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New Global Entry at EpCoT cEnTeR. Photo by LtPowers, Peter Fitzgerald [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia Commons.

Disney to offer Global Entry to guests returning from World Showcase

Finally guests can avoid long lines at Customs and Immigration when returning to Future World. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- With the start of yet another festival at Epcot [Ed.: Hey, copy and save that line. We can use it to start a new article every week!], Disney Parks and Resorts and Spas officials have some good news for guests. Beginning in November, individuals who have "Trusted Traveler" status through various government I.D. programs can enjoy expedited returns to the United States ...
September 14, 2018 by Marty in Florida
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The Magic Kingdom's newest interactive game: Where's Waldo in real life!

New fun on crowded days: Where’s Waldo at the Magic Kingdom

Disney's latest interactive game offers a tasty prize as well. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- Disney officials have announced a new step towards increasing guest enjoyment on the Magic Kingdom's most crowded days. No, not reducing the number of guests allowed in -- that just wouldn't be the Disney way! Instead, Where's Waldo, the popular book series, is coming to life at Walt Disney World! Interactive fun "Where's Waldo: the Interactive Experience" joins the Magic Kingdom's three other current live games: Sorcerers of the ...
September 11, 2018 by Marty in Florida
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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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Closed for the holiday.

Labor Day news roundup

Three-day weekend? Time to phone it in. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- It's Labor Day, which means Disney parks worldwide will be closed to give their Cast Members a long weekend off to spend with their families. And what's good enough for the Mouse is good enough for Uncle Walt's Insider! [Ed.: Actually, it's much better.]  So for your holiday reading enjoyment, here are some news and rumors from around Walt Disney World and other parks worldwide, that we would write an article ...
September 3, 2018 by Marty in California, Florida, Other, World
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An audio-animatronic of Bea Arthur from the Star Wars Holiday Special arrives at Disneyland.

Animatronic Bea Arthur arrives at Disneyland

The much-loved Star Wars Holiday Special will live on in Galaxy's Edge. ANAHEIM, CA -- Following the arrival of Jar Jar Binks and a half-frozen old Leia, another character has made it to the new Star Wars-themed land at Disneyland Park: Ackmena, the beloved owner and bartender at the Mos Eisley Spaceport Cantina, as portrayed by Golden Girl Bea Arthur in the Star Wars Holiday Special. "The Holiday Special holds a sacred space in the Star Wars canon," says Disney (the company) spokesperson ...
August 30, 2018 by Marty in California, Florida
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