A number of special guests will be coming to the 2010 annual “Star Wars Weekends” held at Disney’s Hollywood Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida.

This year the event will begin on May 21st (the 30th anniversary of “The Empire Strikes Back”) and end on June 13th.

Jeremy Bulloch and Ashley Eckstein will be hosting the weekends.

Below you can check out the guest list for the upcoming Star Wars Weekends:

May 21-23: Temuera Morrison (Jango Fett), Daniel Logan (Boba Fett, Attack of the Clones) and Dee Bradley Baker (Clone Wars)

June 11-13: Ray Park (Darth Maul), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) and James Arnold Taylor (Voice actor for Obi-wan Kenobi, Clone Wars)

Will you be heading to the theme park for any of these weekends?

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A Disney cast member at the Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom theme park is currently recovering after being struck by a guest driving a ride vehicle at the Tomorrowland Speedway attraction.

After the accident, the attraction was closed for a few hours and the cast member was airlifted to Orlando Regional Medical Center for treatment. The cast members injuries were non-life-threatening and the park guest was unharmed.

Yikes! We’re glad everyone’s okay.

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Disney’s D23: The Official Community for Disney Fans has created a new two-day event exclusively for D23 Members called DESTINATION D.

The theme of the DESTINATION D event is “Disneyland ‘55,” to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Disneyland theme park. The event will be held on September 24th and 25th this year in the Grand Ballroom of the Disneyland Hotel.

During the event, D23 Members will be involved with panels, screenings, and listening to presentations and guest speakers.

Steven Clark, the head of D23, said about DESTINATION D:

“We’re very excited to also be creating an entirely new event with DESTINATION D, which will bring Disney’s fascinating history to D23 Members in ways no other Disney fan can experience. There’s nowhere on earth quite as special as Disneyland, and we want fans to see it as they never have before.”

Some programs that will be available during the event include:

- “Disneyland: The Way We Were” – Disney’s Chief Archivist Dave Smith will look back at highlights from Disneyland history;
- “Disney Undiscovered” – An exploration of never-built projects and attractions developed for Disneyland;
- “23 on 55” – The Walt Disney Archives celebrates Disneyland’s 55th anniversary;
- “Weird Disney” – A showcase for some of the quirky, little-known facts, places, people and ideas that even the most avid fan might not know.

In addition to the DESTINATION D event, there will be a D23 EXPO on August 19-21 at the Anaheim Convention Center.

Steven said about the D23 EXPO:

“The first D23 EXPO surpassed all of our expectations, and our 2011 Expo is already shaping up to be a jaw-dropping, not-to-be missed showcase of the best and brightest Disney has to offer.”

You can learn more about DESTINATION D and the D23 EXPO at www.disney.com/D23

Are you planning on attending either event?

As early as this month new Tron monorails will make their debut at the Walt Disney World.

Disney’s upcoming movie “Tron Legacy,” set to release on December 17th, is about a high-tech, digital world, and the monorails that run to Disney’s Epcot park are set to mimic that world.

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The Walt Disney World Resort has signed a 10 year deal with Siemens Water Technologies. While Disney already has an agreement with Siemens AG to use many of Siemens technology, the new agreement will provide Disney with onsite service to resort pools, and any water in the theme parks in Florida.

Disney’s Give A Day, Get A Disney Day Volunteer Program has officially closed after one million people have volunteered, or signed up to volunteer.

These one million individuals have received vouchers for a free theme park ticket, and a special fastpass to use during their day at the park.

Even though the Give A Day, Get A Disney Day program is over, Disney is still encouraging individuals to volunteer their time.

It is being debated around the web if there is a Hidden Mickey in one of the scenes of the Captain EO attraction video which recently came back to the Disney parks.

For those of you who don’t know, there are multiple Hidden Mickey’s at the Disney parks – in the rides, attractions and buildings. They were put there by the park and ride designers and imagineers and a lot of visitors to the parks entertain themselves during their trip by trying to find them all!

A Hidden Mickey consists of three circles, a big one for the head and two smaller ones for the ears.

We’ve posted the entire attraction video below so you can check and see if you can find any more Hidden Mickey’s in it, but the one that is being debated is in the second video at the 8:00 mark (the lights on the spaceship).

Thoughts?