When Rolling Stone guitarist Kieth Richards fell out of a tree and required surgery, his rumored cameo appearance in the third installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie was written off. But perhaps we jumped the gun a wee-bit. GigWise is reporting that Richards will make his cameo appearnce as Captain Jack Sparrow’s father.… Read More »Keith Richards to Cameo in POTC:III, rumor is yes
Monorails, Attraction Vehicles, Signs, Costumes, even Club 33 toilet towels, have all been auctioned off on eBay at one time or another. This one, however, takes the cake. A Walt Disney Life Size Wax Museum Figure is being auctioned off by MouseSurplus. Artist/Designer Pete Carsillo created the one-of-a-kind piece. Carsillo has worked in the past… Read More »Walt Disney Wax Figure on eBay!
Gorilla’s Don’t Blog is a great start of an amazing vintage Disneyland Photo blog in the spirit of Matterhorn 1955’s Stuff from the Park. Matterhorn 1955 is showing a ton of amazing Adventureland/Tiki photos and Gorilla’s Don’t Blog has this perfect Skyway and Viewliner pairing (detail above). The Viewliner occupies a unique period of Disneyland… Read More »Gorilla’s Don’t Blog, (or do they?)
From the notorious funny Dateline Hollywood website we hear of Al Gore’s take on the latest film from Pixar, Cars. “What kind of a message does it send to our children to teach them that cars, which account for 38.2348% of the past century’s global warming, are heroes?” he said at a press conference outside… Read More »Al Gore’s position on ‘Cars’ – cute little movie or global warming propaganda
The annual GayDays event is in full swing down here in Orlando. This is the 16th year for the event and it’s bigger and better than ever with over 140,000 event participants expected. This means huge swings in attendance at themeparks around the city. If you plan to visit Magic Kingdom on Saturday or Epcot… Read More »Gay Days at Walt Disney World
Bonnet Creek Resort, currently home to a time share resort, has just announced that it will soon build two hotels, for a total of 1500 rooms, and a convention center. Hilton Hotels will build a Hilton branded hotel and an upscale Waldorf-Astoria branded unit. What makes this so newsworthy is the proximity these hotels have… Read More »Bonnet Creek Resort builds out
As is the usual in these cases, Disney has denied showing any interest in building a new themepark in Malaysia. "We are constantly exploring opportunities around the world as we look to grow our parks and resorts business. At this time, however, there are no existing discussions in Malaysia and we currently have no plans… Read More »Disney Denies Interest in Malaysia Park
The more I hear from Disney CEO Bob Iger the more confidence I have in the Walt Disney Company to survive the coming shift in entertainment consumption. Consumers are more and more in control of what content they want to view, where they get it from, and who produces it (often the consumer themselves). Iger… Read More »Iger interview at ‘D’ Conference