BloggingBaby and The Parenting Blog both highlighted the coming of Wondertime, a new magazine from Disney’s FamilyFun division. "Wondertime is . . . a new magazine dedicated to helping parents nurture their children’s love of learning. A blend of how and why, Wondertime inspires moms of infants through 6-year-olds to see the world through the… Read More »New Disney Parenting Magazine
The Orlando Business Journal Reports that a new 29 acre Hotel/Condo resort will be going up near Disney Animal Kingdom Lodge. I’m a little worried this resort will be visible from the AKL. I’ve had my eye on that property for some time and hoped that Disney owned it. Looks like they didn’t. The move… Read More »Animal Kingdom Lodge gets new neighbor
Sorry for the delay in getting to the blogosphere reactions. There have certainly been a lot of them. If I miss yours and you want me to check it out, please drop me a link. Before I get going here, I wanted to correct a major oversight on my part. From the moment this deal… Read More »Pixar RoundUp – IIII
If you’re a fan of the possible Alternate Reality Game (ARG) that is building up around the LOST TV Show mythology, then you need to read this interview with Sean Stewart. Stewart is an award winning sci-fi novelist who has turned his attention to the design of ARG. You may be involved in one right… Read More »LOST: clues to the ARG
Coop has some thoughts on the fact that Devo is now doing children’s music for Disney. I can completely appreciate the absolute genius of this DEV2.O thing. It’s probably their single most brilliantly subversive move to implant the concepts of Devolution. Essentially Devo has taken a page from the playbook of corporate America. Hook’em while… Read More »Devolution at Disney
Bad news for folks who like to get their Disney shopping fix from home; The Disney Catalog will stop publishing and instead focus solely on the DisneyShopping.com website. Um, what about those people who don’t have broadband internet access? or internet access at all? How are they going to let people know they have new… Read More »Disney Catalog wraps up
Last year Disney unexplainably cancelled the famous "What’s Next" Super Bowl campaign. This year, however, they’re back with a whole new version of the classic.
It’s hard to beat the artistry of Mary Blair when it comes to representing children. The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive blog has posted some scans of her long out of print book "Little Verses". In these paintings you can see the beginnings of Blair’s concept artwork for the 1964 World’s Fair attraction "it’s a small world".… Read More »Mary Blair book up at ASIFA Blog