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  • New Concept Art Unveiled for Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway

    New Concept Art Unveiled for Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway

    The Great Movie Ride closed on August 13, 2017, to make room for Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway and today, new concept art from the upcoming attraction has been released by Disney.

    Though it was sad for many guests to see The Great Movie Ride go, what is to come is pretty unique. Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway makes for the first ever Mickey-themed ride-through attraction. The new attraction will totally immerse guests in a cartoon world and will feature a new catchy theme song created especially for the attraction.

    On Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway, you’ll step through the movie screen and join Mickey and his friends like never before. The attraction will put you inside the wacky and unpredictable world of a Mickey Mouse Cartoon Short where you’re the star and anything can happen. This zany out-of-control adventure features surprising twists and turns, dazzling visual effects and mind-boggling transformations that happen before your very eyes.

    Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway

    The fun begins when you see the premiere of a new cartoon short with Mickey and Minnie preparing for a picnic. As they head out, they drive alongside a train and find out that the engineer is Goofy. Then, one magical moment lets you step into the movie and on Goofy’s train for a wacky, wild ride.

    The teams helping create the attraction are currently working with partners at Disney Television Animation to keep the characters and storyline authentic – and allow guests to join Mickey and his friends like never before. The attraction is planned to open at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in 2019.

  • Woman Calls Cops On Eight-Year-Old Selling Water For Disney Trip and Twitter Erupts

    Woman Calls Cops On Eight-Year-Old Selling Water For Disney Trip and Twitter Erupts

    A video went viral over the weekend that shows a California woman calling police on a eight-year-old girl selling water in front of her home to raise money to help her mom pay for a trip to Disneyland.

    The incident happened Saturday outside of an apartment building in San Francisco, near AT&T Park where the Giants play. That’s when family members say he girl was approached by a woman the who has been dubbed on twitter as “Permit Patty.” The family says she called the police on the little girl for not having a permit.

    The video posted to social media shows “Permit Patty” on the phone, trying to hide when she realizes she’s being recorded. Take a look at the video below.

    The fifteen second video was posted by the girls mother and older cousin on Saturday and already has more than 9 million views.

    According to CNN, Alison Ettel, a white woman who lives nearby, became annoyed by what she said was constant yelling about $2 water bottles for sale outside her window. So she confronted the girl’s mother and then appeared to call the police.

    The girl’s mother, Erin Austin, told ABC7news, that the video was taken shortly after Ettel came outside and confronted them. “She comes out and demands the permit for my daughter. She said if we didn’t give it to her she’d call the cops,” she said. “So I said, ‘OK, call the cops.’ And she did.”

    The incident quickly erupted with outrage over the woman’s actions, with #PermitPatty trending on twitter.

    Even celebrities have been putting in their two cents.

    Ettel told Huffing Post that she only pretended to call the police after claiming the girl and her mother were making a lot of noise.

    “They were screaming about what they were selling,” she said. “It was literally nonstop. It was every two seconds, ‘Come and buy my water.’ It was continuous and it wasn’t a soft voice, it was screaming.”

    She admits the phone call was a “stupid” decision, but says she has been harassed and has received death threats.

  • First Look: Toy Story Land Merchandise Coming To Walt Disney World

    First Look: Toy Story Land Merchandise Coming To Walt Disney World

    Oooooohhhh!!!  Disney just shared a first-look at some of the fun merchandise that will be available exclusively at Toy Story Land when the area debuts at Disney’s Hollywood Studios on June 30.

    Toy Story Land Merchandise

    First up, guests can make a fashion statement with these playful headbands inspired by characters featured in Toy Story Land, with styles inspired by aliens and Slinky Dog.

    Toy Story Land Merchandise

    Guests can find this Light-Up Slinky Dog, which doubles as a toy and fashion accessory, with playful light-up rings.

    Toy Story Land Merchandise

    Also available will be “I Played There” commemorative T-shirts for kids that will let the world know they were among the first guests to experience Toy Story Land.

    Of course, shopping for these adorable items is just one way guests can enjoy themselves when Toy Story Land opens on June 30. Guests will also be able to ride Slinky Dog Dash, a roller coaster Andy has assembled from his Mega Coaster Play Kit, take a spin on Alien Swirling Saucers, a galactic play set that Andy won at Pizza Planet, or walk through a new carnival game box to experience Toy Story Mania!, which has been a guest-favorite attraction at the park since it opened in 2008. Now expanded with a third track, the popular attraction will allow even more guests to take aim at 3D objects – using everything from baseballs to cream pies – in a variety of whimsical, fast-paced games. Families can also head to Woody’s Lunch Box in Toy Story Land for tasty meals and old-fashioned soda floats.

    Which item above is your favorite? Tell us in the “Comments” section below. And be sure to stay tuned to the Disney Parks Blog over the next few weeks for more coverage on this exciting expansion.

    Check out the list of related posts below for more on Toy Story Land, opening on June 30!

  • Unions at Disneyland Are Putting ‘Living Wage Ordinance’ On Anaheim Ballot

    Unions at Disneyland Are Putting ‘Living Wage Ordinance’ On Anaheim Ballot

    Unions representing Disneyland have band together in an effort to gather enough signatures to put a ballot measure before Anaheim voters that would require Disneyland to pay the resort workers a “living wage.”

    The coalition is made up of 11 labor unions and they have been pushing for higher wages at Disneyland Resort and nearby hotels. They says they plan to present a petition with about 20,000 signatures to the Anaheim city clerk’s office this morning.

    The measure would end up on the November ballot if enough signatures are verified and would ask voters to require Disney and other large Anaheim employers that accept city subsidies to pay workers a minimum of $15 an hour starting Jan. 1, 2019. Salaries would then rise $1 an hour every Jan. 1 through 2022. Once the wages reach $18 an hour, annual raises would then be based on the cost of living.

    The petition drive was launched by a coalition of employee unions shortly after a survey — that found that 73% of Disney employees who were questioned said they don’t earn enough to pay for such basic expenses as rent, food and gas — was released in February. It also found that 11% of resort employees have been homeless or have not had a place of their own in the last two years.

    The survey was conducted by the Economic Roundtable, a nonprofit research organization in Los Angeles, and the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College.

    To qualify for the November ballot, the unions needed to collect the signatures of 10%, or 13,150, of the voters in Anaheim. The coalition of unions says it deployed at least 50 volunteers each day since April 12 to collect the 20,000 signatures.

    Disney officials have said that the average annual pay for hourly workers at the resort is $37,000, which calculates to about $17.80 an hour.