If we were formulation on holding a outing to any one of Disney‘s resorts this summer, ready to bombard out a bit some-more for a privilege: Earlier this week, Disney lifted a prices for a accumulation of a thesis parks, with increases trimming from 5% to scarcely 10%.

Disney’s Sleeping Beauty Castle. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Predictably, consumers and media outlets comparison have cried out in protest, wondering how Disney can get divided with such a blatant nickel-and-dime approach.

That raises a doubt for investors: Will this cost travel negatively impact Disney stock?

It’s usually twenty bucks
An adult day-pass to Disneyland or California Adventure, for example, will now cost we 5 bucks some-more during a whopping $92. For children ages 3 to 9, a day-pass also increasing $5 to $86. Disney also implemented identical cost increases for Disney World as good as for a many some-more costly “premier” and annual passports, and even jacked adult a cost of parking passes by $1 to $16.

But let’s be honest here. While this means a standard family of 4 like my possess (with dual kids and dual adults) contingency now flare out another $20 only to travel by a gates during Disneyland, does anyone really believe a singular Andrew Jackson will break a solve to give a kids that experience?

After all, what’s another twenty bucks when many people have already quiescent themselves to a fact they’ll expected be spending hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on their Disney-enabled vacations?

I’m (still) going to Disneyland!
What’s more, Disney has predictably lifted acknowledgment prices annually in a same conform for some-more than a decade, though that didn’t stop Disney batch from hitting an all-time high final month, interjection mostly to clever thesis park attendance, that gathering a 73% year-over-year handling income benefit for a segment.

In addition, as associate dope Rick Munarriz pointed out, Disney is holding a small reduction feverishness this year interjection to a fact that both Comcast‘s Universal Orlando and SeaWorld  only only finished lifting prices for their possess particular Florida parks.

The bigger picture
But while a Universal and SeaWorld parks might really good suffer a identical turn of consumer seductiveness as Disney’s attractions, it’s tough to kick Disney’s extent and altogether intensity from a broader investment standpoint.

SeaWorld, for a part, now trades during a abounding 38 times final year’s earnings. That’s a poignant reward to a cost for possibly Disney batch or Comcast, that trade with many some-more reasonable price-to-earnings ratios of 19.1 and 16.4, respectively. Additionally, while SeaWorld does work 11 U.S. thesis parks, that means it a ability to support merchandising opportunities and a comparatively immature Media Enterprises segment, a freshly IPO’d company positively can’t exaggerate a same widely diversified operations employed by party giants like Disney and Comcast.

To be sure, Disney and Comcast any work their possess huge wire radio network businesses as good — though those segments will continue to face increasingly heated foe as streaming competitors like Netflix and Amazon Prime plan to adult a ante with more of their possess strange programming in a entrance years.

That said, keep in mind that Comcast recently took home a neglected respect of being voted a third-worst consumer-facing company in America, as told by a folks during Consumerist.com.

Disney, on a other hand, has been delighting consumers interjection to a massive library of characters from Disney Studios, Marvel Entertainment, Pixar, and, interjection to a latest acquisition, Lucasfilm. Once Disney is finished during a box office, it can interpret that success to a radio networks and to merchandising with a Consumer Products division, a latter of that grew income final entertain by 35% year over year.

Finally, remember that Disney can also sell a sell during — we guessed it — a mixed thesis parks, a acknowledgment for that those millions on millions of vehement consumers should have no qualms profitable some-more for.

In a end, that’s because we sojourn assured Disney batch should have no problems stability to set new record highs for a foreseeable future.

Epcot’s Sounds Like Summer unison array fires adult again Sunday. The seven-week eventuality facilities reverence bands during a America Gardens Theatre on a World Showcase side of a thesis park.

The Sounds Like Summer lineup is:

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•June 16-22: Hotel California — A Salute to a Eagles

•June 23-29: Mike DelGuidice Big Shot — The Ultimate Billy Joel Tribute Show

•June 30-July 6: Slippery When Wet — The Ultimate Bon Jovi Tribute

•July 7-13: SouthBound and Company — A Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd

•July 14-20: The Police Experience — A Tribute to a Police

•July 21- 27: 2U — A Tribute to U2

Show times are 5:30 p.m., 6:45 p.m. and 8 p.m. daily. The concerts are enclosed in unchanging Epcot admission.

