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Disney’s “Main Street Electrical Parade” at Walt Disney World. By popular demand, the parade at Magic Kingdom Park will continue an open-ended run when “Summer Nightastic!” ends on August 14.

40 years and a day after he was hired, Smith will announce his imminent retirement from a corporation that, as he put it, “reuses and returns to its past more often than any company in the world.”

12min World of Color video offers behind-the-scenes look at recording sessions, animation, construction Disney’s ‘World of Color’ a look behind the scenes from Chris Fisher on Vimeo.

Linkletter died at his home in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles, said his son-in-law, Art Hershey, the husband of Sharon Linkletter.

Walt Disney World soon will begin building its first new hotel in nearly seven years, a 2,000-room resort that is planned to open in 2012.

Yes, you read right…the classic 3-D film experience “Captain EO” is coming back to Walt Disney World.

Fess Parker, a baby-boomer idol in the 1950s who launched a craze for coonskin caps as television’s Davy Crockett, died Thursday of natural causes. He was 85.

Breaking news…we just announced during Disney’s annual shareholders meeting that a new premium annual pass for admission to the parks at both Disneyland Resort and the Walt Disney World Resort will be offered beginning Thursday.

This place is the D23 Expo, the single largest gathering of all things Disney and one of the most unique ways to connect fans to Disney’s timeless stories, characters, movies, Parks and more.

The Disney plan, as of now, is to stage the D23 Expo as a biennial event, which means we’ll have to wait until 2011 to see the second edition.