MousePlanet.com launches with interview of Art Linkletter
Happy 45th Birthday Disneyland, from Art Linkletter and MousePlanet.com!
MousePlanet Inc. officially announces the launch of MousePlanet.com, already a leading on-line media, community, and commerce resource covering major theme parks nationwide.
To mark this special occasion famed personality Art Linkletter has granted the site a rare interview about Disneyland's opening day on its 45th Anniversary. In this exclusive, now on-line at www.mouseplanet.com, he discusses his friendship with Walt Disney and provides his personal observances about the remarkable live TV show that helped introduce the park to audiences nationwide in 1955.
"I began to realize how great (the idea of Disneyland) was, because I'd go down to see them building, and I'd talk to Walt.'' Linkletter reminisced, "And then came the time when he came to me and he said, 'Art, this is a difficult moment for me, because I would like to ask you to be the Master of Ceremonies of the opening, and work with me, but I don't know how to approach you!''' In the rest of the interview, Linkletter's warm memories of his friend Walt Disney help to make this a very special on line event on this 45th anniversary day.
MousePlanet Inc. was formed by an on-line group who has met Sundays at Disneyland since 1996. MousePlanet.com is the first of a series of premium family vacation and entertainment destination channels underway for the company -- where "Best of Breed" web sites and key on-line personalities are merged with award-winning journalists. Supported with leading vacation planning and merchandising partners the site provides a one-stop content/commerce solution for the family vacation market.
"By providing critical, comprehensive, and unbiased consumer content that official and fan sites won't match and traditional travel sites do not, families are finding MousePlanet the trusted expert source for their vacation needs,'' said Karl Buiter, CEO and President. "In the coming year, we expect to cover other premier destinations in the same manner.''
"We have a strong track record of being focused on the consumer's point of view and their needs,'' says Al Lutz, Vice President. "It's one of the reasons we've increased our traffic so dramatically, and also many of the sites are quoted regularly by the media nationwide in their own coverage of the industry, in particular about the Walt Disney Company.''
Founded in January 2000, MousePlanet's pre-launch site has built a strong and loyal audience with a seven-minute plus average per visit time for 250,000 plus monthly visitors and has steadily maintained a 30% monthly growth rate this past year. MousePlanet Inc.'s advisors include the legal firm of Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro, LLP and the accounting team at KPMG.
-- Posted July 17, 2000
Source: MousePlanet, Inc. Press Release