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In early September, PBS decided to rerun its four-hour American Experience documentary on Walt Disney that garnered good ratings and sold well as a DVD. When it first ran on PBS in 2015, Disney Legend ...

As Halloween approaches with the images of people dressing up in scary costumes, spooky skeletons causing mischief and unexpected scares existing in the dark, Disney fans never seem to recall that ...

Walt Disney World's Shades of Green resort originally opened as a Disney-owned resort known simply as the Golf Resort in December 1973, with roughly 150 rooms. The Golf Resort was originally a ...

Like many kids, I was intrigued by Roy Williams on the Mickey Mouse Club. He seemed huge, perhaps a little slow on the uptake and less articulate compared to the slender and perky Jimmie Dodd. He was ...

Sometimes it is not just that Disney announced something with great fanfare and then abandoned the project, but that Disney actually introduced something that was meant to expand into a massive ...

On June 16, 1955, about one month before the opening of Disneyland, the Disney Studios released my second favorite Disney animated feature, Lady and the Tramp (my first favorite is Dumbo, from 1941).

Today, I am going to share a mermaid’s tale—of her mermaid’s tail. As a 17-year-old, Susan Musfelt (now Hoose) applied and was hired in the summer of 1959 as one of the original mermaids at Disneyland ...

As we approach another big celebration in 2023 where the Walt Disney Company will be celebrating the 100 th anniversary of the creation of the company in 1923, I am wondering about whether the man who ...

D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event presented by Visa, returns to Southern California August 14, 15, and 16, 2026, with events at the Anaheim Convention Center and Honda Center. Disney last week ...

At the dedication of the Magic Kingdom on October 25, 1971, Roy O. Disney, the 78-year-old brother of the fabled Walt Disney who had died nearly five years earlier, stood stiffly by the flagpole in ...

Spring is a lovely time to visit Disneyland. MousePlanet file photo. Costco is out with a new 2026 Disneyland ticket offer which can save you up to $113 per person on the purchase of a 2-day park ...