What’s inside the Cathay Circle Theatre replica at Disney’s Hollywood Studio? Why vintage Mickey Mouse toys, of course. Concept art for the re-made entrance plaza to California Adventure shows them getting their own Cathay Circle Theatre replica. I hope they leave this collection alone.
Here’s a quick video introducing Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in song and dance. Check out the groovy outfits. Those dancers are the “Kids Of The Kingdom”. The park was a few weeks from opening to the public, note the very unfinished Tomorrowland.
The NY Times visits with WALL-E Director Andrew Stanton. In it Stanton denies that he created WALL-E as an allegory for our abuse of the planet. “I was writing this thing so long ago, how could I have known what’s going on now?” he said.… Read More »Stanton denies WALL-E is an environmental allegory
Having grown up when video games meant Atari Pong or Space Duel, I am exactly the age group that abandoned Pinball machines for coin operated arcade games. However, I’ve never really given up my love for Pinball. It’s a game format I hope never really goes away.
All through the 90s and into the early 2000s I played whatever Pinball I could get my hands on, usually at Disneyland which always had a small, but nice, collection of Pinball machines in their Tomorrowland Starcade. I’m just guessing, but I would lay odds that fellow Disneyland fan Greg Maletic spend more than a few loads of laundry worth of quarters on those Disneyland pinball machines.
Greg, as it turns out, has recently completed a documentary called TILT: The Battle to Save Pinball.
Not just for pinball fanatics, TILT tells an account that any follower of technology, design, or business will find fascinating. Seen from the perspective of the designers that created Pinball 2000, TILT is a story about personality and passion, of bold success dizzyingly followed by stunning failure.
Check out the official website for details on when a screening might be coming to a theater near you. Or check beneath the cut for a trailer to whet your appetite.
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Below the cut is the latest trailer “Cities”, the best yet.
Before there was WALL-E, Disney’s most famous robot was V.I.N.CENT the robot from Disney’s “The Black Hole.” His name is an acronym for Vital Information Necessary, CENTralized. (Man, that was a stretch.) Although he was essentially a poor-man’s R2D2, he could hover, fight, and even… Read More »V.I.N.CENT rides again?
Two reviews of Disneyland’s newest “House Of The Future”. It’s actually the Innoventions Dream House sponsored by Microsoft. 5000 sq ft of all the latest gadgets and technology that you can stuff into a house introduced to you by the “Elias” family. Ardendale Station takes… Read More »Disney’s New House Of The Future
You may remember that Disney and NASA sent Buzz Lightyear into space for long visit to the Space Station. I hope that he doesn’t suffer any ill effects from the zero gravity. But he did sent back a video showing him living large in space, you can view it below the cut.