Parks and Resorts

WHERE MAGIC HAPPENS

Today’s technology offers limitless ways to create highly immersive interactive storytelling experiences, giving our Guests the freedom and flexibility to customize and personalize their vacation experiences.

STORYTELLING THE IMAGINEERING WAY: TURTLE TALK WITH CRUSH AND STITCH ENCOUNTER

Using life-like computer-animation technology created by Imagineering, two separate theaterstyle shows are engaging audiences in realtime, spontaneous conversations with beloved characters. At Turtle Talk with Crush in Disney’s California Adventure and at Walt Disney World’s Epcot, Guests in the “people tank” can chat with the 152-year-old sea turtle from Finding Nemo. And at Hong Kong Disneyland’s Stitch Encounter, the feisty blue alien from the 2002 hit comedy Lilo & Stitch jokes, plays and flirts with Guests in Cantonese, English and Putonghua.

CONNECTING WITH GUESTS IN NEW WAYS: DISNEYPARKS.COM

Would-be Disney princesses, pirates, adventurers and space explorers of all ages are enjoying the family-friendly interactive vacation planning tools at DisneyParks.com. The online “Dream Track” helps Guests customize their vacations with specific styles of entertainment, generates a personalized map that guides them to their priority activities and provides tips for even more customized family fun.

VIRTUAL FUN FOR YOUNGER GUESTS: VIRTUAL MAGIC KINGDOM

In 2005, a new kind of online theme park experience was introduced: Virtual Magic Kingdom (VMK), a Web-based world with electronic adventures that match real-world activities at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. Since then, an estimated 1.7 million online characters have been created and more than 90,000 VMK players came to our parks to continue their online experiences with real-world quests. This combination of real- and Web-world adventures generates powerful incentives for a new generation of Disney fans to spend more of their leisure time with us.