Photo: A new sign for the still under construction “Pixar Place” of Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Note the iconic use of Luxo, Jr., The desk lamp that Pixar uses in its logo. I was at Disney’s Hollywood Studios today and spent quite a bit of time… Read More »Pixar’s WALL-E, what are your plans?
Some quick news from the world of Pixar’s WALL-E.
Finally, below the cut you’ll find another cute vignette of Wall-E encountering a fire hydrant.
Michael has a brand new Disney blog called “All Things Disney.” His most recent post deconstructs one of the photos of the Cast Member control panel for Toy Story Midway Mania at California Adventure in Anaheim. About half way down is a distance picture of… Read More »Toy Story Midway Mania, an Engineer’s look
The Pixar Blog has post the transcript of part one of their interview with WALL-E Director Andrew Stanton. Now the AP is reporting that Paul Newman, known to Pixar fans as the voice of Doc Hudson in Cars, does have cancer and is receiving treatment.… Read More »Wednesday Wanderings – Disney Link Roundup
Update: Paul Newman’s camp says KTLA has it wrong. No terminal cancer for Doc Hudson. Whew. It’s impossible to sum up Paul Newman’s career, charity work, love for racing and life in a single post. I’m certainly not the person to try. I’ve been a… Read More »Get well soon Doc Hudson, Paul Newman diagnosed with Cancer
Taking a cue from ABC.com which already streams full episodes of its popular prime-time television series, Disney.com will now begin streaming movies that appear during the Wonderful World of Disney Saturday night presentations. The full-length films will be available for free streaming on Disney.com (www.Disney.com/WonderfulWorld)… Read More »Disney.com to stream Full Length Movies for first time
Every so often as a blogger you get a scoop that is really cool. That just happened to Mike over at The Pixar Blog. He as at a group interview with WALL-E director Andrew Stanton when Stanton revealed what his next project would be. The… Read More »Pixar confirmed to be developing John Carter of Mars
Toy 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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