Photos of what looks like to be the next batch of Disney or Muppet Star Wars Mashup toys have hit the net. The Stitch Yoda one is remarkably cute. But all continue the excellent trend started at last year’s event. There is a good chance… Read More »New Disney or Muppet and Star Wars Toy Mashups
There are new dates for the 2008 Star Wars Weekends up on the official Walt Disney World site. At first there was some conflict between the information that was released prior in the Cast Member newsletter, but in the last few hours the dates have been changed to be consistent with the first update. Those… Read More »Star Wars Weekends Dates are now Final
Artist Ceth Stifel posts these imaginative mashups of the Disney and Star Wars universes over on his DeviantArt account. Someone get Disney Merchandise on the line. I’d love to see a couple of these available for purchase at Star Tours. This Star Tours poster with the Vintage Disney characters is outstanding. Not the first time… Read More »When Disney Met Star Wars – Mashup Art
Although the change is not yet reflected on the official website, WDWNews and the Cast Member newsletter "Eyes & Ears" has the dates for the 2008 Star Wars Weekends and the first one at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. The dates are the weekends (Friday-Sunday) of June 6-29. Last year the event was moved from May weekends… Read More »Disney’s Star Wars Weekends in June for 2nd Year
What do you get when the Star Wars and Pirates Of The Caribbean worlds collide? Another brilliant trailer mashup.
This has been a persistent rumor for a number of years. ILM and Disney Imagineers were collaborating on a new version of Star Tours. In fact back when Star Wars Episode 1 came out the rumors even went so far as to outline leaks of the plot involving pod racers from the Lucasfilm/ILM camp. Now… Read More »Star Tours 2 Coming Soon?
Those planning on attending Star Wars Weekends at Disney-MGM Studios should take note of this small change in the guest appearance schedule. Warwick Davis (Wicket the Ewok) will not appear June 1-3 due to a conflict. Bonnie Piesse (Beru Lars) will appear instead. Warwick Davis has been rescheduled to appear June 22-24 in place of… Read More »Schedule change for Guest Stars at Disney-MGM Studios Star Wars Weekends
Steve Hulett, current of The Animation Guild Blog, used to be an animator for Walt Disney Feature Animation. He recently posted some reflections back to the year 1983, (part 1 and part 2) the last year before Michael Eisner and Sparky Katzenburg made their influence known and the WDFA of old was gone forever. There… Read More »Back in the Day at WDFA – 1983