Al Lutz

Al Lutz is an internet blogger who publishes rumors primarily about the Disneyland Resort in California and other Disney businesses. He relies on anonymous sources for his columns at MiceAge.com and has been quoted in many mainstream news reports about Disney, including coverage in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. He is often seen hobbling around the Disneyland Resort with his cult of followers from MiceChat and attending their noon meet up every Sunday.
History
In the 1990s, Lutz posted messages in the alt.disney.disneyland USENET newsgroup before moving to the World Wide Web, where he edited the Disneyland Information Guide, an unofficial resource for information about the Anaheim, California theme park. "It just started as an FAQ, but then we developed it into a gossip column," he told USC's Online Journalism Review in a 2007 interview. "I think having the viewpoint is what's important to me. Because that's one thing they'll kill you for on the Web is not having one." The article also calls Al Lutz "the dean of theme park reporters on the Internet".
With owners of several other Disney-related sites, on July 17, 2000, he launched MousePlanet.com, a news and travel-planning Web site largely devoted to Disney's theme parks. In 2002 he left the site with fellow writer Kevin Yee to create MiceAge.com, a Web site devoted primarily to commentary and anonymously sourced reports about Disney's theme parks. Lutz currently is the site's editor-in-chief.

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