For those who never saw EPCOT Center when it was still called EPCOT Center, Lost Epcot provides a wonderful look back at what we missed. I love this look at all the great merchandise that used to be sold at the park. What other fan community is so dedicated to the history of the product… Read More »Lost Epcot
As is common practice in construction disputes, a lien was placed against Cinderella Castle, site of some insulation work that where the subcontractor had yet to be paid. The lien, which was placed February 1st, has been removed now that matters have been settled between the two construction companies. It’s a bizarre twist in the… Read More »Lien Removed from Cinderella Castle
The Los Angeles Times has run an editorial on the new push for 3-D cinema. There’s even a recounting of what sounds like an early version of Alien/Stitch Encounter: Selected chairs were equipped with hidden vibrating devices. At the film’s climactic moment, the scorpion-like Tingler seemed to rip through the screen toward the audience, then… Read More »Cameron’s 3-D Flick is Still Two Years Away, But…
The Winnie the Pooh ownership rights saga keeps going on and on. From WorldScreen.com: SSI is petitioning for the cancellation of about 25 Pooh-related names registered by Disney since 1996, according to wire reports, claiming that Disney "was not the owner of the registered marks at the time that these filings were made.” Disney has… Read More »Ongoing Fighting Over Pooh
Dirk at the always excellent Mousekingdom Blog takes a look at the distinctly American sport of Super Bowl commercials. Disney had two commercials during the big game, a 30 second spot for "Meet The Robinsons" and a shorter spot for "Wild Hogs". The four comedians of the hog-opolypse got the largest reaction at my Super… Read More »Did Disney’s Superbowl Commercials Score Touchdowns? or fizzle in the rain?
Orlando Sentinel Columnist Liz Langley has an interesting take on Disney’s Year of A Million Dreams contest… it’s a metaphor for love. In one stroke, it strips the Cinderella story of all romantic mythology and embodies — as the actual story does — what real love is like. You don’t choose it; it chooses you.… Read More »Year of a Million Dreams drums on…
A company that performed insulation work during the recent renovations of the Magic Kingdom’s Cinderella Castle has filed a lien against the property in a contract dispute the original contractor. Disney is not a party to the dispute other than that’s where the work was done. In one of the oddities of construction work, a… Read More »Contractor files lien against Cinderella Castle
Gina Keating of Reuters writes about Disney using hand-drawn "two-dimensional" a.k.a. "traditional" animation. Hand-drawn animation, out of fashion in the computer age, experienced a rescue worthy of a fairy tale on Thursday, when Walt Disney animators announced they would bring back the art form to the big screen. "We will be bringing back hand-drawn (two-dimensional)… Read More »Disney Open to Multiple Animation Methods