Pixar animator Sanjay Patel, has released a wonderful book called Little India that features incredibly cute characterizations of the major Hindu deities. I can see a great ‘it’s a small world’ style attraction based on these character designs. (via)
Gone are the old visuals and conscientiously French theme based on Jules Verne’s novel "From the Earth to the Moon." Instead, the ride tours the solar system before hurtling out through asteroid showers to skim past supernovas and other astronomical phenomena, portrayed with high-definition video and a host of other new effects. Paris Disneyland unveiled… Read More »Space Mountain II???
Someone snuck out these great pictures from the construction of Disney World’s next e-ticket attraction – Mt Everest.
Reader Bill send in this report (with pictures) from his trip along the newly refurbished ‘it’s a small world’ attraction at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. He was able to ride it on the first day it opened to the public. It’s a Small World opened up today @ 3:00pm. We rode it around 10:30pm-ish.… Read More »Readers rides small world soft opening
No, it’s not the latest attraction dreamed up by Disney Imagineers. Businesses like this have been in existance for many years, most notably just off the strip in Las Vegas, NV. A company called Sky Venture has just opened an indoor skydiving experience in Orlando (and are rumored to be considering somewhere near Anaheim as… Read More »SkyDiving in a Room?
It is not the same land as I remember from long ago, no; “you can’t go home again", as they say. But it is once again turning into a land of hope, exuding a spirit of optimism; not the same as it once was, but different. Mellie over at the excellent Golly Blog Howdy has… Read More »Hope for Tomorrowland?
Disney is set to auction off more of its history. This time a couple of attraction vehicles from Disneyland including an old skyway car and a space mountain vechicle. Looks like these were the vehicles that had been hanging in the Rocket Rod’s queue. That queue is now part of the exciting Buzz Lightyear ride… Read More »Disney auctions off more history!
It may be gone from Disneyland, but The Country Bears attraction still has a serious following. Done In The Dark has an excellent tribute to the show including clips from the Toyko and Orlando versions. One of the most collectible postcard series is a set of sketches done by Animator and Imagineer Marc Davis showing… Read More »A Country Bears Tribute!