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That Walt Disney has won more Oscars than anyone else -- 32

The following is a listing of per-point annual dues for 2006 Disney Vacation Club properties:

• Beach Club Villas - $4.48
• Boardwalk Villas - $4.41
• Hilton Head - $4.34
• Old Key West - $4.24
• Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa - $3.98
• Villas at Wilderness Lodge - $4.61
• Vero Beach - $4.86

Meet Leroy, the bad-boy twin of Stitch! The lovable characters from Disney's 'Lilo & Stitch' are back, including Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, Pleakley, along with Stitch's outrageous cousin and 625 fellow experiments in the all-new movie Leroy & Stitch, available on DVD June 27. It's a hilarious and extraordinary battle for the future of the galaxy, and this all-new animated funfest includes a bonus neverbefore- seen episode from the 'Lilo & Stitch' TV series, and a Big Red Battleship Flight Simulator Game. Leroy & Stitch is available for U.S. $26.99 (S.R.P.), Canada $29.99 (S.R.P.) on DVD from Walt Disney Home Entertainment.

In this all-new movie, Lilo, Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley have each gone their separate ways. Jumba's back in the lab, Pleakley teaches college, Lilo's in Hawaii and Stitch commands a Big Red Battleship. But when Dr. Hämsterviel breaks out of prison, he creates the ill-mannered Leroy, the evil twin of Stitch. One Leroy is disastrous enough, but Hämsterviel plans to clone Leroy into an entire army. It's up to Lilo, Stitch, Jumba and Pleakley to band together again, and with help from all 625 of Stitch's experiment cousins, stop Dr. Hämsterviel's plans. When the chips are down, our friends discover that the one place where they all truly belong is together.

Leroy & Stitch

Disney has released room-only discounts, at select resorts, for Annual Passholders vacationing August 6 through August 26, 2006. Ask for code EZY. The code gives you a flat discount off from rack rates; $25 off Value resorts, $50 savings on Moderate resorts and a $75 savings on Deluxe and Home Away From Home resorts. The number of rooms offered at these rates is limited. For details contact INTERCOT's Official Travel Agency, Magical Journeys at 1-570-785-3283, or visit their web site and fill out a quote form.

Source: Intercot.com

Walt Disney World is putting into effect a "No G-Force" alternative to the Mission Space Ride at Epcot by the beginning of the summer.

What this would do is create two versions of the ride.

Guests could decide whether to go on the existing version, or on one where the centrifuge doesn't spin.

Disney says the original version of the ride would not be toned down.

The move comes after a few tourists died after getting on the ride.

A 4-year old boy and a 49-year old woman have died in the past year after riding Mission Space. Doctors believe they both had preexisting medical conditions

Walt Disney only attended one year of high school.

Employment at Walt Disney World Resort stood at 5,700 when this park opened. Which is it?

A) Magic Kingdom B) Epcot Center C) Disney MGM Studios D) Animal Kingdom

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Correct Answer: A) Magic Kingdom

The Magic Kingdom, which opened in 1971. More than 33 years later, the entire resort now employs about 57,000 people.

One of the most popular of the Disney cartoon characters, Donald Duck made his debut in the Silly Symphony cartoon "The Wise Little Hen" on June 9, 1934. His fiery temper endeared him to audiences, and in the 1940s he surpassed Mickey Mouse in the number of cartoons reaching the theaters. Eventually, there were 128 Donald Duck cartoons, but he also appeared in a number of others with Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and Pluto. His middle name, shown in a wartime cartoon, is Fauntleroy. The original voice of Donald was Clarence "Ducky" Nash, who was succeeded after 50 years by Disney artist Tony Anselmo. A daily Donald Duck newspaper comic strip began on February 7, 1938.

Donald Duck has a good heart and always has good intentions. Well, almost always. Actually, it's his second or third intentions that are the good ones, but by the time they surface Donald's already off and running in the wrong direction. He refuses to let anyone or anything stand in his way. It doesn't matter how much humiliation the world dishes out to him, Donald will take it and come back for more. He's a loser, not a quitter, and he'll go down fighting. This is a duck with one short fuse, and an amazing (if unintelligible) command of language, and when things don't go right, he goes ballistic. Yet after the storm is over and the tantrum is through, when faithful Daisy soothes his brow or his conscience finally catches up with him, even Donald can admit that there must be a better way. If only he could figure out what it is.

