Spots of fun occurred on this day in 1991 when Disney Press published their first book, 101 Dalmatians: A Counting Book. In the book, kids learn to count while Pongo and Perdida search for their 99 pups (clearly Three Little Pigs or Seven Dwarfs just would not have had the same impact!). Disney Press is …

Sonora Webster Carver did not have your average run-of-the-mill job. In 1923, responding to a newspaper ad, she accepted a job as a diving girl, where her duties included mounting a running horse as it reached the top of a forty-to-sixty-foot-tall tower. Atop the horse, she would plunge down to a deep tank of water, …

Stroll cobblestone walkways as you listen to the smooth jazz backdrop and breathe in the sweet smell of magnolia blossoms in the air. Disney’s Port Orleans Resort, themed after the French Quarter in New Orleans, opened with 432 guest rooms, a restaurant called Bonfamille’s Café, two quick-service diners, and the Doubloon Lagoon, a pool area …

Jim Henson’s Muppet*Vision 3D, the last movie Henson worked on before his untimely death, first premiered at the Disney-MGM Studios (now called Disney’s Hollywood Studios) on this day in 1991. In addition to all the madness and mayhem that the Muppets have become known for, Kermit promises that, “At no time will we be stooping …

Although the multiple award-winning television series Dinosaurs debuted on this day, the show took place millions of years prior, 60,000,003 B.C. to be exact. Based on an idea by Jim Henson, this Disney/Henson live-action collaboration was only the second show to feature the famed puppeteer’s unique combination of Audio-Animatronics® and puppets. John Kennedy, who is …

Greetings, earthlings… On this day in 1991, an out-of-this-world dining experience called the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant landed at Disney’s Hollywood Studios (then known as Disney-MGM Studios) at Walt Disney World. In the mysterious confines of this quirky culinary theater, Guests dine in convertible automobiles, while viewing trailers, clips, and shorts from fantastic science-fiction moments …

A snazzy crimefighter outfit and a cool trademark saying, “I am the terror that flaps in the night” are just part of the charm of Darkwing Duck, who starred in the series of the same name that premiered on Disney Channel on this day in 1991. Darkwing Duck proved popular and later replaced Disney’s Gummi …

Opening at Disneyland on this date 18 years ago, Disney Afternoon Avenue was a colorful street of cartoon buildings located between it’s a small world and Videopolis (now the Fantasyland Theatre), inspired by the success of the two-hour programming block Disney Afternoon, which ran from 1990–1997. Here Guests could meet TaleSpin star Baloo in his …