Lisa Mertins is an accomplished illustrator who works for the OC Register. She recently completed a dream assignment which consisted of going to Disneyland and drawing. That’s a tough day’s work, let me tell you. Her sketches and the results of her ‘Animation Academy’ class… Read More »Newspaper Illustrator’s Dream Assignment – Go to Disneyland and draw
LAist has a great article that looks at the history of ticket prices at Disneyland. The increase in the last four years has been more than $20. Michael Barrier has some additional information about the Petrified Tree Stump that Walt Disney gave to Lilian for… Read More »Sunday Disney News Links
The Walt Disney Company has announced it is raising one-day ticket prices at its domestic parks starting Sunday. This change had been rumored online for almost a week now, so I hope you took advantage and ordered your tickets for future vacations already. At Walt… Read More »Disney Themeparks raise Ticket Prices
The world of news and connectedness is completely different today than is was as few as 6 months ago. This is particularly true for those partake in social media, and in particular facebook, friendfeed, plurk, or twitter, each of which can be updated by SMS… Read More »Aftershocks at Disneyland
A, earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 has struck just east of Los Angeles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. CNN reporter Ed Lavandera just happened to be vacationing at Disneyland. CNN’s Ed Lavandera was at Disneyland in Anaheim, southeast of Los Angeles, with… Read More »Quake in Los Angeles, Disneyland rides evacuated
Hans Perk of A. Film L.A. Blog found the original patent filed from The Walt Disney Company for the Circarama camera technology. One of the very interesting details is that Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney both share the patent as its inventors. Click through to… Read More »Circarama Patent, Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks
Harriet Burns, Disney Legend and Imagineer has died at age 79. Burns was the first woman ever hired by Walt Disney Imagineering in a creative rather than an office capacity. Her role as an attraction and product designer for Walt Disney Imagineering laid a path… Read More »Harriet Burns, Disney Legend and Imagineer has died at age 79
The Washington Post takes a look at the latest vision of the future in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland and finds it well, very much like today. Ever want to know what it’s like to be one of the Tumble Monkey’s in The Lion King Celebration at Disney’s… Read More »Tuesday Night Tussle – Disney News Roundup