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DisneyPlus Content
When Disney+ goes live, there will be LOTS of content: Animated Shows and Features, Disney Channel, Feature Films, Live-Action Classics, Marvel, National Geographic, Pixar, Star Wars, as well as Disney TV Shows and Specials. Share this post and tell your friends what you’ll be watching!
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“Never Had To Go” by The Dustbowl Revival – featuring Dick Van Dyke
If you love it, buy it on Amazon
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What’s Your Disney Love Story?
Did you fall in love because of Disney, Star Wars, Pixar, or Marvel? MouseMingle wants to hear your story – even if you didn’t meet on MouseMingle.com!
Disney is loved around the world – whether it’s the Theme Parks, the movies, the music, the characters, or something else about ‘Disney’ that just makes people happy. When people have a shared passion for anything Disney, it’s a strong connection. It’s joy. It’s fun. It’s jokes or tunes that bond them together over just being happy. It’s memories that make them – and us – smile. Disney is a part of many people’s lives on a daily basis. And when two people meet and fall in love because of those shared memories, their relationship is off to a magical start.
MouseMingle wants to share your magical Disney love story, whether you met at a dinner party, through friends, or on another dating site. We want everyone to see your photos and read how your adventure began, to inspire them to reach out to others who love Disney, too.
If you have a Disney love story to tell, send us an email, or fill out the form below. Or, if you know someone who had a Disney marriage proposal, Disney wedding, or just fell in love through Disney, share this with them. We just love Disney love stories!
I talk to Jenny McCarthy about MouseMingle
MouseMingle is such a fun idea, and it’s even more fun (for me) when people want to talk about the site. This past week, I was contacted by the senior producer of the Jenny McCarthy Show, asking if I’d go on air with Jenny to talk about MouseMingle. Uh… yeah!
I’ve been lucky enough to do a few phone interviews about MouseMingle over the years, and I know they are just a few minutes long… but often, they’re “early in the morning” – and Jenny does her show in New York – so jump to west coast time, and it’s early for me. I’d like to think I’m pretty peppy and outgoing, but feel like I wasn’t quite as awake as I could have been while chatting with her. It was still fun and easy to talk about MouseMingle though.
One of Jenny’s producers, Nicole, is recently single and she’s a big Disney fan. So Jenny asked if there was a dating site for Disney fans… and they found MouseMingle.com! Nicole joined and has been sending and getting winks – although Nicole thinks “winks” should be “pixie dust” (and I kinda like that idea… adding to the list of things to add/change/update for the future.) They did tell me that they’ve been talking about the site for a couple weeks, and Jenny told me that they’d keep updating her listeners on Nicole’s progress with the site.
I hope Nicole finds her Mickey in New York and has a magical experience like so many others who have met and started dating from the site. If you’re in New York (or know a guy in his mid-20s in New York,) help spread the word about MouseMingle to help Nicole and the other hundreds-of-thousands of Disney, Star Wars, Pixar, and Marvel fans out there who want the same magic in their relationship.
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Where’s the MouseMingle Booth at D23?
Before, during, and after D23 2017, a lot of people asked “Where’s the MouseMingle booth?” And again this year, we’ve gotten several emails from people asking where MouseMingle‘s booth is for D23 2019. The short answer is – we don’t have one. But that’s not for lack of trying.
When MouseMingle launched in late 2015, we already planned on getting a booth at the biggest Disney fan convention in the world – and when the vendor spots opened up, we got our insurance certificate, submitted it with the application, selected a few booth location preferences, and started pulling together what we were going to do for all the single Disney, Star Wars, Pixar, and Marvel fans at D23… then our application got denied. We appealed it, and they let us know that “MouseMingle isn’t a good fit for the show.” Huh? Not a good fit? Yeah, we were completely baffled too. Without any other feedback from the organizer, we couldn’t get into D23 2017. But we were hopeful for getting into D23 2019!
When they opened up vendor applications for D23 2019, we immediately applied, but were once again denied because we “aren’t a good fit for the show.” This time, we continued to ask for information to find out if there was something we should be doing, or some technicality we weren’t familiar with. Thankfully, after several emails, one great Cast Member on the team took the time to communicate with us. It turns out that since we aren’t selling Disney-licensed products, we “aren’t a good fit for the show.” We weren’t aware that was a requirement, but it makes perfect business sense. So once again, MouseMingle does not have a booth at D23 Expo.