Hot-headed Donald is a little man in a big world that's trying to keep him down. Call it fate, or call it lack of self-control, nothing goes right for this duck: even his best intentions often go awry. Of course, by the time his best intentions surface he's probably already chasing after less noble pursuits. As stubborn as he is temperamental, he won't give in, even when he's up to his beak in trouble. Then watch out. Like a lot of people with a temper problem, he's blind to his own faults but quick to see them in others. He can't understand why life seems so much easier for pals Mickey and easy-going Goofy. It's not fair. Still, Donald will keep struggling to get what he deserves in the world. Favorite sayings: "Oh, yeah?" "Hiya, toots!" "Aw, phooey!" "Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!" "Nothin' to it!"

World Premiere of Walt Disney Pictures', in association with Jerry Bruckheimer Films, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST at Disneyland in Anaheim, California on Saturday June 24.

From the film - Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Naomie Harris, Stellan Skarsgard, Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Kevin McNally, Lee Arenberg, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Klebba, producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski.

Other guests include - Cuba Gooding Jr., Christina Applegate, Rachel Bilson, James Cameron, Kristin Cavalleri, Michelle Trachtenberg, Blink 182's Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker, Shanna Moakler, Jennifer Love Hewitt, James Denton, Matt Leinart, Jane Russell, Andy Samberg, Jon Voight, Tony Shalhoub, Jane Kaczmarek, Bradley Whitford, Lynda Carter, Melinda Clarke, Rodney Peete and Holly Robinson Peete, Dennis Rodman, Erik Estrada, Billy Ray Cyrus, "Dancing with the Stars" Stacy Keibler, Lisa Rinna, Louis van Amstel, Tia Carrere, and Cheryl Burke, Harry Hamlin, Olympian Chad Hedrick, Cal Ripken, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Dylan and Cole Sprouse, Kyle Massey, Simon Wakelin, X Atencio, "Cheetah Girls" Kiely Williams and Adrienne Bailon, Chris Harrison, "Disney's High School Musical" stars Zac Efron and Vanessa Anne Hudgens.

The park will be closing at 5PM.

A young Walt Disney created a character named Oswald who starred in a series of 26 silent cartoons between 1927 and 1928. When Walt lost the rights to Oswald, he came up with the character known as Mickey Mouse.

From www.disneyworldtrivia.com

Scotch Plains, NJ, June 15, 2006 -- On Saturday, July 15, the DisneyWorldTrivia.com Dream Team expects to reach its goal of securing the necessary funding to sponsor a pediatric cancer patient from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center on an all-expense paid trip to Walt Disney World when they hold an auction of over 60 Disney-related items and collectibles. The auction will be held at the third annual Fred Block's Northeast Disney Fan Meet at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Allentown, PA. All proceeds will be donated to the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation for the express purpose of funding the trip.

The fundraising effort, which has been spearheaded by DisneyWorldTrivia.com owner and webmaster, Lou Mongello, of Scotch Plains, NJ, has seen monetary donations as well as donations of Disney items and collectibles for the auction come from a variety of sources, including visitors to the site, other Disney fans, and from members of the DisneyWorldTrivia.com "family." The prized possession at the auction in Allentown will be a one of a kind original painting graciously donated by Disney Design Group Artist, Brian Blackmore. The full-color acrylic-on-canvas painting, a private work created by Blackmore in his home studio that depicts Disney's Donald Duck dancing and playing a banjo, is mounted in a beautiful gold frame and was most recently displayed in the Art of Disney Gallery in New York City. It was also featured in the March 13, 2006 issue of People Magazine in a photo with celebrity host, Michael J. Fox, commemorating the gallery's opening.


