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To say that Bob Chapek’s time as CEO of The Walt Disney Company was rocky would be a nice way to put it. Chapek was Disney’s CEO for less than three years and, during that time, the company’s stock tanked, Guest satisfaction was close to an all-time low, prices at the theme parks continued to climb while quality appeared to ...

With the advent of podcasts, we get to find out more and more about our favorite tv shows. This week making headlines is a Wizards of Waverly Place podcast with hosts Jennifer Stone (Harper) and David DeLuise (Dad Jerry Russo). The hit Disney Channel show that gave us Selena Gomez, had producer Peter Murrieta on this week’s episode and he ...

Many Disney Guests have been witnessing shockingly offensive or inappropriate behavior from other Disney Park Guests in recent months, including fistfights that have led to arrests and lifetime bans, but apparently this behavior is nothing new! In a recent discussion on Reddit, one Disney Guest spoke about a particularly disturbing incident from a past Disney vacation that involved the Haunted Mansion ...

Even though beloved characters like Minnie Mouse and her significant other Mickey Mouse are known for their distinctive Disney costumes (with the usual fare for Mickey and Minnie Mouse being costumes that include red, white, and black colors), Minnie Mouse and Mickey Mouse have still gone through several wardrobe changes over the years. Just last year, we saw Minnie Mouse ...

7000-person layoffs are a shocking enough sentiment on their own. But it seems that the Walt Disney Company is taking this task to heart as, in the latest news, the Mouse House is reportedly eliminating an entire division of the company under the initiative. Since the layoffs were first announced during the February 8 earnings call, this news has taken ...

The first round of layoffs is finally underway at The Walt Disney Company, but those newly detached from the Mouse House are wasting no time in putting their best foot forward to find their next home. In the course of a few days, we learned that returning Disney CEO Bob Iger and his leadership team would begin terminating 4,000 occupied ...

Sometimes you just need to book a last-minute trip to Disney World. That was my case last month when I just had to get away. The issue was as I was, on that beautiful Disney World website, my only hotel options were deluxe villas for over a thousand a night. Can’t swing that on a writer’s salary! My beloved Pop ...

Brightline is officially setting up shop in the Greater Orlando Area. The Miami-based high-speed passenger rail line is mere weeks away from finally launching the long-anticipated connection from Orlando International Airport (MCO) to Brickell, Ft. Lauderdale, and the rest of Florida’s Southeast Corridor, and on Monday, March 27, they gave fans and would-be passengers a look at their new base ...

Walt Disney World is known to be expensive, especially so in recent years. During former Disney CEO Bob Chapek’s tenure, the Mouse House saw constant price rises that didn’t always feel justified. However, since Disney CEO Bob Iger returned to helm the Walt Disney Company, fans have started seeing the return of certain complimentary features—free parking, selected free Photopass services, and ...

There are some Disney fandoms that only seem to get more popular as the years go on. One of those fandoms in The Muppets. The Muppets characters were created by the legendary Jim Henson in 1995. For almost five decades, Jim Henson and his Muppets delighted audiences around the world. Then, in 2004, The Walt Disney Company purchased the Jim ...