One More Disney Day Secret Revealed

Well, the secret is out. Apparently, the One More Disney Day is simply a special Leap Year celebration. See the video for yourself...

Hmmm. Not as exciting as I thought it would be. More details at the official site.

What do you think?



2012

2011 is ending, and 2012 is quickly approaching and I've got some awesome blog posts in the works.

Lets take a look at Disney's film lineup this year. On January 13th, "Beauty and the Beast" will be released theatrically in 3-D with the brand-new short film sequel "Tangled Ever After".

"John Carter" comes out March 9th.

On June 15th, Pixar is releasing the short La Luna...

...in theaters with their 13th film "Brave".

Also this summer, the TV show "Tron: Uprising" will premiere.

ON September 14th, Finding Nemo will be re-released in theaters in 3-D.

On October 5th, Tim Burton has another, um, interesting film. It's "Frankenweenie"...

It is a remake/feature-film version of his 1984 short film of the same name.

Finally, on November 2nd, Disney releases it's new CGI adventure, "Wreck-It Ralph".

At the Disneyland resort, 2012 will start off with a bang with World of Color, elecTRONica and themed fireworks. Here is a video of the celebration last year at Disney California Adventure...

California Adventure saw the completion of the expansion of Paradise Pier last year with the new attractions "The Little Mermaid - Ariel's Undersea Adventure"...

and the re-themed Mulholland Madness attraction "Goofy's Sky School".

The park also saw one big mess...

that led to a brand new entrance...

...and the start of construction on Buena Vista Street...

Which will be the new entrance area of the park. It will open this summer.

Disneyland Park had a "Soundsational" Summer...

 with the new parade "Mickey's Soundsational Parade"...

...and "Star Tours: the Adventures Continue" in 3-D.

Next summer, the California Adventure expansion will be complete with the opening of  "Cars Land"...

...and "Buena Vista Street".

There are lots of exciting things happening in the world of Disney soon.

This February, Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace will be released in theaters in 3-D.

...and Part 1 of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit Films will be out this December.

In July, Glenn beck is holding his "Restoring Love" event in Dallas, Texas.

THEN, after ALL of that, the world will end in December.

Disneyland may even end up looking something like this...

Lets, uh, sure hope not, but I guess we'll see what happens after the Presidential Election in November...

 

(Isn't that one of the creepiest pics of him ever?!?!?!?)

Happy (Hopefully) New Year!!!

(End of Line...2011 :)

Christmas Parade at Disneyland and a Secret Announcement

Here is a short clip of this years Christmas Fantasy Parade at Disneyland

 

 

 

 

Also, apparently coming tomorrow, is an announcement about something called "One More Disney Day". On the Disney Parks official website there is this page. On the page is this video...

 

 

 

 

Hmmm... Several (if not all) of those clocks are located inside Disneyland Park. What could this mean? Is it just the new 2012 Disney Parks slogan like "Let the Memories Begin"? Or is it something bigger than that? I'll keep you posted.

 

 

Don't forget that my blog is going private at the end of tomorrow, so let me know if you want an invite to continue looking at it!

Disneyland Timelapse and Going Private

Here is a pretty cool Disneyland Time-Lapse video that I found...

I thought that was pretty cool.

By the way, I'm going to be making my blog private sometime soon, so let me know if you want me to send you an E-Mail invite!

"Bagginses... What is a Bagginses, Precious...?"

Check this out! The first official trailer for the upcoming prequel to the epic "The Lord of the Rings" film franchise "The Hobbit Part 1: An Unexpected Journey" has been released. It follows the adventures of a young Bilbo Baggins with Gandalf, and an entourage of dwarfs. (Sorry, no Gimli to make our days brighter this time...)

Watch it right here, right now...

I am personally very excited about these movies. I hope they are as good as Lord of the Rings. (Yes, we unfortunately have to see our precious Gollum again... the creep!) They are being directed and produced by Peter Jackson (Director of "Lord of the Rings"). Part 1, An Unexpected Journey is due out December 14th 2012, and Part 2, There and Back Again is due out December 13th 2013. 

You can go to the film's official website Here, and the film's official Blog Here.

Whaddaya think?

Walt Disney

On this day 45 years ago, Walt Disney passed away.

(From D23)

"On this day in 1966, the news that Walt Disney had passed away utterly shocked the world. Over the years, D23′s Scott Wolf has spoken to many Cast Members who were with the Company at that time. They all remember that day vividly. Disney Legend X Atencio remembered: “December 15 was traditionally when I bought my Christmas tree. When I got home here and got to thinking about it and sat, I just bawled my eyes out.” Disney Legend Harriet Burns remembered that as soon as she heard the news, “tears squirted out of my eyes… we knew he had gone back to St. Joseph’s Hospital but he had been there back and forth from time to time and had little things done. This was only 10 days after he’d been in for a meeting.” Connie Swanson Lane, who was the Disneyland Ambassador at the time, recalled: “It was like losing a family member. Very difficult. Most of us stayed at work because that’s what Walt would have wanted us to do. The flag was lowered at half mast. It was very, very hard, and I stood at Town Square for the retreat that night until the flag was totally lowered. It was my way of saying goodbye.” Almost spiritually, a phenomenon occurred at Walt’s park that evening, according to a story told to me by two people at different times. One of them was funnyman Don Payne, who for several years was a substitute for Wally Boag in the Golden Horseshoe Revue. He remembers, “I got the part to be in the barnyard unit in Fantasy on Parade for Christmas. The night the parade stepped off for the first time is the day Walt Disney died. That night, just before the performance started, we were standing back behind where Walt’s apartment was and it started snowing! In the work lights, you could see flakes of snow drifting down. They never hit the ground, but we were all looking, thinking, ‘How freaky is this? It doesn’t snow in Anaheim!’ It was cold and it was snowing.”"

(Walt Disney as Santa Claus)

Thank You Walt.

December 12th in Disney History

"Heigh Ho! Heigh Ho! We're the wisest dwarfs we know!"

On December 12th 1941, this short cartoon by Walt Disney was produced to promote War Savings Certificates for the war effort during WWII.

It's an interesting little short. It's cool to see the dwarfs again. This is one of those rare times that you actually see them in something other than Snow White.

Enjoy!

December 5th in DISNEY HISTORY

December 5th marks the (would be) 110th birthday of good ol' Uncle Walt.

I planned for the longest time to do a tribute video for this birthday celebration, but it ended up not happening. Maybe it'll work out for the 111th. I also planned to do a big, elaborate post today, but it just isn't going to happen. It's late, school is nuts, and I am T-I-R-E-D!!!

Today also saw the release of the Disney cartoon "Prep and Landing: Naughty vs. Nice"

 

 

 

 

I have the worst luck with Prep and Landing. Everytime it's on TV, I somehow miss it or have something going on that night or something. Then tonight, we planned on watching it the sequel, but I was working on other stuff and wasn't paying attention to the time, so I saw probably the last two minutes or so by the time I finally remembered. Oh well...

Moving right along, it is also the 70th anniversary of the HILARIOUS Donald Duck Cartoon "Chef Donald."

"Did you enjoy your waffle? I'll bet you did. Won't you let me hear from ya?"

Happy Birthday Walt!

"And so until next week, Old Mother Mallard wishes you all the best-" *CRASH!!!* "Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!" "Quaaaaaaaaack! Quaaaack Quaaaak Quaaaack Quack"