Wizard World Philly Comic Con is next Weekend June 19-22. Let us know if you are heading there.
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MyMagic+ Test at Select Walt Disney World Resort Hotels
This month, a test will take place at select Walt Disney World Resort hotels. This test involves a new potential service that could allow your guests to go directly to their hotel room once it is ready, without visiting the front desk.
This test will be conducted for arrivals June 16-28, 2014 at the following Walt Disney World Resort hotels:
- Disney’s Contemporary Resort
- Bay Lake Tower at Disney’s Contemporary Resort
- Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – Riverside
- Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – French Quarter
- Disney’s Pop Century Resort
- Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge
- Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge Villas – Jambo House and Kidani Village
In order to participate in this test, your guests will need to use Disney online check-in service, provide their estimated arrival time, a credit card to be used for incidentals and other charges once they arrive, and contact information. They should also make sure to consent to receive email or text message alerts so they can receive notification of their room number when it is ready.
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Marvel Entertainment Amps Up Focus on Performance
Marvel Entertainment, LLC is amping up its focus on performance. The company known for its arsenal of Super Heroes is messaging to companies known for performance, strength, and durability that teaming with Marvel – a company whose characters instantly reflect these core attributes – will help further enhance their brands and build out their audience.
Companies across categories wanting to accentuate strength and performance are seeing the value in collaborating with Marvel including: Under Armour for apparel, Tantrum electronics accessories, Bell performance bike accessories, C-Preme durable helmets, and Sage Fruit’s better-for-you produce.
Marvel is focused on building a greater connection on how its arsenal of characters can help companies better connect their brands to key performance attributes such as strength and durability. It is working closely with companies to develop the best licensing executions for connecting performance between their brands and Marvel through innovative and creative product experiences.
“Marvel Super Heroes are a natural fit for this exciting initiative,” said Paul Gitter, senior vice president, licensing, Marvel at Disney Consumer Products. “We see tremendous opportunity to further build out this performance initiative across all product categories – from consumables and apparel, to electronics and sporting goods.”
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The Lion King Turns 20! Vote for Your Favorite Disney Animated Movie
A box office smash from the day it opened (June 15, 1994), Disney’s animated musical tragicomedy—the producers called it “Bambi meets Hamlet”—also got a brilliant Broadway staging in 1997 that’s still going more than 6,800 performances later.
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Snookie Meets a Wookiee at Star Wars Weekends – Photo
Reality TV celebrity Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi poses June 13, 2014 with Chewbacca, the famous Wookiee from “Star Wars,” during the “Star Wars Weekends” event at Disney’s Hollywood Studios theme park in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Snooki met the Wookiee during the final weekend of 2014 for the annual “Star Wars” event at the Walt Disney World Resort theme park. The event took place this year May 16-June 15, 2014. (David Roark, photographer)
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Feld Entertainment And Marvel Entertainment Unveil Cast For Highly Anticipated Live Event Spectacular Marvel Universe LIVE!
After scouring the country to find the best of the best in live action performers with an amazing array of disciplines and skills, Feld Entertainment, Inc., the worldwide leader in live touring family events, today reveals the final cast of more than 50 performers ready to bring its most ambitious live event experience to life in Marvel Universe LIVE!. Debuting this July in Tampa, FL, before having its world premiere at New York City’s Barclays Center on Wednesday, August 13, the show will be the most physically demanding in Feld Entertainment’s storied history and will stop in 85 cities nationwide.
Featuring the most Marvel characters ever in one production, Marvel Universe LIVE! will be headlined by a cast trained in everything from martial arts to motocross in order to bring the Marvel Universe to the live action arena. Supported by a unique blend of aerial stunts, pyrotechnics and state-of-the-art special effects, the performers will bring an epic live action experience right in front of audiences’ eyes every time.
After an intensive eight month cross-country casting process that took place in New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Orlando and Ellenton, Florida, with hundreds of hopefuls representing the United States, Mexico, Hungary, France, United Kingdom, Russia, and Japan showing off their considerable skills, the final ensemble is set. When the spotlight finally shines, spectators will see some of the world’s most gifted athletes and performers including professional snow-skater and three-time X Games champ Phil Smage (Captain America), WMX Pro National champion and two-time X Games winner Ashley Fiolek (Hydra Agent), and 2012 X Games Silver Medalist Louise Forsley (Black Widow). To depict the superlative athleticism of some of Marvel’s most renowned heroes, Feld Entertainment also has signed martial arts expert and AAU Junior Olympics/National Champion Kirk Jenkins (Wolverine) and long-time American Ninja Warrior professional course tester Eric Foster (Hawkeye).
“From the beginning we knew that to pull off a show of this magnitude we had to have a cast that was the closest thing we could find to real life Super Heroes,” said Shanda Sawyer, director of Marvel Universe LIVE! “These are intense roles that require performers who are experts in their fields with the ability to take those skills and apply them to a number of meticulously crafted sequences, all designed to push the limits of anything the audience has ever seen in an arena show of this caliber – and they need to do this day in and day out.”
