Judge Madeleine Flier, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge, has set a July 25th deadline for the Walt Disney Co. to turn in a list of guests who have suffered brain hemorrhages after riding on park attractions.

This deadline was prompted by Disney’’s failure to turn over such a list as part of a civil suit filed by a guest who recently suffered a brain hemorrhage after riding the Indiana Jones Adventure at Disneyland. About getting Disney to hand over the list, Barry Novack, attorney for the guest, said, “I feel like Indiana Jones having to pick through the rooms to try to find the hidden treasure.” Just watch out for the snakes, Barry.

Disney is not the only company having problems with reports of injuries on their attractions. Recently, at Six Flags Magic Mountain, a woman suffered a fatal
aneurysm while riding their newest roller coaster, Goliath.

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Disney is going to cut 1,000 employees, ending the overall plan to cut a total of 4,000 jobs. These jobs are coming mostly from the theme parks in the US and their feature animation department. Around 3,000 of the employees losing their jobs have agreed to voluntarily leave the company, while the other 1,000 will simply be let go between now and the end of July.

After two months of discussion, Disney Cast Members have won the battle for possession of their costume underwear.

Until recently, undergarments worn underneath Cast Members” costumes were turned in along with the costume at the end of the day. Both items were supposedly washed thoroughly. However, costume underwear was not always washed as well as needed and various problems arose.

Many Cast Members have been unhappy about the quality of the underwear and have wanted to have the ability to wash the garments themselves. Their wishes have been granted. Each night, the Cast Members will be able to take parts of their costumes home and wash them themselves.

On top of all this, Cast Members also won longer time to put on their costumes and, due to recent fires near Walt Disney World, the amount of time the costumes will be worn will vary depending on weather conditions, including air pollution.

Here is a new panoramic image of the Dino-Rama construction at Animal Kingdom taken on June 6, 2001.

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As you can see, not much has happened in the past year. Compared to the progress on Mission: Space, which has gone from empty land to a basic building shape, Dino-rama is moving at a snail’’s pace.

The only noticable feature of the Dino-Rama construction so far is the large circle dug into the ground in the center, presumably where the Dumbo-style ride will go. There is no evidence of any other parts of the carnival-like area so far.