For years, Disney fans watched as brick-and-mortar Disney Stores slowly disappeared across the United States. Shopping malls began losing major retail chains. Big-name stores shut their doors. Entire shopping centers started feeling emptier than ever as online shopping completely changed the retail landscape. That is why what just happened in Pennsylvania feels so surprising. Credit: Mike Kalasnik, Flickr At a ...

There are figures in American business and entertainment whose influence is difficult to fully assess while they are still actively shaping the institutions they built, and Bob Iger is one of them. The former Disney CEO spent the better part of two decades transforming The Walt Disney Company into something qualitatively different from the company he inherited when he succeeded ...

A California man has been sentenced to prison following a massive bomb threat made to The Walt Disney Company. Related: Bomb Threats Close Down Major California Theme Park as Police Race Against the Clock Disney Fans Know the Magic Has Always Depended on Trust For generations, The Walt Disney Company has existed in a strange emotional space. To millions of ...

The Walt Disney Company has been named in a class action lawsuit filed in California federal court, and the subject matter sits at the intersection of theme park technology and personal privacy, a combination that is likely to generate significant attention from the millions of guests who visit Disneyland Resort every year. The lawsuit challenges Disney’s use of facial recognition ...

D23 is the kind of event that Disney fans plan around for years. It is not a casual purchase or a spontaneous decision to buy a ticket and figure out the logistics later. The biennial convention that transforms Anaheim into the center of the Disney universe for a weekend in August draws the most dedicated segment of the Disney fan ...

The rest of Disney’s 2026 movie slate is going to be huge, and you can feel the momentum building already. The studio isn’t just lining up a couple of releases and hoping for the best. It’s preparing a full-on theatrical push that could take over the entire year. One by one, new titles are being revealed, and when you step ...

Walt Disney World is a place built on the idea that everything runs seamlessly, that every ride launches on cue, every light hits its mark, and every experience feels effortless to the people paying to enjoy it. What most guests never think about is the army of people behind the scenes making all of that happen, and right now, Disney ...

Disneyland Park is about to feel a little more like stepping straight into the original Star Wars trilogy—and longtime fans are going to notice the difference almost immediately. Credit: Disney For years, Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge has leaned heavily into the sequel-era timeline. That meant characters like Rey and Kylo Ren defined the experience, while classic icons were mostly left ...

There is a version of corporate sustainability that lives entirely in press releases. Lofty pledges, distant deadlines, glossy renderings of solar panels on rooftops nobody ever sees. Disney, for all of its scale and spectacle, has been doing something a little different lately. Quietly, and with a level of detail that tends to get lost in the Earth Month noise, ...

There is a tradition at Disney’s theme parks that most guests walk past every single day without fully understanding what they are looking at. The windows lining the upper facades of Main Street, U.S.A., at Magic Kingdom are not decorative details meant to make the street feel more like a turn-of-the-century American town. They are a roll call of the ...