The Imagineering Re-birth blog hopes they may be out of business. Regardless, the announcement is a substantial one and could signal the beginning of the end of WDI’s paranoiac, toxic and grade school culture as well as set the stage for the renaissance of WDI into the creative powerhouse and industry leader it once was.… Read More »Cautious Optimism from Disney’s critics
Some little movie opens tomorrow night. Here in Orlando there’s a big merchandise event where people paid big bucks to be the first public audience to see the movie at Midnight Thursday, alas now that the debut has been moved up to 8PM Thursday, these guests are understandably upset that their time hasn’t been moved… Read More »Morning Roundup – May 23rd
Word is out that Disneyland will begin the demolishing of Fort Wilderness as soon as next week. It’s been closed to the public for 5 years and sadly will head to yesterland permanently shortly. Here’s a picture of Uncle Walt and my Grandfather Vic Greene surveying the construction of Fort Wilderness. In Walt’s mind he… Read More »Fort Wilderness to be demolished
Episodes of ABC’s hit television show LOST have been for sale on iTunes for over a year, but now you can add the LOST video game to your 5g iPod. This is the first iTunes game for Gameloft, normally a mobile phone game developer. In the LOST game you play the Jack character and interact… Read More »Get LOST video game on your iPod
Jim Hill Media has details about a shake-up in management at Walt Disney Imagineering. Hopefully this change is instituted from the top or it’s unlikely anything will be different in the parks. Disney World workers have approved a contract extension while negotiations go on after the first vote rejected Disney’s offer. So no strike on… Read More »Morning Roundup
Paul Cozby, who penned his own play called "High School Musical" months before Disney’s version hit the bigtime, finds that a little controversy may be a good thing. Cozby will now have a reading of his play on Broadway. This might create an interesting situation for Disney with competing versions of the same titled play… Read More »Non-Disney High School Musical gets Broadway Treatment
Check out these cool ads visitors to Orlando International Airport will see for the Disney-MGM Studios Star Wars weekends. You can also get a preview on some of the merchandise that will be available at the weekend festival that runs June-June 24. Alas posters of these ads won’t be available. (Link)
Watched the E! TV premiere coverage last night. Was actually a pretty decent show with many of the big stars interviewed. The setup for the red-carpet seemed to favor one side over the other. So I have a feeling many fans who waited up to 12 hours to see the stars experienced some disappointment. The… Read More »Pirates 3 Premiere Roundup – II