Winnie-the-Pooh turns 80 years old today. His first public appearance was on Christmas Eve in 1925 in the London Evening News. Of course, A.A. Milne had been telling stories of Winnie-the-Pooh to his soon for years before that. But Christmas Eve is the generally accepted birthdate. I hope Winnie survives another 80 years without too… Read More »Happy 80th Birthday Pooh!
One of Don Bluth’s, an ex-Disney animator, most successful box office films was the 1997 movie Anastasia he did for Fox. This is the one where they showed it in a theatre with the Disney logo infront and it got much higher audience ratings than when shown with a Fox logo. According to DVDToons a… Read More »Anastasia: Family Fun DVD?
Disney issued a press release today outlining the upcoming changes and attractions at Disney’s world wide theme parks. Now, normally when you release some news on a Friday you’re hoping to bury it over the weekend. But this being a holiday weekend they may be hoping to pick up on some slow news time for… Read More »Disney Themeparks, what’s next?
After 36 years of NFL football madness, ABCs Monday Night Football is coming to an end. CNN/Money has a nice write up but for some reason I can’t find any coverage on ESPN. I’ll definately miss the show, although since moving to the east coast, those late monday nights were beginning to kill me. I… Read More »The Whistle Blows for Monday Night Football
As unhappy as I was with the Narnia exhibit at Disney-MGM Studios, looks liked I’d be very pleased with the props and displays out for viewing at Disney’s El Capitan in Hollywood. I also like what they did with the decorations inside the theatre itself. If you live in the area the El Capitan has… Read More »El Capitan Narnia Exhibit
The latest hotel to open near Walt Disney World introduced a new genre into the hospitality market, the Family Suites. The Nick Hotel, a remodeled Holiday Inn, has been hard to get into during the busy season and features an all suite lineup where the popular ‘kidsuites’ have a separate room designed just for the… Read More »Disney ponders new style of hotel
The cuteness factor has just been raised by a factor over at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Momma elephant Donna suffered through a rough 16-minute labor and gave birth to a dainty young girl weighing in at just 233 pounds. The birth is the third elephant calf to be born at the park in as many years.… Read More »New Elephant Baby at Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Four new Disney Treasures DVDs packed full of rarities have been released from Disney’s vaults. I’ve added links to each DVD in the left column. But I wanted to highlight what is probably the best of the bunch here.
Walt Disney Treasures – Disney Rarities – Celebrated Shorts, 1920s – 1960s
One of the true joys on this DVD is the Mary Blair art directed The Little House (of late paid homage to in a MasterCard commercial). That so wonderfully animates a little house that is faced with changing times.
A full content listing is below the cut.
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