Saving Disney From Itself
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Friends, the past few months have been a mere exercise in what is about to become the largest online and public battle against Disneyland-specifically its managers, starting with Paul Pressler. He is the one who will be held responsible for the destruction of Disneyland as we know it and as Walt planned it. I write this with a very heavy heart. I do not want my playground to become my battlefield, but that ...
It's A Cool World After All
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A major upgrade to chilled-water systems at Disneyland is improving cooling capacity, increasing flexibility and reducing energy costs at the world-famous Southern California theme park. The project included updating equipment in the 85-acre park's two 30-year old chiller plants and drawing together the two formerly separate plants to allow load sharing.
Because the plants were constructed ...
Disney Pirates Are Going PC
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After 30 years of rowdy behavior, Disneyland's Pirates of the Caribbean are becoming more politically correct.
The pirates always have been naughty fellows -- robbing, drinking, carousing and chasing women. Soon though, they will have one less vice.
Disney will close the ride Monday for a two-month refurbishing of the attraction's controls and scenes. Gone when the ride reopens March 7 will be a ...
Women Who Bared Breasts On Disney Ride Posted On Net
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While critics have worked themselves into a lather denouncing Disneyland's cleanup of lusty swashbucklers on its Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, it appears that a park insider has pulled off the ultimate in politically incorrect pranks.
More than a dozen photographs of women baring their breasts on the park's Splash Mountain log ride have appeared on sites across the Internet in recent months - ...
Pirates May Be Pc Now, But Rest Of Disneyland Isn't
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A chubby Aunt Jemima slave woman no longer greets pancake-house patrons.
A cabin fire long blamed on marauding American Indians is now attributed to "carelessness."
And, as of last week, automated pirates at one Disneyland ride no longer pursue terrified maidens.
Finally, it seems, the forces of political correctness have caught up to the aging Anaheim theme park.
Or have they?
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Disney On Net: Rated G -- ... Or X
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Walt Disney Co. is exploiting Internet commerce faster and more furiously than all but a handful of high-tech companies, allowing consumers to do everything from buying Winnie the Pooh to booking a vacation with the click of a mouse.
That same mouse, however, can lead Disney fans -- including children -- to World Wide Web sites unauthorized by the company that contain sexual scenes of Disney's most ...
Imagine This If You Can.
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From Glendale Disneyland's new Tomorrowland won't open until May 1998, but in a drab gray and beige industrial building in Glendale the project already is mostly complete.
The building is part of Walt Disney Co.'s Imagineering complex, where ideas are put to paper and then crafted into models of the company's future endeavors. The model for the rebuilt Tomorrowland nearly fills a cordoned, windowless ...
Disney Gives Heave-Ho To Ho-Hum Food Items
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Is the world ready for the Banana Dog? Will kids really eat something called a Pale of Mud?
The world will find out Friday, when Disneyland opens three new restaurants and introduces a line of huge, showy foods that are supposed to make visitors shout, "I want one!"
"I'm focusing on the overall `wow' of the food," said James Wierzelewski, 33, Disneyland's new executive chef. "I do the `wow' kind of ...
Reflections From The Road: The Search For Main Street USA
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In July of 1995, I arrived in downtown Fort Collins, Colo., in search of clues to answer the questions that I always ask as a historical geographer: How and why did the townsfolk design and locate buildings, streets, and open spaces as they did? How did the resulting landscape fit into the broader pattern of the region and nation?
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Disney To Bring Back Discounts For Disabled
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Step aside, Scrooge McDuck. Tinker Bell waved her wand Monday and restored Disneyland's half-price admission for disabled patrons.
Two days after Disneyland said the $18 Happy Hearts prices would end, the company relented.
Not only will the half-price admissions be restored starting in November, but they'll be expanded from 12 days a year to 24.
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For 'EO' Fans, The Thriller's Gone
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Brent Fidler gave it his best shot. He scrawled "Save Michael!" across a white T-shirt, distributed homemade "Pedal Captain Eo, not drugs" Pog milkcaps and even circulated a petition at school.