Mongello, who is the author of The Walt Disney World Trivia Books (Vol. 1 and 2) and co-host of the popular MouseTunes.com Podcast, donates a portion of all proceeds from the sale of DisneyWorldTrivia.com logo merchandise on his site to the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation to sponsor a child's wish to visit Walt Disney World. He knows first-hand the pain cancer can inflict on victims and their families, having dealt with it in his immediate family. In an excerpt taken from his website, he states, "A child and (his or her) family who may be suffering physically, emotionally and spiritually, are also often struggling financially to pay for hospital bills and other medical expenses. Not only is it difficult to deal with the illness itself, but often children are confined to a hospital or bed. By granting their wish to go to Walt Disney World, we…can help make a child's life a bit brighter by spending some time away from the hospital, and in one of the happiest places on Earth."
For more information about making a donation and becoming a part of the DisneyWorldTrivia.com Dream Team, visit their website at www.disneyworldtrivia.com

Which park has seen a 21.1 percent overall decline in attendance since its peak attendance year?

A) Magic Kingdom B) Epcot C) Disney MGM Studios D) Animal Kingdom

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The correct answer is: C) Disney MGM Studios

Disney-MGM Studios, which had an estimated 8.26 million visitors in 2004, compared with 10.47 million in 1997. The trade magazine "Amusement Business" estimates that all four of Disney's Orlando parks saw more visitors in 2004 compared with 2003. Other Disney parks had the following attendance in 2004: Magic Kingdom, 15.17 million; Epcot, 9.4 million; Animal Kingdom, 7.82 million.


Source: OrlandoSentinel

That the number of miles that the buses at the Walt Disney World themeparks travel annually is: nearly 18 million

Alice is tired of logic and lessons and the ordinary world. She wants a world of her very own: a world of nonsense, if you please, where everything will be what it isn't, and "contrariwise," when it isn't, will be what it is. That's why she's so very eager to follow the White Rabbit, despite some sound advice to herself about not going where one hasn't been invited. Once she's tumbled in it's too late to turn back, and Alice finds Wonderland not only as nonsensical and fantastical as she could have hoped, but frustrating and perplexing as well. "It's all so confusing!" she cries after mad tea parties and caterpillars and disappearing cats. But it's all very well to complain now that she's gotten what she wanted. Perhaps she should have followed her own "very good advice" and stayed where she was, and left Wonderland to her dreams.

The Alice of Lewis Carroll's stories was a real little girl: 12-year-old Alice Liddell, daughter of a colleague. Carroll originally told the story to Alice herself while on an outing on July 4, 1882, a day that is considered as important to the history of English literature as that date is to American history.

Kathryn Beaumont, the young actress who voiced and modeled for Alice (as well as Wendy in "Peter Pan"), spent the majority of two years at the Disney Studios, even going to school on the lot, so she could be on-call for the duration of production.

Film: "Alice in Wonderland" (1951)
Voice Artist: Kathryn Beaumont
Live-Action Model: Kathryn Beaumont

Which of the 4 Walt Disney World Theme Parks is the smallest?

A) Magic Kingdom B) Epcot C) Disney MGM Studios D) Animal Kingdom


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The correct answer is: A - Magic Kindgom

The Magic Kingdom. At 107 acres, the park is just a small part of the 47 square miles of property owned by Walt Disney World. That's about the size of San Francisco or twice the size of Manhattan. Less than one-fourth of the property has been developed with another fourth set aside as a wilderness preserve.


Source: Orlando Sentinel

Disney World bought about 150,000 gallons of paint -- enough to cover nearly 7,500 average sized homes�

NEW YORK, May 31 (Reuters) - Hilton Hotels Corp. (HLT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Wednesday said it plans to open two hotels at a new resort to be built near the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.

The hotelier will build a 1,000-room Hilton and a 500-room Waldorf-Astoria at Bonnet Creek, it said in a statement. The project is expected to open in the summer of 2009.

Tinker Bell is the jealous pixie who glows brightest for Peter Pan. Her voice sings like a tinkling bell and a sprinkle of her pixie dust can make you fly. But this sprite can turn spiteful if she suspects that Peter's attentions are diverted to anyone but herself. It's bad enough that she has to compete with Never Land's other adoring females (the mermaids and Princess Tiger Lily), but now Peter's brought back this Wendy person from London. Tink would lay down her life for Peter, but he's too busy playing Wendy's hero to care. Somehow she'll find a way to settle the score, even if it takes eliminating the competition.

