Word is out that Disneyland will begin the demolishing of Fort Wilderness as soon as next week. It’s been closed to the public for 5 years and sadly will head to yesterland permanently shortly. Here’s a picture of Uncle Walt and my Grandfather Vic Greene surveying the construction of Fort Wilderness. In Walt’s mind he… Read More »Fort Wilderness to be demolished
Episodes of ABC’s hit television show LOST have been for sale on iTunes for over a year, but now you can add the LOST video game to your 5g iPod. This is the first iTunes game for Gameloft, normally a mobile phone game developer. In the LOST game you play the Jack character and interact… Read More »Get LOST video game on your iPod
Jim Hill Media has details about a shake-up in management at Walt Disney Imagineering. Hopefully this change is instituted from the top or it’s unlikely anything will be different in the parks. Disney World workers have approved a contract extension while negotiations go on after the first vote rejected Disney’s offer. So no strike on… Read More »Morning Roundup
Paul Cozby, who penned his own play called "High School Musical" months before Disney’s version hit the bigtime, finds that a little controversy may be a good thing. Cozby will now have a reading of his play on Broadway. This might create an interesting situation for Disney with competing versions of the same titled play… Read More »Non-Disney High School Musical gets Broadway Treatment
Check out these cool ads visitors to Orlando International Airport will see for the Disney-MGM Studios Star Wars weekends. You can also get a preview on some of the merchandise that will be available at the weekend festival that runs June-June 24. Alas posters of these ads won’t be available. (Link)
Watched the E! TV premiere coverage last night. Was actually a pretty decent show with many of the big stars interviewed. The setup for the red-carpet seemed to favor one side over the other. So I have a feeling many fans who waited up to 12 hours to see the stars experienced some disappointment. The… Read More »Pirates 3 Premiere Roundup – II
Here’s a quick list of stuff I’ve found on the Pirates Of The Caribbean Premiere last night at Disneyland. The BBC covered the event as did the OC Register. JustJared links to the Getty Images. FilmEdge was there and shot some of their own pictures. Don’t forget the photos on LaughingPlace.com’s LIVE either. Patrick reports… Read More »Pirates 3 Premiere Roundup
Doug from LaughingPlace.com has been sending back mobile phone pics live from the World Premiere of Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End at Disneyland today. He’s got great pics of the red carpet, signage, and bleachers! What are they doing with bleachers? Is this the Oscars now? No sign of Johnny Depp or Orlando… Read More »See Photos of Pirates Premiere on LaughingPlace.com LIVE!