When the Haunted Mansion opened in 1969, the Imagineers who worked on the attraction cleverly left tributes to themselves in the form of witty, albeit morbid, tombstone epitaphs. The tombstones were located in and around the queue area of the attraction. Later, most of the… Read More »Disneyland restores tribute tombstones to Haunted Mansion
You don’t think of memorial tributes and Disney World together. That’s because Disney wants guests in the park to forget the outside world and obvious memorials would pull them away from the fun. So when a group of fans started to organize a vigil in… Read More »Kiss Goodnight vigil at Magic Kingdom honors victims of Orlando tragedy
Easter Eggs are those little details or tributes film makers add to keep fans coming back to see what they missed on their previous viewings. Disney just released a slew of new screen grabs from Zootopia and among them is this cool Easter egg. Tundra-Town… Read More »Disney’s Zootopia, New Pictures and a Frozen Easter Egg
Artist “dono” uploaded a beautiful tribute to animation master Hayao Miyazaki. Using 3D animation tools, Miyazaki’s world has been rendered in three dimensions adding incredible depth to these already moving scenes. If you’re just being introduced to Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki do yourself a… Read More »Fantastic tribute to Hayao Miyazaki
The Annecy Animation Festival saw the debut of a new animated short dedicated to one of Disney’s most influential, visionary artists – Mary Blair. The short is just 86 seconds and yet it conveys Blair’s work so well. According to French animation studio Gobelins, the… Read More »Animated Tribute to Disney artist Mary Blair
Todrick Hall, famous for his YouTube videos paying tribute to artists as varied as Beyonce and Pentatonix, has never hidden his love of Disney. This month he has put out two videos paying tribute to Disney. The first is called “Evolution of Disney,” which is… Read More »Videopolis: YouTube Sensation Todrick Hall Takes on the Evolution of Disney
Well, besides being owned by the same company. Some people have picked up on this trend in Marvel’s Phase 2 movies of characters getting their arms cut off and, of course, that’s a trend in the Star Wars films as well. Well, it turns out,… Read More »What do Marvel’s Cinematic Universe and Star Wars Have In Common?
Scott Bradlee, whose fantastic Disney cartoon theme song covers with his band PostModern Jukebox we shared earlier, is out with his own tribute to the late great Robin Williams. Bradlee plays a piano only version of “Friend Like Me” as a tribute to Williams. Not… Read More »Videopolis: “Friend Like Me” Piano tribute to Robin Williams