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- Scott & Leslie's (714)-538-6893 (Orange, CA)
- Seaside Art (919)-441-5418 (Nags Head, NC)
- Silver Stone (310)-598-7600 (Long Beach, CA)
- Gallery
- Stabur Corp. (800)-346-8940, (313)-425-7940 (Livonia, MI)
- Stay Tooned Gallery (708)-382-2357 (Barrington, IL), (708)-234-3231
- (Lake Forest, IL)
- Sweatbox Art (408)-225-9698 (San Jose, CA)
- Toys To Go (215)-649-2555, (215)-649-8444 (Ardmore, PA)
- Vintage Animation (213)-393-8666 (Santa Monica, CA)
- Gallery
-
- Cels are also sold at the Disney theme parks. Serigraphs and cels are
- sold at the Disney Stores (see question #14). The Disney Store was selling
- a line of production cels with reproduced backgrounds from The Little
- Mermaid.
-
- 6) To what degree are computers being used in Disney animated films today?
-
- There seems to be a lot of confusion on this issue, partly because
- Disney seems to be trying to remain at least a little secretive about the
- exact processes they use. But here's some information obtained and
- consolidated from various sources, including the periodical Computer
- Graphics World and some reference books on Disney animation and computer
- graphics.
- Much of the computer graphics work is done by the artists at Disney's
- Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) department in Glendale, CA. There were 14
- animators and software engineers there for the production of Beauty and the
- Beast (they're listed in the credits).
- Computers are used for several different purposes in Disney animation.
- One purpose is to process the colorization of the "cels" (I put that in
- quotes because while there still are pre-production cels, they don't look
- like the final product- more on this in a moment). Another purpose for
- computers is for the generation of backgrounds. A third purpose is for the
- generation of certain types of animated objects. A fourth purpose is for
- simple modeling. There are probably others.
- The colorization and compositing of the characters is the most notable
- use, as it represents the biggest change in the state of the art of Disney
- animation. In the past, the animators would draw an image on the cel, and
- pass the cel on to be carefully colored by hand. (Note that after Sleeping
- Beauty, however, Disney animators drew on paper, frame by frame, and had
- their drawings transferred to cels via a xerography process to be
- individually colored.) Note that, in general, consecutive cels would use
- the same colors (i.e. although a particular character wouldn't always be
- the same color during the entire film depending on light and shadow, or
- other Disney magic, the next frame of animation is often times very similar
- to the frame before it). This represented a lot of redundancy.
- With modern computer graphics, this process can be eliminated,
- speeding up the rate of output significantly. The title for the new system
- is CAPS, which stands for "Computer Animation Production System."
- Animators' drawings are transferred directly to a computer, where the
- computer colors the image based on color models. This is not an automatic
- process, but a given palette can be repeatedly applied by the computer
- artist far more quickly than an artist can color a bunch of cels by hand.
- The last scene from The Little Mermaid (Ariel and Eric kissing) used the
- process. Most, if not all, of The Rescuers Down Under, and all of Beauty
- and the Beast used the process. This is *not* to say there is no coloring
- of cels; models are needed for the computer. In addition, there is still
- quite a bit of cleanup work done by hand (though most of the final cleanup
- in done on computer).
- There are other advantages of the process as well. Since the images
- are effectively digitized in a computer, they can be manipulated and merged
- at will. The impressive multiplane (3D) effect at the opening of Beauty
- and the Beast, where the camera travels through a forest past an animated
- waterfall took advantage of the CAPS process; in the past, a multiplane
- effect would be difficult at best. For example, the final scene in the
- "Ave Maria" sequence from Fantasia, involved building a horizontal camera
- crane, moving the camera along a track "through" panes of glass on which
- the images of the forest, cathedral, and sunburst at the end, with the
- panes of glass being yanked out of the way when they became out of focus.
- Since then, multiplane techniques have improved, but none of these is as
- easy as simply using a computer to move and blur images in pseudo-3D space.
- Other advantages of CAPS include: the ability to easily blur images that
- are "out of focus" relative to the camera position, to blend (e.g. the
- blush on Belle's cheeks) and to intricately shade the characters (e.g.
- Belle and the Beast dancing in the ballroom- you were watching them, not
- the spinning background, right? :-) ); and to combine images of different
- sizes seamlessly (i.e. you can draw the image at any size and
- enlarge/shrink to fit as necessary).
