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Groot joins the Enchanted Tiki Room. Photo by Ken Lund [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Flickr, modified.

Tiki Room birds unionize, demand higher wages

If their demands aren't met, they'll fly the coop. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- "Most little birdies will fly away, but the Tiki Room birds are here every day." That's the opening line in a complaint filed Thursday with the National Labor Relations Board against the Disney Company. In the complaint, the birds "and other performers" in the Enchanted Tiki Room say that they are underpaid, and have threatened to form a union. The labor dispute is well-timed by the performers, as Disney was ...
July 26, 2019 by Marty in Florida
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Jack Skellington joins the Teacup ride! Photo by William Warby [CC BY 2.0] via Flickr.

Nightmare Before Christmas overlay coming to WDW!… on the Teacups?

So, good news and bad news. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- There is a favorite holiday ride modification at the original Disneyland Park in California -- and now it's coming to Florida! Just maybe not like we expected. For the past 37 years [Ed.: Eleven years before the movie debuted? Marty, quit making up numbers], Disneyland's Haunted Mansion has been transformed with the popular Nightmare Before Christmas overlay. The change happens in the Fall and stays through January, so that the overlay covers two major holidays! ...
July 25, 2019 by Marty in Florida
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Imagineer Joe Rohde and his magic elixir. Photo by elisfkc [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Wikimedia.

Disney DNA behind Joe Rohde’s secret elixir

A little bit of this, a little bit of that, a little bit of Walt, and you can be a Disney genius, too! GLENDALE, CA -- During a routine visit to Imagineering Headquarters in Glendale, CA, Uncle Walt Insider's crack team of reporters discovered the secret behind Joe Rohde's creative genius. Many believe it comes from the alien lifeform that dangle from his ear, but newly discovered information has this super reliable news organization changing our minds. First, we spotted a bottle labeled, ...
July 24, 2019 by Walt in Other
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A pin shows Minnie Mouse with a racist flag. Photo by AntiquesNavigator.com.

Is Minnie Mouse hiding a white supremacist past?

A late-1980's pin surfaces with Minnie and a racist symbol. BR'ER BANK, CA -- Just when the controversy over Donald Duck's Nazi history had finally settled down, the Disney Company finds itself on the defensive again. And this time, it was because of a character no one expected. Minnie Mouse has some explaining to do. Pinning down her background Several Uncle Walt's Insider readers [Ed.: Two counts as "several," right?] called our attention to a 1989 official Disney pin which features Minnie Mouse and the Betsy ...
July 20, 2019 by Marty in Florida
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President Trump, realizing there is a bigger job than U.S. President. Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images & TitleMax.

Trump drops out of 2020 race; will replace Bob Iger at Disney

This is bound to give a boost to several Disney characters' candidacies. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Breaking news out of Washington: President Donald J. Trump has just announced via Twitter that he is withdrawing his name for reelection in 2020. Instead, he will replace Bob "Robert" Iger as CEO of The Disney Company when Iger retires in 2021 (and joins the staff of Uncle Walt's Insider). Trump tweeted an image of himself holding a chart of all the companies owned by Disney, saying this: "Look ...
July 16, 2019 by Marty in Other
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