After regularly environment new all-time highs so distant in 2013, shares of Disney (NYSE: DIS  ) seem positively unstoppable. In fact, as of this writing, a party giant’s 27% year-to-date lapse stands second in a Dow Jones Industrial Average only to Hewlett-Packard‘s stellar 43% rise.

Owners of Disney batch can mostly appreciate a recover of Iron Man 3 for their many new gains. As associate dope Tim Beyers pointed out, a film already warranted $195.3 million abroad during a opening weekend, violence a already large general opening achieved by The Avengers final summer by about $10 million.

Iron Man 3 screenshot. Source: Marvel.com.

Coupled with a fact that Iron Man 3 was usually expelled yesterday in China and Germany, now in Russia, and opens tomorrow in Canada and a U.S., it’s protected to contend that a early success bodes good for both Disney and a stockholders.

Of course, a House of Mouse has already started building excitement with a recover of a initial trailer for Thor: The Dark World a small over a week ago. While this one positively isn’t approaching to hoard a same volume of courtesy as Iron Man, Thor‘s rudimentary film did conduct to hillside in scarcely $450 million worldwide during a box bureau final time around, including a important $66 million on opening weekend.

Marvel fans can also demeanour brazen to saying some-more of a good ol’ Cap with Disney’s designed recover of Captain America: The Winter Soldier in Apr 2014. And let’s not forget any destiny installments of The Avengers — the second film is reportedly already in growth — or The Incredible Hulk.

The initial 9,000
So how prolonged can Disney keep this up?

According to Marvel, there are no fewer than 9,000 graphic characters in a Marvel universe. That’s not to contend any one of those superheros would be ideal to star in his or her really possess movie, though we can gamble that Marvel Studios has some-more than adequate element to keep us entertained for … good … longer than a lifespan of us unchanging folk.

Image source: Marvel.com.

We can also keep in mind that Disney doesn’t now possess a rights to any impression in a Marvel universe. News Corp. subsidiary 21st Century Fox owns a rights to a X-Men and Fantastic Four, and Sony has proven skilful during milking any unit of a explain to Spiderman — though remember, according to a comic books, both Spiderman and Wolverine should technically be a partial of a Avengers team. As prolonged as those studios finish during slightest one film for any authorization any few years, however, those rights won’t tumble behind into a watchful hands of Disney and Marvel.

Incidentally, that’s accurately how 21st Century Fox mislaid a rights to Daredevil just a few days ago, giving Marvel one some-more apparatus in a belt to use down a road.

So what else do a folks during Disney and Marvel Studios have in store? As it turns out, during final year’s Comic-Con in San Diego, they showed some of a initial exam footage for Ant Man (trust me, it’s cooler than it sounds), and suggested judgment design for their upcoming Guardians of a Galaxy movie, tentatively designed for recover in Aug 2014.

Guardians of a Galaxy judgment artwork. Source: Marvel.com.

Now, before we go rolling your eyes, remember how few people really cared about Iron Man and Thor before decent CGI finally brought them to life on a large screen.

The other 17,000
So where did we come adult with a 26,000 in a headline? Look no serve than Disney’s $4 billion acquisition of Star Wars creator Lucasfilm late final year.

Source: Starwars.com.

As we noted during a time, in further to a 2015 recover of Star Wars Episode VII, Disney also told ecstatic Jedi fans they’re tough during work on dual other character-specific Star Wars cinema for recover after Episode VII. Even some-more considerable than Marvel, however, are a 17,000 particular characters belonging to a Star Wars universe.

The bigger question
Now that we’ve determined that Disney has during slightest 26,000 characters to work with from a Marvel and Lucasfilm acquisitions alone, a bigger doubt remains: How prolonged will audiences continue to eat adult all these properties have to offer?

My answer? Indefinitely.

After all, superheroes, as we know them, have existed during slightest given a 1930s. For instance, Superman — a Time Warner property, mind we — done his initial comic book coming in 1938. While he continues to evolve, a universe is positively still vehement about a man with a blue tights and red cape.

