Amusement Business has released their estimated theme park attendance figures for 2005 and once again the Walt Disney Company has cleaned house. Disney owns the top five spots with Orlando’s Magic Kingdom claiming top spot with 16.1 million visitors, an increase of 6.5%. Anaheim’s Disneyland placed second with 14.5 million, an increase of 8.5% (bolstered… Read More »Themepark Attendance Figures with Disney on top
Rumors, a Variety article, and this story in UPI all indicate that a Disney and Pixar deal will shortly be announced. Must have been a Christmas truce. The UPI article indicates that Disney will retain the rights to make sequels based on the existing library. No word on the coveted themepark rights, but I don’t… Read More »Iger, Jobs, Close to Announcement?
MoMA has made available online a short online tour of their fabulous Pixar: 20 years of Animation exhibit. The audio walks you through 19 pictures from the exhibit with a narrator and artist interviews explaining each. This is great for those of us who won’t be able to make it up to NYC. [ disney,… Read More »Audio Tour of MoMA’s Pixar Exhibit
Winnie-the-Pooh turns 80 years old today. His first public appearance was on Christmas Eve in 1925 in the London Evening News. Of course, A.A. Milne had been telling stories of Winnie-the-Pooh to his soon for years before that. But Christmas Eve is the generally accepted birthdate. I hope Winnie survives another 80 years without too… Read More »Happy 80th Birthday Pooh!
One of Don Bluth’s, an ex-Disney animator, most successful box office films was the 1997 movie Anastasia he did for Fox. This is the one where they showed it in a theatre with the Disney logo infront and it got much higher audience ratings than when shown with a Fox logo. According to DVDToons a… Read More »Anastasia: Family Fun DVD?
Disney issued a press release today outlining the upcoming changes and attractions at Disney’s world wide theme parks. Now, normally when you release some news on a Friday you’re hoping to bury it over the weekend. But this being a holiday weekend they may be hoping to pick up on some slow news time for… Read More »Disney Themeparks, what’s next?
After 36 years of NFL football madness, ABCs Monday Night Football is coming to an end. CNN/Money has a nice write up but for some reason I can’t find any coverage on ESPN. I’ll definately miss the show, although since moving to the east coast, those late monday nights were beginning to kill me. I… Read More »The Whistle Blows for Monday Night Football
As unhappy as I was with the Narnia exhibit at Disney-MGM Studios, looks liked I’d be very pleased with the props and displays out for viewing at Disney’s El Capitan in Hollywood. I also like what they did with the decorations inside the theatre itself. If you live in the area the El Capitan has… Read More »El Capitan Narnia Exhibit