The giant Sun icon and California mosaic that were intended to be California Adventures welcoming icons are now being removed. Entrance to California Adventure will be remade to be more evocative of Southern California at the time Walt Disney first moved to Hollywood. “Affectionately” known… Read More »California Adventure Begins Dismantling Entrance Icons
Disney fans have a lot of fun saying this person is or is not the next Walt Disney. Pixar’s John Lasseter is the current holder of that title and Disney fans hope he can live up to it. However, Walt Disney got his start creating… Read More »Is Digital Culture capable of creating the next Mickey Mouse?
Brodie is a illustrator, comedy writer, and Disney fan. He runs the excellent tribute site WorldFamousJungleCruise.com. Brodie has decided to take on Disney’s Princess divas and re-imagine them as superheroes drawing inspiration from super-fashions of around the same time their animated movies came out. The… Read More »Princess Superheroes
Patricia Zohn, author of the recent Vanity Fair profile of Disney’s Ink & Paint women, has dug up another gem. This video produced by the Walt Disney Studios to promote CalArts has rarely been seen. CalArts, of course, was given a big financial and creative… Read More »The CalArts Story
Advertisements for an art exhibit in Poland is stirring up controversy by combining images of Mickey Mouse and a Nazi flag, complete with swastika, for an exhibit that takes on “The ‘horrors’ of the American Lifestyle.” The poster has been vandalized twice since it first… Read More »Sign in Poland with Mickey Mouse and Nazis protested
Our west coast correspondent Pam has send along the good news that Imagineer Mary Blair has been given a portrait in the Disneyland Opera House. One wonders if this is a sign of bigger things to come to honor Mary. Also added was a copy… Read More »Mary Blair Photo added to Opera House
Major League Baseball Properties and Disney Consumer Products today unveiled 36 different designs of MLB-themed Mickey Mouse collectible statuettes and related apparel and merchandise in celebration of the 2010 MLB All-Star Week festivities taking place July 9–13 in Anaheim, Calif. as part of a new… Read More »Disney and Major League Baseball partner for All Star Game
Yesterday Disney revealed a giant World Record Setting canned food sculpture – titled “Celebrate Volunteers” – and then promptly dismantled it and shipped it off to regional food banks. Disney VoluntEARS shaped the sculpture with a larger-than-life Goofy, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Pluto –… Read More »Timelapse Video of Canned Food Sculpture Build