The Travelears

I was at Disneyland on Friday, September 25, 2009 for the opening of Space Mountain Ghost Galaxy and I captured this HD video Ghost Galaxy on YouTube. Look for a podcast soon with reviews of all the new and returning Holiday treats at Disneyland this Halloween Season.

I try to visit the construction site at Disney’s California Adventure (DCA) every couple of weeks looking for new and exciting things to share with you. Quite frankly at this point in construction, it’s seems that not much is happening. But that’s not quite a truthful account either. Construction is at a point on a few projects were it seems like not much is going on, yet much is taking place, but it’s hard to see.

With four titles generating nearly $34 million, Disney dominated the foreign circuit on the weekend.

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In a special ceremony today, Disney Theatrical Productions donated objects from the Tony and Olivier Award-winning musical “The Lion King” to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.

A sold-out field for Disney’s Expedition Everest Challenge presented by Champion will be tested like never before by several new twists and turns Sept. 26 at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park. A series of Kids’ Races have been added to kick off the event, making it an experience the whole family can enjoy.

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Amid the global economic downturn, the Walt Disney Co. is rethinking Adventures By Disney, the guided-tour business that executives hope can develop into a valuable niche in the company’s theme-parks division.

Cruise passengers can now judge cruise lines on their environmental record with the release Wednesday of the first report card on the industry from Friends of the Earth. The San Francisco-based environmental protection group graded the 10 major cruise lines on sewage treatment technology, air pollution reduction and water quality compliance in Alaskan waters. Cruise [...]

Even though the trailer has been playing in theaters for awhile, Disney just finally released an online trailer for Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carol. Jim Carrey provides the voice of Ebenezer Scrooge (as well as four other characters) in the Digital 3-D movie. The cast also include Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn, Colin Firth,Cary Elwes, and Bob Hoskins. [flashvideo filename=Even though [...]