Pixar has released another short clip from Brave to whet your appetite. This scene follows one of the most emotional moments in the film and marks a major moment of transition in Princess Merida’s journey. Obviously, don’t watch if you don’t want to be spoiled.… Read More »Will-O’-The-Wisp – Pixar Brave Extended Clip
We visited Dumbo the Flying Elephant yesterday, today we’ll take a longer walk around the Magic Kingdom with photos of many changes at the park. The Dwarfs Mine Train ride show building is expanding, The New Fantasyland Wall is really taking shape, and lots of… Read More »Magic Kingdom Update – New Fantasyland, Storybook Circus, and More
Here’s another bit of out of the box advertising from the Disney Company, Disney Consumer Products and Disney Living. It’s a marvelous stop motion short story featuring one of their Snow White dolls. You can find the whole
Radio Disney’s Next Big Thing (aka N.B.T.) is sort of the mouse’s equivalent of American Idol, only without all the glamor, or the huge recording contract at the end. This weekend Disney World guest’s will have a chance to get to know the Season Five… Read More »Radio Disney’s Next Big Thing Concerts at Hollywood Studios this weekend
Walt Disney World announced their plans to illuminate the night skies with special pyrotechnic shows for our nation’s independence holiday. It’s a weird week with the 4th of July falling on the Wednesday but that won’t stop Disney from showing a wide selection of shows,… Read More »Walt Disney World Fourth of July Fireworks
If you haven’t seen much of Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa in Ko Olina, then you’ve missed out on a terrific project where Walt Disney Imagineers worked hand in hand with local Hawaiians to create the first Disney resort on Hawaii. More than a… Read More »Aulani, Video Introduction
For the first time in over 30 years, NASA is permitting Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex guests to tour the Launch Control Center – where NASA directors and engineers supervised all of the 152 launches for the space shuttle and Apollo programs. Anyone who has ever dreamed of being an astronaut or felt hope upon seeing a rocket launch should add this unique opportunity to their schedule when visiting Central Florida.
The KSC Up-Close: Launch Control Center (LCC) Tour, the second in Kennedy Space Center’s special 50th anniversary series of rare-access tours, takes visitors inside Firing Room 4, one of the LCC’s four firing rooms and the one from which all 21 space shuttle launches since 2006 were controlled.
Giant Mural inside LCC Lobby
Inside Firing Room 4, visitors pass by the computer consoles at which engineers monitored the computerized launch control system’s thousands of system checks every minute leading up to launch. They’ll see the main launch countdown clock and many large video monitors on the walls, and enter the “bubble room,” with its wall of interior windows through which the Kennedy Space Center management team viewed all of the proceedings below.
Yesterday we saw the first trailer for Monsters University, the next film from Pixar following Brave. Monsters University is a prequel to Monsters Inc and will take Mike & Sulley back to their college years. Disney has released some concept art and images from that trailer which show the rich world making detail that was a large part of the success of Monsters Inc 11 years ago.
I’ve uploaded them in sizes suitable for most desktop screens if you click on the image. The other thing this makes me think of, is that Disney merchandising could already be selling a whole line of Monsters University merchandise and put us fans to work as walking ads for the film. I’d buy a Monsters U Reyn Spooner shirt right now and happily wear a Monsters Univ sweatshirt all winter long. Pennants, hats, jerseys, the list is endless. Just walk into your nearest university bookstore and recreate that.
Below the jump are more images from the trailer. I love looking at all the great detail in the world of Monstropolis.