Golden Oak – Florida

Golden Oak is located just minutes from the Magic Kingdom® Park in Florida. With the holiday season in full swing, it’s a terrific time to live in Florida.

The Christmas holidays are magical at Walt Disney World® Resort and owning a nearby luxury Golden Oak residence means residents can experience that Disney magic right from their own doorsteps.

Golden Oak is a one-of-a-kind collection of comfortable yet sophisticated private residences ranging in price from $1.5 million to $8 million.

Golden Oak owners can utilize the Walt Disney World’s Holiday Services team. This is the same group that decorates four theme parks, numerous resorts and countless shops and restaurants each year.

· Disney-Designed Holiday Décor: The Walt Disney World Holiday Services team can arrange for decorating of Golden Oak homes as requested by homeowners – spectacular outdoor lighting displays, as well as interior decorations. The Holiday Services team works closely with Golden Oak residents to develop a decoration plan that is unique and, of course, magical! For families who plan to spend the holidays at Golden Oak, arriving to the sight of a fully decorated winter wonderland in the heart of Florida is likely to generate thrills for young and old alike.

· Merry Merchandise Delivery: Golden Oak residents looking for a few last-minute gifts can shop at any of the Walt Disney World shops and have the purchases delivered directly to their Golden Oak homes.

· Special Holiday Events: Golden Oak residents have their own ‘sleighs’ during the holidays — in the form of VIP vehicles that pick them up from their homes and deliver them to the theme parks. So all a Golden Oak resident needs to do is hop aboard one of these sleighs for the short ride to the Magic Kingdom for celebrations such as Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party, a ticketed event that takes place on select nights from November 9 to December 21. Other special events include Holidays Around the World at Epcot® and Mickey’s Jingle Jungle Parade at Disney’s Animal Kingdom®.

Heritage Auctions

For Disney lovers, now’s your chance to own an iconic piece of history – a 1928 movie poster of Mickey Mouse.

According to experts, this Mickey Mouse movie poster was made in 1928. What make sit so unique is the fact it’s considered the oldest surviving movie poster of Mickey Mouse.

Grey Smith who is the director of movie poster auctions for Dallas-based Heritage Auctions, said the poster was made the same year Mickey Mouse was created by Walt Disney.

Smith was quoted in a news release, “The first 12 Mickey cartoons were distributed in 1928 and 1929 by Celebrity Pictures, a very low-budget distributor. This is very likely the only Mickey Mouse poster created until 1930 when Disney cartoons began to be distributed by Columbia Pictures.”

The Mickey Mouse was owned by Crowell Havens Beech from Chico, California. He bought it in 1988 and kept it a secret until just before he passed away in 2010 at the age of 86. He told his daughter about it. Tracy Leighton stated, “I didn’t even know he had it.”

The Disney poster is full-color and measures 27 by 41-inches. The movie poster displays the world famous Mickey Mouse waving a gloved hand. Text included, “The World’s Funniest Cartoon Character.”

The Mickey Mouse movie poster will be up for auction both online and in Dallas, Texas on November 29. The poster is expected to have an estimated value of $20,000 or more according to Heritage Auctions.
Source – Sacramento Bee

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It’s been a long-lasting love fest between American consumers and Miley Cyrus. She became an over-night sensation and never looked back.

So who is in the center of this media fire storm? Well it’s Miley Cyrus. She now has a hit movie, an incredible “Hannah Montana” tour and oh yes, that hit TV show that seems to now air all the time on the Disney Channel.

Miley Cyrus is the daughter of country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, who is famous himself for his hugely hit single “Achy Breaky Heart.” Cyrus was born in Nashville as Destiny Hope Cyrus, but at an early was nicknamed “Smiley,” which then became Miley by her father.

Americans have spent billions of dollars over the last few years into the Miley Cyrus / Hannah Montana empire. Young girls have been bombarded with an endless array of products every time they enter a retail store. Everything and anything with even a picture of Hannah or Miley has come into our homes, making our childless neighbors or those with a cadre of boys scratch their heads in curiosity as to why this teenager’s face graces so many surfaces.

Cyrus shot to instant stardom in the Disney hit show when she was just 14 years old. The Disney teen TV  ”Hannah Montana” show debuted on March 24, 2006. The Hannah Montana series focuses on a young girl who lives a double life – one as an average teenage school girl named Miley Stewart (Miley Cyrus) by day and two, a famous pop singer named Hannah Montana by night. The secret is Miley Stewart hides her true identity from the public. Only her close friends and family know the truth.

The cable TV show became the most-watched program for kids ages 6 to 14. The show also produced a hit soundtrack that debuted at number one of the Billboard Top 200. Billboard magazine critic Ray Waddell described Miley’s charm as “charisma and a very winning personality that’s easily conveyed by both television and live performance.”

In 2007, Miley Cyrus released a follow-up album “Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus,” which sold more than a million copies. Cyrus went on a 54-city concert tour. People magazine reported Cyrus was dating fellow teen pop star Nick Jonas of Jonas Brothers’ fame, who guest-starred on “Hannah Montana” and toured with Cyrus. Teen magazine website J-14.com often features news on Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers.

In 2008 Miley Cyrus was again featured on the cover of People magazine and dubbed “the world’s richest kid,” in a cover story about teen superstars. Cyrus signed a seven-figure book deal, raked in an estimated $1 million per week while on tour and is projected to sell $1 billion worth of “Hannah Montana” merchandise.

But like most celebrities, Cyrus has hit hard with negative news that created a media sensation. At the same time Cyrus’s People magazine cover hit stands, Vanity Fair magazine ran racy photos of Cyrus and a controversy erupted. Many critics attacked Miley Cyrus, saying she disappointed her pre-teen fan base and deemed the photos inappropriate because of their provocative and sexy nature. Cyrus quickly issued a public apology just as the Vanity Fair magazine was hitting the stands.

Miley Cyrus released her new music video Let’s Do This. This will serve as the theme song for Hannah Montana: The Movie, which will be open in U.S. theaters on April 10, 2009. The lyrics do show an attempt for Cyrus to break out of her Hannah Montana cookie cutter image.

Hannah Montana is the latest Disney pop star to try her hand at movies. Whether Miley Cyrus follows either the divergent paths of Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff will remain to be seen. While to date, she has not made the poor choices of Lindsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus (Hannah Montana) will have to be strong and have a strong supporting cast against the many evil temptations of Hollywood culture.