare baby zebra and giraffe. The zebra is named Kidani, the same as the new Kidani Village DVC Resort being built next to the Animal Kingdom Lodge. It weighs about 65 pounds and is 3 feet tall. It was bread [...]

(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel
Primeval Whirl is getting some safety enhancements to improve safety after an accidental death of a cast member last year. Disney is adding sensor mats in restricted areas where a cast member was struck and fell. These sensor mats will automatically shut down the ride if tripped. Additionally, [...]

(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel)
The first phase of Disney’s Animal Kingdom Villas time share units is complete. Disney finished the work on the last of the 109 units that have been converted from hotel rooms to the time share rooms on the upper levels of the resort. The second phase, titled Kidani Village, [...]

(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel)
The Walt Disney Company is displaying research on the Key Largo woodrat at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Disney scientists and technicians are running a captive-breeding program of the animals while biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services are trying to find ways to preserve the rats in their natural habitat. [...]

(News | Source: AP)
A truck engine at Kilimanjaro Safari’s at Disney’s Animal Kingdom caught fire on Sunday sending one woman to the hospital with minor injuries. The fire broke out when an engine hose failed. The fire was mostly out by the time the Reedy Creek Fire Department arrived. The woman who [...]