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History comes full circle, as Disney now owns the inspiration for its own theme park castles. BAVARIA, GERMANY — A real-life fairytale castle, long said to be the model for Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland and later Disney castles, is now in the hands of Mickey Mouse. The Walt Disney Company announced yesterday that it…
Forget Hidden Mickeys – the new game is spotting Hidden Fees! With the revelation over the past few weeks that the Walt Disney World Resort will begin charging resort guests for driving their cars out of the parking lot, and last week’s exposé on these pages of new hidden fees Disney is charging throughout the…
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Note: the following article was written in English and translated into Portuguese using Google Translate. Any errors in translation, poor grammar, or insulting language are therefore not the responsibility of Uncle Walt’s Insider, unless of course we put them in the original article on purpose. The original English version can be found on page two….
“We thought people would go all over the parks, but once they find a churro cart, they stop.” Just two weeks after Google announced that its Street View service was expanding to feature the interior of all 14 Disney parks worldwide, an internal study shows that most folks use the service to find and then…
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Disney claims technology from several attractions has been ‘stolen’ by large companies Shocking news from the Glendale, California, offices of Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) today: an Imagineer says that several major companies have stolen research about self-driving cars from WDI. The Imagineer pointed to several examples of self-driving technology in Disney parks, including Jungle Cruise…