The Man Himself

On December 5, 1901 Walter Elias Disney was born and little did the world know all the great that he would bring. During these couple days Disney has highlighted some of the achievements and accomplishments he has achieved. One major achievement Walt accomplished was turning a cartoon into a full length feature film. Cartoons were invented before Walt was born, but they only played short cartoons before movies. His vision of creating a full length feature cartoon film has led to many amazing films including Beauty & the Beast and Disney Pixars Cars. Another of Walt's dreams was too create a theme park that children could go to and not worry about drinking and wild adults and teens. His dream then turned into reality when Walt Disney World opened. He also is the one who brought us the one and only Mickey Mouse. These are just some of the achievements that he has had and Disney continues to grow and expand on Walt's dream. To think of a World without Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Pluto, and many other characters that we have all come to know and love is almost to hard to imagine. Walt has helped to create another world where people can go and experience their childhood over and over again no matter how old they are.

Lion King-Disney Studio-Tink & Paris Hilton

Casting has begun for the show of the Lion King to be performed January 2, 2009 to February 8,2009. It will be performed on the ASU Gammage stage in Tempe, Arizona. This is one of seven productions running worldwide of The Lion King. The others are London, Lamburg, New York, Tokyo, Paris, and Fukuoka. This morning Disney Studios in Burbank opened its gates from 11:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. to numerous fans who have been waiting for years to get a glimpse of what goes on behind these gates. Fans were able to find bargains of Disney memorabilia Saturday as well as Sunday between the hours of 10:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M. On Saturday a lunch was also offered. Also Disney is thinking about creating a Tinkerbell movie with a human cast. They want to tell a story of how Tink longs to be a real person and finally gets her chance and the struggles and triumphs she goes through. In recent news Paris Hilton stated that she would like to try-out for the part as Tink which many are finding ironic given the case that her dog was given that name.

Disney Vacation Club

Disney Vacation club is a vacation ownership program that helps families enjoy flexibility and savings in decades to come with vacationing. RCI which is a global leader in vacation exchanges and Disney Vacation club members recently announced today a new affiliation. It is planning on opening up more vacationing opportunities to members. Starting the 1st of this coming year 2009 RCI will become a 3rd party enrolling the 135,000 families that are members of the Disney Vacation Club into RCI's global network. Members will be allowed to vacation in 6 continents and 25 countries. They will also have the opportunity to go to resorts with all-inclusive offers. With RCI bringing Disney vacationers into their network Disney will also be bringing in RCI members providing them with offers to Disneyland resorts.

Volun-EARS & 20 questions disney style

In New York City this past week members known as Volun-EARS dedicated their time to helping make and serve a Thanksgiving dinner to those who could not afford one. They worked in shelters and salvations army shelters to put together meals to help the homeless and less fortunate. On disney.com they released an online game similar to the hand held game that has become quite popular in the past year or so 20 Questions. The hand held game lets you think of anything and will guess what you are thinking after asking 20 questions. On disney.com the game is the same exact thing except it will guess any disney related thing that you ask it.

Releases

Tomorrow Tuesday November 18th Disney releases Wall-E onto DVD and Blu-ray. Wall-E is the story of a robot all alone stranded on earth after everyone went to live in space and he was stuck to clean up there mess. He finds life and meets another Robot named EVE. It's a very cute and fun movie that is definitely worth purchasing. Tomorrow Disney also releases Hannah Montana season 1 on DVD. Another thing that Disney will be releasing tomorrow is the soundtrack to the new Pixar movie Bolt being released in theaters on Friday.

Bolt

Disney Pixar is preparing for the release of there new animation Bolt set to hit theaters on November 21. Bolt is a story about a K9 TV star who believes that all his tricks and powers are real. However, when he breaks free from the set he soon finds out that being a hero dog isn't always true. Along his journey he befriends a black stray cat and a humorous hamster trapped in a hamster ball. Bolt's voice over is done by no other than the great John Travolta. Miley Cyrus, one of Disney's up in coming celebrities, is also featured in the movie. Bolt is not only a film by Disney Pixar, but it is one that they have decided to turn in 3D in selected theaters across America. They hope that the action fun filled pooch will make a popping apperance to its huge Disney fan base.

HSM 3 & Alchemy of Animation

On October 25h Disney released High School Musical 3 in theaters across the U.S. This is the first of the 3 movies made that has been turned into a theatrical film. Disney also is gearing up for this Christmas with a release of a new Disney volume book called The Alchemy of animation. This book has never before seen pictures from the Disney archives. It also has something for everyone. Sections are broken up into stories of chapters dedicated to children, tweens, and hopeful vacation goers. There's also a section that discusses the in's and out's of Disney World and the imagination that goes behind it. It teaches readers where secrets that are hidden all throughout Disney World are so on your next visit you can stop by and find some.