After saying how fast and decisively Skylanders has dominated both kids games and movement figures, it’s no warn that Disney is also relocating in to attract a new era of gamers with a product line that’s forever expansible. The news for currently is a further of The Lone Ranger playset. Featuring both a Lone Ranger and Tonto as playable characters, a new set creates full use of a license. Though a houses of ill-repute competence seem a bit off-putting to parents, a horseplay, trains, and bounce sharpened automechanic seem ideal for a game’s dictated audience.

The pride for a diversion is that all of these total and playsets are toys themselves. This easily sidesteps a smoothness and tinge issues that competence arise from putting Jack Sparrow and Buzz Lightyear in a same room. we acknowledge to being a bit confused about a inclusion of Disney’s PG-13 franchises, quite given a game’s settled 6-12 year aged demographic, though even though bargain a specific Pirates or Lone Ranger franchises, there’s something about a interest of pirates and cowboys that is universal.

Each playset is a self-contained universe that incorporates usually a characters from that sold franchise. So, in a Cars world, you’ll be personification as Lightning McQueen and Mater. In a Monsters world, you’ll be personification as Mike and Sully. Each playset comes with about 6-8 hours of adventure-focused play, though even here, you’re removing a bit of variety. The Cars set, for instance, is apparently really complicated on racing, while a Lone Ranger set is a bit some-more of a sharpened gallery. You can consider of a Incredibles set as a arrange of brawler.

The story elements will offer fans a possibility to see a new partial of a cinema and Disney is operative closely with a series’ creators to enhance a canon. Monsters will follow Sully and Mike by college as they retort opposite Monsters University’s arch rival, Fear Tech. Incredibles explores an swap finale when Syndrome didn’t kidnap Jack-Jack. We haven’t seen The Lone Ranger film yet, though a playset for this authorization facilities a building of a trans-continental railroad.

Outside of a playsets, there’s also a incomparable toybox mode where gamers can use any of a toys and elements they’ve unbarred by play to emanate their possess personification spaces. You can use Buzz Lightyear’s jetpack to burst off of Scrooge McDuck’s residence and dive explosve a train. You can fundamentally lift out anything we wish to build your possess settings and, even cooler, supplement your possess triggers and proof to equipment to emanate your possess games. We’ve seen operative drum coasters, soccer stadiums, tab games, and loads of other totally invented mini-games built wholly by players.

With all that it has going for it, I’ve still got a few questions about Disney Infinity. First, with a properties Disney owns, because Star Wars and Marvel enclosed in a initial launch? Don’t get me wrong; Jack Sparrow and Sully are fine, though they don’t have a lift of Luke Skywalker and Spider-Man. Second, given a starter pack for a diversion includes 3 characters from opposite franchises, there’s no event for mild play in a playsets out of a box. Third, will a 6-12 year aged assembly that’s captivated to a toys welcome a scripting compulsory to make a many of a fondle box?

Regardless, a event to burst into a worlds of a favorite cinema and crush them together is really intriguing and certain to take a cube out of Activision’s insanely widespread Skylanders franchise. We’ll have some-more information on a new diversion when we see it again during E3 subsequent week. Check behind afterwards for some-more information.

Steve Butts is IGN’s editor-in-chief. Keep adult with him @SteveButts on Twitter or SteveButts on IGN.

If we were formulation on holding a outing to any one of Disney‘s (NYSE: DIS  ) resorts this summer, ready to bombard out a bit some-more for a privilege: Earlier this week, Disney lifted a prices for a accumulation of a thesis parks, with increases trimming from 5% to scarcely 10%.

Disney’s Sleeping Beauty Castle. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

Predictably, consumers and media outlets comparison have cried out in protest, wondering how Disney can get divided with such a blatant nickel-and-dime approach.

That raises a doubt for investors: Will this cost travel negatively impact Disney stock?

It’s usually twenty bucks
An adult day-pass to Disneyland or California Adventure, for example, will now cost we 5 bucks some-more during a whopping $92. For children ages 3 to 9, a day-pass also increasing $5 to $86. Disney also implemented identical cost increases for Disney World as good as for a many some-more costly “premier” and annual passports, and even jacked adult a cost of parking passes by $1 to $16.