In Sir James M. Barrie's original play, Tinker Bell is traditionally staged as a flying point of light beamed from offstage. Animator Marc Davis' personification of her as a winged pixie with a very womanly figure was widely criticized as too sexually suggestive by Barrie purists, especially after it was rumored that she was modeled after actress Marilyn Monroe. Tink was actually modeled after Margaret Kerry, the actress who performed her live-action reference.

The popular Miss Bell went on to a second career as TV hostess for Disney's anthology series ("Disneyland®," "Walt Disney Presents," "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color," and "The Wonderful World of Disney"), and Tinker Bell still flies through the sky over Disneyland every night in the summer to herald the evening fireworks.

Film: "Peter Pan" (1953)
Live Action Model: Margaret Kerry

Heres the teaser for the new Disney movie "Cars" that is now in theaters

"Cinderella fans must wait a while longer before learning details of what a night in her castle might be like -- and then wait until January for a chance to win such a visit.

Walt Disney World officials say they haven't worked out many details about the part of their big, new, yearlong promotion that is piquing imaginations: a chance to spend the night in the royal chamber at Cinderella Castle.

"Oh my gosh," said Brandee Foxworthy of Longwood, whose daughter, Ella, was named for the fairy-tale princess. "My first thought was, in what way could we increase our chances?"

That's yet to be answered, along with: How will winners be picked? What will the suite be like? What will visitors do after the park closes?

Craig Dezern, a marketing vice president, said those details still are being worked out. Even the apartment is only a shell right now, with planners discussing how to turn it into a royal chamber.

For that reason, it won't be ready for occupancy until January, even though Disney's "Year of a Million Dreams" promotion begins Oct. 1.

The single-floor apartment is about 10 stories up, where the main structure of the castle ends and the spires climb on their own.


Some say Walt Disney ordered it as a family suite, but he died in 1966 and castle construction didn't begin until 1969. Some say Walt's brother, Roy Disney, planned it, but he died in 1971, weeks after the Magic Kingdom opened.

The room was never finished.

Jerry Aldrich, a Disney official from 1971 to '98 before leaving to start Amusement Industry Consulting in Orlando, has been in it several times. He said it wasn't even drywalled.

Until now, Disney found less than royal uses for the apartment. At times the space was used as a radio room, a telephone switchboard operators' room and a greenroom, where entertainers could change or relax.

Like many Disney and Cinderella fans, the Foxworthys can't wait.

"We would be over the moon to spend time in the castle and have special pictures and memories of that," Brandee Foxworthy said."

Source: OrlandoSentinel

Central Florida News 13 - In Osceola County, parts of U.S. 192 are closed because of a brush fire near Walt Disney World.

Osceola fire crews say the fire flared up around 3:30 p.m. Friday.

At some point fire crews say the fire jumped the plow line created by the Department of Forestry.

Osceola fire crews believe the fire was caused by a lightning strike from last weekend.

No homes were damaged and no evacuations have been ordered.

Fire crews say heavy smoke from the fire is limiting visibility on the roads. Right now, U.S. 192 is closed between U.S. 27 and State Road 429.

From an overnight stay inside Cinderella Castle to a Golden FASTPASS, dreams big and small will come true at Disneyland and Walt Disney World resorts during Disney's "Year of a Million Dreams," a first-of-its-kind celebration of the individual dreams of Disney Parks guests.

The year-long celebration, beginning Oct. 1, 2006, at Disneyland Resort in California and Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, will feature the debut of an incredible lineup of new attractions and entertainment at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World resorts, plus new technologies that allow guests to customize their Disney park experience.

And, for the first time, during the "Year of a Million Dreams" celebration, Disney cast members will award a million dreams – both large and small, including many "money-can't-buy" experiences – to guests selected through a random process as part of a unique "Disney Dreams Giveaway" promotion.

