Disney Royalty ♔

metropolismarvel:

comicbookdays:

barbiehighheels:

beatmesa:

And that’s not anything to brag about.

Ever.

Listen, you’re twelve, so I’m going to go easy on you,  but trust me, friend.

Chicks have opinions.

And we fight back.

Tom Hanks is my favorite princess. 

But can I have a valid opinion on Disney Princesses?

Gotta do my womanly thinking and know my Disney.

disneyprince:

From The Orlando Sentinel:

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, set to unveil a new policy for boosting U.S. tourism, has chosen a fairy-tale setting for the Thursday announcement: Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, with its iconic Cinderella Castle as a backdrop.

And if some Disney magic rubs off on his re-election bid, too, then so be it.

The event, details of which were made public Tuesday, is the first of what is sure to be many election-year visits by the president to Florida. Obama carried the nation’s largest swing state in 2008, but he faces a heavier lift this year in a state where the unemployment rate remains above the national average.

Though specifics of his tourism plan were hazy, one topic tops the political wish list for Central Florida tourism: visa reform. The tourism industry has been pushing Congress and Obama to make travel to the U.S. easier for visitors from emerging nations such as Brazil, India and China.

“We understand that he [Obama] is going to trumpet the value of travel generally and improve facilitation for international travel, especially from China and Brazil,” said Blain Rethmeier, senior vice president of public affairs at the U.S. Travel Association.

Brazil, whose citizens have a reputation for loving Orlando’s theme parks, has only four U.S. consular offices for conducting the in-person interviews required of anyone who wants a visa to visit this country. That means some families have to travel several hundred miles for interviews before they can even get permission to travel to the U.S.

A recent congressional appropriations bill gave the U.S. secretary of state authority to develop a pilot program using videoconference technology to conduct visa interviews for leisure and business travelers. Such video conferences would be high on Disney’s priority list, as they would likely cut the overall expense of coming to Orlando to see the Mouse.

A congressional aide not authorized to speak on the record said Capitol Hill expects the White House to make permanent a program called Global Entry, which cuts down clearance times at U.S. customs checkpoints for “preapproved, low-risk travelers” arriving in this country.

There also is the expectation that Obama will tout new hires for consular offices in Brazil and China — a move announced last year by the State Department that could boost by 1 million the number of visas processed annually in each country.

Air Force One is expected to land at Orlando International Airport in late morning Thursday, with the president’s motorcade taking him directly to Disney World. He is to leave Central Florida less than three hours later.

The tourism-policy changes are the latest effort by the Obama administration to get around legislative gridlock in Congress through executive actions.

The bright lights of such events don’t hurt his re-election campaign either, as it would be hard for Obama to pick a higher-profile setting than Disney for a tourism-related announcement. The giant resort draws more than 45 million visitors a year to its four theme parks.

Disney is bracing for heavy security around the Magic Kingdom, its biggest and best-known park and the expected stage for Obama’s announcement.

The resort has canceled extra hours in the park for guests staying in its hotels, pushed back the start time of a daily parade to move it farther from Obama’s visit, and prohibited employees from using entrance passes for the day. It has also imposed parking restrictions at a nearby hotel, Disney’s Contemporary Resort, which will be used as a staging area for news media.

At the same time, Disney has extended operating hours and added entertainment at its three other parks in hopes of steering guests away from the Magic Kingdom. Resort workers have also distributed in-room letters to people staying in Disney hotels, advising them of the changes.

Mid-January is one of the slowest periods of the year for Disney World and the region’s other theme parks. But there are still likely to be tens of thousands of tourists in the Magic Kingdom when Obama delivers his speech.

Initially, it didn’t appear as if Obama would get much love from the region’s politicians.

Aides to U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said the Florida Democrat was unlikely to attend because the office “got word too late,” while Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer was scheduled to be in Washington that day for a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.

But a Dyer spokesman said Tuesday night that the mayor was changing his plans so he could be in Orlando for Obama’s visit.

Brazil.

Obama you’re doing it right.