But let’s be honest here. While this means a standard family of 4 like my possess (with dual kids and dual adults) contingency now flare out another $20 only to travel by a gates during Disneyland, does anyone really believe a singular Andrew Jackson will break a solve to give a kids that experience?

After all, what’s another twenty bucks when many people have already quiescent themselves to a fact they’ll expected be spending hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars on their Disney-enabled vacations?

I’m (still) going to Disneyland!
What’s more, Disney has predictably lifted acknowledgment prices annually in a same conform for some-more than a decade, though that didn’t stop Disney batch from hitting an all-time high final month, interjection mostly to clever thesis park attendance, that gathering a 73% year-over-year handling income benefit for a segment.

In addition, as associate dope Rick Munarriz pointed out, Disney is holding a small reduction feverishness this year interjection to a fact that both Comcast‘s (NASDAQ: CMCSK  ) Universal Orlando and SeaWorld  (NYSE: SEAS  )  only only finished lifting prices for their possess particular Florida parks.

The bigger picture
But while a Universal and SeaWorld parks might really good suffer a identical turn of consumer seductiveness as Disney’s attractions, it’s tough to kick Disney’s extent and altogether intensity from a broader investment standpoint.

SeaWorld, for a part, now trades during a abounding 38 times final year’s earnings. That’s a poignant reward to a cost for possibly Disney batch or Comcast, that trade with many some-more reasonable price-to-earnings ratios of 19.1 and 16.4, respectively. Additionally, while SeaWorld does work 11 U.S. thesis parks, that means it a ability to support merchandising opportunities and a comparatively immature Media Enterprises segment, a freshly IPO’d company positively can’t exaggerate a same widely diversified operations employed by party giants like Disney and Comcast.

To be sure, Disney and Comcast any work their possess huge wire radio network businesses as good — though those segments will continue to face increasingly heated foe as streaming competitors like Netflix and Amazon Prime plan to adult a ante with more of their possess strange programming in a entrance years.

That said, keep in mind that Comcast recently took home a neglected respect of being voted a third-worst consumer-facing company in America, as told by a folks during Consumerist.com.

Disney, on a other hand, has been delighting consumers interjection to a massive library of characters from Disney Studios, Marvel Entertainment, Pixar, and, interjection to a latest acquisition, Lucasfilm. Once Disney is finished during a box office, it can interpret that success to a radio networks and to merchandising with a Consumer Products division, a latter of that grew income final entertain by 35% year over year.

Finally, remember that Disney can also sell a sell during — we guessed it — a mixed thesis parks, a acknowledgment for that those millions on millions of vehement consumers should have no qualms profitable some-more for.

In a end, that’s because we sojourn assured Disney batch should have no problems stability to set new record highs for a foreseeable future.

Leah Zanolla | Posted: Jun 7, 2013 | Updated: Jun 7, 2013 – 10:16:43 PM

SeaWorld Orlando, Discovery Cove and Aquatica are holding a employing eventuality seeking anniversary employees for their parks. They are looking for 200 employees for a bustling summer season. Jobs accessible embody lifeguards, culinary attendants, park peculiarity hosts, game/vending hosts, prep cooks and more. Pay for a jobs will be between $8.15 and $9.50 per hour. Seasonal employees accept advantages such as giveaway entrance to SeaWorld and Aquatica and park tickets for friends and family members.

Prospective employees contingency register online during seaworldjobs.com before a event, that will be hold on Jun 12 from 9:00am – 3:00pm during a park’s Human Resources building. For some-more information, call 407-363-2280.

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A new Magic Kingdom captivate adds some-more swashbuckling to Adventureland.

A Pirate’s Adventure: Treasures of a Seven Seas continues a Walt Disney World trend of scavenger hunts churned with interactive technology. The behind story includes Jack Sparrow, lead impression in Disney’s “Pirates of a Caribbean” movies.

“Adventureland is underneath conflict by a British Royal Navy. They’re entrance to finish all robbery in a Caribbean and Jack Sparrow doesn’t wish that to happen,” says Matt Beiler, an partner writer with Walt Disney Imagineering.

