Ty Pennington and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition blow up a house. I really don’t have to say more than that. Just go see the video over on TV Squad. Then see the full episode this Sunday at 8PM on ABC.
Looks like final negotiations are winding down between the cast of High School Musical and The Walt Disney Company. Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale are rumored to be signing deals for substantial increases with the rest of the cast, including Zac Efron, following shortly. Yes, I said Vanessa Hudgens is back for High School Musical… Read More »Disney getting close to signing High School Musical cast for third film
The Orlando Sentinel reports that Castaway Cay survived its brush with Hurricane Noel with only minor damage. The Disney Magic skipped the port because of the storm, but will try and make a stop on its return visit this week. (via My Disney Mania)
This is cool. Someone tracked down the tow-truck that was the inspiration for Tow-Mater in Pixar’s movie Cars and posted it on WayMarking. Turns out ‘Mater’ was sitting in front of a run down gas station in Galena, KS. Well now they’re restored the gas station and fixed up Mater with some ‘cars eyes’ for… Read More »Tow-Mater’s inspiration inspires a bit of small town restoration along Route 66
For some reason, Disney’s normally enthusiastic, extensive publicity machine is keeping quiet on this announcement in a Russian news source: Disneyland will be built in Krasnoyarsk by 2012. It was announced by Krasnoyarsk deputy mayor Anatoly Grigorenko at the news conference on October 30. Grigorenko said it was planned to build the children park in… Read More »Siberia Disneyland?
Another sign of the real world impacting the magical bubble that is the Walt Disney World resort. Early this morning a couple was robbed at gunpoint by a menacing pair, one of whom was wearing a clown mask. Thankfully, no one was injured, but you have to wonder if this will hurt Disney’s reputation as… Read More »Halloween Night Robbery at Downtown Disney, Orlando
Well, it had to happen. There had to be a Pushing Daisies episode that didn’t make me want to sing and dance. OK, that’s an exaggeration. But last night’s episode wasn’t my fave. It felt like, "Hey, our show is going to air on Halloween. Let’s make a Halloween episode. Oh yeah, don’t forget about… Read More »The Halloween Episode (or Pushing Daisies: Girth)
Meanwhile, back at my old haunting ground, the Lloyd Center mall up in Portland, Oregon, John Lasseter and the crew from Pixar held a test-audience screening for the next film to come from the talented studio, Wall-E. With Ratatouille breaking the $500 million mark Pixar’s string of successes is continues, so the pressure is on… Read More »Early Sneak Peak of Pixar’s next film, Wall-E, is quite positive