Portal:Disney
Introduction
synchronized sound to become the first post-produced sound cartoon, and popularized Mickey Mouse, who became Disney's mascot and corporate icon.
After becoming a major success by the early 1940s, Disney diversified into live-action films, television, and
theme parks in the 1950s. However, following Walt Disney's death in 1966, the company's profits, especially in the animation division, began to decline. In 1984, Disney's shareholders voted Michael Eisner as CEO, who led a reversal of the company's decline through a combination of international theme park expansion and the highly successful Disney Renaissance period of animation in the 1990s. In 2005, under new CEO Bob Iger, the company continued to expand into a major entertainment conglomerate with the acquisitions of Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Studios. In 2020, Bob Chapek
became the head of Disney after Iger's retirement. However, Chapek was ousted in 2022 and Iger was reinstated as CEO.
The company is known for its film studio division Walt Disney Studios, which includes Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, 20th Century Animation, and Searchlight Pictures. Disney's other main business units include divisions in television, broadcasting, streaming media, theme park resorts, consumer products, publishing, and international operations. Through these divisions, Disney owns and operates the ABC television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel, ESPN, Freeform, FX, and National Geographic; publishing, merchandising, music, and theater divisions; direct-to-consumer streaming services such as Disney+, Star+, ESPN+, Hulu, and Hotstar; and Disney Experiences, which includes several theme parks, resort hotels, and cruise lines around the world. (Full article...)
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Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. The ride is a simulated excursion through the rigorous testing procedures that General Motors uses to evaluate its concept cars, culminating in a high-speed drive around the exterior of the attraction. The attraction soft-opened to the public on December 19, 1998, after a long delay due to problems revealed during testing and to changes in design. As a result, the attraction officially opened on March 17, 1999. Test Track replaced the World of Motion
ride, which closed three years earlier in 1996.
Originally, guests rode in "test vehicles" in a
Disney theme park
attraction ever built.
Test Track closed for refurbishment on April 15, 2012, and re-opened on December 6, 2012. It is now sponsored by the Chevrolet brand instead of General Motors as a whole. Guests now design their own car in the Chevrolet Design Studio. Then they board a "Sim-Car" and are taken through the "digital" testing ground of the "SimTrack". Throughout the ride, guests see how their designs performed in each test. After the ride, guests can see how their car did overall, film a commercial, race their designs, and have a picture taken with their own virtually designed vehicle with a chosen backdrop in the background.
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The entrance to Disney California Adventure at Anaheim, showing the large letters spelling CALIFORNIA
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These are images of Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Disney Cruise Line, The Walt Disney Company, and Walt Disney in their respective articles.
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An aerial shot of Walt Disney World in 1982 (from Walt Disney World) -
Disney family atSchiphol Airport (1951) (from Walt Disney) -
An aerial view of Disneyland in 2004 (from Disneyland) -
Adventureland
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Roy O. Disney inspecting design plans on-site in Florida (from Walt Disney World) -
Disneyland fireworks from Sleeping Beauty Castle (from Disneyland) -
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The 1996 version of The Walt Disney World logo. (from Walt Disney World) -
Excerpt of Steamboat Willie (1928), the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon. (from The Walt Disney Company) -
Roy E. Disney, Roy O. Disney's son, was head of the animation department until 2003. (from The Walt Disney Company) -
One of Disney's first animated characters Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which Disney lost the rights to until 2006. (from The Walt Disney Company) -
Wedding Pavilion at the Seven Seas Lagoon (from Walt Disney World) -
Walt Disney (left) with his brother Roy O. Disney (right) and then Governor of Florida W. Haydon Burns (center) on November 15, 1965, publicly announcing the creation of Disney World (from Walt Disney World) -
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Michael Eisner replaced Ron Miller as CEO. (from The Walt Disney Company) -
The original animation building at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, which they fully moved into in 1940 (from The Walt Disney Company) -
View of Disney Springs (from Walt Disney World) -
Disney's childhood home (from Walt Disney) -
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Fantasyland
(Peter Pan's Flight in the foreground and the Matterhorn Bobsleds in the background) (from Disneyland) -
The 2018 version of The Walt Disney World logo. (from Walt Disney World) -
Disney security vehicle, picture taken July 2, 2009 in front of Epcot (from Walt Disney World) -
Monorail Red travels over the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage in Tomorrowland. (from Disneyland) -
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Jeffrey Katzenberg was chairman of Walt Disney Studios from 1984 to 1995. (from The Walt Disney Company) -
Disney shows the plans of Disneyland to officials from Orange County in December 1954 (from Walt Disney) -
Disneyland Railroad Engine 2 at the New Orleans Square station. (from Disneyland) -
The Walt Disney World Monorail System provides free transport across the resort. -
Mickey's Toontown
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Walt Disney's business envelope featured a self-portrait, c. 1921. (from Walt Disney) -
Disneyland aerial view, 1963, which includes the new Melody Land Theater at the top of the photo (from Disneyland) -
Main Street at Disneyland, as seen from a horseless carriage (from Disneyland) -
The "Happiest Homecoming on Earth" celebrated the 50th anniversary of the theme park. Sleeping Beauty Castle was altered for the occasion. (from Disneyland) -
Disney's video streaming subscription service Disney+ was launched in 2019, which has a total of over 135 million subscriptions as of June 2022. (from The Walt Disney Company) -
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Walt Disney introduces each of the seven dwarfs in a scene from the original 1937 Snow White theatrical trailer. (from Walt Disney) -
Disney in 1954 (from Walt Disney) -
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Bob Iger became CEO of Disney in 2005, expanding the company's properties (from The Walt Disney Company) -
Fantasmic! finale on July 4, 2010 (from Disneyland) -
Grave of Walt Disney at Forest Lawn, Glendale (from Walt Disney) -
Walt (center) showing the plans of Disneyland to officials from Orange County in December 1954 (from The Walt Disney Company)
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Main Street, U.S.A.
