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1902: Animator and Disney Legend William Norman Ferguson (created Pluto and the Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) is born in New York City, NY.
1903: Animator Hugh Harman (worked on the Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit) is born in Pagosa Springs, Colorado.
1905: Animator, Disney Legend, and one of the “Nine [...]

(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: Associated Foreign Press)

On April 15, 1983, the first Disney theme park outside of the continental United States opened. It was designed by Walt Disney Imagineers to look like its sister park in Florida and the mother park in California and named Tokyo Disneyland. It is made up of the World [...]

(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: AP)
The Buzz Lightyear float broke apart on Wednesday during the Disney Dreams On Parade at Tokyo Disneyland causing the park to cancel the rest of the parade. A 660 pound steel pillar with colorful planets broke off from the float and landed yards away from children lined up to watch the [...]

(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel)
Joyce Carlson, the artist behind it’s a small world, has passed away at 84. Carlson worked on the coloring of Lady and the Tramp and created many of the doll characters for it’s a small world. She passed away Wednesday at her home in Orlando.
Carlson originally was hired at [...]

(News | Source: Reuters)
Spectrum Brands, maker of Rayovac batteries, signed a three-year deal with the Walt Disney Company making it the exclusive supplier of batteries to all Disney theme parks. Additionally, they have the right to use Disney characters in marketing and promotions.
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(News | Source: Orlando Sentinel)
Walt Disney Parks has decided to extend the successful Year of a Million Dreams for another year. It will now last till the end of 2008 and include more prizes given away to random guests. The celebration began in October 1st, 2006 and has given away over 846,000 prizes. [...]

Inspired by this week’s “Compare VAN Contrast” attraction on the Netcot podcast, our latest wallpaper offerings come from the various world wide iterations of Disney’s Big Thunder Mountain.
A very special thanks to Van, Hilde Heyvaert and Ruth Hartnup for the use of their fabulous WDW, Paris and Tokyo photos!
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