Archive for Mayıs, 2008

3 Million Disney Visitors Per Year to Experience Media Center and Lifeware Automation

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve already seen the Lifeware House (aka NextGen Home) at CES, CEDIA, EHX or IBS, where Exceptional Innovation demonstrates all the things that a Media Center PC and home automation can do for the everyday consumer—like close the drapes, dim the lights, and fire up the projector when the [...]

A look at Microsoft’s House Of the Future coming to Disneyland

Disneyland announced that it would be bringing back the concept of the “House Of the Future” in the form of a Microsoft “Dream Home” inside Innoventions. Now AdAge has been given a tour of Microsoft’s original version on the Redmond, WA company campus.
The mock home, set up on the company’s corporate [...]

American Idol winner going to Disney World

Upon being crowned this season’s American Idol, David Cook announced “I’m going to Disney World!”
The phrase became popular following the 1987 Super Bowl and has been used since by NFL, NBA and MBL champs.
The use of “I’m going to Disney World” by an AI winner is part of the planned American Idol attraction opening at [...]

Disney fined following fatality

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration found five violations during its investigation of Animal Kingdom’s Primeval Whirl attraction.
This ride was the site of an accident on November 24 involving a Disney employee which resulted in a fatality. In referring to the victim Karen Price, the OSHA report stated “An employee, who was working on an [...]

Disney’s Virtual Magic Kingdom Closes

Disney’s closure of its Virtual Magic Kingdom is met with continued protests by players of the popular online game.
In 2005, the free game was part of the 50th Anniversary celebration of the opening of Disneyland. The Virtual Magic Kingdom quickly attracted fans who have spent the past two and a half years accumulating points to [...]

Two Disney Store products recalled

Two items sold at the Disney Store have been recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Both the Pirates of the Caribbean sleeping bag and Tinker Bell’s Wand have been found to be in violation of the lead paint standards set by the CPSC. Both items were sold at the Disney Store from April through October [...]

Pirate’s Booty

Like everyone, I grew up going to Disneyland. Even as an adult I loved it there and went at least once a month. I was an annual pass holder, though not like the freaky ones you may have heard of. I’d see the park’s characters and think, “It’d be so cool to work here.” But [...]

Some more details on the new Journey Into Narnia

14 May 2008: Some more details on the new Journey Into Narnia: Prince Caspian, soundstage attraction
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (May 14, 2008) — This summer, some of the characters from C.S. Lewis’s timeless fantasy The Chronicles of Narnia come to life at Walt Disney World in Florida. Journey Into Narnia: Prince Caspian, an all-new soundstage [...]

‘Teacups’ beating victim sues Disney

A Clermont woman who was beaten by another park visitor at Walt Disney World has sued the theme park, saying that its negligence caused her to suffer permanent injuries.
Eben Self, an attorney for Aimee Krause, said that he filed suit in Orange County Court on his client’s behalf late Thursday afternoon. In a complaint provided [...]

What made Shyamalan part ways with Disney?

By Arun Kumar
Hindustan Times
Indian-American filmmaker Manoj Night Shyamalan, known for his spooky suspense thrillers, has in a new tell-all book lashed out at Walt Disney Studios, considered his artistic home since his 1999 surprise hit The Sixth Sense.
Penned by Sports Illustrated writer Michael Bamberger with Shyamalan’s blessing and extensive participation, the 278-page book recounts what [...]


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