bug’s land, a Area featuring Flik’s Fun Fair, attractions for children based on A Bug’s Life, in Disney California Adventure; opened on October 7, 2002. The attractions are Flik’s Flyers, Tuck & Roll’s Drive ‘em Buggies, Heimlich’s Chew Chew Train, Francis’s Ladybug Boogie, and Princess Dot’s Puddle Park. The area encompassed the previously opened It’s …
See moreBug Juice (television) 18-episode documentary series on Disney Channel about a group of kids, aged 12 to 15, that goes off to summer camp at Camp Waziyatah in Waterford, Maine. Premiered on March 1, 1998, after a preview the previous night. A new camp, Camp Highlander near Asheville, North Carolina, was featured in a second …
See moreBuffalo Bill’s Wild West Show Dinner show at Disney Village at Disneyland Paris, where cowboys and Indians put on a pageant in a large arena reminiscent of Buffalo Bill’s foray into France many decades earlier. Began April 12, 1992.
See moreBuena Vista Palace Hotel at Lake Buena Vista at Walt Disney World, opened on March 3, 1983. It became the Wyndham Palace Resort and Spa on November 1, 1998, then reverted to the Buena Vista Palace name in August 2005.
See moreBuena Vista Street Located in Burbank, California, where the Walt Disney Studios are located (500 South Buena Vista Street). At first, in the 1940s, the company used a 2400 W. Alameda address. The Studio lot is bordered on four sides by Buena Vista, Alameda, Keystone, and the Los Angeles River. Riverside Drive runs through the …
See moreBuena Vista Pictures Distribution See Buena Vista Distribution Company.
See moreBuffalo, The—Majestic Symbol of the Plains (film) Part of The Vanishing Prairie, released on 16mm for schools in September 1962. Describes the appearance, habitat, and food of the buffalo and human’s efforts to prevent their extinction.
See moreBuena Vista International Company incorporated in 1961 to handle the foreign distribution of Disney films. Occasionally, BVI will handle the foreign distribution of non-Disney films, including such titles as Die Hard with a Vengeance, Face/Off, Starship Troopers, and Air Force One. It changed its name to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International in July 2007.
See moreBuena Vista Club Golf club, opened at Lake Buena Vista on November 22, 1974, and closed on March 21, 1994. Also known as Lake Buena Vista Club. The restaurant in its country-club atmosphere featured the chef’s specialty, a fantastic onion soup, with thick melted cheese overflowing the edges of the bowl. Renamed Disney Village Clubhouse …
See moreBuena Vista Distribution Company Founded by Disney in 1953 to distribute its films; its first release was The Living Desert (see more detail under that entry). The headquarters were located in New York until the 1970s when they were moved to California. Irving Ludwig headed Buena Vista until his retirement, when Dick Cook took over. …
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