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Stop Hate 2024 Fundraiser Four Figment prints going out with a little spooky surprise!

Happy Birthday you silly old duck.

Happy Pride! All proceeds from our Pride prints go to support LGBTQIA+ youth this month, and every month!

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“Four Figments” is available now for the Stop Hate 2024 fundraiser at https://parkstop.myshopify.com/products/four-figments-print-by-main-street-art-corner

There’s only 25! Support the Stop Hate auction and snag this Figment of Imagination before he flys away!

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Signed, numbered and ready to start imagining! Sale starts Saturday at https://give.thetrevorproject.org/ParkStop

Meet the latest figment of our imagination! Our new piece, Four Figments, is exclusive to the Stop Hate Fundraiser! Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of this event. 8.5x11” prints will come signed, numbered and limited to only 25 prints!

The world’s most famous “bateau” ride received exactly the kind of action-packed opening it deserved when Pirates of the Caribbean opened on this day in 1967 at Disneyland.

Happy Mother’s Day!

May the Fourth Be With You… Always.

Disney World’s newest resort, Animal Kingdom Lodge, opened on this day in 2001. The six-story resort (designed by renowned architect Peter Dominick) features deluxe facilities and luxury suites with the feel of a South African game reserve lodge. Amidst a 33-acre wildlife preserve, guests can gaze on any of more than 30 species of wildlife on display from the comfort of their balconies! The savannas are
special areas built specifically for the lodge and are separate from the nearby theme park.

Disneyland Paris announces Walt Disney Studios Park is being renamed Disney Adventure World. Well, it’s a choice.

Yamabuki restaurant, a hidden gem inside Disneyland’s Paradise Pier Hotel, closed on this day in 2009. The upscale Japanese eatery originally opened in 1996.

Seize the day! Disney’s live-action feature film musical Newsies was released in theaters on this day in 1992. Directed by choreographer Kenny Ortega (his directorial debut), the film stars Christian Bale, David Moscow, and Bill Pullman with appearances by Robert Duvall, Ann-Margret and Max Casella.

Youngsters from 25 nations participated in a special dedication ceremony for the Snow White Wishing Well at Disneyland with Walt Disney and members of Variety Clubs International on this day in 1961. Coins tossed into the well initially went to charities supported by the organization.

Expedition Everest opened at Disney’s Animal Kingdom on this day in 2006. Were you lucky enough to see the yeti before he got rigor morris?

The Crane Bathroom of Tomorrow opened in Tomorrowland at Disneyland on this day in 1956.

Aladdin’s Royal Caravan debuted at Disneyland on this day in 1993.

FIRST LOOK: Disney has revealed the attraction poster for Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, which is set to open at Magic Kingdom this summer.

Pioneer Hall, part of Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground at Walt Disney World, opened on this day in 1974. Built with 1,283 hand-fitted pine logs from Montana and 70 tons of stone from North Carolina, Pioneer Hall stands two stories high and was modeled after buildings from the late 1800s. It would become the home of the Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical R***e three months later.

Happy Easter! Miss this!

The very first Disney Store opened in the Glendale Galleria in Glendale, California on this day in 1987. It was Disney’s first retail store outside of a theme park or resort.

A Super Hooper Duper took place at with 1,527 hula-hoopers setting a new Guinness Record as part of the “Blast to the Past” event on this day in 1988!

The Country Bear Jamboree opened in Bear Country at Disneyland on this day in 1972. Sponsored first by Pepsi Cola, it is the second version of the attraction as the first opened in WDW in October 1971. The new Bear Country also debuted the Mile Long Bar, a western-themed eatery, Teddi Barra’s Swingin’ Arcade, and Ursus H. Bear’s Wilderness Outpost.

On this day in 1969 at , 101 privately-owned Volkswagen Beetles paraded down Main Street to celebrate Herbie Day to promote . The cars were judged in the categories of most psychedelic, toy-like, comical and best personality. Morton and Barbara Allen of Studio City, California, won the grand prize – a brand-new 1969 Volkswagen Beetle, presented by The Love Bug stars and .

The , shops along the shores of Lake Buena Vista at , opened on this day in 1975. It provided the first non-park shopping and was promoted as a “restful shopping atmosphere similar to a New England seaside village.”

On this day in 1955, a ground breaking ceremony took place at 11:15 a.m. in Anaheim, California for the Disneyland Hotel. Among the guests in attendance were Roy Disney (Walt’s brother), C. V. Wood (Disneyland’s vice-president & general manager), Anaheim’s Mayor Charles Pearson, and members of the Wrather family (owners of the Disneyland Hotel).

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from King Brian, Darby O’Gill and Walt Disney!

Thank you for leading the charge for women everywhere.

With the stillness of the night
there comes a time to understand
to reach out and touch tomorrow
take the future in our hand.

We can see a new horizon
built on all that we have done
and our dreams begin another
thousand circles ‘round the sun.