And when graphics record fundamentally creates today’s cinema demeanour ridiculously impractical (have we watched News Corp.’s initial X-Men film from approach behind in 2000 recently?), Disney will happily reboot their Marvel and Lucasfilm franchises to interest to new generations of adoring fans. In a end, when we supplement to a brew Disney’s tenure of Pixar, along with a thesis parks and radio networks, it’s tough to prognosticate a unfolding in that Disney batch fails to outperform a market.

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Disney Interactive is pouring some-more calm into a digital hopper, announcing 10 new online strange array and a stirring app, Story, designed to let relatives share user-generated stories online.

Theme for Mouse House’s Digital Content NewFronts — partial of a weeklong array of presentations to ad buyers in Gotham — was “the art of interactive storytelling.”

Jimmy Pitaro, co-president of Disney Interactive, boasted about a division’s understanding with YouTube, that has generated some-more than 2 billion views to date with viewership adult 263% year over year. He also remarkable that Disney pages on Facebook cumulatively have perceived some-more than 500 million “likes.”

“Our YouTube partnership has generated some of a biggest hits,” Pitaro said. That will grow as Disney continues to supplement some-more “high-quality content.” He called out dual array that have strike large on YouTube: “Talking Friends,” formed on apps of a same name, that has been noticed some-more than 130 million times; and “Swampy’s Underground Adventures,” that has 27 million views.

Series Disney previewed during a NewFronts embody deteriorate 2 of “Swampy’s Underground Adventures,” starring charcterised alligator from renouned Where’s My Water? game.

New kidvid skeins are: “It’s a Small World,” charcterised uncover formed on a famous theme-park ride; “Digitales,” finger-puppet retellings of Disney classical films by kids; and “Blank: A Love Story,” featuring stop-motion versions of Vinylmation collectible toys formed on Disney characters.

Two shows directed during tweens and teenagers are “D’Fied,” weekly uncover highlighting Disney-inspired character and fashions; and “Stunt’d” mockumentary array following indie film organisation as they fire attempt scenes.

Mom-targeted array are: “Celebrity Pet Psychic,” featuring animal whisperer Sonya Fitzpatrick; “Making It Up,” how-to talkshow format hosted by Kerri Kenney-Silver; “That’s Fresh with Helen Cavallo” cooking show; and “Citizen Kid,” profiling kids who are active in their communities.

On song front, Piatro cited Disney’s understanding with Vevo, announced in February, to emanate family-friended song destinations on Vevo and Disney.com. Disney also is prepping new Internet uncover “Unfiltered with Cole Plante,” that follows 16-year-old deejay Cole Plante as he gears adult for Lollapalooza.

Pitaro also pronounced Disney will launch a “fully sponsor-able” games straight on Disney.com after this year.

With a Story app, to be expelled on Apple’s iTunes App Store subsequent week, any member of a family can share video and photos in shareable “stories.” TV ads compelling Disney Story are skedded to start airing subsequent week.

“It’s designed to spin bland moments trapped on a smartphones into pleasing stories,” Pitaro said, adding, “We consider it’s a ideal sponsorship car for families to tell their stories.”

On social, Disney Interactive can move to bear bloggers during Babble Media, that it acquired in late 2011. Pitaro remarkable that Babble bloggers promoted DisneyBaby.com, pushing site trade to 1.5 million visitors reduction than 4 months after launch. Company is looking to launch Babble internationally, as well, with Latin America targeted for this fall.

“We can extend any code summary over bounds of normal advertising… fluctuating to Babble’s bloggers,” Pitaro said.

Event was hold during Times Square’s Edison Ballroom art-deco venue. To tighten it out, Disney brought on one-hit wonders Plain White T’s, that achieved 2006 strike “Hey There Delilah” and dual other lite-rock tunes.

