World of Color site opens to the media today
Disney is hosting a bunch of us media types today to tour the construction site of the World of Color — the new water and light show at Disney’s California Adventure. The attraction doesn’t open for...
View ArticleWater spouts, fire cannons to pierce Disney skies
Disney officials today unveiled details of the World of Color water and light show – the technical tour-de-force that is the linchpin of Disney’s $1-billion effort to jazz up the California Adventure...
View ArticleAround Disney’s Flickr Friday Photo Feature
Once a week, we pick two or three of the best photos that you guys post to the OCR Around Disney Flickr group, and we’ll feature them on Around Disney. About once a month, we’ll print your photos —...
View ArticleAnaheim gets its very own Comic Con
New York-based Wizard Entertainment will use the Anaheim Convention Center to host the city’s first-ever Comic Con in April 2010 — and expects 30,000-plus to attend. The organizer is a pop-culture...
View ArticleDisney workers voting on contract proposal today
From 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. today, Disney hotel workers from Unite Here local 11 are voting on a contract proposal from Disneyland. A rejection would bring the workers’ long-running contract dispute one...
View ArticleDisney hotel workers reject contract proposal by 92 percent
Unite Here 11 – the union representing hotel workers at the Disneyland Resort – have shot down a contract offer by Disney, bringing the long-running labor dispute closer to a strike. The union...
View ArticlePower surge stopped Disney this morning
A power surge originating from the Anaheim Public Utilities’ electrical grid shut down the rides at Disneyland briefly at around 11 a.m. this morning. Disney spokesman John Nicoletti couldn’t say...
View ArticleDisney union protests Disney conference in Anaheim
Up to 100 workers representing the three Disneyland hotels gathered outside the Anaheim Convention Center today with full audio set and a stage – the loudest part of the protest was underway as Disney...
View ArticleThousands buy O.C.-based Disneyland iPhone app
Scott Graziano, a Newport Beach attorney, is a serious Disneyland freak. You may have read about him and his new iPhone app on Around Disney several months ago. It was then he first launched his...
View ArticleAn exclusive look inside Disneyland’s Mr. Lincoln
Disneyofficials say the Mr. Lincoln animatronic figure will star in a new show, “The Disneyland Story Featuring Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln,” as early as Dec. 18. Disney spokesman John McClintock...
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