This morning, I was reading through my RSS feeds when I came across an article titled, “Company floats ads in ‘clouds’ shaped like corporate logos.” When I saw that Walt Disney World was involved, I had to read more.

A special-effects entrepreneur from Alabama has come up with a way to fill the sky with foamy clouds as big as 4 feet across and shaped like corporate logos - Flogos, as he calls them.

Francisco Guerra, who’s also a former magician, developed a machine that produces tiny bubbles filled with air and a little helium, forms the foam into shapes and pumps them into the sky.

The Walt Disney Co. will use one of the machines next month to send clouds shaped like Mickey Mouse heads into the air at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., Guerra said.

If you visit the Flogos website, you can watch videos of the machine in action. Here is the one of Mickey Mouse ears flying up into the sky.

On a side note, Dewayne of the Orlando Sentinel’s Theme Park Rangers blog posted a note about how Wheel of Fortune is coming to Sea World. In mid-December, four weeks of shows will be taped and the contestant search will begin soon. I got a head start on that process by filling out the contestant registration form on the Wheel of Fortune website.

Just to see who’s ready to be on the show, here’s a puzzle …

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