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Third Disney park April 1 prankster comes clean

April 7th, 2009, 4:31 pm · 5 Comments · posted by Adam Townsend, Staff Writer

If you remember last week on April Fools Day, OCMetblog published a pretty convincing report that Disney had finally announced that it was building a third theme park on the Fujishige farm property in Anaheim.

Well, that one had us scrambling over here at Around Disney — it wouldn’t have reflected well on us to have missed that story.

Though they were in meetings all morning, we showered the PR folks at Disney with telephone calls until they finally called us back and confirmed, to our relief, that the post was a hoax.

The blogger who perpetrated the prank came clean after we contacted him through MySpace.com. His name is David Share, 27, of Orange.

Share said he used to be a cast member at Disneyland, working to support the parade and show operations.

“We kind of thought it was fun to put up a couple posts for April Fools, just to have a go at someone,” Share said in a phone interview. “And they’re fun to read.”

OCMetblog is a regional blog run by all volunteers that posts news and quirky stories about Orange County. Share said the community is based on LAMetblog.

“I just like to get the plug out there,” Share said. “We’re trying to grow our division of Metblogs — the LA one is huge.”

“We just want people to know we’re not always hoaxing around,” he added.

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     5 Comments

    • r says:
      April 8, 2009 at 6:48 am

      Must be a slow news Day, a 3rd park is coming just not soon. maybe in 2016, thats what i here.

    • kevin says:
      April 8, 2009 at 7:17 am

      Yoshige Farm?

      Stellar research once again by the OC Register.

      • Adam Townsend, Staff Writer says:
        April 8, 2009 at 7:49 am

        Sorry about that mistake, Kevin. You’ll notice I fixed it to reflect the correct family name, “Fujishige,” who formerly owned the agricultural land in Anaheim bought by Disney.

    • fishtale says:
      April 8, 2009 at 8:14 am

      Didn’t one of the land owners commit suicide because Disney lobbied the city to change the zoning and jacked their land?

      • Adam Townsend, Staff Writer says:
        April 8, 2009 at 1:31 pm

        Actually, Hiroshi and Masao Fujishige were the brothers that bought the farmland now owned by Disney in the mid 1950s.
        They had returned to California after fleeing the persecution and internment of Japanese Americans during Worlld War II.
        The brothers heartily resisted the advances of developers, including the Walt Disney Co.
        They also faced pressure from the city over the years — Anaheim tried to force them to allow a road through their property as part of a big hotel development in court in 1985.
        Masao Fujishige shot himself in 1986, and rumors swirled that it was all the pressure from the city that caused him to take his own life.
        Hiroshi Fujishige appeared before council after his brother’s suicide, however, and said the members should not feel guilty — it was his brother’s failing health that prompted his suicide.
        Hiroshi Fujishige died from a traumatic brain injury in 1998 — he lingered in a coma after he fell in the tub.
        Shortly before his death, the family agreed to sell the property, then valued at about $90 million.
        Source: http://articles.latimes.com/1998/sep/30/local/me-27837