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(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 its fries [...]

(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 Asia land was opened [...]

(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 [...]

(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 Florida will [...]

(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 through the [...]

(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, bold markings [...]

(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, should [...]

(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 was injured [...]

(News | Source: Walt Disney Company) The Inaugural Expedition Everest Challenge 5K trek will be hosted at Disney’s Animal Kingdom on September 27, 2008. The challenge will go through the dark and exotic terrain of the park. There will be a exclusive after-hours party for those involved with the event. Teams can register for $195 [...]

(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel) Darren Scott Snyder, part of the engineering services team at Animal Kingdom, passed away from his injuries after the 70 car pileup on I-4 in Polk County earlier this week. Snyder passed away nearly 12 hours after the accident caused by heavy smoke and fog near Orlando.

(News | Source: WIS TV) The Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, South Carolina, has two new African elephants in a deal with Walt Disney World. Disney’s Animal Kingdom sent two elephants named Robin, 37, and Petunia, 34, to the Riverbanks Zoo. Animal Kingdom received an elephant from the zoo to mate and expand the gene pool [...]

(News | Source: North West Florida Daily News) The man who was found dead after riding Expedition Everest died of natural causes relating to a pre-existing cardiac issue; in short a heart attack. Jeffery Chalmers Reeb of Navarre, Florida has been identified as the man who passed away. He had his fatal heart attack within [...]