You may have noticed that the Pirate thing is doing okay for Disney. In fact, Mickey News is reporting that the merchandise from the movie based on a ride is such a hit, that a television series my be the natural next step. You follow? What they’re saying is that everyone’s favorite swashbuckling pirate may… Read More »Pirates on TV?
According to the L.A. Times: David Hilberman, whose union activities at Walt Disney Studios and brief membership in the Communist Party led to his blacklisting and shadowed a long career that included founding the innovative United Productions of America studio, has died. He was 95. Hilberman died of natural causes July 5 at Stanford University… Read More »David Hilberman Dies
And now for your Saturday Surreal moment. You may recall that Kenny Ortega is remaking Footloose into a movie musical for Disney. Zac Efron will star in the Kevin Bacon role. But you probably don’t know that Footloose played a big role at Disney themeparks in 1986.
First, for Walt Disney World’s 15th Anniversary Television special a very memorable scene was choreographed to the song. Now watch as Emmanuel Lewis and the Toy Soldiers on Parade groove to the beat!
After the jump you’ll find another 1986 appearance of Footloose. This time it’s Kenny Loggin himself performing at one of Disneyland’s gradnights. Man, dig those crazy fashions. Especially at 1:24 seconds in. 80s hair alert!
Alain over at Disney and More has posted three photos of what must have been quite a fireworks display at Disneyland Paris for Bastille Day celebrations. The soon to open remodeled restaurants in the Japan pavilion at Epcot officially have names now. Three restaurants have been combined into two. Teppan Edo, which we assume will… Read More »Morning Roundup – July 20th
Want to learn how to build your own Animator’s Desk? Then check out this post at Animation Un-Loc’d where you can find instructions on how to do it for less than $40 in parts. I hear students over and over again saying I will do my animation just as soon as I can afford to… Read More »How to Build your own Animation Desk
An anonymous reader of the Upcoming Pixar Blog submitted a very detailed report of a talk given by Michael Johnson (homepage) head of the "Moving Pictures Group" at Pixar. As such Johnson designs, develops and supports the in-house pipeline for the Story and Editorial process. Anyone looking for insight into how the magic happens up… Read More »Morning Round Up – July 19th
I seem to be in a fairly verbose mood today. I guess the reveal that The Disneyland Resort’s second gate will get the relaunch is deserves has me excited. I’ll spare those not interested in reading another long essay and put this one below the fold.
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Note: this started as a comment on this Mouse Extra post. It got so long I moved it to the The Disney Blog as an extended commentary. There has been some concern that the recent approval of a hunk of cash to improve California Adventure will mean less money for Disney’s other theme parks. What… Read More »Will the $1 billion to fix Disneyland’s Second Gate hurt Disney World?