In 2006 ‘High School Musical’ sold 3.7 million albums last year joining ‘The Bodyguard’ and ‘Titanic’ as the only soundtracks to finish atop the sales charts. Remarkably, ‘High School Musical’ debuted on the charts at number 143 in January 2006. The disc increased its position each week, eventually hitting the top spot on two nonconsecutive… Read More »High School Musical rules the roost in 2006
Local news is reporting that a man has been arrested on suspicion of sexually molesting a 13-year old while on board the Disney Wonder cruise ship. I’m actually a little surprised things like this aren’t reported more often on the cruises and at the theme parks.
The Disney Blog has been delisted from the Google Index again. No warning, no email, nothing indicating why the site has been dropped from the index on the Google Webmaster Tools site (and believe me I keep a close eye on that site after having been delisted once before in August). Can anyone help me figure this out, get me in contact with Google, etc?
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Disney has settled out of court with the family of a woman who died 2 months after experiencing the Indiana Jones Adventure and claiming to have injured her head/brain during the ride. Disney, of course, admits no wrong doing (despite the fact that they changed some aspects of the attraction after the death was reported).… Read More »Disney makes accidental death lawsuit go away
Warning post contains potential spoilers about the third Pirates film. The clip on the Disney Channel Movie Surfers site provided some better viewing of the Pirates Of The Carribean preview clips. So I’ve taken the liberty of capturing a few frames of the preview for further analysis. If you look closely, a lot is revealed… Read More »A closer look at the P3 Preview
The 2007 movie preview clip on the Disney Channel that I mentioned below has made it to the Movie Surfers Website. So not only do you get a better look at the POTC: At World’s End footage, and an interview with Johnny Depp, but you also can see some examples of the first hand-drawn animation… Read More »Enchanted: New Hand-Drawn Animation from Disney
The Disney Channel ran a quick preview of Pirates Of The Carribean:At World’s End. You can find it on youtube, of course. I wish the picture quality was better. Still you get to see Johnny Depp returning in his role as Captain Jack Sparrow. So it’s not all bad. I don’t know why Disney doesn’t… Read More »Quick Preview from The Pirates Of The Carribean: At World’s End
New Year’s Eve used to be a bit different. There used to be more drinking and debauchery and less kids and 4′ tall mice. I believe things have improved.
My family, consisting of myself, my wife and our two boys, made the trek across Los Angeles and hunkered down for the remainder of 2006 at the Disneyland Resort. We checked into the Grand Californian at about noon on the 30th and started the unwinding process.
We weren’t just counting down to a new year, we were throwing off the stresses of lives lived beyond the pale.
We are lucky to reside within two hours of the California parks, which coupled with our Disney Vacation Club membership and Annual Passports, allows for frequent and relatively affordable trips. Thus, a trip to the Disneyland Resort is to us what it will never be to many that travel further and spend more, it is relaxing. We have no time-line or pressures of the rat race (mouse race?) that push others through turnstiles and fastpass lines. No, we stop and smell the roses. We also smell the kettle corn.
The crowds were as thick as ants on honey, which I assume would be quite heavy. At one point I found myself pushing the stroller through a sea of migrating tourists flying south for Fantasmic! and becoming further and further removed from my wife and oldest son. They tried to stop, which as any concert goer/rioter will tell you, is a no-no. "Save yourself!" I yelled out. I was confident; I had a room key and a decent sense of direction. The thought of watching my wife and child swim upstream into the mouth of Monstro was more than I was willing to bear. "Remember me…" I added, but they were gone. Swallowed by one too many metaphors.
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