Tag: Magic Kingdom

Dozens of alligators captured prior to child’s death at Disney

MIAMI, United States (AFP) – Disney World knew it had an alligator  problem long before one of the beasts killed a toddler at the famous resort last year, official data showed Friday. In the 15 months before an alligator dragged two-year-old Lane Graves underwater on June 14, 2016, 45 of the reptiles were captured on Disney property, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. From the day of the attack until September this year […]

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Disney works its magic on new Shanghai theme park

by Bill SAVADO SHANGHAI, China (AFP) — The Magic Kingdom comes to the Middle Kingdom this week when Disney opens its first theme park in mainland China, betting the growing middle class will spend big on leisure despite a slowing economy. The $5.5 billion resort, which opens Thursday, features the world’s biggest Disney castle, its blue-topped spires rising above land once occupied by farms and small factories on the outskirts of commercial hub Shanghai. Disney […]

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