Marvel Universe LIVE! will captivate audiences with an authentic and original story that brings more than 25 Marvel characters together on one epic quest. The story is framed around the battle over the Cosmic Cube, the source of ultimate power and one of the most feared and coveted treasures in the Marvel Universe, that has been shattered into pieces by the mighty Thor in order to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. With the pieces scattered across the globe, Thor’s villainous brother, Loki, devises a scheme to clone its powers, inciting a threat that could not only decimate Earth but also obliterate the Universe.
For an inside look at the audition process click here: http://youtu.be/gPh0IdAxf58
For a complete cast list and more information, visit the Marvel Universe LIVE! website (http://www.marveluniverselive.com)
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Lion King 20th Anniversary Limited Release Tees Now Available at DisneyStore.com
Celebrate the ”Circle of Life” and 20 years of Disney’s animated classic The Lion King in this royal cotton tee, available for a limited time only.
Click here to order
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Wizard World Comic Con – Meet Five WWE Stars In Chicago
Wizard World has announced that WWE® Superstars John Cena®, Batista™ and Bray Wyatt™, WWE® Hall of Famer Bruno Sammartino™ and WWE® Diva Paige™ are scheduled to greet fans, sign autographs and pose for photo ops at its biggest and longest running event, Wizard World Chicago Comic Con on August 21-22-23 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center.
Cena will appear on Thursday, Aug. 21, from 3:30-7:30 p.m.; Bray Wyatt and Paige will attend on Friday, Aug. 22, from 3:30-6:30 p.m.; Sammartino is scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 23 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; and Batista is slated for Saturday from 2-5:15 p.m., followed by a Guardians of the Galaxy panel at 5:15 p.m. Tickets for all events are extremely limited.
Cena, Batista and Sammartino are also scheduled to attend next weekend’s Philadelphia Comic Con, along with WWE® Divas The Bella Twins™.
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Disneynature’s BEARS available on Blu-ray August 12th
The True Life Adventure Comes Home on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, Digital HD, Disney Movies Anywhere, and On-Demand, Aug. 12, 2014!
Disneynature Will Donate a Portion of First-Week Sales to the National Park Foundation Through the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund To Protect Wildlife and Wild Places
From Disneynature, the studio that brought you “Earth” and “Chimpanzee,” comes the must-own true life adventure “Bears,” available on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy), Digital HD, Disney Movies Anywhere (DMA), and On-Demand, Aug. 12, 2014. An epic story of breathtaking scale, this heartwarming and visually spectacular film showcases a year in the life of a bear family as two impressionable young cubs are taught life’s most important lessons. Families everywhere can now travel to a majestic Alaskan wilderness teeming with life without leaving home as “Bears” arrives on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, and Digital HD featuring stunning high definition picture, transporting sound, and exciting bonus features both parents and their children will love.
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Have You Gotten Sick of Walt Disney World? by Jennifer Romano
Have you gotten sick of Disney yet? I have been asked this question many times by a variety of different people since we have moved to Orlando. Now that I work at Walt Disney World, I definitely hear this question frequently. Honestly, I am not sick of the parks at all; I could spend every hour of every day in the parks and not get sick of them. However, this is because I always do something different when I visit the parks as a guest. I do not have to experience every attraction every time I visit a particular park. Sometimes, we don’t even go on any of the rides because we are just visiting for a walk or a meal.
Living so close to the parks allows us to enjoy a casual stroll through all of the resorts as well as the parks. There is no need to rush, so we never get sick of anything that WDW has to offer. The key is to visit the out of the way places and just take in the ambiance. So many people just rush through all of the carefully constructed themed areas just to run onto rides. Living so close has given us a new appreciation for slowing down on our visits to the parks. I know that this type of touring is not always possible during a once in a life time trip, but if you have the opportunity, take some time (excuse the cliché) to smell the roses.
Now, you might wonder if I am still covered in pixie dust because I just recently became a cast member. I am sure that being new still makes my every day work exciting, but I have to say that possessing a love for the parks and everything that WDW stands for makes me a better cast member. I truly care about the brand that I am representing, and I want to extend to each guest the high level of service that only Disney can provide. People are always shocked when I tell them that I work at Disney full time, and I also visit the parks on the days when I am not working. Talk to me in ten years, but I don’t see myself slowing down anytime soon. Having a broad knowledge of the parks and resorts really helps me to answer any question that a guest may have. I have learned so much about Disney as a company during my short tenure as a cast member; I can’t wait to see what I will learn when I am with the company for many more years.
As a cast member, I have come to understand that WDW is not just about rides or cramming in as many experiences into one day as you can. Yes, it is important to have a productive day as a guest, but a trip to WDW is so much more than that. You have the opportunity to make memories that you simply cannot make anywhere else. We (cast members) all go out of our way to free you from your worries and help you to leave the world of reality behind. Where else can you suspend reality and escape into a magical world? I know this is definitely the ideal that we try to meet as cast members, but I work with so many people who go above and beyond in order to assist guests in having wonderful experiences. These types of interactions help me to stay fresh and not become sick of being in our parks.
Overall, reflecting back on our first eight months as Florida residents, we have had our highs and lows. We have missed family, but we have also made new friends. We have thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of living so close to Walt Disney World. So, when people look at me and wonder how I can visit the parks so often both for work and for play, I just smile and know that I am truly living my dreams. Sick of Disney? Never! Until next time, have a magical day, and keep moving forward!
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