- Other miscellaneous benefits include access to a wider range of
- colors (if you've used any 24-bit color computer paint/DTP program on a
- Mac or PC, you can see how this works- you get 16.7 million exact colors
- versus whatever number you can come up with just mixing paint), and the
- coloring of the lines that border the characters (note the black lines
- that border the characters in films after Sleeping Beauty- a Xerox process
- was used that introduced this- it was something that annoyed Walt Disney
- when it was introduced, but it helped speed up the production rate).
- Another significant use of computers is the generation of backgrounds.
- Although 99% of the backgrounds are painted (and colored) by hand (and then
- entered into the CAPS system), there are some notable exceptions. (Note
- that for a background, it's not necessarily better to color by computer
- since an artist can paint with a brush just as well, if not better, and
- there isn't a lot of redundancy since the same background is repeatedly
- used; incidentally, there were 1300 background created by 14 artists for
- Beauty and the Beast.) The most notable exception to date is probably the
- ballroom in Beauty and the Beast. The spinning ballroom sequence was first
- choreographed using Wavefront Technologies software on an SGI machine, then
- modeled in 3D using the Alias software and finally rendered frame by frame
- using the Renderman software (probably using some form of distributed
- processing, or at least rendering different images on different computers).
- The animators' drawings of Belle and the Beast were then merged normally
- using CAPS. In addition, a computer-rendered table was used in the "Be Our
- Guest" sequence (the scene where Mrs. Potts is singing, with little tea-
- cups circling her). The staircase that Ariel runs down before first seeing
- Eric with Vanessa in The Little Mermaid also was generated via computer.
- Yet another use of computers is for certain types of 3D objects. The
- modeling and rendering process is similar to that of the Beauty and the
- Beast ballroom. Some examples include: the gears in The Great Mouse
- Detective during the chase scene at the climax; the carriage in The Little
- Mermaid, external views of the villain's vehicle, and the Sydney opera
- house in The Rescuers Down Under; the dancing forks on the cake chandeliers
- in the "Be Our Guest" sequence in Beauty and the Beast.
- A final, minor use of computers, would be for simple modeling. For
- example, the ship at the beginning of The Little Mermaid was wireframe
- modeled on computers, but was drawn by hand. I'm sure the Disney artists
- have found other ways to use computers to assist them, much in the same way
- they might use clay models to visualize various objects, such as the
- characters themselves.
- (I'd be interested in hearing about other uses, by the way. In fact,
- if there's a Disney artist out there reading this who has anything to add
- to this description in general... :-) )
-
- 6b) Since computers are being used quite a bit in Disney films now, does
- that mean there are no "genuine" cels from the movies?
-
- Unfortunately, the answer is no, there are no more original, hand-
- painted production cels that were used directly for on-screen images in any
- Disney animated feature film after The Little Mermaid. Hand-inked cels are
- created as color models during the production process, and hand-inked cels
- will probably be created for the purpose of auctioning backgrounds (note:
- if you look closely through the Sotheby's catalogue for the recent Mermaid
- auction, it is advertised as a background auction, not a cel auction). For
- the Sotheby's auction for Beauty and the Beast, Disney auctioned genuine
- backgrounds with one-of-a-kind cels created by hand by Disney artists based
- on the directing animator's drawings. See also question #4 for a
- discussion of cel types.
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- From: tanida@forseti.css.gov (Tom Tanida)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney,news.answers
- Subject: rec.arts.disney FAQ, part 1b
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-
- 7) I heard that Walt Disney is "cryopreserved"/"in cryogenic suspension."
- Is this true?
-
- No, this is an "urban legend," although a joke goes "Yes- he's in
- suspended animation" :-). Walt Disney died at 9:35 am on December 15,
- 1966, of lung cancer. He was cremated (quite the opposite of being frozen,
- ironically) and is buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, CA.
- His parents are buried there as well.
- This rumor did not come about completely out of the blue, however.
- Some of the reasons this rumor started were: there was a significant time
- period between the time of Walt Disney's death and the public announcement
- of his death; Walt himself is said to have shown an interest in cryogenics
- in his final years (ref. the book Disney's World, see "Books" in question
- #99, below); and even his animators have been quoted to say that it's an
- interesting thought that Walt might someday return to "set things straight"
- in the company.
-
- 8) Who did the voice of {Ariel, Belle, my favorite Disney character}?
