* Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, which manages and builds the Disney theme parks and vacation resorts

Disney also won seven Emmy Awards and gave his name to the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the U. S., as well as the international resorts Tokyo Disney Resort, Disneyland Paris, and Hong Kong Disneyland.

There are 33 resorts and hotels located on the Walt Disney World property.

The town itself remains directly connected to the Walt Disney World resorts via one of its primary streets, World Drive, which begins near the Magic Kingdom.

In the various Disney theme park resorts around the world, Pluto is a meetable character just like many of his film co-stars.

Disney's Vero Beach Resort, a part of the Disney Vacation resorts, is located in the area.

Tokyo Disney Resort has three main entertainment sections: Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo DisneySea and Ikspiari, which is a variation of the Downtown Disney shopping, dining and entertainment area found at the Disney resorts in California and Florida.

Like the other Disney resorts, the Tokyo Disney Resort has 3 Disney-branded hotels ; the Disney Ambassador Hotel, the Tokyo DisneySea Hotel MiraCosta ( the building in which the entrance to Tokyo DisneySea is located ), and the recently opened Tokyo Disneyland Hotel.

This style has led to imaginative displays and festivals throughout the Disney resorts and parks, and mosaiculture ( multiple types and styles of plants creating a mosaic, living sculpture ) worldwide includes the impressive display at the 2008 Summer Olympics in China.

Category: Hotels in Disney resorts

Downtown Disney is the name of two outdoor shopping, dining, and entertainment complexes located at two Disney resorts:

One of the largest resorts in the world, the Walt Disney World Resort, was opened in Orlando, Florida in 1971.

Among these are the Canadian Tire money for the Canadian Tire stores and gasbars in Canada, and the Disney dollars, used at Disney resorts.

Downtown Disney is open to the public, requires no admission fee, and offers complimentary parking and transportation to all Disney-operated Walt Disney World resorts.

Pictures of Casey and the pitcher from the Disney animated adaptation are hanging on the walls, and a life-size statue of a baseball player identified as " Casey " stands just outside the restaurant.

These competitions include locals, which are normally taken place in school gymnasiums or local venues, nationals, hosted in big venues all around the U. S. with national champions, and the Cheerleading Worlds, taken place at Disney World in Orlando, Florida.

In the Disney animated film Fantasia, during the Pastoral Symphony, some of the main characters are female centaurs.

Carl Barks and Rosa are some of the few artists who have their name written on the covers of Disney magazines when their stories are published.

In popular fiction, the two are often made as the same, such as in the film Excalibur, as well as the Disney film adaptation of The Sword in the Stone.

There are 7 local television channels, apart from all kinds of international channels ranging from kids channels such as Nickelodeon or Disney Channel to channels such as E !, HBO, etc.

Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck are a trio of fictional, anthropomorphic ducks who appear in animated cartoons and comic books published by the Walt Disney Company.

Disney's archivist Dave Smith, in " Disney A to Z ," said, " Note that the brightest hue of the three is red ( Huey ), the color of water, dew, is blue ( Dewey ), and that leaves Louie, and leaves are green.

While many films are not as obvious as Disney fairy tales in respect to the employment of myth, the plots of many films are largely based on the rough structure of the myth.

He compares Microsoft to Disney, in that both are selling a vision to their customers, who in turn " want to believe " in that vision.

ABC News, for instance, is allegedly under pressure not to air any stories that are overly critical of Disney, its parent company.

* Foreign rights to the 1975 Robert Altman film Nashville, are currently owned by ABC through Walt Disney Pictures but Paramount still owns North American rights ( both Paramount and ABC share copyrights ).

Even as DreamWorks switches distribution of live-action films that are not part of existing franchises to Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Paramount will continue to own the films released before the merger, and the films that Paramount themselves distributed ( including sequel rights ; such films as Little Fockers will be distributed by Paramount and DreamWorks, since it is a sequel to an existing DreamWorks film – in this case, Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers, though Paramount will only own international rights to this title, whereas Universal Studios will handle domestic distribution ).

Both are owned and governed by The Walt Disney Company as per state statutes.

The only landowners are fully owned subsidiaries of Disney, and right-of-way for state and county roads, and the only residents are Disney employees.

Examples of each of these are the National Park Service, the YMCA, the Kiwanis, and Disney World.

In his career Scarpa created many Disney characters that are now accepted by some as part of the Disney Universe.

