Movie Success! Bring on the popcorn!
July 27, 2008 Category: Disney News Today No Comments »
Ds has been asking to see Wall-E since it came out, which is when we were in SC/NC/VA in early July, and seeing a movie on vacation just wasn’t in the cards. (But mini-golf, beach’ing and other fun stuff definitely was!) Youngest dd left this morning for a mission trip for the next six days, and ds was uncharacteristically loving towards her, giving her (stuffed) animals aka ‘friends’ to take on the trip, hugging her, and sleeping on her floor last night. We promised him a lot of activities du
Review: Wall-E - Mirror.co.uk
July 18, 2008 Category: Disney news No Comments »
 Telegraph.co.uk | Review: Wall-E Mirror.co.uk - 18 Jul 2008 Pixar releases yet another animated movie and, once again, it’s time to reach for the thesaurus to find words to describe its sheer beauty. Film review: WALL·E Telegraph.co.uk WHAT A WALL-E Hackney Gazette Norfolk Eastern Daily Press - Pocket-lint.co.uk - Yorkshire Post - Sheffield Telegraph all 48 news articles |
WALL-E and Apple: Product Placement or Product Inspiration?
July 17, 2008 Category: The Disney Portal No Comments »
The buzz coming into WALL-E was that the films designers were inspired by Apple’s product design in their creation of the EVE robot. Pixar went as far as inviting Apple designer Jonathan Ive to consult with Pixar artists. Today’s story in AdAge suggests Pixar went even farther and intentionally placed some of Apple’s products in the movie as well as other subtler placement.
Apple products only physically appear in “Wall-E” a few times — an iPod that re-projects a favorite movie, the sound of the Mac startup tone signaling that Wall-E, the titular robotic romantic lead, has fully recharged via solar panels, and one-button mice scurrying around a garbage dump. However, there is a less obvious, but still noticeable Apple influence that runs throughout the film.
Could this be the future of film and television where brands are so integrated into the final product that you just feel its influences throughout? What do you think? Does the influence of Apple design and products throughout the film make you want to run out and buy an iPod or Mac?
Originally posted on The Disney Blog.
WALL-E and Apple: Product Placement or Product Inspiration?
WALL-E (U)
July 17, 2008 Category: Disney news No Comments »
One of the final sequences in the new Disney/Pixar digi-mation involves the eponymous robot Wall-E failing to recognise his robot friend, Eve, despite the caressing touch of this latter's mechanical hand.
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Wall-E Supervising Animator Tells His Story
July 17, 2008 Category: Uncategorized No Comments »
Denofgeek wrote in to tell us about their story where "Pixar's supervising animator Angus MacLane gives an interesting interview about the technical challenges in bringing Wall-E to the screen. Plus he squeezes in a bit on his love of Lego, too..."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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This Week On The BIG 3 - Disney Fan Podcast Review
July 15, 2008 Category: The Disney Portal No Comments »
Ricky revisits Wall-E and Pleasure Island on Inside the Magic, has he changed his mind? From The WDWRadio Show, Jeff Pepper helps answer email and, wait, Lou smells? And we find Paul from Window to the Magic where else? Disneyland. All this and more on
THIS WEEK ON THE BIG 3
This week on Inside the Magic, the “News from Around the World” reminds you to check your fastpasses for perferated edges, leave your gun at home or you will be fired, and hey, what do ya know; Tokyo’s got a new hotel. Ricky discusses what he liked about Wall-E, apparently only the beginning. He rolls out some listener feedback of the sort that proves there are others out there that liked it as much as he did. I’m hoping next week’s show will have some feedback from those that actually enjoyed the movie. The end of this week’s review provides us with Ricky’s take on how he would have made the movie had Pixar given him a call. I do hope Ricky gives Wall-E another go ’round. Be sure to tune in this week to hear more.
Skipper Ben returns to wax nostalgic on his cast member days at Pleasure Island. Apparently, it was a writhing mass of hot, sweaty sex with no cover charge. Why didn’t I get an invite? He tows the party line like a good former cast member urging us all to hold our breath for the next great thing. And, oh by the way, Guitar Hero Aerosmith rocks.
Ricky reads some listener feedback calling him out for making opinions about the Adventurer’s Club when he’s never been there and a few who think everyone is going overboard about it all. Ricky admits he was giving his opinion about PI in general and insists he’s going to visit the Adventurer’s Club in the near future. Maybe September 28th, Ricky?
Check out Inside the Magic #171 for all this and much more
In the news this week on WDWRadio, I’m thrilled to hear that HSM2 is finally on its way out. What a relief I can’t wait to see what will be replacing it, oh wait, HSM3? Good grief! On a much happier note the Country Bears are finally scheduled for refurbishment. A choir of angels has broken into song!! For the rest of the news check out the show this week.
The Top 10 list is definitely something different. Lou and Tim Foster from Guide to the Magic discuss the Top 10 Smells at Walt Disney World. Yes, you read that right, Smells. Popcorn and Casey’s hot dogs make the list. Good choices. Tim calls Lou out for not sharing his popcorn with his family. Wait a minute, did I hear something about Stitch’s chili dog and musty indoor water rides? I think my ear buds need a cleaning. If you want to hear the rest of the list be sure to tune in this week.
Lou admits to having a bit of Hochberg-itis when it comes to answering his email. Jeff Pepper and Lou tackle all the biggies. Are the fireworks really worth the time? What other guides can you recommend? Will the dining reservation system become web based? What does Lou think about the Backstage Magic tour? For the answers to these questions and more tune in to WDWRadio for this week. Oh, if you have any Birnbaum guides from ‘83-’88 contact Lou he’s missing them from his collection.
