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This may be old news to some of my readers but the events of the last few months in Walt Disney World shed a different light on the incident at Disneyland Resort Paris’ Wild West Show.

If you watch this video footage, 35 seconds in to the film you need to be paying attention to the area between the stage coach in the centre of the shot and the left hand side of the screen. It is un-nerving to watch.

I’ll let the Casual Reporter take up the narrative.

Disney Cruise Ship Rescues Another ships Passenger-overboard and it’s Twittered - John Frost at the Disney Blog takes up the story.

So Disney spent 4 Billion on buying the Marvel brand, money that some feel would have been better spent elsewhere notably on the ailing and seemingly under funded Walt Disney Studios park.

There chattering classes of the blogosphere have been lamenting the lack of spending on the studios genre of parks, where with the exception of Disneyland resort Paris there seems to be a spending cap in place. Whole sections of the Floridian park are laying fallow, poor quality (by Disney standards) attractions that barely merit the title. But maybe Spidey could swing in to save the day.

Disneyland has had a long and proud tradition assisting it’s disabled Guests to get the most out of it’s attractions whether it is through wheel chair hire, wide access queue lines or with its Special Access Passes*. But research from the UK suggests these accommodations may be doing more harm than good for one group of Guests.

"Enchantment can be dangerous work. A series of employee fatalities this summer at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., has exposed a hard truth: the recipe for making dreams come true at the Magic Kingdom includes not only pixie dust and princesses but the hard work of very mortal human beings acting in a risky world where sometimes things go badly awry."

Is Disney concentrating on the financial bottom line at the cost to the front line?

It is a sad question to ask but with three Cast Members loosing there lives in accidents clearly tied to health and safety issues, are the eyes of the Walt Disney executives looking more to Wall St. than to problems on Main St. USA?

A third Walt Disney World Cast Member is dead after an accident at Hollywood Studios.

Stunt performer Anislav Varbanov, 30, was fatally injured during a rehearsal for the "Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular." Fellow Cast members dialed 911 at 7:34 p.m. to report that a co-worker sustained a head injury. He was rushed to Florida Hospital Celebration Health, where he was pronounced dead at 8:53 p.m. Varbanov was the the third Cast Member in seven weeks to die after sustaining injuries while working.

Dear all, Those of you who may have got a message from Ms Lucy Dion, please trash it as it looks, smells and tastes like spam mail. I had a couple of complaints and the user account is history.

I am looking at raising the security level on the personal message system a little higher as we speak.

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