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The New York Times is reporting that Microsoft and Disney have had ‘in-depth talks’ about streaming ESPN content to the Xbox 360. Sources have indicated that ESPN could provide live streams of events, like what is available on ESPN 360, to Xbox users including interactive games about the event.

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 [...]

Last night a computer issue on the express monorail track left a monorail stuck between the Transportation and Ticket Center and the Contemporary Resort and took about 30 minutes to repair. The train had to be towed to the next stop along the beamway. This comes just three days after a major power outage knocked [...]

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 [...]

Walt Disney World has combined the undamaged parts of the Purple and Pink monorails to form a new monorail which will be designated Teal. The monorail is expected to be put into service later this year. Disney said the colors pink and purple would be retired after they were involved in a fatal accident earlier [...]

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 [...]

The Walt Disney Company has won the dismissal of the Segway lawsuit and had the original settlement voided according to Bloomberg.com. In 2007, two Illinois residents and one from Iowa sued the Walt Disney Company because the park refused them from using their Segways in the park. Disney had agreed to settle the case by [...]

Smoke from a short circuit aboard a monorail near the Magic Kingdom brought the monorail to a halt Wednesday around 10 a.m. All passengers were evacuated safely when the monorail was brought back into the Magic Kingdom station. No more details are available at this time.

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 [...]

An unknown device was found attached to a Walt Disney World bus Thursday leaving thousands of guests stranded as all Disney buses were recalled to the bus maintenance facility near Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Disney had all the buses inspected at the facility to find any additional devices on their 300 other buses. A device was [...]

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 Disney Wonder cruise ship rescued a man who fell off the Carnival Sensation ship in to the Atlantic Ocean according to U.S. Coast Guard reports. The man had fallen off the ship shortly after 11 p.m. on September 2nd, and the Wonder rescued him around Midnight of the shore of Port St. Lucie, Florida. [...]

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 [...]