"Throughout this incredible celebration, special dreams and unique experiences once thought impossible will be awarded by our cast every day," said Jay Rasulo, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. "Disney parks are always the place where dreams come true – but even more so during the 'Year of a Million Dreams.' "

The "impossible" includes the creation of over-the-top, overnight experiences for winning guests at both East and West Coast resorts: a royal bedchamber inside Cinderella Castle at Walt Disney World Resort and a Mickey Mouse Penthouse at Disneyland Resort, both expected to be complete by January 2007.

A day of royal treatment will end with a night of enchantment inside Cinderella Castle for a different lucky guest each night. Cinderella's royal bedchamber, now under construction at Magic
Kingdom, will allow Disney guests to stay overnight inside the park and enjoy a view shared only by Tinker Bell. The lavishly decorated bedroom will be located in a space originally planned as an in-park apartment for the use of the Disney family.

And for a lucky Disneyland guest, each night, the all-new Mickey Mouse Penthouse at Disneyland Hotel will pour on the Mickey charm and include magical views overlooking both Disneyland and Disney's California Adventure parks. The extraordinary penthouse will be decorated in all things Mickey, with finishing touches by none other than Minnie Mouse herself.

In addition, during the year-long celebration, other Disney dreams both large and small will be awarded in the "Disney Dreams Giveaway" promotion, such as:

• Traveling to each Disney resort around the world to serve as grand marshal in a Disney parade.
• A variety of unique Disney vacation experiences.
• Admission to special parties and other extraordinary experiences in the Disneyland and Walt Disney World parks.
• Private meetings with favorite Disney characters.
• Or, a Golden FASTPASS ticket with unique access entitlements to some of Disney's most popular attractions.

New Attractions and Entertainment Planned for the "Year of a Million Dreams"
Throughout the "Year of a Million Dreams" celebration, Disneyland and Walt Disney World resorts will debut major new attractions:

Disneyland Resort in California

Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage – Inspired by Disney- Pixar's "Finding Nemo," this all-new
E-ticket adventure will take guests on a real (and unbelievable) underwater excursion.
(Summer 2007)

Rockin' Space Mountain – Space Mountain is getting a new twist. Thanks to new lighting and technology, Disney's classic attraction will become a new experience in which rockets will rock it through the greatest concert in the universe. An all-new soundtrack will fit the exciting twists and turns of Disney's rocket classic. (Spring 2007)


Walt Disney World Resort in Florida

"The Seas with Nemo & Friends" at Epcot – Nemo is lost – again – and guests aboard "clam-mobiles" join his friends to search one of the world's largest saltwater aquariums for the playful clownfish in a stunning display of new entertainment technology inspired by Disney-Pixar's "Finding Nemo." (Late 2006)
"Finding Nemo-The Musical" at Disney's Animal Kingdom – Also inspired by Disney-Pixar's "Finding Nemo," the Great Barrier Reef comes to colorful life in an all-new musical filled with spectacular scenery, elaborate puppetry and music by a Tony-Award-winning composer.
(Late 2006)

The Laugh Floor Comedy Club at Magic Kingdom – Guests find the power of laughter in an engaging and interactive new adventure inspired by Disney-Pixar's "Monsters, Inc." as they match wits with the one-eyed hero Mike Waznowski and his friends. (Early 2007)

Additionally, special entertainment and programs will be in place at the parks and resorts to accommodate the desires and wishes of would-be Disney Princesses, pirates, adventurers and space explorers. Guests will be able to customize their visit to a Disney park to pursue the "Dream Track" of their choice with on-line planning tools and in-park technology to help them become the hero or princess they've always dreamed of being.

For more information about the "Year of a Million Dreams" celebration and the "Disney Dreams Giveaway" promotion, visit www.mydisneyparks.com. Look for future announcements with the details of the "Disney Dreams Giveaway" promotion. No purchase necessary and subject to promotion official rules which will be available on Oct. 1, 2006. Odds of winning any prize will depend on the number of eligible entries. Void where prohibited.

"Somehow I can't believe there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy and the greatest of these is Confidence. When you believe a thing, believe it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably."

Here is a music video of the song, "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes"

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