In the race to box office supremacy, it’s hard to bet against Lightning McQueen. Indeed Disney has announced the sequel to Pixar’s Cars will bring in over $68 million in its opening weekend. That number would have been higher, but there was a drop off… Read More »Pixar’s Cars 2 Takes Home a Respectable Purse at the Box Office
The topiaries that surround the exterior of Disneyland’s classic and much loved attraction “it’s a small world” have been impressing guests since 1966. But what behind the scenes magic is involved in putting on this show? This video with Topiary Engineer Craig Minasian reveals a… Read More »Small World Topiaries receive TLC
Update: Here’s the official Brave trailer from Pixar. Update: Sadly, Disney has asked youtube to remove the trailer. I’ll keep you posted when the trailer hits the internet for real. The quality on this is crappy (it was filmed of the screen in a theater… Read More »Brave Trailer
The good news is that Disney shows will continue to be available on Hulu for your viewing pleasure. The bad news is that you’ll have to endure more commercials with them. The details of the deal are murky, but expect your usual 6 to 8… Read More »Hulu updates deal with Disney Co.
Friday morning more than 150 kids from local Boys and Girls Clubs attended a private premiere of SeaWorld’s new movie, “Turtle: The Incredible Journey.” The 3D debut was held at Pointe Orlando on International Drive. For many of these children it was their first 3D film and a lot of fun was had by all.
As you can tell almost all the kids enjoyed the film. It definitely had a strong conservation message with much of the film focused on ways in which human encroachment on the turtles environment has threatened their chances of survival. But the overall message of the film is joyous and celebrates the ability of these turtles to survive enormous odds, 9 thousand miles, 26 years at sea, and return to the same beach to lay eggs again. Such is the wonder of nature.
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A few days ago I had images of three new characters up on the blog, but Disney asked that I remove them, and I did. Today there’s another leak, a new screenshot of Princess Merida, the story’s heroine. Here it is, this one looks more… Read More »New image of Merida from Brave
Remix artist Pogo, who has had a rocky relationship with Disney (sometimes on payroll, sometimes banned from doing his work), has apparently gotten clearance to release another of his amazingly beautiful video remix works. This one is titled Bloom and it is absolutely sublime! Pogo’s… Read More »Bloom – Beautiful New Video from the remix artist Pogo
“Thunder Mountain is a very fast, frightening roller coaster ride. After being on there Ramplin was terrified and worried there was going to be an accident and all of a sudden memories of the accident when he was ten came flooding back.” With those words… Read More »The Big Thunder Mountain Defense works in Court