The AP Reports that Hong Kong Disneyland announced it has changed its admission system to try and prevent the chaos that erupted during the Chinese New Year holiday when hundreds of visitors tried to storm the park after being denied entry. The adjustment involves setting aside 11 extra days — around Easter and China’s Labor… Read More »Hong Kong Disneyland Changes Admission System
What looks to be a charming little 1927 bungalow from the street is in reality a stunning beauty of a home. Roland Hill, architect of the famous Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland, built this home and many of its charms bend toward majesty and fairy-tales. Now it can be yours to live in. John Trosko… Read More »Sleeping Beauty Castle Architect House For Sale
Bloomberg news is reporting that Bob Iger made the decision to acquire Pixar while watching a parade at the new Hong Kong Disneyland theme park. While watching the parade it appeared that all the new characters were from Pixar films, not Disney ones. "It really hit me hard that we had had 10 years of… Read More »Iger pushed over the edge by Parade
Playbill.com says that Disney’s suprise hit musical, "High School Musical" has been given extra life. The show will receive extra airings on The Disney Channel and a new Double DVD to be released in May. The additional airings will be on March 10 and 23. Check your local listings. The cast features Zac Efron ("Summerland"),… Read More »High School Musical gets extra life
Harry McCracken gives us the scoop on Pixar’s current state of affairs. McCracken passes along a bunch of highlights from a talk he attended. Including some really cool footage I hope makes it onto a Finding Nemo Special Edition someday. Johnson showed some good clips as part of his talk, including several minutes of Andrew… Read More »Pixar Opens Up for Harry
Robyn Miller at Tinselman has posted these wonderful fake tilt-shift effect photographs using a couple of old Disneyland aerial photographs for candidates and some photoshop-effects. The fake model look is surprisingly good. I think this particular tilt-shift works so well because the park itself is nothing more than an enlarged miniature. That’s how Walt conceived… Read More »Disneyland in Miniature Fakes
Jen at Irish Wake looks at the coverage the recent Roller Coaster accident at Cypress Gardens and asks if Disney is held to a higher standard in these incidents. The story passed with just a few mentions in the news, but Jen says, …last year, the media coverage of the death of four year old… Read More »Is Disney Held to a higher standard?
Local6.com and the Orlando Sentinel Crime Blog is reporting some sad news from the apartments where Walt Disney World College Program and International Program participants are housed, a gang rape of a woman by four college program workers from France is being investigated by Orange County Sherrifs. The victim told deputies that she was attacked… Read More »WDWCP Participant Raped by Co-Workers