Had a great time at the opening ceremonies of the ESPN RISE Games on Saturday. The crowd and the student athletes were really pumped up for the official launch of the two week event. I think this rendition of Thriller, led by DJ Steve Dunlap, was a great way to get everyone into the spirit.
More on the opening ceremonies later, but I wanted to get out the schedule of events as they’ll be shown on ESPN3.com and ESPNU.
A small incident on a Monorail at Walt Disney World resulted in a minor injury to a cast member and a report in the Orlando Sentinel. The monorail pilot received an electric shock while flipping a switch inside the nose cone. After a trip to… Read More »Report of more Monorail Troubles at Disney World
Walt Disney’s original Magic Kingdom, Disneyland, turns 55 years old today. I am quite jealous of everyone who gets to be there today to celebrate.
Some lovely fan art for TRON: Legacy from Kathryn Hudson. Make sure you click through and check out her complete gallery of Disney fan art. There are some tremendous illustrations.
With Cars 2 coming next from Pixar Studios, the common thought was that Disney would then spin off a Cars animated TV series to continue the franchise. Today, however, Movieline is claiming that Pixar will instead work on a Direct to DVD movie set in… Read More »Disney Expanding Cars Franchise to Planes
Advertisements for an art exhibit in Poland is stirring up controversy by combining images of Mickey Mouse and a Nazi flag, complete with swastika, for an exhibit that takes on “The ‘horrors’ of the American Lifestyle.” The poster has been vandalized twice since it first… Read More »Sign in Poland with Mickey Mouse and Nazis protested
Twitter just launched a new service called @EarlyBird. It’s basically a channel that will alert followers to special deals. The first deal just happens to be special two for one tickets to Disney’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice via Fandango. Act soon as this is a limited time offer.
More on EarlyBird below the jump:
Read More »Sorcerer’s Apprentice helps launch Twitter’s EarlyBird
Disney’s $7 billion purchase of Pixar Studios is looking better and better all the time. Not only are they continuing to roll out the hits (Toy Story 3 just became the best performing domestic release from Pixar ever) but they’re helping to save other projects… Read More »TRON: Legacy touched up by Pixar braintrust