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(News | Source: USAToday.com) Disney announced a new way to visit their Walt Disney World theme park: on-line using your computer! Guests will be able to access the website http://www.disneyworld.com/3dparks for free and be able to click around a Google Earth-like view of the theme parks. The virtual walk-through allows guests to see more information [...]

(News | Source: Twisney) Twisney.com blends social networking and short updates of sites like Twitter with Microsoft’s Virtual Earth technology to allow Disney fans around the world to see live updates from within the Disney World Resort. The site officially launched just two weeks ago and has already drawn the attention of Disney fans world-wide. [...]

(News | Source: Central Florida News 13) Parents are planning to boycott Disney due to its planned closure of Virtual Magic Kingdom. Parents are complaining about the shut down because the game helped teach their kids computer and networking skills. “We were quite surprised. That wasn’t the way they promoted it from the beginning. There [...]

(News | Source: C21 Media) The Walt Disney Company has launched a new website for Russian children and families at Disney.ru. The new site will provide an online experience that uses Disney stories, characters and entertainment to give Russians an overview of the companies history, films and services. The content will be for all age [...]

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 the location. [...]

(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 this [...]

(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 Club.

(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.

(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 and [...]

(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 and [...]

(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 flights [...]

(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 [...]

(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.

(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.

(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, [...]