Pitaro riffed on a newfront’s 9 a.m. start: “We wanted to embody Johnny Depp and Robert Downey Jr., though they didn’t like a 5:30 a.m. call time.”

The Walt Disney Company told licensees and vendors to hindrance prolongation in “highest-risk countries” like Bangladesh and Pakistan.

The Walt Disney Company has stopped prolongation of branded sell in Bangladesh, in response to a spate of deadly bureau accidents final fall.

The organisation sent a minute in Mar to vendors and licensees to transition prolongation out of a “highest-risk countries,” like Bangladesh, in sequence to accelerate reserve standards in a supply chain.

Disney will also hindrance prolongation in 4 other countries: Ecuador, Venezuela, Belarus and Pakistan, by Apr 2014.

The preference was done before final week’s harmful fall of a bureau building in Bangladesh that left some-more than 400 people dead. It was stirred by a Nov glow during a Tazreen Fashions Factory in Bangladesh’s collateral Dhaka that killed 112 people, and another glow in Pakistan that killed 262 mantle workers final September.

“After many suspicion and contention we felt this was a many obliged approach to conduct a hurdles compared with a supply chain,” pronounced Bob Chapek, boss of Disney Consumer Products.

Related: Shoppers face tough choices over Bangladesh

While Disney (DIS, Fortune 500) is a initial code to totally hindrance prolongation in Bangladesh after a tragedies, it’s a tiny cube of what a organisation sources. Less than 1% of a factories that Disney sources from are located in Bangladesh. Even reduction are done in a 4 other counties, according to Disney mouthpiece Tasia Filippatos.

The organisation pronounced a preference was formed on a news from a World Bank that assesses how countries are governed, regulating metrics like accountability, crime and violence, among others. The 5 countries from that Disney pulled prolongation had a lowest scores on those measures.

Disney pronounced it will continue to source from some countries, like Haiti and Cambodia, that didn’t get high outlines in a World Bank report, though usually with factories that partner with a Better Work module run by a International Labor Organization and a International Finance Corporation. The organisation works to control health and reserve conditions.

The organisation will cruise needing prolongation in Bangladesh in a destiny if factories determine to partner with a Better Work program, according to Disney’s Filippatos.

Disney isn’t a usually organisation gnawing into movement after a latest tragedy.

Earlier this week, a group of retailers, including HM, Wal-Mart (WMT, Fortune 500) and Gap (GPS, Fortune 500), met with nongovernmental organizations and labor rights advocates in Frankfurt to plead health and reserve issues in a 4,500 mantle factories in Bangladesh.

Related: “Shame on you,” business tell retailers

On Monday, a trade organisation representing stores, a Retail Council of Canada, called an obligatory assembly to plead how to residence a situation. Joe Fresh and Wal-Mart reliable that they were participating in a meeting. The companies haven’t pronounced if they are holding any petrify action.

The British tradesman Primark on Monday pronounced it will recompense victims who worked for a supplier, by providing long-term assist for children who mislaid parents, financial assist for those harmed and payments to families of a deceased. A orator for a organisation pronounced it has also partnered with a internal assist organisation to lot out puncture food to families.

Other companies like J.C. Penney (JCP, Fortune 500), Benetton, and Sears (SHLD, Fortune 500) — all of that source garments from Bangladesh — have validated their support for workman reserve and monitoring conditions in a country.

The corporate reactions come as people are expressing outrage on companies’ Facebook (FB) pages over a operative conditions that retailers are peaceful to endure in sequence to sell garments during cut rate prices.

“Until companies like yours control a operative conditions and compensate decent wages, it will occur again. And again,” Linda Bowser Fallis posted on Joe Fresh’s Facebook page.

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So many of we gave lustful memories and humorous stories about a operation of Disney characters — Mater has a huuuuugee fan bar — though we wanted to share an email from one 26-year-old reader who pronounced she couldn’t select one favorite story or impression since she loves them all.

