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A rare cat character from the early days of Disney animation will take a star turn alongside her bunny boyfriend during the upcoming Lunar New Year festival at the Disneyland resort. Ortensia the Cat and Oswald the Rabbit will play starring roles during the Lunar New Year festival running through Feb. 15 at Disney California Adventure. Ortensia and Oswald will make meet-and-greet appearances dressed in Lunar New Year attire in DCA’s Paradise Gardens gazebo — taking turns posing separately for photos and signing autographs during the month-long festival. Ortensia and Oswald are the faces of the......

With Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature angling to take control of it, Disney World’s Reedy Creek Improvement District leaders met this week to discuss the future of Disney property, including the potential building of another major theme park by 2032. The 2032 Comprehensive Plan notes that “there are no plans under review” for the theme park developments, which could use about 850 acres of available space, but thedevelopment regulations nonetheless set a groundwork for land to be used that way. Len Testa, owner ofthe vacation planning website Touring Plans, attended the meeting. He......

An 83-year-old Disney World visitor with an undisclosed pre-existing condition had a “cardiac event” and later died after riding the Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover ride at the Magic Kingdom on Sept. 25, an injury report released by the state Tuesday revealed. The man’s death involving the slow-moving tram attraction is the first reported by a major Florida theme park since May 2021, when a 58-year-old man with an unknown pre-existing condition passed out upon leaving Epcot’s Spaceship Earth attraction and later died at the hospital. Twelve people were injured on Disney and Universa......

ORLANDO, Fla. — Mandy Slaback has been going to Universal Orlando almost every year since she was 10. When the resort shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Janesville, Wisconsin, resident didn’t know when she would be able to visit again, so she decided to bring the parks home. Using her degree in broadcasting and film, Slaback, 24, put her production skills and love for Universal to work by making videos recreating some of the resort’s most popular rides. Her projects created a theme park COVID time capsule viewed hundreds of thousands of times across social media. Her latest video, a m......

ORLANDO, Fla. — A couple wearing what some consider sexually suggestive T-shirts at Disney got social media fans debating weather or not the shirts should be banned at the theme park. Sam Carter, a former Disney Creative Entertainment employee at Disneyland, on Twitter as @Cartarsauce, posted an image of a couple wearing white T-shirts, with the female’s shirt reading “I wanted the D” and the male’s reading “I gave her the D” with the iconic calligraphic D that makes the shirts seem like official Disney garb. Carter’s post reads “D is for Don’t” and people on the social media platform have sin......

If you’re going to Disney World, you will have to mask up. Starting Friday, Disney guests will have to wear masks while indoors and on resort transportation, regardless of vaccination status. Face coverings are optional when outside, and visitors younger than 2 will not be required to wear a mask. The updated guidelines, announced by the theme park Wednesday night, are in alignment with the CDC’s latest recommendations on mask wearing following a nationwide surge in COVID-19 cases due to transmission of the delta variant. On Tuesday, the agency updated its guidance to urge fully vaccinated peo......