Lee MacDonald, Editor of Tales from the Laughing Place a Disney magazine, has a new column at LaughingPlace.com. The first topic he addresses is a big one — the future of Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Expedition Everest is expected to help propel DAK into the realm of a full-day adventure park. IMHO, it has always been… Read More »Animal Kingdom’s rosy future???
Pixar is being really creative with their marketing for their next animated feature – Cars. First they released ‘spy camera’ images on AutoWeek, now they’re hosting the latest Cars trailer and Edmunds.com. What’s next, Free Toys with an Oil Change and Jfify Lube? This trailer ran during the Daytona500. If you were black flagged at… Read More »Pixar Marketing revs its engine for Cars
Stuff From The Park is a look back at Disneyland’s very early days via photos acquired at rummage and garage sales. If I ever found even a few photos like this I would consider myself totally lucky. But this guy in Colorado seems to have a ton of it. There’s plenty of great photos that… Read More »Vintage Disneyland Photos
ExtraWack reviews the new DEVO 2.0 experience. Some of the lyrics have been changed a bit to better suit the younger ears of the target audience, and the ironic bite of "Beautiful World" has totally been neutered to make the song as sunny as its title…but the fact that there even exists a compact disc… Read More »DEVO 2.0, now they want your kids!
I’m reading reports on another lawsuit aimed at the embattled Hong Kong Disneyland outpost. This time park officials allegedly delayed appropriate levels of health care for an ill elderly guest who later died at the hospital. Sometimes I wonder if they can do anything right over there. [ disney, disneyland, hong+kong, hkdl, themepark, theme+park, lawsuit,… Read More »Hong Kong Disneyland’s Troubles Continue
Mark Glaser, of PBS’ MediaShift Blog, ponders the mysteries of how the Disney Company gets consistently high placement for its podcasts on Apple’s iTunes store. While they might not accept payments for these slots, there might be other corporate or commercial considerations for Apple when choosing slots. For instance, one of the 12 top slots… Read More »How Disney Gets Placement for its Podcasts on iTunes
Disney’s consumer products division has announced they’ll stop printing and mailing catalogs of their product to consumers. If you want to shop the Disney Catalog, you will now have to do so at their online website, DisneyShopping.com. They expect to save over $18 million this way. As the NY Times article points out… The move… Read More »Disney ends print catalog, moves to web-only shopping
Ronald Glover at Business Week looks at the recent rash of moves by the new power in Hollywood, Disney’s CEO Robert Iger. When Eisner turned over the reins to Bob Iger last October, Disney stock was trading at less than $24 per share, or about where it was in 1998. But just as frogs turn… Read More »BW: Iger, is he Magic or Mirrors?