-
- I can't include the voice of *every* Disney character here, but here
- is a comprehensive list of the most popular characters. One good
- reference to the Disney movies is The Disney Studio Story, by Richard
- Holliss and Brian Sibley, Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, NY, 1988, ISBN
- #0-517-57078-5. (See also "Books", in question #99, below). If you're
- looking for the voice of a more obscure character, just post. You can also
- ask me (tanida@esosun.css.gov); I *might* be able to find out if it's not
- *too* obscure. :-)
-
- This list is in approximate chronological order (by appearance).
-
- Mickey Mouse: Walt Disney himself did the voices of both Mickey and Minnie
- in the early cartoons, including "Steamboat Willie."
- (Incidentally, "Plane Crazy" was Mickey's first cartoon,
- "Steamboat Willie" was the first cartoon with sound.) He is
- currently voiced by Wayne Allwine.
- Minnie Mouse: Currently voiced by Russi Taylor.
- Donald Duck: Initially voiced by Clarence Nash. First appeared in "The
- Wise Little Hen." Nash also voiced Donald in Mickey's Christmas
- Carol (1983). He is currently voiced by Tony Anselmo, as Nash
- later passed away in the late '80s.
- Goofy: Originally voiced by Pinto Colvig. He currently voiced by Bill
- Farmer.
- Chip and Dale: (?)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Snow White: Adriana Caselotti; Prince:
- Harry Stockwell; Wicked Stepmother: Lucille La Verne; Grumpy:
- Pinto Colvig
- Pinocchio - Pinocchio: Dickie Jones; Jiminy Cricket: Cliff Edwards
- Dumbo - Timothy: Edward Brophy; Stork: Sterling Holloway; Jim Crow: Cliff
- Edwards
- Bambi - Thumper: Peter Behn; Bambi's Mother: Paula Winslowe; Flower:
- Sterling Holloway
- Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros - Joe Carioca: Jose Oliveira
- Make Mine Music - Willie the Whale: Nelson Eddy
- Song of the South - Brer Rabbit: Johnny Lee; Brer Bear: Nicodemus Stewart;
- Uncle Remus/Brer Fox: James Baskett. The boy (Johnny) was played
- by a young Bobby Driscoll.
- Fun and Fancy Free - ("Mickey and the Beanstalk")- Giant: Billy Gilbert
- The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad - Ichabod was narrated and sung by
- Bing Crosby. Toad: Eric Blore; Cyril (the horse): Pat O'Malley
- Cinderella - Cinderella: Ilene Woods; Prince Charming: Mike Douglas (the TV
- personality/talk show host); Stepmother: Eleanor Audley; Fairy
- Godmother: Verna Felton.
- Alice in Wonderland - Alice: Kathryn Beaumont; White Rabbit: Bill Thompson;
- Cheshire Cat: Sterling Holloway; Queen of Hearts: Verna Felton
- Lambert, the Sheepish Lion (short)- Narrated by Sterling Holloway (Dumbo,
- Alice In Wonderland, Jungle Book).
- Peter Pan - Peter: Bobby Driscoll; Wendy: Kathryn Beaumont; Captain
- Hook/Wendy's Father: Hans Conried; Mr. Smee: Bill Thompson
- Lady and the Tramp - Lady: Barbara Luddy; Tramp: Larry Roberts;
- Peg/Darling/Siamese Cats: Peggy Lee
- Sleeping Beauty - Aurora: Mary Costa; Phillip: Bill Shirley; Maleficent:
- Eleanor Audley
- 101 Dalmatians - Cruella DeVille: Betty Lou Gerson; Pongo: Rod Taylor;
- Perdita: Cate Bauer; Roger: Ben Wright; Colonel: J.Pat O'Malley
- The Sword in the Stone -Wart: Ricky Sorenson; Archimedes: Junius Matthews;
- Merlin: Karl Swenson; Madame Mim: Martha Wentworth
- Winnie the Pooh: Initially voiced by Sterling Holloway (who you'll see pop
- up quite a bit in this list of Disney voices). The first two
- Pooh stories (Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree and Winnie the
- Pooh and the Blustery Day) were narrated by Sebastian Cabot (The
- Jungle Book). Other voices: Christopher Robin: Jon Walmsley;
- Tigger: Paul Winchell
- The Jungle Book - Mowgli: Bruce Reitherman (son of the director, Wolfgang);
- Baloo: Phil Harris; Bagheera: Sebastian Cabot; Kaa: Sterling
- Holloway; Shere Khan: George Sanders; Colonel Hathi: J. Pat
- O'Malley
