MI News Desk

Since making the jump to the social space, the Disneyland Resort has found huge success in adopting the social media platform of Twitter. Both parks of the Disneyland Resort have their own twitter accounts (@DCAToday and later @DisneylandToday) and now there will be an Annual Passholder

The World of Color Picnic Packages will be ending on June 1. The cancellation of this service comes a few months after the recent changes to the World of Color Dining Packages in which the Ariel's Grotto princess dining location shifted its dinner service to no longer offer princess greets in exchange for widening the option for guests to enjoy World of Color viewing with dinner at the restaurant instead.

Magic has arrived in Storybrook and it can only lead to more trouble when Regina the Evil Queen and Rumpelstiltskin are involved. But magic isn't the only thing coming! This second season of the popular ONCE UPON A TIME show on ABC is coming home on August 13 when it will be available

ABC has unveiled its network upfronts for the fall season and amongst returning regulars such as ONCE UPON A TIME, MODERN FAMILY, and NASHVILLE are a great selection of new and highly anticipated shows.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND is a spin-off of the popular returning television series that has taken classic fairy-tale characters and thrust them into modern day world. Although this new spin-off will not tie much into storylines from the already existing show, it will borrow from the underlying mythologiges for a new take on the all-too-familiar adventures of Alice and the rabbit hole.

AGENTS OF SHIELD is also on track with a TUESDAY 8pm intro slot. Following where MARVEL THE AVENGERS left off, the series will follow the drama of the super-hero collaboration agency known as SHIELD. Don't expect to see too much of Robert Downey Jr. or Scarlett Johansson in this one, the show focuses primarily on the agents of the organization.

Disney has released a new promo trailer, “Disney’s PLANES Takes Flight,” featuring music by the film's composer, Mark Mancina gives everyone a great look into this animated home-release dubbed good enough to be a featured-film. Are you convinced?

Disney PLANES lands in theaters August 9, 2013.

Formerly only available for the domestic Disney Parks and aboard the Disney Cruise Line, the Photopass program is now available for use at Disneyland Paris. The addition is being heralded under the banner of the parks 21st anniversary.

The photo service offered by Disney gives guests the ability to compile all of their official in-park images on a single card that can then be reviewed at home later through the Photopass website where images can have custom borders added and ordered in a variety of sizes and on a variety of products including tees, mugs, and frames.

Our friends at PixieVacations have a super special offer available for those who book a WDW Vacation Package: Free Ear Hats!

For every qualifying Disney Vacation Package booked with PixieVacations from May 15- Aug. 15, 2013 for travel dates July 1 – Aug. 31, 2013, each member in the travel party will receive a keepsake personally embroidered Ear Hat!

Find out more at PixieVacations.com!

Officiated by executives, the MYSTIC POINT expansion at Hong Kong Disneyland had its official opening on May 16. The attraction officially opens for the public on May 17 but has been in soft-open previews for a few weeks now.

With the addition of Toy Story Land in 2011, Grizzly Gulch in 2012 and Mystic Point this year, the size of Hong Kong Disneyland has increased by almost 25%.

Hong Kong Disneyland will also be upping its marketing outreach for the newly expanded park with campaigns in select markets in Indonesia, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and India.

D23 has quite a few updates and changes in store in the coming weeks. Aside from a newly relaunched website, the official Disney fan club will also be launching a free version of membership plus new online features to access including:

• 23 Questions
• D’scovered
• Disney A to Z
• D23 Presents
• Disney Legends and the Walt Disney Archives
• Weird Disney
• Characters
• The Quotable Walt Disney
• Ask a Legend
• First Look
• Attraction Rewind
• Muppetolog

Certain content will be provided to the free-level members while other content, denoted with a golden key will require a paid-membership to access. The new site promises to provide access to newly digitized content from the past and present, along with exclusive glimpses of the future.

Thanks to a successful social media campaign which encouraged fans to tweet #CoulsonLives, an extended trailer has been released for the upcoming MARVEL AGENTS OF SHIELD program that will be debuting this fall on ABC.

The new trailer gives a much better look at the characters and storyline for the upcoming program. Time will tell if the ratings will match the box-office success of its theatrical inspiration, MARVEL THE AVENGERS.

Are you tuning in for MARVEL THE AGENTS OF SHIELD?

Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD is now available to pre-order from GameStop, Amazon, and Walmart. The game hits stores September 10th, and is exclusive to Playstation 3.

Here is our first article about the new game.

Tokyo Disneyland just recently unveiled its newly refurbished STAR TOURS: THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE attraction. As with its US counter parts the attraction features the immersive 3D technology and multiple itinerary flight plans.

Disney recently unveiled video of the Japanese version showing the most unique feature which is the newly remodeled queue area ini the Droid Room, featuring interactive new elements to help guests past time in line.

The Hollywood Reporter is saying that Chris Pine and Jake Gyllenhaal are the latest big-name celebrities that are rumored to be attached to Rob Marshall's upcoming INTO THE WOODS film adaptation of the popular stage musical.

The two strapping actors would portray the self-absorbed brother-princes of Cinderella and Rapunzel. Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep are reportedly already respectively confirmed for the roles of Narrator and the Evil Queen.

Iconic Disney Aniator Eric Goldberg will be "guest lecturer" at the Animation Academy at the Disney Animation attraction in Hollywood Land at Disney California Adventure. There will be 4 sessions, approximately 45 minutes each held exclusively for Annual Passholders.

Plus, Eric will teach Passholders how to draw some classic Disney Characters!

Goldberg, pictured above at the Winnie the Pooh World Premiere has quite a list of accomplishments, including his role as the Supervising Animator of characters such as Genie, Phil, Louis and Rabbit.