Atlantic Wear & Wardrobe Emporium Shop in the Beach Club Resort at Walt Disney World, opened on November 19, 1990. Gifts and souvenirs are themed to the Beach Club atmosphere. It closed on January 5, 2005, to be remodelled and reopened, on March 24, 2005, as Beach Club Marketplace (including grab ‘n go food service).
See moreAtlanta Braves Walt Disney World announced in February 1996 that the Atlanta Braves would use Disney’s Wide World of Sports for their spring training home beginning in 1998. However, they inaugurated the stadium at the sports complex with an exhibition game against the Cincinnati Reds on March 28, 1997. They held their 22nd, and final, season …
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Atlantic Dance Nightclub at the BoardWalk Resort at Walt Disney World; opened July 1, 1996. The club has experimented with different dance styles, including Latino and swing.
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire (film) In 1914, an inexperienced young museum cartographer and linguistics expert, Milo Thatch, joins up with a group of daredevil explorers in an expedition funded by an eccentric billionaire, Preston B. Whitmore, to find the legendary lost empire of Atlantis. Milo is continuing a quest begun by his late grandfather. Utilizing …
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Atencio, Francis X. (1919-2017) He joined Disney in 1938 as an in-betweener and became an assistant animator on Fantasia. He worked on the inventive Noah’s Ark, Jack and Old Mac, and A Symposium on Popular Songs, using stop-motion animation in collaboration with Bill Justice. In 1965, he moved to WED Enterprises, where he worked on …
See moreAt the Movies (television) New title for Ebert & Roeper and the Movies. The motion picture review show changed to At the Movies with a new set and format beginning September 6, 2008, starring Ben Lyons and Ben Mankiewicz. New critics took over on September 5, 2009—A.O. (Tony) Scott of the New York Times and …
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At Home with Donald Duck (television) Television show, aired on November 21, 1956. Directed by Jack Hannah. A compilation of cartoons for Donald’s birthday. Includes a segment with Cubby O’Brien and the Firehouse Five Plus Two. A rerun in 1976 was titled Happy Birthday Donald Duck, and substituted footage from the new Mickey Mouse Club …
See moreAstro-Jets Tomorrowland attraction at Disneyland, from March 24, 1956 to September 5, 1966. Also known, from 1964 to 1966, as Tomorrowland Jets; later became Rocket Jets. By manipulating the handle, you could make your jet rise and lower, giving yourself a bird’s-eye view of Disneyland as the attraction rotated. At Walt Disney World the attraction …
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Astin, Sean Actor; appeared in Encino Man (Dave Morgan), and on television in The B.R.A.T. Patrol. He provided the voice of Oso in Special Agent Oso.
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