MousePlanet is your independent consumer guide to Disney travel and vacations, covering Disneyland, Walt Disney World and the Disney Cruise Line.

Probably our last 2024 Walt Disney World Resort update featuring an introduction to the new Island Tower at Disney’s Polynesian Villas & Bungalows.

March is the start of meteorological Spring, and, indeed, by this time in February, it really is already springtime for Central Florida and the Walt Disney World Resort.

While there are many anniversaries to celebrate this year, next year will mark the 50th birthday of the well-loved Disney live-action musical, Mary Poppins.I have just returned from a trip to ...

Characters from The Rescuers appeared at the Disney theme parks for a few years after the film debuted. The Rescuers is not considered a classic, innovative film.It is a modest production that ...

As part of Walt Disney World's 50 th anniversary celebration by the end of this year, a new scene is being added to the Mickey's PhilharMagic attraction from the animated film Coco.The new scene ...

Song of the South. is not banned, but voluntarily removed by the Disney Company.. So perhaps it was with a naive unawareness of this racial situation of inequity that Walt Disney thought that ...

A craftsman working on an intricate wood carving at Epcot's Village Traders. Photo by Gregg Jacobs. Mombasa Marketplace is more of a typical Disney gift shop, though one that is very well-themed ...

MousePlanet is your independent consumer guide to Disney travel and vacations, covering Disneyland, Walt Disney World and the Disney Cruise Line.

One of Walt's major influences was Victor Gruen's book. Gruen designed some of the first malls in the late 1950s and early 1960s. A Disney Archivist confirmed to me that Walt had a copy of the ...

Disney premieres its grand reveal of “Disney Treasure.” Video courtesy Disney. Today, Disney Cruise Line premiered its virtual grand reveal of Disney Treasure, which is scheduled to become the ...

The Disneyland '59 celebration. I wish I could have talked with Walt in person since every interview seems to reveal he was engaging, humorous, charming and passionate.