Disney Journeys

Disney's Social Media Department Launches Blog

You may know some of the magic-makers

from Social Media

as the leaders of the

WDW Moms Panel.

Now, they've launched a blog!

Congratulations!

Minnie loves the WDW Moms Panel

Cast Member Laura talks about the WDW Moms Panel on the FOX 35 Good Day morning show.

See here to view.

Great job, Laura!!

Fantasyland gets Face Lift

WDW Parks and Resorts Chairman Jay Rasulo announced Saturday at the D23 Expo that Walt Disney World would soon undergo the largest expansion in its history. This will not be a minor renovation. Instead, Fantasyland at the Magic Kingdom will double in size. A Little Mermaid attraction will be added. The new Fantasyland will be unveiled in 2013.

Disney and Free Dining

Take an escape to Mickey's House in Florida. While you are there, dine for FREE!

To price out this yummy offer, contact my friend alexiscastle@enchanteddestinations.net.

She recently booked a December vacation for my sister-in-law and she booked our last trip too.

Buzz Lightyear to Return to Earth

After a year of service at the International Space Station, Buzz Lightyear returns to Earth to undergo several debriefing sessions before enjoying a tickertape parade with another famous astronaut, Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin. 

Congratulations to Buzz Lightyear on your "To Infinity and Beyond" journey!

 

Disney Actress is Youngest UNICEF Ambassador

Selena Gomez, teen star enjoys her travels and first field mission.

Don't forget to tune into the Disney Channel's "Wizards of Waverly Place".

What would you do for a Disney vacation?

Trip to Disneyland ends in arrest for North Korea's heir

By Richard Lloyd Parry in Tokyo

Japanese authorities have arrested the son and grandson of Kim Jong II, the hereditary ruler of North Korea, as they attempted to visit Disneyland in Tokyo.

Japanese Authorities are detaining the son and grandson of Kim Jong Il, the hereditary ruler of North Korea, after the family attempted to visit Disneyland in Tokyo.

Kim Jong Nam was held on Tuesday at Narita airport in Tokyo with his wife and infant son when he tried to enter the country using a fake passport. After insisting that he was from the Dominican Republic, he then admitted his identity and is being held with his family in an immigration detention centre, pending their deportation.

Kim Jong Nam, 29, is the eldest known son of Mr Kim and is regarded as the designated heir to the world's last remaining Stalinist dictatorship. Japan's Kyodo news agency reported that he told police: "I wanted to go to Disneyland."

Yesterday, sources close to his family confirmed the incident and told The Independent that Mr Kim and his family were going to Japan for an incognito holiday, something that they have done many times in the past. His detention in Japan, a country regarded by North Korea as a historic enemy, is humiliating for a regime that has only recently begun to take tentative steps towards opening up.

For Tokyo, it is mortifying a senior member of a hostile government should have managed to penetrate immigration controls so easily in the past.

Mr Kim landed in Japan on Tuesday afternoon on a Japan Airlines flight from Singapore, accompanied by his four-year-old son, his wife and a maid. The group was detained by immigration officers, apparently acting on a tip-off, and found to be carrying forged passports from the Dominican Republic.

The passport bore a false name, but the date of birth, 10 May 1971, was the same as that of Kim Jong Nam.

Very little is known about the family of Kim Jong Il, who had almost no contact with the outside world until his historic summit meeting last summer with the South Korean President, Kim Dae Jung. Kim Jong Nam is believed to be the child of the second in a series of wives and mistresses.

His mother, Sung Hye Rim, was a celebrated actress who lived with Kim Jong Il in the late 1960s when he was still in the shadow of his father, North Korea's founding "Great Leader", Kim Il Sung. The couple separated, and Jong Nam was brought up by an aunt in a secluded palace outside Pyongyang. He attended schools in Moscow and Geneva.

American Idol Kris Allen set to visit Hollywood Studios

Any WDW visitors going to Disney's Hollywood Studios this Friday, May 29?

If so, look for American Idol Kris Allen!



Motorcade at 10:00 a.m.

"I'm going to Disney World"

Kris Allen, American Idol's newly crowned winner has shouted those famous words.

And it's true. Kris will soon arrive the Happiest Place on Earth. Although, I'm sure he felt a good dose of happy last night on the stage of the Nokia Theatre.

Still, there's just something about dreams coming true at Walt Disney World.

In the commercial, Kris sings "When You Wish Upon A Star" which just happens to be my all time favorite Disney song.