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Guests who attend in Pirate’s Adventure are deliberate recruits to Sparrow’s crew. Step one: Obtain a mission, map and “magic talisman” from a Enlistment Center, a tiny building only outward a Adventureland arch on a Frontierland side.

Sparrow “believes if we collect a treasures of a Seven Seas, we’ll have a energy of a sea itself,” that will expostulate behind a Adventureland interlopers, Beiler says. Sparrow already has dual of a treasures, withdrawal 5 missions accessible for guests/recruits.

Each goal has 4 spots to learn and “each one has a possess tip sorcery dark via Adventureland,” Beiler says.

The whitchcraft — a thin, five-sided paper token — activates special effects when directions are followed correctly.

Beiler walked me by several stops of Pirate’s Adventure this week. Along a way, we dodged blow darts, cannon glow and a accumulation of skulls. We watched ships in bottles do battle. We collected venom from a cobra and indispensable a exhale of a panther to finish missions.

Each idea leads to another clue. Go to a wrong hire and a voice warns “you’ve gotten off course.”

The goal maps are in a bandit character (burned edges, illusory cursive essay on mistake parchment), and their instructions are clear-cut. That’s a and for a lagging bandit such as myself, who has problem anticipating a reserved plcae or where to place a whitchcraft to get things moving. Some clues were well-camouflaged into existent pattern and pattern of a land. I’ve schooled that we can’t be on TV’s “The Amazing Race” unless we get to move an Imagineer along.

Nevertheless, it’s an activity designed to be good for all ages, Beiler says.

“Anyone of any age that wants to be a bandit and have an adventure, this is good for them,” he says.

You can finish off one map and call it a day or go behind for another one regulating a same talisman. Folks who finish all 5 missions — even widespread over mixed days — get an additional special outcome and turn central members of Jack’s crew.

A Pirate’s Adventure joins a ranks of Epcot’s Phineas Ferb: Agent P’s World Showcase Adventure, that has an activator a distance of a cellphone and a view theme, and a Sorcerers of a Magic Kingdom game, that has some-more difficult tales and collectible cards that activate on-screen animations in a thesis park.

Wilderness Explorers, another guest-interaction activity, opened this week during Disney’s Animal Kingdom. It concentrates on bargain animals and Earth in sequence to acquire badges.

But in Adventureland, it’s all about a pirates, including a classical Pirates of a Caribbean float and a mini-makeover supposing during a Pirates League.

“Your whole day could be pirates if we wanted it to be,” Beiler says.

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A Pirate’s Adventure: Treasures of a Seven Seas

Where: Magic Kingdom, off Interstate 4, southwest of Orlando

When: Open daily

Cost: Included in unchanging park admission; a one-day sheet to Magic Kingdom is $95 ($89 for ages 3-9).

Phone: 407-824-4321

Online: DisneyWorld.com

Iger sole 1 million shares of batch on May 14, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The sale netted Iger $37.7 million before taxes. 

Rasulo, also a comparison executive clamp boss during Disney, sole 217,264 shares on May 15, concealment him $9.2 million before taxes.

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“As has been a box with past sales, these batch options were exercised to accommodate investment diversification goals,” a Disney orator said.

Iger exercised batch options during a cost of $29.51 and sole a batch during an normal cost of $67.23. Rasulo exercised options during $20.81 and $29.90, and sole during an normal cost of $67.38. Shares of Disney strike an all-time high of $67.89 on May 16 — within dual days of both executives’ sales. 

The batch strike that new high symbol a small some-more than a week after Disney reported a outrageous burst in net income for a mercantile second quarter. On May 7, a association posted net income of $1.51 billion for a entertain that finished Mar 30, adult 32% from a year earlier. Revenue rose 10% to $10.55 billion.

But Rasulo gradual expectations for a third entertain during a May 30 coming during a Nomura Securities investors discussion when he reiterated comments done progressing in a month during a second-quarter gain calls with analysts. 

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In his remarks, during a question-and-answer session, Rasulo cited film selling expenditures. He remarkable that a cost of promotion for Disney’s arriving reconstitute of “The Lone Ranger” would be incurred during a mercantile third quarter, though a association wouldn’t accept income generated by a Johnny Depp design until a fourth quarter. Disney batch fell 2.4% on a day of a Nomura event, shutting during $64.65.

