Reaching For New Horizons

Thirty years ago today, EPCOT Center premiered a thrilling new adventure, which took guests from the ocean’s depths into outer space.

Haunted Mansion Scream-No-More Challenge Hong Kong Disneyland

Hong Kong Disneyland Introduces the “Scream-No-More Challenge” at Disney’s Haunted Halloween.

Every Thursday to Sunday from October 4–31, the Park will extend its opening hours ‘till 11:00 p.m., allowing guests to explore the seven themed areas.

1920 storyboard sketch of Mickey Mouse selling hot dogs at a carnival

Vintage storyboard sketches show Mickey’s speaking debut in the 1929 Karnival Kid – Gallery

Walt and the Great Comic Book Controversy

In April 1954, when the U.S. Senate held hearings on comic books—especially “horror” titles and their “impact upon adolescents”—Walt spoke out.

Walt’s First Fairy Tales

By the time Walt Disney released Cinderella in 1950, the imaginative impresario was well known as the past master of the animated fairy tale. But few realized just how far back into the past—dating back to the Roaring Twenties in Kansas City, Missouri—Walt first used the relatively new medium of animation to retell the old …

A First-Class Honor

There have been a whole series of Disney U.S. postage stamps recently, but the earliest Disney stamp was the commemorative issue honoring Walt himself in September 1968, less than two years after the great showman’s passing.