Right now it’s a mixed bag when it comes to Central Florida’s tourism industry. But the bag is still filled with gold. Universal Studios just reported $92 million in profit last year; it’s best year ever. That with 1.8 percent fewer visitors to Orlando in 2007 than in 2006. I think that Universal benefited from… Read More »Orlando in a bit of a holding pattern
The Mousekingdom Blog is reporting on an accident that occurred at Disneyland Paris’ Big Thunder Mountain Railroad last Thursday. The attraction was closed the rest of the day but opened the next morning. He has a picture a reader sent in with emergency crews stabilizing someone just off the track. It’s hard to tell if… Read More »Accident on Disneyland Paris’ Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Tonight ABC Television is focused on one thing… the Oscars. ABC News has a behind the scenes video to get you excited about tonights show. Fair warning: You have to sit through a pre-roll commercial. Also note that Barbara Walter’s has Miley Cyrus and Harrison Ford on her Awards Night special. Before or after the… Read More »ABC hosts The Oscars
Slashfilm reports on five WALL-E clips that were previewed at WonderCon. Plenty of spoilers, so be careful if you want to remain spoiler free. But suffice it to say that everyone was impressed. I’m actually a bit surprised that Disney doesn’t have WALL-E dolls and merchandise in the stores already. He’s so cute, I think… Read More »Pixar News – Wall-E and Up
Okay, file this one in stories of the strange and bizzare. A Norwegian museum director claims to have discovered Disney cartoons which he believes were drawn by Adolf Hitler during World War Two. It’s well known that Hitler tried to make a living as an artist before going into politics. Sketches of Disney characters were… Read More »Hitler the Disney Cartoonist
Disney has announced three new Walt Disney Treasures DVD volumes from the Disney Vault featuring never-before-seen material. "Destino", "Chronological Donald, Volume 4", "Dr Syn, Alias the Scarecrow" will make up the eighth installment of the popular series. Noted film historian, author and critic Leonard Maltin hosts each DVD.
This is the series that was on life-support a few years ago. So it’s nice to have the series continue.
The full release, as well as links to all the current Walt Disney Treasures DVDs are below the cut:
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You know, this show is almost impossible to summarize. There is so much going on, it is hard to know where to begin. I think I will begin with the beach group because they had the least amount of time this week. Island – Beach Group – Jin and Sun are deciding where to live… Read More »Lost: Eggtown
Congrats to Michael O’Grattan, who has been named to replace Greg Emmer as head of operations at the Disneyland Resort. O’Grattan was previously the V.P. at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Orlando. (via Themelaw) BoingBoing and PSFK both are unhappy with Disneyland’s planned Home Of The Future. Apparently, Disney has lost that future feeling. I’m not… Read More »Thursday Night Roundup