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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Disney cast members and U.S. Marines are working side by side this week to sort thousands of donated gifts for the Disney Ultimate Toy Drive<\/a>, an annual effort supporting Toys for Tots and families in need across Central Florida.<\/p>\n Volunteers gathered Thursday at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex, where piles of board games, stuffed animals and other toys were being organized for distribution.\u00a0<\/p>\n A Disney spokesperson \u2014 greeting volunteers in festive holiday attire \u2014 said the atmosphere was “pure joy” as cast members turned out in large numbers.<\/p>\n These toys go right back to Central Florida families, Disney says.<\/p>\n Disney\u2019s partnership with Toys for Tots<\/a> stretches back decades, rooted in a relationship that began when Walt Disney and his animators helped design the program\u2019s original train logo 75 years ago.<\/p>\n The toy sorting will continue throughout the week as Marines and volunteers prepare the gifts for delivery to local children ahead of the holidays.<\/p>\n How to Participate <\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n Fans and families can join the Disney Ultimate Toy Drive by donating a toy online now through Dec. 24 at DisneyStore.com\/ToyDrive.<\/a><\/p>\n The Source: This story was written based on information shared by the Walt Disney Company.<\/p>\n \u00a0 Orange County News<\/a>Disney<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Disney cast members and U.S. Marines are working side by side this week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6859,47,28,30,29,115,1335,9421,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-80627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-disney","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-florida-headlines","12":"tag-florida-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-orange-county","15":"tag-organizations","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}