Home Media Retailing reports that Disney’s video and DVD distribution arm Buena Vista Video has decided to end their experiment with Disposable DVDs, known as EZ-D. I’m not shocked at this. The pricing was always unreasonable as was the delivery method. The world of DVRs and Netflix has made picking up DVDs (regular or self-destructing)… Read More »Ya shoulda bought in August.
Disney is set to auction off more of its history. This time a couple of attraction vehicles from Disneyland including an old skyway car and a space mountain vechicle. Looks like these were the vehicles that had been hanging in the Rocket Rod’s queue. That queue is now part of the exciting Buzz Lightyear ride… Read More »Disney auctions off more history!
Break out those 3-D glasses, 3D DisVids has released a set of 3-D home movies taken at Disney themeparks. So far we have The Nightmare Before Christmas version of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion and The It’s A Small World Holiday. They work great on your screen. Try it at home!
Looks like I may have a little competition in the weblog universe, this time from the Mouse himself. Webpronews announces a seminar from Disney on their future plans to use RSS and blogging. Slides from the presentation are already online in this PDF.
Over on the Make weblog they pay a visit to the Live Steamers a group of small train hobbiests in Los Angeles. This is the same location (but you have to use a different entrance gate) to visit Walt Disney’s famous barn. See also the Carolwood Society for much more info.
According to a story on HotelChatter.com the hotel resorts at Hong Kong Disneyland are now accepting ressies for the September opening. Whether this will be a stunner or a bummer remains to be seen, but Disney’s first foray into the Chinese themepark market is bound to make waves.
Some great photos of a special ‘It’s A Small World" mural designed by Mary Blair and dedicated as a gift by Walt Disney. Scroll down for additional concept artwork on the South Seas portion of "It’s A Small World." [ ttags: art, blair, disney, iasw, design ]
This last week Slate magazine featured a pictoral look at Celebration, FL with commentary and photos by architect Witold Rybczynski. His conclusions are mixed (generally good residential and poor commercial) and his observations about the direction Celebration has taken rings very true. Although Disney is no longer involved in this town, the story is worth… Read More »Celebration, a new look.