Despite his allegiance, "Captain Eo" zoomed out of 3-D sight forever when Disneyland closed Sunday night.
"I swear I'm going to cry," said Fidler, 14.
Tomorrowland's 3-D musical space adventure starring a ...
All The News That's Correct To Print
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Disney's pro-woman pirates
The pirates at the Pirates of the Caribbean ride in Disneyland are no longer chasing women around in wild abandon, as they have for 30 years. Instead, they are becoming sensitive New Age guys, showing the kind of respect for women that real pirates probably felt deep inside but were afraid to express. ...
The Inner Child Gets His Kicks All Alone And Feeling Childish:
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But I wanted more of Disney's new Indiana Jones Adventure ride.
So I climbed aboard again. And again. And again.
And again. And again. And again.
And again.
Eight times altogether.
And why not?
At age 48, I was in Disneyland. Alone. I was vacationing for the first time without my wife, without kids, without anyone else. My time was my own. The choices mine - all mine.
Indiana Jones, ...
So, What's New?
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More light, more action at Disneyland
Disneyland has retired its decades-old Main Street Electrical Parade and is replacing it with a state-of-the-art light show/parade.
"Light Magic: A Spectacular Journey" will begin Friday night. Eighty-foot stages will roll along the traditional parade route, with Disney characters bathed in ...
Main Street Magic
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Disneyland is kicking off the summer season with its new nighttime show, 'Light Magic,' which debuts May 21. The show replaces the Electrical Parade on Main Street, which has captivated crowds for more than 24 years. 'Light Magic' will feature four shows nightly on weekends and holidays. The Electrical Parade's half-million tiny, colorful bulbs that illuminated Main Street and Disney's army of characters ...
A Little Night Light
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Here's some advice for those Disneyland purists who have been howling over "Light Magic," the new show unveiled this month as a replacement for the venerable Main Street Electrical Parade: It's different from its predecessor, and entertaining in its own unique way. Deal with it!
Life is about change. Hey, Walt embraced it. Even Disneyland needs to make an occasional tweak to acknowledge advances in ...
A Little Night Magic
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Is that a can of "New Coke" that Mickey Mouse is sipping as he trips the light fantastic in the Light Magic show, Disneyland's new "streetacular" parade, which started rumbling through Fantasyland and down Main Street last week?
When some Disneyland patrons pronounced themselves underwhelmed by the attraction during its first preview excursion -- comparing it unfavorably with the Main Street Electrical ...
The Spirit of Pocahontas Takes Center Stage at Disneyland
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Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the Blue Corn Moon or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?" No? Well, that's probably because you haven't seen The Spirit of Pocahontas, the new live stage show opening today at Disneyland.
Set to hit the Videopolis stage on the same day as Disney's 33rd full-length animated feature, Pocahontas, hits the screen, The Spirit of Pocahontas tells the timeless, ...
Get Into The Swing Of Things
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The teen-ager clips his pocket-watch chain to his custom zoot suit and checks the time. His dancing partner, a fresh-faced Orange County beauty dressed like Betty Grable, helps him slick back his hair with Brylcreem.
It's time to swing.
We're at the "Jump 'n' Jive Boogie Swing Party," a happening thing every Friday night this summer at the Carnation Plaza Gardens at Disneyland, right under the shadow ...
The Turnstiles Keep Rolling At Disneyland
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There are classified secrets and there are Disney secrets. The only difference is that when spilling a secret can make a few bucks, it's either espionage or a Disney media event.
Such was the case in Anaheim this past Sunday. A woman named Minnie - last name, NOT Mouse - shows up at Disneyland. She's immediately showered with her 15 minutes of fame and lots of prizes. The reason: The park was ready to ...
Last Of A Disneyland Breed
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In two weeks, the last working member of Club 55 will depart Disneyland.
Bob Penfield, wrapping up a 42-year career at the Magic Kingdom on July 31, is the last of the Disneyland employees who worked at the park on opening day in 1955.
