MousePlanetWatch Disney News Feed for October 4

This and other news can be found in this week’s Walt
Disney World Park Update.

We’ve been summarizing just portions of the weekly Walt Disney World Park
Update on each show because we had received feedback that you didn’t want
to hear the same thing that you already read on Monday, so we just hit the
high points for those who hadn’t read it. Please let
us know if you would like us to continue as we have been, to start reading
or summarizing the entire Update, or to just drop the Walt Disney World news
entirely and only report corporate news.

Disneyland News

• The second Year of a Million Dreams was
  announced on Monday. You can check out the Dream
  Catalog and official
  rules online.
• A San Diego man claims that Disney security targeted
  him because he was holding hands with another man. The incident was
  reported in The
  Advocate. While the events were not in question, there is still a disagreement
  as to whether it was discrimination or a misunderstanding.
• The 70th anniversary of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs will
  be celebrated at the Disneyland Resort. The announcement and package
  information are available
  online.
• A Toy Story zoetrope has been installed in the Disney Animation building
  in Disney’s California Adventure.
• The Disney Gallery web site is offering a set of Adora
  Belle Halloween dolls.
• Cafe Orleans is releasing
  a series of Nightmare Before Christmas-themed ornaments.

This and other news can be found in this week’s Disneyland
Park Update.

The Walt Disney Company News

• Disney announced in a press
  release that it will discontinue its Disney Mobile service at the end
  of the year. Customers needing assistance can call Guest Services at 1-866-DISNEY2
  (347-6938) or go to the Disney Mobile web
  site.
• Disney has announced
  a deal with KB Home to showcase Disney home furnishings in their model
  homes. They’re also conducting
  a promotion to give away some of those furnishings.
• Stephen Slesinger Inc. is appealing
  yet another loss in its suit against Disney to get more money out of
  the contract for the use of the Winnie the Pooh characters. They lost in
  the California Court of Appeals last week, and so are appealing to the California
  Supreme Court.
• A bunch of Disney Records stars will appear
  on milk containers as part of the new Milk
  Rocks! promotional campaign.
• George Bodenheimer, President of ESPN and ABC Sports and Co-Chairman of
  Disney Media Networks, is number four on the list of BusinessWeek’s Power
  100 most powerful people in sports. He’s one of five ESPN executives
  on the list.
• The League of American
  Theaters and Producers and Broadway
  Stagehands Union Local 1 are still
  in talks over a new contract. Any job action would threaten the opening
  of Disney’s
  The Little Mermaid.
• The opening of The
  Game Plan gave Disney a new number one this
  weekend at the box office, a nice refresher since all other Disney-released
  movies had dropped off of the radar.

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