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Thursday Night Thunder Mountain – Disney Links

  • LA Times blogger Brady MacDonald matched wits with Pixar’s John Lasseter on California Adventure’s Toy Story Midway Mania attraction. Guess who won?
  • Jason S. gets a little morbid and digs up stories on some of the earliest deaths associated with Disneyland. None, the fault of the park, as far as he can tell.
  • The official Star Wars blog (how does one get that gig, btw?) has pictures from last weekends Star Wars Weekends event including a picture of the walk-around Ashoka Tano character from The Clone Wars movie.
  • Three interesting stories from the business section of the Orlando Sentinel. Apparently the Narnia: Prince Caspian walk-through exhibit will open by the end of the month. The Orlando International Airport won’t be opening any new theme park shops. The Nickelodeon hotel adds another attraction, this time a 4-D movie. Not sure that will be as big an attraction as the great pool area there, but it’s an idea.

You may remember that Disney and NASA sent Buzz Lightyear into space for long visit to the Space Station. I hope that he doesn’t suffer any ill effects from the zero gravity. But he did sent back a video showing him living large in space, you can view it below the cut.

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Airline remakes itself in Disney’s Image

In “Hustle & Flow” Fast Company takes a look at the new check-in lobby for Alaska Airlines and sees Disney’s influence. It visited theme parks, hospitals, and retailers to see what it could learn. It found less confusion and shorter waits at places where employees… Read More »Airline remakes itself in Disney’s Image

Cartoonist on First Disneyland Visit in 12 Years

Mimi Pond has a cartoon in the Los Angeles Times on why it had been twelve years between Disneyland visits.  Click through here to see it.

A Disneyland trip to remember (or forget as the case might be)

Ladies and Gentlemen, the comic stylings of Ken Levine: “Gas prices are so high that for the Autopia, the cars are now just being pushed by Disney employees” “To avoid standing in endless lines Disneyland now offers “Fast Passes” for most major rides. It allows… Read More »A Disneyland trip to remember (or forget as the case might be)

What (Not) to Wear On your Disney Vacation

Daily Idea, a popular video blog, has turned its vlogger eye toward the many unsightly fashions of the typical Disney World tourist. The result is side splitting, and sometimes seem splitting, humor. It’s all in good fun, I’m sure.

Mag-Lev Train from Las Vegas to Disneyland moving forward

About 10 years behind schedule, funding has finally been approved for a real study into the feasibility of building a Magnetic Levitation based railway between Las Vegas and Anaheim, arguably the two biggest tourist draws in the Southwest. If built, it would be the first… Read More »Mag-Lev Train from Las Vegas to Disneyland moving forward

Toy Story Midway Mania: New 4-D Video Game from Disney/Pixar

Toy Story Midway Mania! MarqueeToy Story Midway Mania is a new 4-D video game opening soon at Disneyland and Walt Disney World resorts. Guests ride through a series of Midway games, each with a different concept related to a Toy Story character, and use a unique ‘pull-string cannon’ to launch various projectiles at various targets and easter eggs in order to score points and be awarded a virtual prize.

What puts the Disney touch on this game is the great design of the queue and loading area and the amazing integration of 3-D and 4-D (real world) effects to raise the experience above something you could otherwise find at home in your living room. That and the addition of the characters from Pixar’s popular Toy Story series.

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Toy Story Midway Mania Fun Facts

I have a long review for Toy Story Midway Mania going up later today. But first I thought you might like to see some of the fun facts behind Disney’s newest attraction. Each ride vehicle weighs as much as 8,580 Woody dolls. It would take… Read More »Toy Story Midway Mania Fun Facts