The New York Times profiles former wrestler “The Rock” turned movie star Dwayne Johnson. With “Race to Witch Mountainâ€� hitting theaters this Friday, the box office results may be the final test for Johnson’s ability to draw large enough audiences to catapult him into the A-List...

This year at the American International Toy Fair in New York City The Walt Disney Company revealed a few of the beautiful toys set to accompany it’s next animated feature The Princess And The Frog . Disney Consumer Products (DCP) in collaboration with Mattel and CDI, a division of JAKKS Pacifi...

It's now been four plus years since I moved from the Las Vegas area to Orlando. Turns out that was a good choice, if only marginally. I thought I'd take a look back at how things are going in that Desert Paradise. A recent article in the Las Vegas Journal Review takes a hard look at the current tren...

Those who were following my short tweetfest from Downtown Disney last night probably caught my mention of the new look, and lovely scent, of Portobello. The restaurant, which sits between Pleasure Island and the Downtown Disney Marketplace, has recently completed a transformation from the old stuffy...

Disney historian Jim Korkis saw the recent post about Marceline and send a long a little more information. I think it was David Mumford and Bruce Gordon in their book, “The Nickel Tour� that first pointed out that there was architecture on Disneyland’s Main Street like the City Hall that was a...

The change that we all knew was coming has been announced. Once Disney announced that they would be offering severance packages to hundreds of Parks and Resorts Division Executives, I knew the next shoe to drop would be a further consolidation of the east and west coast management structures. Frankl...

Marketing There’s still more news coming from Disney’s American Idol Experience this week. A commercial for the attraction ran during tonight’s airing of American Idol. The tagline was “You can be part of the next Cinderella Story”, which is the same message they’...

The rumors reported on Friday are true. Disney and Dreamworks SKG have signed an exclusive long-term distribution deal that will include about about six films a year starting as soon as next year. The arrangement with filmmaker and DreamWorks Studios co-founder Steven Spielberg, and partner Stacey S...

The eighth season of Dancing with the Stars premieres in March, but the new cast was announced today. For your consideration: Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson, country singer Chuck Wicks, model/actor Gilles Marini, Denise Richards, Apple mogul Steve Wozniak (will he bring his Segway?), 80s pop star Bel...

The Walt Disney Company has announced the creation of the Disney Memorial Pausch Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University in recognition of the passion and energy Dr. Randy Pausch brought to his work at both Carnegie Mellon and Walt Disney Imagineering. Pausch is best known for his life-affirming &#...