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Song of the South: the Ride. Photo by Joe Penniston [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] via Flickr.

Controversy: Disney announces live-action Song of the South

Every other animated feature has had a live remake, so now it's Song of the South's turn. BURBANK, CA - Continuing with its latest business model of remaking beloved animated features, Disney announced that it had begun production of a live-action reboot of the 1946 classic Song of the South. "We feel that this reboot has been necessary for decades," said ABC Disney spokesperson Stephen White. "While the film has received a lot of flack for expressing old sentiments, we'd like to retell the story ...
September 17, 2018 by Ub in Other
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Disney's Go Away Green - building, speaker, Club 33 door, & Phil

Disney licenses “Go Away Green” to military

Pictured uses of Go Away Green (L-R): 1. show building. 2. speaker. 3. Club 33 door. 4. Phil. BURBANK, CA -- For decades Disney Imagineers have been painting buildings and objects within their parks a dusky shade of bluish-green they call "Go Away Green." It's a color whose entire purpose is to not draw attention, so it can be found on speakers, employees-only gates, a certain Cast Member named Phil that no one likes, and most famously, the original door to the secretive ...
September 6, 2018 by Marty in California, Florida, Other
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Disney's eight dwarfs. Photo by Loren Javier [CC BY-ND 2.0] via Flickr.

Confusion at Disney: Pluto named as “Eighth Dwarf”

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 relation) made the announcement. "It really didn't start with us," Disney (no relation) tells Uncle Walt's Insider. "It was the International Astronomical Union who made that call. They decided ...
August 24, 2018 by Marty in Other
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Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor at the Magic Kingdom Park, plus Stitch. Photo by Michael Gray [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Flickr, plus Stitch.

Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor adds Stitch as heckler

Why let a perfectly good animatronic go to waste? WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- Rumors continue to fly around major changes coming to the Walt Disney World Resort -- from gifts shops in the new Skyliner gondola cars and attraction queues, to a Tron retheming of the steam trains, to changing sky colors on the overhead weather dome. But now, shortly after Disney announced the addition of an adults-only late-night comedy show at the Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor, that attraction is getting ...
August 22, 2018 by Marty in Florida
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Walt Disney World Railroad before the Tron retheming. Photo by Jackdude101 [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Walt Disney World Railroad to receive Tron overlay

"Yes, we are retheming another attraction to Tron. But not the Speedway." WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- The Magic Kingdom Park took another step towards construction of the new Tron Lightcycle Power Run roller coaster last week, shutting down the Tomorrowland Speedway and the Walt Disney World Railroad for the duration of the construction. And now Uncle Walt's Insider has learned that the Railroad is not just being refurbished during its closure -- it is being fully rethemed as another Tron attraction! Rumors ...
August 20, 2018 by Marty in Florida
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