That being said, MouseMingle does want to work with Disney to become a licensee, but for over three years haven’t been able to get our foot in the door… yet. We’ll keep trying though. We try to hold ourselves, and our members, to the same Disney standards that we learned when we worked in the Parks. We love Disney as much as everyone else does, and we want to be a Disney licensee, but it looks like it takes more money and more exposure than we have at the moment. We’ll keep trying though, and we’ll keep working to make the site better. Who knows… maybe MouseMingle will have a booth at D23 2021! Hope to see you there!
Founder, MouseMingle
Kristin and David
Kristin and David first started sending winks and messages on MouseMingle in 2016, and were married on May 25, 2019. Kristin sent the first wink to David, then he sent her a message. Her response was a geology pun and David immediately knew this was someone he wanted to get to know.
While they lived about 7 hours apart, Kristin in Pennsylvania and David in Ohio, they moved from sending regular messages on the site, to doing phone and video calls to get to know each better. David is a flight attendant, so tended to be gone for several days at a time first “date” was actually remote – they both hit ‘Play’ at the same time to watch The Princess Bride together over the phone. And the conversation never slowed down after that… there was magic.
After about six months of dating ‘digitally,’ they decided to meet in person. David drove to Kristin’s dorm in Pennsylvania, where she was getting her degree in geology, and they made tacos at her place. David knew he wanted to make the drive more often and spend time with her. Kristin said she was nervous, but felt like she already knew David for ages. It took about a month before they saw each other in person again, but that’s what David started using his flight attendant benefits to hop on flights to go see her. Between flights, bus rides, and driving, they went to visit each other much more over the next several months.
The two bonded over memories of going to Walt Disney World with their families. David’s family tended to be relaxed and take their time when they went to Disney World, while Kristin grew up running from one attraction to the other, trying to get in as much as possible. They spent a fair amount of time talking about their favorite attractions and sharing stories of family visits to the Park. But, it turns out that the first time they went to a Park together wasn’t at Disney World… it was at Disneyland. They went all out and stayed at the Grand Californian Hotel… but somehow, the cast members thought it was their honeymoon, and delivered roses and chocolates to their room to celebrate. They hadn’t even gotten engaged yet, but that didn’t scare Kristin off… it made for a great story, and she loved the flowers.
After about two years of dating, they had a very casual conversation one evening about getting married. In fact, it started more as a discussion about moving in together, as Kristin would be graduating soon, and they wanted to make more definite plans together. At the end of that talk, they suddenly realized they had just gotten engaged. They both laughed about how easy it was and how happy their relationship had been so far. In fact, neither David nor Kristin’s families were surprised about the engagement when they told them.
Their wedding was laid-back and fun. Kristin described it more like a family picnic with both families… and wedding cake. Wedding cake featuring a couple of dinosaur cake-toppers… which were wearing mouse ears. (Remember, she’s into geology and it turns out that David grew up saying he wanted to be a paleontologist!) They’re saving up for their honeymoon to go to Japan, with a big chunk of time set aside to visit Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea.
Disney Dating and Disney History
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People who grew up with Disney, and especially Disney Parks, will always have something in common. That’s part of why Disney is so magical. To find someone who not only shares the same passion for Disney, but also loves the history of Disney Parks, well… that’s magic too. That’s why so many people join MouseMingle.com – to find someone who loves Disney as much as they do.
Whether you grew up going to Walt’s original Disneyland Park, or exploring the massively huge Walt Disney World, there’s a good chance you have fond memories of attractions from the past. I’d even bet that everyone has a favorite attraction that’s no longer running. Those childhood (and adult) memories give us such happy feelings… and it’s so much better to share those feelings with someone else. So old Disney attractions are a great topic of conversation for anyone who takes the leap to send a message on MouseMingle. There’s sure to be fun stories that lead down a path to shared devotion for our Disney Parks.
Share your love of Disney with someone who loves it as much as you, and you might be on your way to starting your own family to create new memories. It all starts with a wink.
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