- The Aristocats - Duchess: Eva Gabor; Thomas O'Malley: Phil Harris;
- Roquefort (mouse): Sterling Holloway: Scat Cat: Scatman Crothers;
- title song sung by Maurice Chevalier
- Robin Hood - Robin: Brian Bedford; Little John: Phil Harris (The Jungle
- Book, The Aristocats); Prince John: Peter Ustinov; Sir Hiss:
- Terry Thomas; Allan-a-Dale (rooster): Roger Miller; Maid Marian:
- Monica Evans: Sheriff: Pat Buttram; Friar Tuck: Andy Devine; Lady
- Kluck: Carole Shelley
- The Rescuers - Bernard: Bob Newhart; Bianca: Eva Gabor; Madame Medusa:
- Geraldine Page; Penny: Michelle Stacy; Mr. Snoops: Joe Flynn;
- Orville: Jim Jordan
- The Fox and the Hound -Tod: Mickey Rooney; Copper: Kurt Russell; Big Mama
- (owl): Pearl Bailey
- The Black Cauldron - Voices included: John Hurt; Freddie Jones; Nigel
- Hawthorne
- The Great Mouse Detective - Basil: Barrie Ingham; Dr. Dawson: Val Bettin;
- Ratigan: Vincent Price
- Oliver and Company - Dodger: Billy Joel; Tito (Chihuahua): Cheech Marin;
- Georgette (poodle): Bette Midler
- The Little Mermaid - Ariel: Jodi Benson; Sebastian: Samuel E. Wright;
- Ursula: Pat Carroll; Eric: Christopher Barnes; Scuttle: Buddy
- Hackett
- The Rescuers Down Under - Bernard: Bob Newhart; Bianca: Eva Gabor; McLeach:
- (the) George C. Scott; Wilbur: John Candy; Jake: Tristan Rogers;
- Cody: Adam Ryen
- Beauty and the Beast - Belle: Paige O'Hara; Beast: Robby Benson; Mrs.
- Potts: Angela Lansbury; Luminere: Jerry Orbach; Cogsworth: David
- Ogden Stiers; Gaston: Richard White; Lefou: Jesse Corti; Maurice:
- Rex Everhardt; Chip: Bradley Pierce; Wardrobe: JoAnne Worley
- Aladdin and the Magic Lamp - Aladdin: (speaking) Scott Winger, (singing)
- Brad Kane; Genie/Trader: Robin Williams; Trader (singing): Bruce
- Adler; Princess Jasmine: (speaking) Linda Larkin, (singing) Lea
- Salonga; Abu, the monkey: Frank Welker; Jafar: Jonathan Freeman;
- Iago: Gilbert Godfrey; Sultan: Douglas Seal
-
- Other voices:
- Darkwing Duck- Jim Cummings
- Gosalyn (Darkwing Duck)- Christine Cavanaugh
- Winnie the Pooh, Tigger (New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh)- Jim Cummings
- Uncle Scrooge (Mickey's Christmas Carol, DuckTales): Alan Young
- Roger Rabbit: Charles Fleischer
-
- Theme parks:
- Sam the Eagle (from "America Sings"): Burl Ives
- Robot-Pilot from "Star Tours": Paul Reubens ("Pee-Wee Herman")
- Ghost Host ("Haunted Mansion"), narrator from "Adventure Through Inner
- Space": Paul Frees
- Singing Statue in Haunted Mansion Graveyard (among others at Disneyland):
- Thurl Ravenscroft
-
- 9) How do I get a job working for Disney?
-
- Of course, the answer to this depends on what you want to do.
- All Disney employees go through a training program which introduces
- them to the Disney philosophy and some of the history of the company.
- If you're looking for a summer job at Walt Disney World, consult with
- "Central Casting," located near the Disney Village, where you can get an
- application. Or you can write to "Professional Staffing", c/o WDW, at the
- address in question #99 below. At Disneyland, go to the customer relations
- desk near the fire station on Main Street. If you do get a summer job,
- you'll probably be making minimum wage (and shaving regularly, since facial
- hair is not allowed if you're in the public eye- although animators at WDW
- seem to be an exception).
- To get a job at the Disney Store, simply request a job application,
- preferably from the store manager. They aren't always hiring, but like
- most retailers, will hire more employees for the Christmas Season. When a
- new Disney Store is opened, a "Casting Call" advertisement is placed in the
- local paper, and they will interview 300-400 people for 20-25 positions.
- When a position becomes available, the hiring ratio is 15-20 interviews for
- one Cast Member. For more information on what's it's like to work at the
- Disney Store, see question #16, below.
