Rebel Rebel—Star Wars Rebels’ Talent Talks Season 2

Star Wars fans have been waiting a long time for a new big-screen installment of the Saga, and most fans already know where they’re going to be on December 18, when The Force Awakens opens in theaters. Lucky for us fans, Star Wars Rebels’ executive producer Dave Filoni loves that far, far away galaxy as …

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Disney Infinity 3.0 Fan’s Dream-Come-True-Sweepstakes

Overview D23 Members are invited to enter for the chance to win a Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition Starter Pack – now featuring characters, stories and worlds from Star Wars™ – along with four Disney Infinity Figures and Toy Box Expansion Games! To Enter The Disney Infinity 3.0 Fan’s Dream-Come-True-Sweepstakes is now closed. Thanks to all …

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Steakhouse 55’s Warm Apple Butter Cake

Whether it’s an apple on a teacher’s desk at the start of a school year or a family outing to a nearby orchard to pick apples, there’s something about the fall season that just makes us think about apples! Disneyland Hotel’s Steakhouse 55 offers a dessert that will put excellent use to apples that you’ve …

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Moana Finds Her Voice—Plus More in News Briefs

Becoming Moana: Disney Dream Comes True for Hawaiian Teenager It’s one of those Hollywood stories that’s almost too good to be true—but it is! After a worldwide search, 14-year-old Hawaiian newcomer Auli’i Cravalho has been cast as the voice of the title character in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ upcoming film Moana. Cravalho joins Dwayne Johnson …

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Aladdin’s Glittering New Diamond Edition

A street-wise thief with a heart of gold. A free-spirited princess. And the hilarious, larger-than-life genie that brings them together. Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Aladdin first took the world by storm Thanksgiving 1992—followed by a record-breaking home video release the next year. Now, for the first time, Aladdin will be released in a whole new …

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Disney Undiscovered: Mickey Columbus

From a riverboat deckhand to a brave little tailor and a sorcerer’s apprentice, Mickey Mouse has taken on many roles since his first appearance in 1928. “Mickey Columbus,” a proposed but never-realized concept, would have seen our favorite animated star sailing the seas in an effort to prove that the world was round—and win the …

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“E” Ticket Memories: Five Favorite Facts About Ticket Books

By Steven Vagnini In honor of the 60th anniversary of the “E” Ticket, we thought we’d share five of our favorite facts about the ticket books that once admitted us into attractions at Disneyland, Walt Disney World, and Tokyo Disneyland. 1. Although Disneyland opened to the general public on July 18, 1955, ticket books weren’t …

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Dressed for Trick-or-Treating Success!

Like they say on the red carpet, “Who are you wearing?” But we’re, of course, not talking about an award show—we’re talking about an even bigger night of the year, Halloween! Our friends at Disney Consumer Products have introduced a (ghost) host of fabulous new costumes for 2015—for adults, kids, and even dogs! So if …

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Disney Details: Animal Kingdom Lodge Lights the Way

Picture a moody scene of an adobe wall dotted with a mosaic of lanterns—beautiful beacons to weary vacationers trying to get to their rooms before darkness falls. You’ll discover this scene the next time you travel to Kidani Village at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge. And if you’re fortunate enough to arrive here just as a …

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Celebrating Disney Characters Who Are Mad as Hatters

Today is a very, very special day. Why, you ask? Well, odds are, it’s your un-birthday—it’s most-assuredly ours! But October 6 is also Mad Hatter Day, the day we celebrate Alice In Wonderland’s eccentric, chapeau-wearing tea party host. We’re definitely raising a cup of tea to the Mad Hatter himself today, but we thought this …

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