Popular topical themes are animals, dogs, cats, butterflies, birds, flowers, art, sports, Olympics, maps, Disney, scouting, space, ships, Americana ( topics relating to the US ), stamps on stamps, famous people, chess, Chinese new year, and many others.

These company names are listed on the upper story windows of what is now the Main Street USA section of Walt Disney World:

In the 1951 Disney animated film, Alice in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat is depicted as an intelligent yet mischievous character that sometimes helps Alice and sometimes gets her into trouble, and thus could be classified as a " Disney Villain.

It is located in the Epcot area of Walt Disney World, close to the waterpark Typhoon Lagoon and is classified as a moderately priced resort.

The Victory Garden, that initial ten-page story published in April, 1943 was the first of about 500 stories featuring the Disney ducks Barks would produce for Western Publishing over the next three decades, well into his purported retirement.

Walt Disney, who had previously been in the short cartoon business, stepped into feature films with the first English-speaking animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ; released by RKO Pictures in 1937.

T. H. White's novel was adapted into the Lerner-Loewe stage musical Camelot ( 1960 ) and the Disney animated film The Sword in the Stone ( 1963 ); Camelot, with its focus on the love of Lancelot and Guinevere and the cuckolding of Arthur, was itself made into a film of the same name in 1967.

The Mickey Mouse Club was Walt Disney's second venture into producing a television series, the first being the Walt Disney anthology television series, initially titled Disneyland.

Iwerks was soon lured by Powers into opening his own studio with an exclusive contract, while Stalling would also later leave Disney to join Iwerks.

On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Walt Disney into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.

In addition, the Disney-controlled town of Celebration, Florida, which was built with many of Walt Disney's original ideas, which have evolved into a form of New Urbanism, was deannexed from Bay Lake and the District to keep its residents from having power over Disney by providing for separate administration of the areas.

Celebration hosts many events every year, including community-wide yard sales, an art show, an exotic car festival, an annual Radio Disney Holiday concert, an Oktoberfest Celebration, the " Great American Pie Festival " ( televised on The Food Network ), a " Posh Pooch " festival, and downtown events for the Fall and Christmas seasons when autumn leaves and " snow " ( small-scale soap flakes ) are released into the Town Center.

Scenes from Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends were re-cut, edited, and re-dubbed into comical shorts as part of Disney XD's Marvel Mash-Up shorts for their " Marvel Universe on Disney XD " block of programming that includes Ultimate Spider-Man and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Due to an outcry from Disney fans, Figment was reinstated into the ride.

The Disney movie Aladdin, in particular, featured many short scenes in which the Genie briefly changed into caricatures of many famous people from all across time, including many 20th-century figures and comedians, and quoted their catchphrases for comic effect.

Because Reymond was not a professional screenwriter, Maurice Rapf, who had been writing live-action features at the time, was asked by the Walt Disney Company to work with Reymond and co writer Callum Webb to turn the treatment into a shootable screenplay.

For example, Santa's Little Helper fathering 25 puppies in " Two Dozen and One Greyhounds " is a parody of the Disney film One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and Mr. Burns ' technique of brainwashing him into an attack dog in " Dog of Death " parodies A Clockwork Orange.

At the request of his editor, Collodi added chapters 16 – 36, in which the Fairy with Turquoise Hair ( or " Blue Fairy ", as the Disney version names her ) rescues Pinocchio and eventually transforms him into a real boy, when he acquires a deeper understanding of himself, making the story suitable for children.

She returned for the final arc of the series, a crossover with the Ducktales comic also published by Boom !, where she teamed up with other female Disney villains and exploited black " slime " that could turn normal people evil and villains into stronger forms.

Even the classic fairy tale, a market that Disney had cornered, was appropriated by Avery, who made innocent heroines like Red Riding Hood into sexy jazz babies, more than a match for any Wolf.

The team's original name was chosen from the 1992 Disney movie The Mighty Ducks, based on a group of misfit kids who turn their losing youth hockey team into a winning team.

In addition to the animated series, Goof Troop was adapted into various comic strips, which were printed in several Disney comic books, such as Disney Adventures and Disney's Colossal Comics Collection.

Two decades after his death, his memory was honored with the Disney Legends citation in 2003 and induction into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006.

Disney invested US $ 750 million into Euro Disney and granted a five-year suspension of royalty payments.