Happy Birthday Mr. Disney.

[Mr. D.]

110 years ago today, The man that changed our world was born.

Happy Birthday!

[hobie16]

110 years ago today, The man that changed our world was born.

Happy Birthday!

Here's a guy who started the ball rolling on a company that would be one of the most recognizable brands in the world. And, to top it off, Disney goes off and buys a company from a guy, who ends up on the board by the way, who started a company that has one of the most recognizable brands in the world. Must be in the DNA.

[Main Streeter]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WALT! The world is a "Happier" place because you dreamed & Believed.

[NemoRanger]

I ran into a number of guest wearing Birthday and Celebration buttons for Walt.

We had a couple really good cakes with extra sugary icing and those mickey shaped ice cream bars. I had a pretty awesome sugar high for most of the day.

On a side note, those ice cream bars are so freaking good. I wonder who makes them.

[Main Streeter]

I ran into a number of guest wearing Birthday and Celebration buttons for Walt.

This show of respect was awesome! Wonder if any guests did this @ DL yesterday? I was off.

[ktulu]

I ran into a number of guest wearing Birthday and Celebration buttons for Walt.

We had a couple really good cakes with extra sugary icing and those mickey shaped ice cream bars. I had a pretty awesome sugar high for most of the day.

On a side note, those ice cream bars are so freaking good. I wonder who makes them.

I believe Nestle. There was a show on food network about it.

[DisneyMom]

This show of respect was awesome! Wonder if any guests did this @ DL yesterday? I was off.

We were there Monday am, our shuttle driver told us it was Walt's Birthday but I didn't see anything else at DL mentioning it...I was pretty bedragled from Sunday,tho!

[Main Streeter]

We were there Monday am, our shuttle driver told us it was Walt's Birthday but I didn't see anything else at DL mentioning it...I was pretty bedragled from Sunday,tho!

Thank you for the reply D M. :) Bedragled, headache, & hoarse described me Mon. Four Candle Light G C shifts were just a bit over the top. Slept till noon Tues. ;)

[hobie16]

Jon Favreau writes about Walt being a maverick, continually betting the farm, and his third act, Disneyland.

Walt Disney, the maverick: A guest essay by Jon Favreau

I was born in 1966, the year Walt Disney passed away. He would’ve been 110 this week. I’m too young to have had a first-hand memory of him. In fact, I didn’t even know Disney was a man until late in my childhood. Disney was a place (Disneyland) and it made cartoons (Mickey Mouse) and it made movies (Snow White). I later learned that Disney was a person and not a swirling entity defined by Disneyland, Mickey Mouse and Snow White. Or so I thought.

As childhood slipped away, I clung to it through the discovery of Walt’s entire catalog of animated content. Even the earliest nightmare I can remember having was my family’s Toyota driving past me on a New York city street with Mowgli from “The Jungle Book” sitting where I belonged behind my parents. As I got older I became enamored with Fantasia and all of its psychadelia in the revival houses of Greenwich Village. Even as an adult, I am caught in the guts whenever I see Dumbo cradled in the trunk of his caged mother, no doubt accessing repressed pain through emotional back channels to when I lost my own mother as a kid. Full article