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We were right. A month and a half ago, WalletPop.com brought you word of some "secret" plans to overhaul Fantasyland in the Magic Kingdom of Walt Disney World. At the time, Disney wouldn't comment directly on them, but now it can be told: They're real.In 2013, the Magic Kingdom's 42nd birthday...

So Marvel just got swallowed up by Disney for $4 billion. Hey, Captain America, what are you? Some kind of super hero? That's the sort of huge payday that we used to see three or four years ago. But what about Universal Studios? It's Walt Disney World's biggest rival for the cutthroat Orlando...

Like hard drugs and booze, Disney can be addictive. Even when times are tight and income is lean, people still want a hit of the big Disney theme parks, so much so that despite everything else going on in the economy, they're still posting a decent profit.While occupancy and hotel rates decline,...

Could Walt Disney World be re-awakening, like Aurora, from a recession-induced slumber? The resort giant usually surfs from buzz to buzz by keeping at least one banner ride in the construction pipeline, but it hasn't announced any major attractions since it opened the Toy Story Midway Mania 3-D...

Disney may soon be dealing with an unwanted kind of Toy Story: Legoland, the California theme park, wants to move in next to Mickey Mouse.Attractions Magazine, a unique publication that chronicles the amusement industry in Florida, started chatter among locals by reporting that residents have been...

Walt Disney Co's (DIS) quarterly results were disastrous but not nearly as disastrous as Wall Street expected. Maybe Snow White's fairy godmother lent a hand. Net income plunged 46 percent to $613 million, or 33 cents a share, compared with $1.13 billion, or 58 cents, a year earlier. Revenue at...

Disney World (and I can't believe I'm writing this) was once the ultimate family destination for many of my friends. I can specifically enumerate examples of friends for whom a Disney World vacation was such an important life event, they planned future childbearing and other major personal...

Okay, I'll start by admitting that I've been to Walt Disney World a couple of times. Before our first visit, my sisters and I pored over pictures of the Hall of Presidents, the Haunted Mansion, the Disney Castle, and other attractions, plotting the perfect routes to every ride, the ideal sequence...

Gas prices continue to set records, making potential vacation expenses seem so great, I almost have to forgo all hopes of a summer vacation. On top of that, foreign currencies continue to make a killing against the dollar. Who wants to pay $6 for a Parisian croissant? Not me. But you don't have to...

When I was fourteen or so, my family and I spent almost a month tooling around Europe. Apart from certain miseries associated with putting six people in a cramped BMW and the fact that my sister Ella had a terrible smell for the whole summer (we later discovered that she'd jammed a piece of sponge...