Disney-MGM Studios will be transitioning to a new name — Disney’s Hollywood Studios — effective Jan. 7, 2008. “Mickey still plays a prominent role for us,” said Studios vice-president Michael O’Grattan, “and Hollywood now truly is our middle name.”

As a sneak peak, The Walt Disney World Resort …

So the women are back for round two. This week’s episode opens with Lindsay and Claire helping Jill move out of her place so she can move in with her doctor boyfriend. They are interrupted by their cell phones ringing. They know it’s bad when all three of them get the call at the same time.

And i…

This year Screamfest Orlando featured an attempt to break the record for largest Zombie Walk. It may have fallen short of the record, but I’m sure all the tourists in Orlando’s busy International Drive resort area were suitably perplexed.

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Movie Gallery has filed for bankruptcy.  It is just too hard to compete with low sale prices at places like Target, Wal-Mart, and Costco, and all of the home delivery systems for movies - and, course, other rental chains.
Movie Gallery, the nation’s No. 2 video rental chain, sought Chapter 11 afte…

To seg or not to seg, that is the question. Disney and SeaWorld are becoming the focus of disability rights organizations such as Disability Rights Advocates for Technology, or DRAFT which helps to raise funding for purchasing Segways for disabled U.S. military veterans, after restricting the use of…

Have you ever ridden the express monorail to MK when they had to stop between Contemporary and the park, and try a few maneuvers? When they bring a new train online, they are required to test the automated ‘kill engine if get too close to another monorail’ system.While I’ve long known about the test…

I got a LOT of emails like this one from Sarah:    At the end of all this we had a huge hotel bill and from staying on site, with the only real perk being the free transport to and from the parks (we had rented a car and ended up driving in to some of the parks and paying for parking, because the…

I’m not shy in my column to point out the virtues of PhotoPass. But John writes in:I loved the idea when we were at the parks on our honeymoon. But when we got home, we discovered that each individual print was $12.95! We wanted seven prints of the same darn photo and that cost us $90! That’s crazy …

In response to a recent column when I noted any one park at Walt Disney World couldn’t stand up to DL, Robert M. wrote:But of course, as your careful “vs. one park” wording belies, Walt Disney World is more than one park, it’s a full ecosystem and should be treated that way. This, however, reminds …

We rode in the nosecone (operating cab 6) of the monorail last weekend and in addition to the usual Monorail card, we got a new one. This one gave some factoids about the ride and claimed it was part of a series of Walt Disney World Transportation Cards - there are 18 in all.I’m intrigued. So we hav…

One of the three seagulls outside the Nemo pavilion (sigh, the Seas pavilion) is slightly broken. His lower jaw is permanently open, though it flaps around when he’s supposed to be squawking. This is just a note to see how long it takes them to fix it.Tags: miami, palm beach, education, sanibel isla…