Controversial changes to the Fab Five and the Mickey Mouse Club. BURBANK, CA — The Roaring 20s are back, after almost a century. With pandemics, division, and cynicism all around, darker approaches to storytelling are all the rage. Even popular, positive characters are being given gritty reboots. (See, for example, the recent Batman and Superman…
“True Tales: from the files of Stupid Guest Tricks” is an ongoing series, where we share believable stories of park guests’ unbelievable stupidity. FROM STUPID GUEST TRICKS — StupidGuestTricks.com was a website founded to provide Disney Cast Members and other theme park employees a place to vent about some of the idiots they’ve dealt with….
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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…