Last week brought a major change to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland, with Han Solo, Leia Organa and Darth Vader joining Luke Skywalker, Chewbacca and R2-D2 in the Black Spire Outpost.

The Disneyland Monorail reopens this Friday, May 1. MousePlanet file photo. The Disneyland Monorail has been closed for the entire month of April for refurbishment, but the Disneyland website now ...

Disney has announced the lineup of honorees for the 2026 Disney Legends ceremony, taking place August 16, 2026 in Anaheim. Welcome to the new home (and new look) of MousePlanet! We’re currently ...

“it’s a small world” is decorated for Independence Day. MousePlanet file photo. On Veteran’s Day the Disneyland Resort released details of their 2026 Military Ticket discounts. These tickets go on ...

On June 16, 1955, about one month before the opening of Disneyland, the Disney Studios released my second favorite Disney animated feature, Lady and the Tramp (my first favorite is Dumbo, from 1941).

In early September, PBS decided to rerun its four-hour American Experience documentary on Walt Disney that garnered good ratings and sold well as a DVD. When it first ran on PBS in 2015, Disney Legend ...

At the dedication of the Magic Kingdom on October 25, 1971, Roy O. Disney, the 78-year-old brother of the fabled Walt Disney who had died nearly five years earlier, stood stiffly by the flagpole in ...

Michael Eisner, former chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, coined the term “Entertainment Architecture” to define the concept that he wanted the architecture outside the boundaries of the ...

What do Howdy Doody, the monster from the ID in Forbidden Planet (1956), and Chip and Dale have to do with racial insensitivity in the Disney animated feature Fantasia (1940)? Well, it turns out the ...

Noted historian and author Didier Ghez has finished his monograph about The Origins of the True-Life Adventures the first volume of a five-part series about Disney's wildlife documentaries. Didier's ...

I recently wrote a book called Disney Never Lands: Things Disney Never Made that details theme parks, lands in the parks, television shows and animated films that Disney announced but never made. As ...

As Disney has recently reminded all of us, we are halfway to Halloween and, of course, we have no idea what Mickey's Not-So-Scary and other similar events might look like in the new theme park ...