If any of these fun topics interest you tune into WDWRadio #75.
As always, it’s a joy to hear audio from the parks. This week’s show is reminiscent of WTTM24. Ahh, how I miss my Friday dose of Window to the Magic.
We join Paul and Uncle Bob at Disneyland. We’re treated to the musical stylings of Mr. Paul Barrie as he gives his Uncle the grand tour of DCA. The craziest thing is Paul and his Uncle sound almost EXACTLY alike. First we take a spin on Monster’s Inc. That little Boo is so cute. Then we brave the terror of The Hollywood Tower Hotel. Paul points out some interesting hidden gems in the Tower of Terror queue. Of course, there is the requisite girly screaming. But, was that Paul or Uncle Bob? To ease their pain the boys toddle off to do some wine tasting, a good way to end the day.
You’ll find all this and lots of fun family banter on Window to the Magic #156.
And so this edition of This Week on the BIG 3 comes to an end. Have questions or comments feel free to contact me. Tune in to The Disney Blog to see what the BIG 3 have in store for us next week. Until then, See Ya Real Soon!
Links:
- WDWRadio - Website, iTunes
- Inside The Magic - Website, iTunes
- Window To The Magic - Website, iTunes
- Catch more of Jenn on her blog and on twitter.
Originally posted on The Disney Blog.
This Week On The BIG 3 - Disney Fan Podcast Review
Wall-E review: Pixar at its finest - Telegraph.co.uk
July 13, 2008 Category: Disney news No Comments »
 Telegraph.co.uk | Wall-E review: Pixar at its finest Telegraph.co.uk - 13 Jul 2008 They hit peaks of brilliance and sadness in Wall-E that they haven't since The Incredibles, combining buckets of charm and heart with a desolate vision of a wasteland called Earth, circa 2700. Ten Disney-Pixar WALL-E trivia questions to test film fans icSeftonandWestLancs Sigourney’s fallen for a lonely robot Wokingham Times Glasgow Evening Times - Scotsman - Sunday Mirror - Digital Spy all 33 news articles |
Link Sundae for a Sunday
July 13, 2008 Category: The Disney Portal No Comments »
Had a nice day at Disney’s Hollywood Studios yesterday. Arrived 10 minutes after park opening and already the Toy Story Midway Mania! Fast Pass return time was for 11:45. When we returned at 11:45 all the FP for the day were gone. We waiting once in the standby queue and it was almost exactly 60 minutes from entering the main queue to boarding the attraction. The guests I spoke to in the single rider queue had waited an hour too, and they still had half the stairway to descend. So Disney still has some work to do there to make it an equitable situation for all parties.
- The Chicago Tribune tells its readers to start looking for some bargain deals as far as a fall vacation to Orlando. So far, however, a big slow down in tourism hasn’t manifested itself in Orlando.
- I haven’t posted a link to Alas, A Blog in a long time, but Ampersand has a great write up on WALL-E with an interesting take on if the depiction of humanity in WALL-E is making fun of fat people.
- Lindsey Collins, co-producer of Pixar’s latest film, “WALL-E,” is interviewed by the Wall Street Journal. She talks about dressing for Pixar, pregnancy and red-carpet premieres.
- The Box office estimate for WALL-E for the weekend is $19 million that brings it to over $162 million total box office with almost all of the international market yet to open.
- Leo Holzer interviewed John Lasseter about his vision for Walt Disney Imagineering and the Toy Story Midway Mania attraction.
- Garth over at Extreme Craft returned to Disneyland and was impressed with the amount of Extreme Craft to be seen there. In a way, isn’t a large part of Imagineering just extreme craft?
- The trailer for High School Musical 3: The Senior Year will be premiering on The Disney Channel tomorrow night at 7:55PM PT/ET and 6:55PM CT. The movie itself will be in theaters this October 24th. At least they’re throwing The Disney Channel a bone.
- Anheuser-Busch initially rejected a buyout offer from InBev. But now that the deal has been sweetened with an additional $5 a share, it looks like the deal might go through. This means SeaWorld and Busch Gardens will likely be sold off so InBev can quickly make back some cash from the purchase. Read more at St Louis Today.
Originally posted on The Disney Blog.
Weekend Reading - Disney Link Roundup
July 12, 2008 Category: 0 Disney Pipe No Comments »
- July 23-25 dedicated Disney’s Cast Members will volunteer their time to raise money for United Arts with the annual “Encore” choral event. The theme this year is “Anything can happen”. More information at encorecentral.org.
- The Orlando Sentinel reports on the seemingly ubiquitous Brazilian tour groups that crowd Walt Disney World this time of year. Brazil is third, behind Canada and UK, for foreign tourists to Central Florida.
- The NY Times chimes in with their feelings about Disneyland’s new Dream Home. I’ll give you a hint, they weren’t amused.
- WALL-E and EVE Pez Dispensers, available in Europe.
- Action Figure Insider reports on the coming availability of some collectibles for some forgotten Disney characters.
- Pop & Politics blog has an outsider’s view on Disney and WALL-E.
- Please take a look at my current selection of eBay auctions. Nine end tomorrow. There are some great scrapbook pages, and some unique Disney collectibles. Your support helps The Disney Blog and you get something collectible in return. Thank you.
Finally, below the cut is a short video of one crash test dummy riding into another. This will likely be evidence #1 when Disney tries to keep Segways out of the parks in the recent lawsuit.
Originally posted on The Disney Blog.
Weekend Reading - Disney Link Roundup
Pixar robot film a masterpiece?
July 11, 2008 Category: Disney news No Comments »
Wall-E is an animated film about a rubbish clearing robot that's compared to masterpieces like Citizen Kane. Stephanie West reports.
