Please welcome back Mark Storer to The Disney Blog. – Editor I grew up listening to and playing music. When I was young, it was the Jackson 5 and the Osmond Brothers that dominated the pop scene. Others were prevalent, too, of course. I remember… Read More »The Jonas Brothers Deserve Their Success
Here’s another video from Youtube featuring clips of Michael Jackson as he toured Disneyland Paris in 1992 (when it was still Euro-Disney). I saw him a couple times at Disneyland and the scene was similar to this, although without the gathered crowds waiting to snap… Read More »Michael Jackson Tribute – Disneyland Paris 1992
While we’re all still absorbing the news of the untimely death of the King of Pop Michael Jackson, I thought we’d take a little retrospective tour through his Disneyland history. Back in 1974 he and his brothers appeared in a Disneyland TV special featuring Sandy… Read More »Michael Jackson Tribute – Jackson Five Disneyland Special
Lots of sad news today including the announcement that the King of Pop Michael Jackson has died in Los Angeles at the age of 50 while in training for his big comeback tour. Our hearts to out to the family and friends of Jackson. There… Read More »Michael Jackson, aka Captain EO, dead.
Next year there will be 10 movies nominated for and Academy Award for Best Picture instead of the usual 5. Something the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president said made me thing this change should be called the ‘Pixar rule’. “I would not… Read More »Did OSCAR change Bext Picture Rules to Help Pixar?
The San Gabriel Valley Tribune profiles a team of three Cal State Fullerton Students who were finalists in a Walt Disney Imagineering contest to design and build a prototype of an attraction. Their idea is an interactive adventure featuring a guy named Otto. Their concept,… Read More »Cal State Fullerton Students make Imagineering Contest Attraction
We’re about a month away from the glorifious geek fest that is Comic-Con. Sadly, I’ve never been able to make it myself. But for those out there in The Disney Blog-land who are going, make sure you catch this session on Disney’s legendary animator and teacher of the craft Walt Stanchfield.
The panel will be moderated by Don Hahn of the Walt Disney Studios and features Glen Keane, Eric Goldberg, Tom Sito, and Ruben Procopio as expert panelists. The panel discussion will celebrate the launch of the new book, Drawn to Life: 20 Golden Years of Disney Master Classes, the complete series of animation lectures by Walt Stanchfield. Catch it Thursday July 23rd at Noon.
Full Press Release is below the cut:
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The Hall of Presidents update to include President Obama and otherwise update the attraction is just about done. We’ve known for some time about details like the new narrator and speaking lines by George Washington, but yesterday Orlando Sentinel writer Dewayne Bevil got a sneak… Read More »Hall of Presidents Set to Re-open, new details revealed