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May 2007

Pirates 3 scores Worldwide Victory

I may have been a little over-zealous in my previous prediction. Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End, while setting a number of box office records in its opening weekend, does not appear to be on a path for setting the highest worldwide gross ever. It did, however, take in $404 Million in worldwide gross… Read More »Pirates 3 scores Worldwide Victory

Ratatouille Soundtrack now available on Amazon

Ratatouillesoundtrack The Ratatouille Soundtrack available for pre-order on Amazon.com. It ships June 26 and costs $18.98. Michael Giacchino (Lost, Alias, Mission Impossible 3) wrote the music and if it’s anywhere as good as The Incredibles I’m very excited.

The track list is included below the cut as it may include spoilers. 

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Six injured on Disney Water Raft Attraction, Kali River Rapids at Animal Kingdom

Update: LaughingPlace.com reports the Kali River Rapids has reopened. In inspection found nothing wrong with the attraction, just the evacuation method used. Disney will use an alternate evacuation method if needed. The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that 6 people, 5 guests and a cast member, were injured during an attraction evacuation on the Kali River… Read More »Six injured on Disney Water Raft Attraction, Kali River Rapids at Animal Kingdom

Morning Roundup – May 29th

Hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend. We had friends in town and enjoyed showing them around Walt Disney World. This is usually a busy weekend, but I didn’t notice atrociously long lines anyway.  Tomorrow though June 4th is Gay Days 2007 at Walt Disney World. Be prepared for ultra busy parks as the… Read More »Morning Roundup – May 29th

Pirates Of The Caribbean Rules the Box Office

According to BoxOfficeMojo.com Walt Disney’s Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End earned $126 million through Sunday. That puts it on a pace to beat the previous record for Memorial Day Weekend and, possibly, to become the highest grossing film ever. What’s more if you add in the worldwide grosses and the film is already… Read More »Pirates Of The Caribbean Rules the Box Office

Make your own Pinocchio Marionette – 1941

Looking for a project this Memorial Day Weekend? How about building your own Pinocchio Marionette? As part of the original publicity campaign for the Walt Disney Classic Animated Feature Popular Science ran a feature on how to make your own marionette based on the ones animators used as a model during the film’s production. Puppetbuilding.com… Read More »Make your own Pinocchio Marionette – 1941

Thoughts on WDI Management Changes

I look at the recent management changes at Walt Disney Imagineering to be a good thing.  Whether or not will end up taking WDI in a better direction will depend on many factors.  Even if everything internally gets all hunky dory, WDI does not operate in a vacuum.  It is part of a large corporation… Read More »Thoughts on WDI Management Changes

Back in the Day at WDFA – 1983

Steve Hulett, current of The Animation Guild Blog, used to be an animator for Walt Disney Feature Animation. He recently posted some reflections back to the year 1983, (part 1 and part 2) the last year before Michael Eisner and Sparky Katzenburg made their influence known and the WDFA of old was gone forever. There… Read More »Back in the Day at WDFA – 1983