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Rebecca Cline (Director of Disney Archives) and Steven Clark (D23 Founder) released the long anticipated "Walt Disney Studios: A Lot to Remember" on Sep 6 of this year. Then within hours the book was recalled and public appearances for signing of the book were cancelled. For the few who could...

I got hit with these post in my FB - https://www.facebook.com/orangewoodalbum/ Happy 60th Disneyland!! Anyone know who the kids are? everyone think they know in the post but not sure

Anybody have any information on the DL Orangewood Album? Specifically is there a place where all the photos have been published? I have been able to find six so far -...

This is the newest Disney patent application and hints at a new technology for the Astro Orbiter. The link for the patent is http://www.google.com/patents/EP2438971A1?cl=en&dq=GRAVITY+SLIDE+RIDE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DPBpUY7pM8TOrQGT3oHgAg&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA.

These are Walt's first patents he ever applied for. Just a couple days apart in 1931. Just found this very interesting and thought to share. First Design Patent: http://www.google.com/patents/USD84233?dq=ininventor:%22Walter+E+Disney%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lDJNUarpBaKa2gWsvYDQCA&ved=0CDYQ6AEwATgK...

Ride & Show Engineering in California has developed a new ride vehicle for dark rides, shown below, "The present invention relates generally to the field of amusement rides wherein patrons seated in cars are moved along a track, the cars are suspended from the track, and the car is pointed in...

Disney has developed a new roller coaster car to improve our ride experiences. I'm not sure if they have a specific ride/park/theme in mind for this, but please post if you have any inclination. The gist is, they put reclining chairs in the cars so that you are in a reclined position during the...

Disney has developed a "floating omnimover." Disney summarizes the new ride technology as: The inventors recognized that one potential way to create a new and very different omnimover ride would be to create a floating or water-based omnimover ride. With that concept or idea in mind, the...

Will the bad publicity of the Carnival Triumph Cruise spill over onto the Disney Cruise Line? In other words, will this paint such a bad picture of cruises that the entire industry will feel it? Or could this have the effect of driving customers away from Carnival and toward Disney? Or will...

Would anyone be interested in a Universal Creative forum? They are the equivalent of Disney's Imagineering for Universal (even have former Imagineers working there now) and develop/design exciting ride technologies, effects, layouts, stories, etc. like those for HP and the Forbidden Journey...

Spoiler alert for anyone waiting to see Lone Ranger and Man of Steel movies this summer. I won't say anything here but the link is: http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/lego-sets-lone-ranger-man-steel-reveal-plot-133321782.html Makes me even more excited about seeing these movies!