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The original logo of Walt Disney World from 1971 to the mid-1990s (from Walt Disney World) -
Disney's promotional logo for its centennial. (from The Walt Disney Company) -
Map of the resort as of May 2015 (from Walt Disney World) -
Team Disney – The Michael D. Eisner Building, the main building at the Walt Disney Studios, which houses the offices of Disney's CEO and several other senior corporate officials. (from The Walt Disney Company) -
A Disney Cruise Line bus which takes guest to and from Terminal 8 from Orlando International Airport; as well as around Walt Disney World. (from Disney Cruise Line) -
One of four arches welcoming guests to the resort (from Walt Disney World) -
Hollywood Studios' park icon, the Chinese Theatre (from The Walt Disney Company) -
Disney drawing Goofy for a group of girls in Argentina, 1941 (from Walt Disney) -
Walt (right) dressed as a gaucho next to Donald Duck in Argentina while on the company's South American goodwill trip in 1941. (from The Walt Disney Company) -
A portrait of Disney with cartoon representations of different nationalities on a 6 cent U.S. postage stamp, 1968 (from Walt Disney) -
Walt,Florida Governor W. Haydon Burns, and Roy announcing the plans for Disney World in November 1965 (from The Walt Disney Company)
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The Sherman Brothers, who composed many of the Disney songs throughout the 1960s (pictured in 2002) (from The Walt Disney Company) -
Walt Disney (center) showing Orange County officials plans for Disneyland's layout, December 1954 (from Disneyland)
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Overlay of Walt Disney's original 1966 plans for Disney World and the proposed EPCOT city (orange) and contemporary situation (blue) (from Walt Disney World) -
Disney bought The Muppets from the Jim Henson Company in 2004. (from The Walt Disney Company) -
Alice and characters from her movie host "Disneyland Musical Chairs" at Coca-Cola Refreshment Corner, accompanied by a ragtime pianist. (from Disneyland)
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Laugh-O-Gram shorts series beginning in 1922, but a studio bankruptcy would cause Disney to relocate to Los Angeles in 1923. In the new studio, Iwerks continued to work with Disney on the Alice Comedies as well as the creation of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit character. Following the first Oswald short, both Universal Pictures and the Winkler Pictures production company insisted that the Oswald character be redesigned. At the insistence of Disney, Iwerks designed a number of new characters for the studio, including designs that would be used for Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar
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One of Iwerks' most long-lasting contributions to animation was a refined version of a sketch drawn by Disney that would later go on to become
Leon Schlesinger Productions and several Color Rhapsody cartoons for Screen Gems before joining Disney again in 1940, after which he worked with special visual effects on productions such as 1946's Song of the South
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Did you know (auto-generated)
- ... that before Foster City was built on Brewer Island, unsuccessful proposals included a hog farm, two military air bases, two civilian airports, and an entertainment complex larger than Disneyland?
- ... that Scarlett Johansson filed a lawsuit against The Walt Disney Company alleging that the release strategy for Black Widow breached her contract?
- ... that his version of Mickey Mouse?
- ... that the ferry General Joe Potter at Walt Disney World is named in honor of Major General William Everett Potter?
- ... that before the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza Manhattan opened, its workers were sent to Walt Disney World for training?
- ... that Encanto's Mirabel is the first Disney heroine to wear glasses?
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More Did you know...
- ...that producers hope to use Good Luck Charlie "to debunk the myth that Disney never has the mom in the picture"?
- ...that Alan Wagner, the first president of the Disney Channel, was also an opera critic and radio personality?
- ...that Mikey Blumberg's singing was voiced by Robert Goulet, who has starred in Rose-Marie and released more than 15 albums.
- ...that press releases for the Phineas and Ferb episode "Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror" detailed a cut subplot where the character Lawrence Fletcher searches for a rare bottle cap?
- ... that Disney CEO gummi bearcandies one day.
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