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Toy Story Midway Mania – first impressions

I managed to get in one ride on Toy Story Midway Mania during annual passholder previews at Disney’s Hollywood Studios this weekend. Overall, it’s a solid attraction for what they were trying to accomplish. Without the 3-D tech it would be a low C-ticket attraction.… Read More »Toy Story Midway Mania – first impressions

Sunday Night Finds

Best wishes for a quick recovery for Adrian Bailey. Bailey fell 20 feet from a set-piece on the set of The Little Mermaid Musical and ended up in the hospital. The show had not yet begun, so the audience was not witness to the fall.… Read More »Sunday Night Finds

Fun with Links on Saturday Morning

The Pixar Blog has more high quality screencaps from WALL-E. Click on each picture for the large (desktop image size) image. The excellent Twitter and Live Earth Maps mashup Twisney is getting hailed as a prime example of new citizen journalism by none less than… Read More »Fun with Links on Saturday Morning

Disney Links for Thursday Night – Roundup

  • The Orlando Sentinel reports that much of the McDonald’s food offered at Disney’s Animal Kingdom is going away. That would certainly be good news if Disney is able to replace it with quality food for the same prices.
  • The OC Register has a pretty odd story concerning The Cheesecake Factory at Gardenwalk Anaheim. Did you know that Cheesecake Factory restaurants don’t have kid’s menus. Isn’t that odd in an area where you’d expect to find a lot of families with kids.
  • Doug Meacham examines the Walt Disney Company’s efforts when it comes to Online Virtual Games. He also wonders why Disney is closing VMK.
  • Speaking of VMK, Blue Sky Disney has a wonderful vision of what a real Virtual Magic Kingdom would be like. It’s very similar to a column I wrote back in February of 2000 (which in turn pre-saged the PalMickey’s now sold in the parks).
  • Eric Haseltine used to lead Walt Disney Imagineering’s R&D department, now he works for the NSA. Jason Kottke reports on a recent speech Haseltine gave. Apparently there is some overlap between working for the mouse and snooping on your fellow citizens.

Below the fold see the latest WALL-E clip where he encounters a pair of earphones. Very funny.

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Photos of Toy Story Midway Mania at Hollywood Studios

Note: I meant to post this on the 2nd, but it got lost in the shuffle somehow. So here it is now, even if a bit out of date. The first photos of the next big attraction to open at Walt Disney World have hit… Read More »Photos of Toy Story Midway Mania at Hollywood Studios

New WALL-E Pics

Slashfilm has nine great new Images from Pixar’s WALL-E. They appear to be from an unreleased trailer and do contain what could be considered spoilers. For instance, some of the details of the photos reveal what are obviously plot points and there is a good… Read More »New WALL-E Pics

Quick Links as of Sunday

Analysts are awaiting The Walt Disney Company’s quarterly fiscal update on Tuesday. Some idea of how the US economic slow down is affecting the parks is expected. All I know is it’s been very busy at WDW the last few months. Sad news coming from… Read More »Quick Links as of Sunday

WALL-E, Real, Live, and in person???

DSC_0860. Originally uploaded by cuehefnerr Update: Sigh. These photos have been removed too. The photos may have been removed from that other blog, but flickr user cuehefnerr has uploaded a few into this Flickr Set. He’s a cute little fellow in real life, isn’t he.… Read More »WALL-E, Real, Live, and in person???