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Twisney.com Mixes Walt Disney World, Twitter, Flickr and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth
Twisney.com is a site that merges Walt Disney World, Twitter, Flickr and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth to share photos ‘live’ from Walt Disney World. Additionally, people can link their e-mail address to a user name and have a link directly to their photos. Users can e-mail the site with attachments and a subject with [...]
Disney’s Virtual Magic Kingdom Closing May 21
(News | Source: VMK.com)
Disney will be closing the Virtual Magic Kingdom (VMK for short) on May 21. The site was created and launched in 2005 as part of the Disneyland 50th Anniversary and had a physical location at the Magic Kingdom and Disneyland. According to Disney, the site was never meant to run [...]
Disney Launches DisneyDads.com For Family Movie Reviews
(News | Source: DisneyDads.com)
Disney has launched a new site titled ‘Disney Dads’ which will offer film reviews from real Disney Dads. John Flynn, Tim Ramos and Sung Lee are the reviewers listed on the site and offer help in choosing the right film for parents. The site is sponsored by the Disney Movie [...]
Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Online Celebrates St. Patrick’s Day
(News | Source: G4)
Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Online is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day today by having all bodies of water dyed green, offering characters green haircuts and free shamrock tattoos. Click here for screen shots of the enhancements.
Iger Reports That Disney Will Collect $1 Billion In Revenue Through Internet
(News | Source: Monterey County Herald)
The Walt Disney Company’s CEO Robert Iger said that the company expects to collect $1 billion in revenue from online content this year. Iger indicated that Disney is being aggressive with its expansion onto the Internet. Disney said the revenue would include advertising from shows such as Lost [...]
Disney Online To Launch Virtual World ‘Pixie Hollow’
(News | Source: Business Wire)
Disney Online has officially announced its next virtual online world, Disney Fairies Pixie Hollow. It will be based on the popular Disney Fairies franchise. The game will allow fans to play and chat with other friends, go on quests for Tinker Bell, play games, earn badges, craft jewelry, clothes [...]
ABC Launches Second ‘Lost’ Alternate Reality Game
(News | Source: Lostpedia)
Disney’s ABC Network has launched its second Lost alternate reality game located at www.FlyOceanicAir.com. The storyline revolves around an Oceanic IT technician who is trying to find his love, Sonya, who was on board Oceanic Flight 815. According to a fictitious press release, Oceanic Air has recently begun to fly [...]
New Content For Pirates Of The Caribbean Online
(News | Source: Sky News)
Disney Online has announced that they will offer new content for Pirates of the Caribbean Online including the increased ability to customize user’s pirate avatars. Guests can already select over a million combinations including gender, body type, face, hair and clothing, but beginning in February guests will able to select [...]
Disney Joins Apple’s iTunes For Movie Rentals
(News | Source: Silicon Alley Insider)
Disney will officially announce in January at MacWorld that it will join Apple’s iTunes movie rental service. The service will allow users to rent downloaded movies for $2-$5 per day. Apple hopes the service will compete with Netflix, Blockbuster and On-Demand rentals.
‘Enchanted’ Mobile Game Relased By Disney
(News | Source: Gaming Today)
Disney has released a mobile game based on Disney’s Enchanted. The game features animated characters being dropped into modern day New York City and is designed for casual players and involved numerous levels. The story behind the mobile game is the same as the film.
Disney Buys iParenting
(News | Source: Playthings.com)
The Walt Disney Internet Group has purchased iParenting Media which hosts a wide array of professional and user-generated content. The site includes thousands of articles and experts along with hundreds of active mothers on its message boards. Members of iParenting will be integrated into Disney Online.
“iParenting has built a strong, [...]
Epcot “rededication ceremony” now in the works
(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel
The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that a ‘rededication ceremony’ is being planned for the 25th anniversary of Epcot’s opening. It is said that Epcot is planning on having dignitaries such as Marty Sklar. Originally, Disney indicated that there was not going to be a celebration for the anniversary. A celebration is [...]
Walt Disney Company unveils new CD format; CDVU+
(News | Source: Reuters)
The Walt Disney Company has released their new CD format named CDVU+ which they hope to encourage people to purchase CDs and turn around the declining CD sales. The CDVU+, known as CD View Plus, has additional features on the CD such as digital magazine extras, song lyrics, band photos and [...]
Orlando Sentinel releases a theme park attractions injury/death search
(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel)
Today, the Orlando Sentinel has released a web site that will allow people to view injuries, accidents and deaths that are reported quarterly by the theme parks in the Orlando area. The data is given to the Florida Bureau of Fair Ride Inspection voluntarily by the parks. Users can search for [...]
Disney Movie Club members information stolen
(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel)
David Haltinner, an employee of Alta Resources Inc., has reportedly attempted to sell credit card information for an unknown number of the Disney Movie Club members. Alta Resources is the credit card order processing company for Disney Movie Club. Disney sent letters to its members on July 6th warning [...]
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