Mr. Keane, a 31-year veteran who created the beast from "Beauty and the Beast" and Ariel from "The Little Mermaid," was a Disney traditionalist. But after a series of experiments to see if he could create a computer-animated ballerina, his opposition softened. So he invited the 50 animators to discuss the pros and cons of… Read More »Glen Keane on Disney’s transition to CG Animation
It used to be that all amusement parks ended up burned down, closed, or abandoned. Then Walt Disney came along and revolutionized the industry. I think we can all agree that was a good thing. Thanks to IllicitOhio.com we have a look at some amusement parks that were from before Walt’s time or didn’t heed… Read More »Abandoned Amusements
If you liked that sexy mystery in "Desperate Housewives" and that crazy polar bear in the middle of the "Lost" tropics, get ready for a blizzard of aliens and monsters, romances and intrigues, unmatched in popular media since Rod Serling first put the Twilight Zone up for our national consideration. The CS Monitor has a… Read More »Lost spawns thickly plotted TV shows
Old Radio Fun Blog has a trio of recent podcasts that will have Disney fans enthralled. First radio broadcast that promotes the movie Song of the South. Hard to get much material on this movie since Disney has deemed it too dangerous for release. Second is a historic audio broadcast from 1938 promotied the release… Read More »Snow White and Pinnochio Classic Radio Casts
By genre, Lost is a disaster narrative — closest in spirit to the airplane disaster movies over the seventies, which were as a genre so awful that they spawned an entire sub-genre of parodies. But Lost’s creator J. J. Abrams — who co-wrote and directed the show’s breaktaking two-hour opening episode — announced in the… Read More »Everything Bad is Good for You: Lost Edition
Argh… Talk like a Pirate Day it be. Which if ye be a Disney fan means ye should be sittin down for a wee while to watch your Pirates of the Caribbean DVD for a few salty ol pirate hints. Luckier folk can hoof it on over to the theme park and sit for a… Read More »Talk like Jack Sparrow Day, Argh!
I usually don’t report directly on what’s going on inside the parks, there are other websites that do that better for vacation planners, but yesterday I was at Disney MGM Studios with my son and we saw the two new walk-around characters from the upcoming release, Chicken Little (imdb). That’s Chicken Little on the left and Abby Mallard on the right. The cutey in the middle is my son.
We got to spend about five minutes with the pair of characters as all the other guests had already been through the queue. They chased eachother around and danced together. My son was very interested by the fallen piece of sky, and that made for some great fun too. It seemed to me that everyone was having a great time. The walk-around staff, or ‘zoo crew’ as they’re known, generates a ton of great guest memories, but they hardly get any recognition and earn peanuts when they should be paid in gold.
Thanks for making my son’s, and my, day yesterday.
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The first half of the movie is a more or less conventional series of sequences. Donald Duck receives birthday presents from his Latin American friends that include a film projector and a reel of film, plus a book about Brazil. Donald sets up the projector then guides our viewing responses as we watch with him… Read More »Three Caballeros, a new look