LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A Disneyland explosion today 2013 has just struck a Toontown garbage can moments ago. Witnesses report that a Toontown garbage can exploded today May 28, 2013. And now reports are indicating that an evacuation is underway.

The Disneyland explosion was reported by park victors shortly after 6 pm PST today. Shawna Gonzales writes moments ago that she “was sitting in Toontown at Disneyland and something exploded in the trash can.” She also tells news that “I felt the sound waves of it and Toontown is closed.”

Reports are indicating that sections or all of Toontown are now being closed. Firefighters and law enforcement are currently on scene. The cause of the explosion has yet to be confirmed to news. But attendants are indicating that Toontown is now closed as of 6:15 PM PST today. Disneyland has yet to issue any statement to news about that matter.

Meantime, witnesses were unable to describe the condition of the can or the explosion prior to the evacuation. While news of the explosion spread quickly on Twitter, few individuals had details about the garbage can at the time of explosion.

UPDATE: Anaheim police confirms to news  that “dry ice in a plastic bottle” was the cause of the explosion. Evacuations were ordered but no persons were injured. Robert Lopez of the LA Times reports that the dry ice was no accident. “Police tell us dry ice ‘bomb’ was placed in plastic container…. Sheriff’s tell us they are rolling a bomb squad to assist.”

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A Superman Action Comics No. 1 found in a home insulation could have earned millions for homeowner David Gonzales. That was until he got into a fight with his relative over the comic, and the back cover got ripped off.

The famed Superman Action Comics No. 1 has dominated news over the years. Action Comics #1 was published in April 1938 by National Allied Publications. In 2011, LALATE reported news of one owned by actor Nicholas Cage.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Disney has pulled out of Bangladesh and other deemed “high risk countries”. Disney pulled out of Bangladesh its merchandise operations following the recent factory collapse that left four hundred people dead and the fire that killed more than one hundred persons.

Bangladesh is the latest country that Disney has halted production in. Disney will also pull out of Ecuador, Venezuela, Belarus and Pakistan, by April 2014. “After much thought and discussion we felt this was the most responsible way to manage the challenges associated with our supply chain,” said Bob Chapek, president of Disney Consumer Products, in a recent news statement. Meantime J.C. Penney, Benetton and Sears have urged for improved working conditions in Bangladesh.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Disney layoffs 2013 will be announced as early as next week, April 8, claims a series of celebrity news reports today. The latest Disney layoffs however are prompting silence by Bob Iger. Variety and Reuters today are claiming a series of exclusives about a new round of Disney layoffs coming as early as this month. But Disney (NYSE: DIS) is refusing to comment about the anticipated news announcement.

First Reuters claims that two divisions will be hit with layoffs: studio operations and consumer products. Sources tell Reuters that those layoffs will be announced in the next two weeks. The number of employees impacted in each division remains unknown.

Second, Variety claims a slightly different story. It asserts that “home entertainment, production and marketing” will be hit by layoffs. And while Reuters asserts the layoffs will be announced in the next two weeks, Variety claims they will be announced before May 7, when the Mouse reports second quarter earnings.

The anticipated Disney layoffs are in addiction to the LucasArts layoffs, roughly 150 persons, that were announced on Wednesday. An additional fifty employees were dismissed from Disney Interactive last year.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – A Mickey Mouse poster delivered a record $100,000 sale price this week. Heritage Auctions tells news that the $100,000 Mickey Mouse poster was from a deceased collector’s family. The original owner’s name was not released to news, nor the buyer’s identity.

Grey Smith, director of movie poster auctions at Heritage Auctions, told news today that the poster was “an important piece of pop culture treasure”. The poster released in 1928 prompted a Mickey movie. On it, the poster details the “Mickey Mouse sound cartoon” and calls Mickey “The World’s Funniest Cartoon Character.”

Insiders tell news that there was no other poster produced the following year. In 1930, the posters changed when Columbia Pictures took over film distribution rights for Mickey flicks.

Last year, LALATE reported that a Nicolas Cage owned copy of Action Comics #1, the 1938 comic book that featured Superman for the first time, was found nearly a decade after it was stolen. Those comic book valuations surprised news at the time. Reports claimed that in 2010 a lesser condition copy of Action Comics #1 sold for $317,000. But that same year, another copy in better condition sold for $1 million.

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