- If you're interested in animation, you need to be talented and lucky.
- It helps if you attended the California Institute of the Arts ("CalArts"),
- which Walt Disney helped found, and currently has 900 students and five
- schools (art, dance, music, film video, theater). I suspect Disney
- currently helps to fund CalArts. If you didn't attend CalArts, some other
- prestigious school of art with some animation training will probably do
- (some of the animators were hired out of the University of California at
- Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, and the Art Center at
- Pasadena). If you do get a job as an animator, you'll probably start out
- by working on "tweening" (i.e. drawing cels that lie in sequence between
- the cels produced by the primary animators), so you won't have a lot of
- creative freedom, and you'll probably be quite busy (i.e. working longer
- than 8 hour days on a regular basis). Show promise, get noticed, and the
- sky's the limit. At the very least, you get your name in the credits. :-)
- An address to try writing to regarding employment opportunities with
- the studios would be:
- Walt Disney Studios
- 1400 Flower Street
- Glendale, CA 91221
-
- 10) Is Goofy a dog, a horse, or what?
-
- Goofy is a dog. He originally started life as "Dippy Dawg" early in
- the history of the Disney studios, in both comic strips and short films,
- but evolved into "Goofy" by 1934. He first appeared in film in 1932 (as
- Dippy Dawg) in Mickey's Revue.
- This begs the question "well, if Pluto is a dog too, then why don't
- they act the same (e.g. why does Pluto not talk, why doesn't Goofy walk on
- all fours, etc.)?" My answer to that is because that's the way Walt wanted
- it. :-) Pluto is more of a pet to Mickey; Goofy is simply more
- individualistic and anthropomorphised. In addition, they're both different
- breeds of dog. :-) (I won't even get into the thread about how Goofy dated
- Clarabelle Cow.)
-
- 11) How can I get the song lyrics to {The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the
- Beast, etc}?
-
- Some of the lyrics to The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast are
- available via anonymous FTP at garfield.catt.ncsu.edu. If you can't FTP,
- send me e-mail (tanida@esosun.css.gov) and I can mail them to you.
- Otherwise, you can order the sheet music from the Hal Leonard
- Publishing Corporation, 7777 West Bluemound Road, P.O. Box 13819,
- Milwaukee, WI 53213. There is also The Illustrated Disney Song Book which
- is published by Random House, Inc., of New York, NY, with the ISBN #0-394-
- 50745-2. It contains the lyrics (and piano music) to many of the most
- popular Disney songs. There is a "New" Illustrated Disney Song Book as
- well (bibliographical reference at the end of this question). In addition,
- the address to the Walt Disney Music Company is given in question #99,
- below.
- There is quite a bit of Disney music available on CD and cassette; if
- there is a demand for it, I'll add a list of Disney music to this list.
- Disneyland/Buena Vista Records and Tapes (Burbank, CA 92521) is the
- "official" label that distributes the majority of the music.
-
- The New Illustrated Disney Songbook, introduction by Steven Spielberg
- Abrams, New York, 1986
- ISBN 0-810-90846-8 (Abrams)
- ISBN 0-881-88467-7 (Hal Leonard)
- Notes: For voice and piano; includes chord symbols and guitar chord
- diagrams. Presents in sheet music format about eighty songs from such Walt
- Disney movies as "Cinderella," "Dumbo," and "Mary Poppins." 215 pages.
-
- 12) What are the Magic Kingdom Club benefits?
-
- As a Magic Kingdom Club (MKC) member, you receive the following
- benefits:
- - Special offers on Theme Park admission (usually 10%- there's a price
- guide), including EuroDisney and Tokyo Disneyland
- - 10-30% discount on WDW resort accommodations
- - Ability to take advantage of special vacation packages
- - 10% discount on merchandise at The Disney Stores
- - Reduced admission to Pleasure Island, Typhoon Lagoon, River Country,
- and Discovery Island (at WDW), and the Queen Mary and Spruce
- Goose attractions (Long Beach, CA)
- - Membership in Entertainment Publications' Travel America for half
- price
- - Up to 30% discounts with National Car Rental
- - 10% discount on Delta Air Lines tickets when traveling to the theme
- parks
- - 10% discount on Premier's Caribbean Cruise and Walt Disney World
- Week
- - 15% discount on cruises aboard the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line
- - 10% discount on the Norwegian Cruise Line
- - 20% nightly discounts at The Hotel Queen Mary
- - 10% discount at the Paradise Guest Ranch in Wyoming
- - Special Club Vacations in San Diego, CA
-
- There are a wide variety of vacation packages to choose from, with the
- prices depending on where you stay and for how long, and what time of year
- you visit the theme parks.
