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Orlando’s Wayne Brady and company recently made the rounds at Walt Disney World, shooting promotional videos for the Freeform series “Wayne Brady: The Family Remix.” In one scene, Brady performs with the Dapper Dans, an a cappella group on Magic Kingdom’s Main Street U.S.A.

The visual results of their trip have been popping up on social media with scenes featuring Brady, his ex-wife Mandie Taketa, their 21-year-old daughter Maile Brady and Taketa’s current partner Jason Fordham in the theme parks. They’re frequently dancing.

One clip edits together several snippets of the reality show’s “core four” doing dance steps near Cinderella Castle and Tron Lightcycle / Run at Magic Kingdom, near the Tree of Life at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, outside Minnie & Mickey’s Runaway Railway, at Toy Story Land and near the Millennium Falcon at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and at the base of Spaceship Earth and inside The Seas with Nemo and Friends ride at Epcot.

There are costume changes, mouse-ear headbands, evidence of a thunderstorm and the sudden appearance of lightsabers. read more

The latest vessel in Disney Cruise Line’s growing fleet left its shipyard home Wednesday making the slow 20-mile river trip so it can complete sea trials ahead of a debut from Port Canaveral later this year.

The Disney Treasure, a sister ship to Disney Wish that debuted in 2022 and also calls Port Canaveral home, left the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany making its way on the Ems River toward the North Sea.

The inland shipyard requires a tugboat-assisted conveyance of the 1,119-foot-long, 128-foot-wide ship traveling on the river facing in reverse.

A live stream of the conveyance was broadcast by YouTube channel Hamburg Port Live.

The vessel is first headed to Eemshaven, Netherlands, before it heads out for sea trials in the North Sea. The shipyard has a lot of practice getting vessels up the river, traveling at only 3-5 mph over several hours.

In the past, parts of bridges had to be disassembled to allow for a ship’s passing, although Disney Treasure, while the largest in Disney’s fleet along with Wish to date, isn’t the biggest transported from Meyer Werft. read more