Disney attractions often malfunction and break down. Unfortunately, it’s a risk that you take when visiting a theme park that is over 50 years old. Sometimes a Disney ride rescue is required. Recently, a group of park guests discovered this when they got stuck on Pirates of the Caribbean at Walt Disney World Resort. Related: Disney Changes Pirates of the Caribbean, ...

In February 2023, the heated battle between The Walt Disney Company and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis reached a new low when the controversial governor officially dissolved the Reedy Creek Improvement District. The RCID had been in place since 1967 — four years before the Walt Disney World Resort opened. Its dissolution came after ex-Disney CEO Bob Chapek spoke out against ...

It’s been only a few months of having DeSantis’s hand-picked board at the helm of the Central Florida Tourism District, and some are already over and done with them—so much so that one Florida lawmaker is soon going to formally propose to bring Disney back and put an end to DeSantis’s Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board. The battle that ...

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had already stripped Disney World of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, the self-governing District that had been in place since the theme park opened. He wanted other ways to punish the Walt Disney Company for speaking out against Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, known by its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. But it ...

On February 27, 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis officially dismantled the Reedy Creek Improvement District  — the board oversaw Walt Disney World Resort. He placed it with his own hand-picked board, none of whom had any experience in the theme park industry. The move was a controversial one and even landed the governor in hot water when Walt Disney World ...

In its battle with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, the Walt Disney Company has shown that it can get nasty when needed. Just before the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District took over the Reedy Creek Improvement District, Disney struck a deal with the former Board, stripping the new Board of its power until years after the death of the last living ...

When Walt Disney was trying to make his Walt Disney World dreams into a reality, he needed to buy a lot of land in Florida. He thought that if landowners knew he was the one purchasing the land, then they would jack up their prices. He also didn’t want other businesses to find out what he was doing and build ...