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MousePlanetWatch 28 – news feed for July 19, 2007

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In the Walt Disney World news, most of the news came from this past Monday’s
Walt Disney World Park Update, and
links to the various information reported can be found there.

  • The new games installed
    in the Soarin’ queue are proving very popular.
  • Disney has signed a deal
    with the Chelsea Football Club as the Official Professional Soccer Club
    of Disney’s Wide World of Sports and the presenting sponsor of Disney’s
    Soccer Showcase Series.
  • New touch-screen kiosks are
    being tested     at Pecos Bill’s Tall Tale Inn and Cafe.
  • The Arribas Brothers shop, which recently relocated into the former Market
    House, will now be expanding
    into the long-vacant former Disney and Company shop on Center Street, and
    the new Fantasia merchandise shop will be located adjacent to the new Game
    Station arcade.
  • We took a look at some of the plans that almost were put into place for
    Epcot’s 25th anniversary before they were scuttled by the Year of a Million
    Dreams. We’re trying to get more information on what may actually be in
    place for the revised plans.

In the Disneyland news, which this week was reported live from Disneyland
by Andrew Rich, some of the news came from this past Monday’s Disneyland
Park Update.

In The Walt Disney Company news:

  • Last Thursday, Disney filed to issue $1.1B in notes, $750
    million     in three-year floating rate notes and $350
    million     in ten-year 6 percent notes. The prospectus
    and the SEC
    form 8-K     for the notes are also available online.
  • The Secret of the Magic Gourd had another
    good week     at the Chinese box office, coming in second to Pirates
    of the Caribbean: At World’s End    . Its two-week total of $1.8 million
    makes it the second highest grossing Chinese language picture for the year
    thus far.
  • The Disney-owned Power Rangers will celebrate
    their 15th anniversary     at next week’s San
    Diego Comic-Con    .
  • Billy Ray Cyrus releases his
    first album     with Walt Disney Records on Tuesday.
  • Disney is releasing High
    School Musical 2     with prime-time showings on three consecutive nights.
    Friday, August 17 will have the premiere of the movie. Saturday, August
    18 will have the “Wildcat Chat” rerun, where viewers will be able
    to send questions to the cast during the broadcast. On Sunday, August 19,
    the “Sing-Along Telecast” will feature on-screen lyrics so that
    fans can (what else?) sing along with the cast.
  • Members of the Disney
    Movie Club     have received letters telling them of a security breach where
    their credit card numbers may have been compromised.
  • Disney Interactive made many announcements at last week’s E3 Media & Business
    Summit 2007:

    • DGamer will be an interactive web-based community centered around
      Disney video games and will make it’s first appearance next May. It
      will initially be released for the Nintendo DS platform, and will eventually
      be available on the Windows PC platform.
    • The new Turok game will be released next February.
    • The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian will be released next May,
      the first title that will include DGamer interfaces.
    • Spectrobes II will be released in Fall 2008.
  • Disney Interactive added Junction
    Point Studios     as their fifth game studio.
  • Disney also announced that they will be releasing 35 movies through the
    Xbox
    Live platform    .
  • One door closes, another opens: While Beauty
    and the Beast     closes on Broadway next Sunday, The
    Little Mermaid     begins its pre-Broadway
    shakedown run     in Denver next Thursday.
  • Ratatouille
    came in third at the weekend box
    office    , bringing its total since release to just under $143 million.
  • At the last minute, Roy E. Disney decided not to skipper his yacht Pyewacket
    in the TransPacific
    Yacht Race    . His son, Roy Patrick, is skippering instead. Disney didn’t
    want to sail with his attention split, as he is also making a movie about
    a crew of young sailors that he financed to sail the Morning Light in the
    race. As of Wednesday night, Pyewacket
    was in the lead    , but seems to be falling behind the speed necessary
    to take back the record for the fastest transit of the course. Morning Light
    appeared to be in the lead in the Division 2 race.

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