Scott Joseph, the Orlando Sentinel’s Chow Hound columnist, reports on his visit to this year’s Epcot Food & Wine Festival. I’ve sniped about the parsimonious portions in years past, hardly worth the prices that average around $3 per plate. But I have no complaints about value this time, especially when portion and quality have both… Read More »Orlando Sentinel’s Chow Hound tours Epcot’s Food and Wine
ABC is returning to its roots next year with broadcast rights for the second half of the NASCAR season, which includes the playoff-esque race for the chase. Hosting the shows will be television veteran Brent Musburger, former stock car champion Rusty Wallace and longtime pit reporter Jerry Punch. TV newcomer Andy Petree, former NASCAR crew… Read More »Disney Announces New Hosts for 2007 ABC/ESPN NASCAR Broadcasts
Wasn’t it just a few days ago that Disney announced they were launching an online portal for aspiring artists to submit their portfolios? Now comes news that Walt Disney Feature Animation has been told to brace for layoffs. The Animation Guild blog has the news. Be sure to read through the comments for some juicy… Read More »Disney Feature Animation Downsizing again.
Question: Who are the 2006-2007 Disneyland Ambassadors? As Ambassadors, they will represent the Disneyland Resort and its 20,000 Cast Members during the "Year of a Million Dreams," a first-of-a-kind event celebration where Cast Members will award a million dreams; both large and small; to randomly selected guests. They will also be the official hosts of… Read More »Answer: Adonis Reeves and Garnett Schoonover?
The Disney Vacation Club is the time-share arm of the Walt Disney World Resort. It operates a little differently than your average Timeshare. It also accounts for the largest growth in rooms at WDW, Pop Century was the last non-DVC hotel built, Disney has since added Wilderness Lodge DVC, Beach Club DVC, & Sarasota Springs… Read More »Animal Kingdom Lodge Vacation Club Announced
Vacationland Fall 1959, originally uploaded by grickily. Dan Goodsell of the ‘a sampler of things‘ blog has scanned his collection of Vacationland magazines from the 50s and 60s and uploaded them into his Disneyland Souvenirs Flickr Group. They’re amazing as is the rest of his collection. Thanks for sharing Dan!
The Movie Blog has heard some good news about the upcoming sequel to The Dark Crystal. Most of the good news comes from an MTV article that features an interview with some of the movers and shakers at The Jim Henson company and some storyboards from the movie. "Puppetry has come a long way since… Read More »Good News about The Dark Crystal 2
PuppetVision blog is concerned about people selling counterfeit muppets. He point out some for sale on eBay right now and questions what the motivation is for this? In the age of ebay, there’s a booming and very profitable trade in film and T.V. prop replicas on the internet and there’s a small minority of replica… Read More »Counterfeit Muppets on the market