Already one Star Wars-related project is in the works for kids network Disney XD.
Every week at its warehouse in Menlo Park, California some 10, 000 sheets of stamps, tens of thousands of posters and 20, 000 T shirts--almost every shirt unique and distinct from all the others--roll off the presses, sparkling with freshly printed images of cute kids, Disney characters, landscape shots and catchy tag lines (sample:"Not everything's flat in Lubbock, "reads the chest-high line on one).
Earlier this year, Nickelodeon lost the top spot in kids programming to Disney.
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To my theoretical alarm and pragmatic delight, many were aimed at children between two and five years old, with companies like Nickelodeon, PBS Kids, and Disney vying to find a new Dora.
Havaianas Kids will have traditional Disney mainstay animal characters, along with Disney Fairies and Disney Princesses.
Disney makes movies kids want to watch 50 or 60 times.
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The maturation of the kids in these programs reflects the maturation of Disney Channel and Nickelodeon.
With each premium phone service sold, Disney doesn't just get kids excited about its new movie--it makes money.
The chart from Compete above shows that Wizard101 has been outperforming other online game worlds for kids like Club Penguin, which is owned by Disney, and Free Realms, which is owned by Sony.
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Speakers from Sesame Street Workshop and Disney Interactive are the big guns in the kids and entertainment space.
And this is a Disney flick, so you can bring the kids.
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The Disney Company built a popular theme park that neither kids nor adults could resist visiting.
In Europe Disney also got 76% of publicly traded Fox Kids Europe, a channel that airs on basic cable in 53 countries.
At Walt Disney World, families travel in packs - with younger kids waiting in the wings while older siblings attack rides with death-defying drops, and older siblings dragging their feet as younger kids wait in line for a photo op with Mickey.
Then I discovered the joy of picking and selecting the choicest radio stations from Lady GaGa to Led Zepellin to the Beatles to AR Rahman to Jagjit Singh to Radio Disney (okay, the last one was for the kids).
How many kids would wet their pants with excitement if greeted by name by a Disney princess?
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He had agreed to launch a new animation label at Disney, Double Dare You, specializing in scary movies for kids, but the deal foundered during his absence.
"We're always looking for kids that our audience can identify with, " says Judy Taylor, the Disney Channel's vice president of casting and talent relations.
Brands include Disney, Snoopy, Sesame Street, Mattel, Elle and Benetton Kids.
"Disney Infinity combines prominent Disney and Pixar characters and scenarios in a way that mimics how kids play in real life, " said John Blackburn, vice president and general manager, Avalanche Software.
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They may remember visiting Disneyland or Disney World when they were children, but they aren't taking their kids there.
Next door at Prince Eric's Castle, kids and adults alike will enjoy Under the Sea - Journey of the Little Mermaid (almost identical to the Disney California Adventure version).
The Disney show is sort of a cross between The X Files and Twin Peaks but you know, for kids.
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Ross, 47, came to Disney Channel from Nickelodeon and helped Anne Sweeney turn the station around from an also-ran into the kids network that often beats Nick.
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