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It’s that time of year again. After a long, cold winter, the northern state releases its students and families on spring break to overrun Walt Disney World. With Easter weekend being earlier this year, most midwestern and mid-Atlantic school districts have moved their spring break into March to correspond with the holiday. So, that means the next three weeks will ...

Late last month, Disney announced that Sean Bailey was leaving as the Walt Disney Studios head of the live-action division. During his 15 years turning Disney animated classics into live-action films, Bailey had some major hits, The Lion King (2019), which grossed more than $1.6 billion at the box office, and major misses, Cruella (2021), only took home $233 million. Related: ‘Some Kids, Some Parents ...

The Walt Disney Company owns a little bit of everything. Either through its own design or through purchases, Disney owns a good portion of the media industry. In the past 20 years, mostly under current CEO Bob Iger, the Walt Disney Company went on a spending spree, buying up competitors including Pixar, Marvel Studios, Hulu, and 20th Century Fox Studios. ...

At a crucial time for the Walt Disney Company, it is losing one of the people who is responsible for creating and expanding Disney’s theme park operations. In an announcement on Linkedin and Instagram this morning, Barbara Bouza announced that she was leaving as President of Walt Disney Imagineering. Bouza had been in the job since 2021, when she replaced ...

This week, Disney CEO Bob Iger made waves with two long-awaited announcements about expansion plans at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. These were the plans that Disney fans had waited for, but no sooner did the words come out of Iger’s mouth than Disney was already walking back one of his announcements. And now, they’re taking back the second. Related: Sorry ...

After a week of frantic voting, the Disney Fanatic March Madness Tournament enters its second week to determine Disney World’s best ride. Like the real March Madness tournament, there were some blowouts and some major upsets. But we were able to get down to the top 16 rides at the Walt Disney World Resort based on your votes. First, we’ll ...

It was just about 12 days ago that 13-year-old Madeline Soto was allegedly dropped off at school by her stepfather, Stephan Sterns. But after an extensive search, her body was discovered last Saturday in a remote area of Osceola County near Pearl Lake. Sterns, who was already in custody on capital sexual battery charges, is considered the prime suspect in the ...

Building a theme park in Florida posed an unprecedented set of challenges. Digging even just a foot into the ground would flood the hole, making foundations a difficult proposition. However, wildlife was the most significant danger of building Walt Disney World in Central Florida. The Walt Disney Company was able to solve the problem with the water, but the wildlife ...

It’s an unachievable dream for nearly every Disney fan. We all want to have an entire Disney Park to ourselves. We selfishly want to have the run of the place, ride everything, and lay our heads down within the walls of a Disney Park. But, sadly, that dream cannot happen until now. Everyone knows that there is a room in ...

While speaking yesterday at a conference hosted by Morgan Stanley in San Francisco, Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger made waves with what appeared to be a massive announcement about the future expansion of Disney Parks. Iger said:  We have thousands of acres of land still to develop. We could actually build seven new full lands if we wanted to ...