Three-day weekend? Time to phone it in. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — It’s Labor Day, which means Disney parks worldwide will be closed to give their Cast Members a long weekend off to spend with their families. And what’s good enough for the Mouse is good enough for Uncle Walt’s Insider! [Ed.: Actually, it’s much…
The much-loved Star Wars Holiday Special will live on in Galaxy’s Edge. ANAHEIM, CA — Following the arrival of Jar Jar Binks and a half-frozen old Leia, another character has made it to the new Star Wars-themed land at Disneyland Park: Ackmena, the beloved owner and bartender at the Mos Eisley Spaceport Cantina, as portrayed…
“Former friends” got a bit too competitive in the Magic Kingdom. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — Leonard “Len” Henry, 69, and Webster Pryor, 71, are lifelong friends from Waterloo, Iowa. Or at, least they were friends, until they found themselves kicked out of the Magic Kingdom on Tuesday for “racing” their electric scooters down Main…
Last heard saying, “Some people are worth mel-glblblb…” WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — The Norway Pavilion in Epcot’s World Showcase experienced an air conditioning outage on Sunday. But what would have been a mere inconvenience in most places quickly turned to tragedy as beloved snowman Olaf has disappeared. The Norway Pavilion is home to the…
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Is there a mixup between Pluto the dog and Pluto the planet? BURBANK, CA — There were plenty of raised eyebrows — many of them animated — at the Burbank headquarters of the Walt Disney Company when it announced yesterday that Pluto had been named the “Eighth Dwarf.” Disney (the company) spokesperson Jun Disney (no…