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While not even scheduled to open until late 2008, a few lucky souls have been given previews of The Walt Disney Family Museum. Roger Colton was one of them and he gives Jim Hill Media his full report. A great deal of what visitors will eventually see is very personal to the Disney family. For… Read More »A Preview of the Walt Disney Family Museum
The One-Sheet for Pixar’s next big film, ‘Cars‘ is out. It’s a wonderful shot of many of the movie’s characters and the off the map town of Radiator Springs. Of course, I immediately looked for easter eggs. I couldn’t find the Pizza Planet truck, but there is a ‘Lightyear’ blimp. Old Buzz would be proud.… Read More »Cars One Sheet (and more)
Disney has long held the rights to a number of properties that were once owned by DIC entertainment. On offer at MIPTV will be Inspector Gadget (86 half-hours), Beverly Hills Teens (65 half-hours), Care Bears (11 half-hours), Dennis the Menace (78 half-hours), Dennis the Menace specials (3 hours), Get Along Gang (13 half-hours), Heathcliff (86… Read More »Disney Returns Care Bears to Creator
Charles Solomon seems to have identified one of the problems with the modern crop of animation, it’s too much noise. Specifically, too much dialogue and jokes instead of acting and gags. Walt Disney often made his artists prepare their storyboards with only pictures; dialogue was added at the end of the process, when they determined… Read More »Maybe if we do enough jokes, people won’t notice the animation is bad?
You’re probably not suprised to learn that Disney does a sizeable convention business at its theme parks and resort properties. The cache Disney’s training continues to have, is a large draw for corporate clients. MSNBC looks at the important Event Planning department that helps make these conventions and special events so magical. Many of those… Read More »Event Planners Make Corporate Magic
The LaughingPlace Store has just gotten in these super cool notecards featuring images of Vintage Disneyland. Ape Pen Publishing Notecards – Skull Rock 1961 (Colorlized Version) (Set of 10)Measures 5 x 7. Includes 10 envelopes. Ape Pen Publishing Notecards – Skull Rock 1961 (Set of 10)Measures 5 x 7. Includes 10 envelopes. Ape Pen… Read More »Notecards of Vintage Disneyland
Disney has officially shuttered Circle 7, the studio that had been charged with creating Pixar sequels, and laid off about 20% of the work force. This means any sequels of ‘Finding Nemo’ or ‘Toy Story’ are back in the soft creative hands of Pixar. Good news.
CNN Money interviews a plethora of analysts on the reasons behind Disney’s 20% growth in stock price this year. Trending up while most media stock is trending down. Although it’s not mentioned in the piece, I seem to recall the stock took a pretty large jump when Barron’s reported that Apple was considering a takeover… Read More »Disney Stock still a value?