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Disney Magic Kingdom Makeover Dedicates Park To One Special Person For
An Entire Year-
Fiction! but it is an
advertising campaign!
Summary of the eRumor:
A forwarded email with link to a news
video reporting that the Disney Magic Kingdom has had a major make over
and dedicated the park to one person for an entire year---and that
person is you! The video appears to be professionally produced by
Disney and uses your name throughout
The Truth: This is the internet
programming magic of the Walt Disney Internet Group. Visitors to
their SUN7NEWS.COM "can
create a little magic of their own" by entering names
and email addresses of friends and relatives. They receive a
link to a very authentic looking TV News website that has a custom news
video that tells them that they are the ones who have been chosen by
Disney to be honored throughout the park for an entire year.
It isn't
real, and there are disclaimers on the webpage to alert the viewer.
The web page is very well
disguised to look real with news stories such as "Dog springs pirates
from jail cell" and "Woman finds talking mouse in kitchen."
We've posted an example below that
used TruthOrFiction.com as the "person" being honored.
updated 12/11/08
A real example of the eRumor as it has
appeared on the Internet:
I knew you were celebrating but I had no idea you'd go this far. How did
you get Disney to do that?
