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Disney’s Three Caballeros

By Bill I. (NDH#35) | Published: Friday, January 27, 2012

At the end of the 1930s, the Disney Studios fantastic successes with Mickey Mouse and the classic animated Movie, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” began to wane. War clouds were gathering over Europe and the kind of comic relief Mickey and the Silly Symphonies gave the depression-weary country was lost over the impeding fear of a global war. After the war started in September, 1939, the mood was even sourer. In addition, the release of Pinocchio on February 2, 1940 hoped to be as successful as Snow White, was not. The long anticipated “Fantasia” released on November, 13, 1940 was also not an initial success. The Disney Studios also over-expanded in European markets, now closed due to the war.

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Posted in Disney Company | Also tagged Animators Strike, Brazil, Donald Duck, Goodwill tour, Latin America
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AUTHENTIC MEXICAN SOUNDS BY MARIACHI COBRE

By Shalon G. (NDI#167) | Published: Saturday, April 9, 2011

When enjoying a Walt Disney World vacation at Epcot you don’t have to travel far in order to enjoy some authentic Mexican Mariachi music. The group Mariachi Cobre plays daily at the Mexico pavilion which is usually most guests’ first stop when touring World Showcase. This group has been playing in Epcot since it opened in 1982. Mariachi Cobre was formed in 1971 in Tucson, Arizona by Randy Carrillo and first performed at Walt Disney World’s Contemporary Resort and Magic Kingdom in the summer of 1973. Carrillo was also a member of the first youth Mariachi groupin the United States: Mariachi Juvenil Los Chanquitos Feos de Tucson. Over the years the group gained recognition and recorded several albums, eventually being invited to become a permanent musical act in Epcot.

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Posted in Lifestyle, Music | Also tagged Boston Pops, Carlos Santana, EPCOT, Julio Iglesias, Linda Ronstadt, Mariachi Cobre, Walt Disney World, World Showcase
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WALT DISNEY WORLD RAILROAD

By Bill I. (NDH#35) | Published: Saturday, November 13, 2010

When you enter the Magic Kingdom in any of the hallowed Walt Disney parks worldwide, the very first thing you will see is the “Main St. Station,” the starting point for the Walt Disney World Railroad. This beautiful and detailed train is strictly American and is the anchor of Main Street, USA. Nothing quite says “small town America” like a huffing, puffing, whistle-blowing steam train pulling into the station! Here, you can get on and travel back to a time when train travel was more romantic and soul-soothing, and, yes, more civilized than any high-speed metro liner of today. There is something about the chuffing and clanging of that engine and the whistling blowing its mournful cry that cannot be duplicated today in any form of modern travel. But how did Walt Disney decide to use this treasure of transportation nostalgia in his theme parks? For the answer, we must travel back to Walt’s childhood, in Marceline, Missouri, circa 1906.

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Posted in History | Also tagged Anaheim, C.K. Holiday, Carolwood Pacific Railroad, Chicago, Disney Bros., Disneyland, E.P. Ripley, Elias Disney, Ernest S. Marsh, Flora Disney, Fred Gurley, Frontierland, Lillian Disney, Lily Belle, Main Street USA, Marceline, Mickey Mouse, Mickey's Toontown, Mickey's Toontown Fair, Missouri, Ollie Johnston, Roger Broggie, Roy O. Disney, Tomorrowland, train, United Railways of Yucatan, Walt Disney, Walt Disney World Railroad, Ward Kimball
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