- I believe there is no charge for joining the MKC if your employer has
- a group number.
-
- You can also join as a MKC Gold Card member. You receive a
- personalized, embossed Gold Card, a two-year subscription to Disney News
- magazine (8 issues, worth $14.95), and a membership kit, containing a tote
- bag, key chain, travel video, and 5 Disney Dollars. The price for joining
- is $49 for two years. You also receive a list of toll free numbers to call
- to make travel reservations.
- There is also a Magic Years Club for those over 60 years of age. It
- costs $35 for a 5-year membership, and has the same benefits as the
- standard MKC, plus a few extras (an embossed card, tote bag, key chain,
- bumper sticker, Magic Key newsletter).
- The phone numbers for the MKC, MKC Gold Card, and Magic Years Club are
- given in question #99, below.
-
- 13) What are the stockholder benefits?
-
- Here's an informative post, from July 1992.
-
- From: brenda@bookhouse.Eng.Sun.COM (Brenda Bowden)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
- Subject: Disney shareholder benefits list (for 92)
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- Date: 22 Jul 92 16:48:46 GMT
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- I've received about a dozen requests for the shareholder benefit list,
- so I decided to post the list.
-
- Standard disclaimer: Remember that these are the current benefits, and
- no one can guarantee what next year will provide.
-
- The 1992 Disney shareholder benefits are:
-
- * Special shareholder accommodations offers
-
- WDW resort in Florida (discount amounts depend on date of visit
- and resort)
-
- Aug. 16, 1992 to Dec. 18, 1992
- Jan. 3, 1993 to Jan. 31, 1993
- 40% discount off regular off-season rates during above dates
- at:
- * Yacht and Beach Club
- * Contemporary
- * Polynesian
- * Disney's Village Resort
- * Disney Inn
- * Fort Wilderness Homes
- 25% to 30% discount off regular off-season rates during
- above dates at:
- * Fort Wilderness Campsites (30% discount)
- * Grand Floridian (25% discount)
-
- April 26 - June 6, 1992 (20% discount off regular value
- rates)
- Feb. 9 - April 25, June 7 - Aug. 15, and Dec. 19 - Dec.
- 31, 1992
- (10% discount off regular rates)
- * Disney's Yacht and Beach Club
- * Disney's Contemporary Resort
- * Disney's Fort Wilderness Homes
- * Disney Inn
- * Disney's Village Resort
- * Disney's Polynesian Resort
-
- Disneyland Hotel in California (Feb. 9 to Dec. 31, 1992)
- $89 (plus resort and sales tax) per night Sundays through
- Thursdays
- $109 (plus resort & sales tax) per night Fridays and Saturdays
-
- Hotel Queen Mary in California (Feb. 9 to Dec. 31, 1992)
- $85 (plus city and sales tax)
-
- Euro Disney Resort in France (April 12 - Dec. 31, 1992)
- Special two-night package includes per person:
- * Two-nights accommodations (including tax) at one of:
- * Disneyland Hotel
- * Hotel New York
- * Newport Bay Club
- * Sequoia Lodge
- * Hotel Cheyenne
- * Hotel Santa Fe
- * One Character Breakfast
- * Unlimited use of all attractions within Euro Disney Theme
- Park
- * Commemmorative Medallion
- * T-shirt
- Rates begin from $234 to $266 per adult, based on double-
- occupancy
-
- These offers do not apply to previously made reservations. Limited
- number of accommodations available and all reservations subject to
- space availability. Offers do not apply to Vacation Packages,
- group/commissionable rates or other special promotions. Offers do not
- include Concierge Service or Suite accommodations (except Disney
- Village Resort Club Suites), Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort, Disney's
- Port Orleans Resort, or Disney's Dixie Landings Resort. Additional
- adult charges apply.
-
- You must identify yourself as a Disney Shareholder and your Magic
- Kingdom Chapter Number will be required at time of booking. Present
- your valid Magic Kingdom Club Membership Card at check-in. [Note:
- Shareholders are identified by special charter number of MKC
- membership card.] Offers good only for Disney Shareholders who
- owned/purchased Disney stock prior to Dec. 23, 1991.
-
- <summary of MKC benefits deleted; see question #12, above>
-
- That's it.
-
- - Brenda
-