When I finally get around to furnishing my home office, I want it to be tiki themed. This post by Alain Littaye is a step by step on how to do exactly that. Today’s article will give you great ideas about how to give your… Read More »Give your home an Adventureland theme
Foxxfur at Passport to Dreams has a beautiful tribute to Disneyland on it’s 52nd Birthday. We all know that Walt Disney elevated the business of amusement parks to a whole new level. That by itself is an accomplishment that changed the playing field forever. But is it art? Just by asking that question and being… Read More »Is Disneyland Art?
True High School Musical fans know that it wasn’t Zac Efron’s voice on the soundtrack for the first film. Instead Drew Seeley was asked to lay down the tracks for the final version. Apparently Zac was surprised by the change when he saw the initial release. With a role in Hairspray (and shortly in Footloose)… Read More »Morning Round Up – July 17th
Fifty-two years ago today a huge experiment in Disney style entertainment opened in a small farming community called Anaheim. It was a disaster. The asphalt on Main Street melted capturing lady’s shoes in the muck, there were few water fountains, food ran out at many locations across the park, and crowds were obscenely huge. There… Read More »Happy Birthday Disneyland!
Are you a fan of Disneyland? Have a few spare hours tonight? Then you’ll want to tune in to hear animation artist and director Jordan Reichek (Ren & Stimpy, Invader Zim) discuss and share some of his audio files from his collection of Disneylandia. Reichek also runs the Perky Pickle blog where you can get… Read More »Special: Disneyland Sounds Internet Broadcast tonight at 7PM PT
Ratatouille cooked up another $18 million with third place at the box office this weekend bringing its domestic total to $143 million. It’s also the highest rated film of the year in movie critic polls. But will that be enough to earn it a best picture Academy Award? In this short interview Animation master John… Read More »Morning Round Up – July 16
Sarah Tully of the Orange County Register brings us another piece on the ongoing dispute in Anaheim between the tourist businesses and the housing developers over land in the Anaheim Resort District. This time, SOAR, the pro-tourism group, has offered a report showing that a hotel and retail complex would generate more tax money than… Read More »Anaheim and Long Beach
Today in 1925 Walter Elias Disney married Lillian Marie Bounds and together they set off on a great adventure. On this day in 1955 Walt and Lillian gathered friends and family for their 30th anniversary celebration and a special preview of Disneyland. They took the Mark Twain for its maiden voyage and celebrated with a… Read More »Morning Roundup – July 13