Instead, she listed all a things she has schooled from her many years examination Disney and a lessons she hopes her 3-year-old daughter will learn as well:

 -Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten. (LILO and Stitch)

  –  Sometimes a right trail is not a easiest one (Pocahontas)

 – The flower that blooms in adversity is a rarest and many pleasing of all. (Mulan)

 – Oh yes, a past can hurt. But a approach we see it, we can possibly run from it or learn from it. (Lion king)

 – When life gets we down, we know what we got to do? Just keep swimming! ( Finding Nemo)

  – Don’t matter what we demeanour like. Don’t matter what we wear. How many rings we got on your finger, we don’t care. Don’t matter where we come from. Don’t even matter what we are. Find out who we are. You got to puncture a small deeper. It unequivocally ain’t that far. When we find out who we are, you’ll find out what we need. Blue skies and fever guaranteed! (Mama Odee)

 -Remember you’re a one who can fill a universe with sunshine. (Snow White)

  – All your dreams can come true- If we have a bravery to pursue them. (Walt Disney)

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One lady attempted to “lean in” in 1938 — though it didn’t work out too good for her, and not by any error of her own.

When Mary V. Ford practical for a animator training propagandize during Walt Disney, she was sensitive that “girls are not considered” for artistic positions:

No Women Need Apply – A Disheartening 1938 Rejection Letter from Disney Animation. twitter.com/Aesthetic_Mag/…

— Aesthetic Magazine(@Aesthetic_Mag) April 30, 2013

Ford’s grandson, Kevin Burg, detected a minute after his grandmother upheld away. Thanks for sharing, Kevin. We’re certain she would have been good during that artistic work.

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Scenes from a renouned ABC uncover Once Upon a Time were filmed in New Fantasyland during Walt Disney World a integrate of weeks ago. Lana Parrilla, a singer who plays a Evil Queen/Regina Mills on a uncover was speckled in front of a Journey of a Little Mermaid attraction, though during a time, we weren’t certain what accurately a filming was for. According to a Orlando Business Journal, a shred will be partial of a part airing May 5 during 8:00pm. Parilla said, “Regina a mayor comes to Fantasyland and believes she’s going to order Fantasyland during some point.”

Disney expelled a behind-the-scenes video display a filming of a segment.

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Theme parks don’t like to recover opening dates until they’re certain a new captivate will be prepared for guest by that time. It would be bad form to do otherwise, really. Missing a pointless deadline looks bad to a public, and unsatisfactory travelers who have formed their hard-earned vacations on a opening of, oh, say, a Seven Mine Dwarfs Train, would be only dopey.

In many instances, we primarily are given a extended thought of when attractions are approaching to be ready, and afterwards it gets narrowed to a specific deteriorate or time duration as work progresses. Construction doesn’t always go as planned, as anyone who’s had a kitchen remodeled will attest.

Last week, during Disney World’s two-day media preview, deceptive openings were tossed around for incoming projects. The dates that follow were possibly mentioned in a open meeting, personal interview, press recover or on a central Disney Parks Blog.

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•Adventurers Outpost, new indoor Mickey-Minnie meet-up, Discovery Island during Disney’s Animal Kingdom: Spring 2013.

•A Pirate’s Adventure: Treasures of a Seven Seas, interactive diversion during Magic Kingdom’s Adventureland: “Coming soon,” says final week’s press release, nonetheless a blog post in Apr says “summer.”

•Wilderness Explorers, interactive diversion during Disney’s Animal Kingdom: “in a few weeks” (as of talk on Apr 26).

•Starbucks during Main Street Bakery in Magic Kingdom: early summer.

•Starbucks during Fountain View in Epcot: midsummer.

•California Grill reopens atop Disney’s Contemporary Resort: late August/early Sep 2013.

•Princess Fairytale Hall, stately meet-and-greet during Magic Kingdom: tumble 2013. (“In copiousness of time for a holidays,” says Walt Disney World President George Kalogridis.)