It has been a remunerative widen for Iger, whose total compensation was $40.2 million final mercantile year. He also sole 1 million shares of Disney in November, concealment him $17.9 million.

Both he and Rasulo keep vast land of Disney stock. Iger binds about 1.18 million shares, while Rasulo has about 144,000 shares, according to SEC filings. Additionally, as partial of their remuneration packages, both executives reason options on a poignant series of shares.

Shares of Disney were adult $1.64, or 2.6%, in late trade Friday, to $64.78. The batch is adult 29% this year.

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A seasoned partner film editor has filed a censure of harassment, gender taste and prejudicial stop opposite Walt Disney Pictures and Muppets movie editor James Thomas. “Defendants retaliated opposite Plaintiff, combined a antagonistic work sourroundings and treated Plaintiff differently given she was an Asian lady over age 40, and consummated Plaintiff’s practice given of her gender, competition and family responsibilities and given she done good faith complaints and opposite Defendants’ wrong conduct,” says a censure (read it here) filed by Cecilia Hyoun’s counsel on Jun 3 in LA Superior Court. “Defendants also secretly claimed that Plaintiff’s position was being eliminated, given in law and in fact a subordinate masculine worker with vastly reduction knowledge than Plaintiff was promoted to her position,” adds a censure of her Jun 1, 2011, exclusion from The Muppets. Hyoun is seeking saving indemnification to be dynamic by a justice in a jury hearing for her mislaid wages, ill pay, and vacation pay. Hyoun started work on The Muppets in a tumble of 2010 and claims she even incited down another pursuit during Paramount given she approaching to be operative on a film until Nov of 2011. Claiming that Thomas done disastrous comments about her race, a postproduction oldster is also seeking punitive indemnification and mental and romantic trouble indemnification as good as seductiveness and authorised costs and “other and serve service as a justice deems only and proper”. The unenlightened 7 explain filing opposite Disney, Thomas and DMP Productions also says that Hyoun previously had brought a emanate to a California Department of Fair Employment and Housing. Hyoun says she perceived a right-to-sue minute from a state group after they investigated a matter. The gifted partner editor records in her censure that she has not landed a full-time gig and gets calls for work distant reduction mostly given being let go from The Muppets several months before she was led to trust her pursuit would end. At a same time, she appears to be underneath no illusions of a consequences of her authorised action. “Like many, many people in a suit design industry, Plaintiff is aroused of being blackballed for station adult to a vital studio over a discriminatory practices,” records a complaint.

The 2011 Muppets film was not indeed a initial time Hyoun had worked with Thomas. The plaintiff was a initial partner editor on 2010’s Hot Tub Time Machine, where Thomas was one of a dual editors. During her 16 years in a industry, Hyoun also has worked as a initial partner editor on a Cameron Crowe-directed Almost Famous and Vanilla Sky as good as on 8 Mile, Charlotte’s Web and other films. Despite that experience, a censure filed this week says that on The Muppets, Thomas perpetuated “severe and pervasive harassment” against Hyoun as good as done “derogatory comments” about other women concerned in a postproduction process. The plaintiff also claims that a editor told a singular mom that she indispensable to select between her career and her family. “On information and faith he did not survey masculine employees this way,” claims a complaint. 

Hyoun is represented by Carol Gillam of LA’s The Gillam Law Firm.

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The Lone Ranger has been announced as a fifth play set for Disney Infinity.

The set allows players to control a Lone Ranger or his reliable sidekick Tonto. It will tie-in with a arriving film starring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, that comes out after this year.

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The set also opens adult some engaging gameplay options, including Ricochet Combat that lets a Lone Ranger and Tonto strike bad guys indirectly, bouncing bullets off steel objects in a environment. Horses will also come with a set, including a Lone Ranger and Tonto’s horses, Silver and Scout. Furthermore, a set will even let players customise their possess train, that plays a large partial in a set.

And of course, all these equipment and facilities can be carried over into Disney Infinity‘s Toy Box, vouchsafing players move a Wild West into a accumulation of settings.

You can find out some-more about Disney Infinity in a video below:

Disney Infinity is out on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, Wii U, and 3DS on Aug 18th in a US and Aug 23th in a UK.

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