Blake Taylor is Senior Writer at Mickey Visit. He has been writing about The Walt Disney Company and the entertainment industry since age 12, when Pixar hosted the world premiere of Cars in Blake’s hometown. Thousands of Blake’s news articles have appeared in Attractions Magazine, /Film, Looper, Explore, Rotoscopers, WDW Radio, The Muppet Mindset, and The Main Street Gazette. Blake is an alumnus of the Disney College Program. Education: Communications at Appalachian State University | Favorite Disney attraction: Fantasmic! at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
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As time passes, Walt Disney Imagineers take stock of longstanding theme park attractions and even entire lands to evaluate opportunities for improvement or, in some cases, whether it’s time to permanently close something. One of […]
Oogie Boogie Bash is returning for the 2026 season at Disney California Adventure. While many of the favorite traditions from years past, including trick-or-treating, remain part of this separately ticketed special event, some of the […]
The connection between Disney and Hallmark goes back to almost the beginning of both companies a century ago. This year, the businesses are partnering once more for a multifaceted campaign that extends to film, merchandise, […]
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For decades, the halls of Walt Disney Imagineering, Disney’s in-house department responsible for designing theme parks and cruise ships, were kept in utmost secrecy. Whenever coffee table books and the occasional Travel Channel television special […]
For as massive a phenomenon as 1994’s The Lion King is to the Disney pantheon, Walt Disney Imagineering has never built a ride based on the movie. That’s all changing with a new attraction under […]
The Walt Disney Company has more new theme park attractions in development and under construction globally right now than at any other time in its history. A significant number of those projects will open at […]
The artists carrying on Walt Disney’s vision for theme park storytelling are responsible for the tricky challenge of maintaining what makes the parks’ most classic rides so great while ensuring those beloved experiences stay relevant […]
Walt Disney World’s classic attractions have been maintained well across generations, ensuring that favorites like Pirates of the Caribbean and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad continue to gain new fans and create more memories in the […]
Disney Cruise Line is in the middle of a massive expansion. When it’s all said and done, Disney will have more than tripled its fleet in less than a decade. Disney revealed a key component […]
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