•Introduction of FastPass+ and MagicBand: “later this year” Kalogridis says.

•Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, drum coaster during Magic Kingdom: open 2014.

•Festival of Fantasy, march during Magic Kingdom: open 2014

I’m always rather vacant when we travel by a Walt Disney World park and see all a children romping in a several stadium areas. we mean, with all a high-tech thrills available, since would anyone spend their time using around a Honey we Shrunk a Audience set during Hollywood Studios?

Now, we don’t have children — as we relatives have already figured out from my ignorant question. In fact, we can hear we shouting during me already. But we recently visited Disney’s Hollywood Studios with a good friend, his mother and their dual immature boys. Let me tell you: That Honey we Shrunk a Audience stadium was a hit: Running and shifting and climbing. we had lost that children have a critical need to bake off energy, and play areas such as this give them a tranquil approach to do usually that.

My friend’s 5-year-old adopted me as his climbing buddy, and after a request that my much-older-than-5-years-old knees wouldn’t rebel, we plunged into a rope-climbing march of moving tunnels. My knees were excellent — all 4 times we did it. My immature crony would cocktail out a exit, spin around, squeeze my palm and lift me right behind to a entrance. Up we’d go again.

It was an journey for a 5-year-old, and he couldn’t get enough.

His comparison brother, during age 9, elite a leisure of exploring solo — there are tunnel-style slides and other points of seductiveness to check out. The area is fun to demeanour during — all is incomparable than life, even blades of grass, as if we humans have been shrunk to bug distance as in Disney’s film series.

Parents, note that there’s usually one exit from a area, monitored by a expel member, so kids can’t “escape” out into a park on their own. In this way, since relatives can keep an eye on a exit, too, they don’t have to run after their kids. My crony and his mother took advantage of a respite, falling down gratefully to a seated position. Me? With my new appreciation for theme-park playgrounds, we was due for outing 5 adult a wire course.

Apparently apropos a Disney princess is a lot easier than faking your possess death, putting a strike out on one of those tertiary Disney princesses that no one will miss—no offense, Jasmine—and hijacking her temperament in a Don Drapean tract twist. This was valid final night by Mariah Carey, who, for a low-key fifth annual wedding-vow renovation to Nick Cannon, rented out a whole Disneyland thesis park and, in a firework- and glass-carriage-punctuated, entirely costumed, and again, low key!, ceremony, crowned herself a Disney princess for a evening—showing fans that they too can foster themselves from mortal to ball-gown-wearing princess in a few easy steps.

Per Entertainment Tonight’s summation of Carey’s new self-coronation/wedding-vow renewal, these easy stairs are:

1. Rent out Disneyland thesis park in Anaheim, California, for a day and night.

2. Invite 250 of your many insinuate friends to your coronation/wedding-vow renovation around invitations that clearly state that a thesis of this eventuality is “Do we trust in angel tales?”

3. Although we are extravagantly wealthy, we are also practical. Use this day of theme-park remoteness to also reason a second-birthday party, prince-and-princess-themed obviously, for your twins.

4. Have princess-inspired round gowns and tiaras specifically done for both we and your daughter.

5. Have prince-inspired uniforms with bullion piping designed for your father and your son.

6. Demand a assemblage of each Disney princess as good as Micky and Minnie Mouse during a festivities.

7. Hire a stately servant from Cinderella, Major Domo, to offer as your master of ceremonies for a dusk and lead your guest in a champagne toast.

8. Decorate with 15,000 flowers alien from South Africa, Holland, and France.

9. Procure 10,000 crystals with that to accoutre a park.

10. Rent or erect a horse-drawn clear carriage to modestly ride we and your family by a park that day and night. This will make your guest presumably feel really gentle and included.

And voilà! With a right planning, budget, and South African flower vendor, angel tales can come true! Good luck! We unequivocally demeanour brazen to Mariah’s sixth annual wedding-vow renovation subsequent year.