Disney News You Need to Know: Weekly Roundup
1 – Disney’s Streaming Service Adds A Name
November 9, 2018 • Disney’s forthcoming streaming service now has a name — and it’s right in line with another offering from the company. The service will be called “Disney+” (read “Disney Plus”). If that name sounds familiar — it’s because it’s consistent with another streaming service the Walt Disney Company offers: ESPN+. Read More
Newscast Studio | (Edits by Disney Adulting)
2 – Walt Disney Posts Record Annual Profit
November 8, 2018 • Walt Disney Co. DIS 1.72% Chief Executive Robert Iger continued to pitch his company’s digital future to investors on Thursday, even as the company reported a year of massive success for traditional movie releases like “Black Panther.” Read More
Wall Street Journal | (Edits by Disney Adulting)
3 – Mickey Mouse Is 90, and This Disney Exhibit Celebrates Him Perfectly
November 9, 2018 • “I only hope that we never lose sight of one thing—that it was all started by a mouse.” That quote from Walt Disney appears several times in the 16,000-foot downtown Manhattan space currently housing an immersive exhibition wallpapered in all things Mickey. Read More
Daily Beast | (Edits by Disney Adulting)
4 – ‘A Frozen Holiday Wish’ | Disney World Lights Up Castle At Magic Kingdom With Frozen Characters
November 8, 2018 • Walt Disney World marked the start of the 2018 holiday season with a very special castle-lighting Thursday at Magic Kingdom. Disney Parks Blog streamed “A Frozen Holiday Wish,” the castle-lighting moment at Magic Kingdom Thursday night. Read More
5 – It’s Already Time For Christmas At Disneyland
November 10, 2018 • After starting the day at Disney California Adventure for Festival of the Holidays, we moved over to Disneyland for the rest of the afternoon. While California Adventure celebrates the diversity of modern California with its holiday event, over here at Disneyland, it might as well still be 1955. Christmas is the reason for the season at Walt’s original park, where the young-‘un among the park’s holiday traditions — Haunted Mansion Holiday — has been running for only 17 years. Read More
Theme Park Insider | (Edits by Disney Adulting)
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