He is one of a swiftly dwindling number of employees who worked with Walt himself and, in Disney lore, an affiliation with the company patriarch is akin to having ...
Disney Lays Off Workers In Its Facilities Division
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Disneyland has laid off an undisclosed number of supervisors and about 50 workers in the facilities division the past few weeks after a reorganization of the unit.
Disneyland officials would not disclose numbers, and said the layoffs were partially a result of the decline in repair work done at this time of year. Many of the facilities workers let go were casual or part-time employees.
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Disney Fire Keeps Space Mountain Riders Grounded.
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Two boys vacationing at Disneyland sprinted to Space Mountain when the park opened Wednesday morning, hoping to be first in line.
But the escalator leading to their favorite roller coaster was on fire.
The English boys were told the ride, being worked on as part of Tomorrowland improvements, would be down for an hour.
''Ah, man!'' yelled Matthew Hickson, 14. ''Now I'll have to wait in line ...
Witness Loses Composure In Disney Trial
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A former Mouseketeer suffered what her attorney described as a ''flashback'' and appeared to hyperventilate as she testified Tuesday about being robbed at gunpoint in a Disneyland parking lot two years ago.
Billie Jean Matay's composure abandoned her shortly after the noon recess, when she launched into a vivid narrative of her ordeal.
''Oh, I'm sorry, I'm dizzy,'' the Antelope Valley resident ...
What Disney Gave The World
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Walt Disney had an idea. The 50-ish entrepreneur, already established as the premier figure in the animation industry, wanted to build a giant amusement park centered around the light-hearted themes embodied in his world-famous cartoons and their equally famous cast of characters: the likes of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Snow White, Pinocchio and the rest.
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I believe this: When we begin to lose those closest to us, we receive an aura, like the forewarning of an illness, just before it happens. One day my father started building a treehouse -- an elaborate Disney-inspired fantasy -- in our backyard. That was the day I knew our family would eventually shatter like a hot marble dropped in ice water.
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Small World: McDonald's In Disney Parks
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Mickey and the Mac are teaming up again. McDonald's Corp. plans to open several restaurants within Disney theme parks over the next year, the first fast-food restaurants allowed within the entertainment complexes.
Expanding on a 10-year exclusive global marketing alliance reached earlier this year, McDonald's will open its first restaurant in Walt Disney World's downtown in December, followed by a ...
It's A Small Mutiny Rising At Disneyland
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It's difficult to imagine Disneyland without the Jungle Cruise, where wisecracking skippers ferry passengers down uncharted rivers, laughing at danger, shooting off their pistols and implying that each trip just might be their last.
But jokes are no laughing matter in the bush, where firings this summer have sparked a native rebellion among those who remain.
Trouble on the docks began, skippers say, ...
Reaction Seemed Dim To Light Magic Parade
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Disneyland fan Robb Alvey took in the Light Magic parade this summer, and for the Westminster resident, ``Once was enough.''
Alvey, a former Disneyland employee, wasn't suprised to learn that the theme park has pulled the plug on Light Magic to make way for next summer's ``Mulan,'' a nighttime parade based on the animated film opening next summer. ``You watched the faces of kids and they seemed to be ...
Up Disney's Jungle River Without A Clue
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Hello everybody and welcome to Disneyland's Jungle Cruise. I'm Captain Jeff, your humor-modulated river pilot, and I'm here to provide a safe, fun and ethnically proportioned adventure for you and your sulky, dehydrated family.
As you settle into your seats, let me confirm that Disneyland recently fired several ``river pilots'' for ignoring the official Disney script for this ride. That shouldn't be a ...
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It's a truth we held to be self-evident, at least until we discovered three ways of looking at Christy Turlington.
We know we live in a rapidly fragmenting reality, a pomo oxymo world in which the president of our great land can be both a Democrat and a Republican, a great feminitarian and an opportunistic wiener waggler; in which boxing can be both a sweet science and salty-snack time; in which Marky ...
