August 5, 2008 - We now have uploaded all of the Nominations from 2005 through yesterday. We're working backwards towards 2000.

We're so excited that we're having a Guest Appreciation Special in our catalog. There will be a free gift with every purchase while supplies last!

We've also loaded our very first Cast Member Honoree, Disneyland's former president, Cynthia Harriss.

Finally, we've changed the way Nominations are handled. For security, our Guests will now be asked to log in before entering a Nomination. This is a shared page with our shopping site but we do not require any Guest to purchase anything in order to honor a Cast Member. After logging in you will be taken straight to the Nomination entry page, which will soon publish your Nomination as soon as you push the button.

Take Us to The Park

Make sure you take us with you to your favorite Disney adventure.

This small WWWD™ is your way of saying "Thank you!" to a Cast Member who has truly made your stay wonderful and magical.

When you get home, use our submission form to tell us about your deserving Cast Member and we'll make the magic happen for THEM on our website.

Enjoy the Magic!

Courtesy of our friends at archive.org a web site that is proving invaluable to recovering what was lost. Come and see what we once were, this represents the last glimpse of the site before the attack. I have been able to restore a half-dozen of our original Traditions columns. More will follow in coming days.

Thanks to archive.org, I am featuring a page that few have seen since the attack, a page that's pure Walt a man who was knocked down, but never out. I think his thoughts are a fitting symbol of our determination to fight our way back.

-- Tom

Happy Birthday America! Independence Day Waltisms

You can own this beautiful portrait, just click on it to purchase

On this Independence Day, we thought we'd share some of our favorite quotes from Walt Disney:

Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.

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As I see it, a person's culture represents his appraisal of the things that make up his life. And a fellow becomes cultured, I believe, by selecting that which is fine and beautiful in life and throwing aside that which is mediocre or phony. Sort of a series of free, very personal choices, you might say. If this is true, then I think it follows that “freedom” is the most precious word to culture. Freedom to believe what you choose to read, think, and say and be with what you choose. In America, we are guaranteed these freedoms. It is the constitutional privilege of every American to become cultured or to grow up like Donald Duck. I believe that this spiritual and intellectual freedom which we Americans enjoy is our greatest cultural blessing. Therefore, it seems to me, that the first duty of culture is to defend freedom and resist all tyranny.

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Americans are a responsive people and the ideas, the knowledge, and the emotions that come through the television screen in our living rooms will most certainly shape the course of the future for ourselves and our children.

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Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy, and freedom.