Borrowings - Additional Information (Detail)	12 Months Ended				12 Months Ended				12 Months Ended					12 Months Ended					12 Months Ended			12 Months Ended					12 Months Ended			12 Months Ended							12 Months Ended
	Sep. 27, 2014 USD ($)	Sep. 28, 2013 USD ($)	Sep. 29, 2012 USD ($)	Sep. 27, 2014 Letters Of Credit under Revolving Credit Facility Expiring In 2019 USD ($)	Sep. 27, 2014 Foreign Currency Denominated Indian Debt USD ($)	Sep. 27, 2014 Foreign Currency Denominated Indian Debt INR	Sep. 01, 2014 Foreign Currency Denominated Indian Debt USD ($)	Sep. 01, 2014 Foreign Currency Denominated Indian Debt INR	Sep. 27, 2014 Foreign Currency Denominated Long Term Indian Debt USD ($)	Sep. 27, 2014 Foreign Currency Denominated Long Term Indian Debt INR	Sep. 27, 2014 Commercial paper USD ($)		Sep. 28, 2013 Commercial paper USD ($)	Sep. 27, 2014 Commercial paper Minimum	Sep. 27, 2014 Commercial paper Maximum	Sep. 27, 2014 U.S. medium-term notes USD ($)		Sep. 28, 2013 U.S. medium-term notes USD ($)	Sep. 27, 2014 U.S. medium-term notes Minimum	Sep. 27, 2014 U.S. medium-term notes Maximum	Sep. 27, 2014 European medium-term notes USD ($)	Sep. 27, 2014 Foreign Currency Denominated Canadian Debt USD ($)	Sep. 27, 2014 Foreign Currency Denominated Canadian Debt CAD	Sep. 28, 2013 Foreign Currency Denominated Japan Debt	Sep. 27, 2014 Foreign Currency Denominated Japan Debt USD ($)	Sep. 27, 2014 Foreign Currency Denominated Japan Debt JPY (¥)	Sep. 27, 2014 Capital Cities/ABC debt USD ($)		Sep. 28, 2013 Capital Cities/ABC debt USD ($)	Sep. 27, 2014 Hong Kong Disneyland Borrowings USD ($)		Sep. 27, 2014 Hong Kong Disneyland Borrowings HKD		Sep. 28, 2013 Hong Kong Disneyland Borrowings USD ($)	Sep. 27, 2014 Hong Kong Disneyland Borrowings Maximum Interest Rates until March, 2022	Sep. 27, 2014 Hong Kong Disneyland Borrowings Maximum Interest Rates until September, 2030	Sep. 27, 2014 Hong Kong Disneyland Resort USD ($)
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Borrowings facilities, interest rate description	All of the above bank facilities allow for borrowings at LIBOR-based rates plus a spread depending on the credit default swap spread applicable to the Company’s debt, subject to a cap and floor that vary with the Company’s debt rating assigned by Moody’s Investors Service and Standard and Poor’s. The spread above LIBOR can range from 0.23% to 1.63%.
Line of Credit Facility, Committed Capacity	$ 6,000,000,000			$ 800,000,000			$ 185,000,000	11,400,000,000
Line of Credit Facility, Capacity Used	0				88,000,000	5,400,000,000
Short-term Debt, Weighted Average Interest Rate					9.73%	9.73%
Letters of Credit, amount outstanding	223,000,000
Borrowings	14,840,000,000	14,288,000,000							148,000,000	9,100,000,000	50,000,000		0			13,713,000,000		13,155,000,000			0	294,000,000	328,000,000		538,000,000	54,000,000,000	110,000,000		111,000,000	253,000,000		2,000,000,000		275,000,000
Long-term Debt, Weighted Average Interest Rate									10.49%	10.49%
Debt Instrument, Term																			1 year	79 years
Long-term Debt, Percentage Bearing Fixed Interest, Amount																12,600,000,000
Spread above LIBOR/Canadian Dealer Offered Rate														0.23%	1.63%							0.83%	0.83%	0.42%													2.00%
Stated interest rate, minimum																0.45%
Stated interest rate, maximum																7.55%
Long-term Debt, Percentage Bearing Variable Interest, Amount																1,100,000,000
Long-term Debt, Percentage Bearing Variable Interest, Percentage Rate																0.38%
Remaining borrowing capacity																					4,000,000,000
Stated interest rate											0.00%	[1]				2.73%	[1]					2.10%	2.10%				8.75%	[1]		4.13%	[1]	4.13%	[1]		7.625%	8.50%
Debt, maturity date					Sep. 30, 2015	Sep. 30, 2015			Sep. 30, 2015	Sep. 30, 2015												Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2017	Sep. 28, 2013			Dec. 31, 2021			Sep. 30, 2022		Sep. 30, 2022
Interest capitalized	73,000,000	77,000,000	92,000,000
Interest expense, net of capitalized interest	294,000,000	349,000,000	472,000,000
Additional Capital Contributions Commitment	$ 762,000,000																																				$ 219,000,000

[1] The stated interest rate represents the weighted-average coupon rate for each category of borrowings. For floating rate borrowings, interest rates are the rates in effect at September 27, 2014; these rates are not necessarily an indication of future interest rates.