Posted on Sunday, 23rd October 2011 by Aaron DelPrince

Up, up, up and away!  People love to reach higher levels.  This is true in life, but not necessarily with physical heights.  Raise your hand if you’re afraid of heights.  Okay, back on point.  This is a Disney blog after all.  One of the questions many Disney park enthusiasts ask themselves months before a Disney [...]

Tags: Animal Kingdom Lodge Villas, Cinderella Castle, Disney Cruise Line, Disney's Animal Kingdom, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Downtown Disney, Epcot, Future World, Magic Kingdom, pop century, Walt Disney World Resort, World Showcase
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Posted on Wednesday, 2nd March 2011 by Kathy Werling

The 18th Annual  Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival debuted today at Epcot in Walt Disney World.  To me this signals Spring in Florida. The dates this year are March 2- May 15, 2011. It seems many were excited for the opening of the Festival as it was quite crowded this morning in Future World. [...]

Tags: 18th Annual Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival, Bambi, Epcot, Epcot Springs to Life, Future World, HGTV, Toy Story 3, Winnie the Pooh, World Showcase
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Posted on Thursday, 17th February 2011 by Dave Parfitt

Interview with Jack Lindquist, Disneyland’s First President, Part 2 Jack Lindquist is a Disney Legend whose Disney career began in 1955 as the initial advertising manager for the new theme park.  He worked in the public relations office alongside future head of Walt Disney Imagineering Marty Sklar.  In Part 1 of the interview, Lindquist discussed his early years at Disneyland, [...]

Tags: DIS Interview, Disney Dollars, Epcot, Imagineering, In Service to the Mouse, Jack Lindquist, Walt Disney Imagineering, World Showcase
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Posted on Thursday, 10th February 2011 by Aaron DelPrince

Run Disney released an update to this fall’s Wine & Dine race weekend.  A letter from Ken Potrock, Disney’s SVP of Sports Enterprises, discusses two major modifications for this year’s Wine & Dine race weekend.  As someone who participated in last year’s race weekend and post race party these changes are very welcomed and should improve the [...]

Tags: disney world, Epcot, EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival, Future World, RunDisney, Wine and Dine Half Marathon, World Showcase
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Posted on Wednesday, 11th August 2010 by John Magi

The DISUnplugged was invited to attend the media/press event for the new Via Napoli restaurant in Epcot in the Walt Disney World Resort, Florida. Usually Pete Werner and/or Corey Martin will go to these media events and cover them for the DISUnplugged blog and podcast, but since this one was one ’food related’ it was decided that Kevin [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 23rd March 2010 by WebmasterLeah

Review by Kevin Klose We recently visited the Rose and Crown Pub, located in the United Kingdom area of Epcot’s World Showcase. As it was not a busy time at Disney, we were able to secure a same day advanced dining reservation for 3 pm. As we hit very little traffic, we made great time [...]

Tags: Epcot, Rose and Crown Pub, World Showcase
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Posted on Saturday, 6th February 2010 by Dave Parfitt

Samantha Brown, host of “Samantha Brown’s Great Weekends” on the Travel Channel, is a favorite of DIS Unplugged listeners and readers.  This is in part because she is a self-proclaimed Disney fan, and has filmed numerous episodes at the Disney parks and resorts.  Samantha is celebrating her Tenth Anniversary on the Travel Channel with four [...]

Tags: Animal Kingdom Lodge, Cast Members, DIS Interview, Disney's Animal Kingdom, Epcot, Expedition Everest, Grand Floridian, Joe Rohde, Magic Kingdom, Samantha Brown, Travel Channel, Turtle Talk with Crush, World Showcase
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