Category: Disney
From orlandosentinel.com:
Further adventures from yesterdays trip to Disneys Hollywood Studios.
The area right across from Toy Story Mania is open for business: a gift shop, a grab-and-go eatery/wagon, a photo opportunity. … Ironically, it was tough to take pictures of the photo spot. It was closed at first and window glare kept me from getting good shots. Later, it was slammed with parents and young ones.
From the outside it looks cool — but perhaps claustrophobic. Would love to hear from anyone who made it inside.
more photos at link
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Posted by Dr. Disney on June 27, 2008 at 11:28 am · Permalink
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Category: Disney
From bloggingstocks.com:
File this under Only in America; the recently-passed national transportation bill includes $42 million to fund further research on a proposed Anaheim to Las Vegas (Disneyland to Casinoland) magnetic levitation high-speed rail system, designed to whisk the entertainment-starved between the two spots at speeds up to 310 mph. I can just see parents loading the kids on the Maglev and shipping them off to Disneyland while Mom and Dad hit the craps tables in Sin City.
This funding, of course, is only a drop in the enormous bucket of this cutting-edge technology. The final cost to construct the system is currently estimated at $12 billion. Imagine the ticket prices- even more than entry to Disneyland, including refreshments! Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Dr. Disney on June 27, 2008 at 9:22 am · Permalink
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From orlandosentinel.com:
Reigning American Idol champion David Cook is taping segments that will be used in the upcoming attraction “The American Idol Experience,” now set to open January 2009 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. In this photo released by Disney, Cook studies a script with Disney producer Gina Jones. A crew from Walt Disney World shot the Cook footage in Los Angeles.
Cook and other Idol finalists begin a nationwide tour next week. It stops in Tampa on Aug. 21.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on June 27, 2008 at 9:17 am · Permalink
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Category: Disney
From orlandosentinel.com:
Hope you werent expecting a big blow-out — or even trumpets — for the grand opening of Journey to Narnia: Prince Caspian Thursday at Disneys Hollywood Studios. It was short, but distinctive. Cue the horse
(Speaking of pervious tenants, some of the props from the first Narnia movie has been transplanted over to the Studios AFI exhibit at the end of the Studio Backlot Tour.)
photos of the new exhibit at link
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Posted by Dr. Disney on June 27, 2008 at 9:15 am · Permalink
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From iht.com:
The Disney Cruise Line has paid a record US$331,200 for one of its ships to cross the Panama Canal.
The Panama Canal Authority says the 964-foot (295-meter) “Disney Magic” made the crossing May 16.
Panama increased canal fees last year and now charges cruise liners according to number of beds rather than cargo capacity. The “Disney Magic” has 875 staterooms.
Canal authorities said Tuesday that the previous record fee paid by any ship was US$317,142, set on May 7 by the cargo vessel “MSC Fabienne.” The high for a cruiser was US$313,000, set last October by two Norwegian Cruise Line ships.
The U.S.-built waterway earned US$1.76 billion in fees last year. A US$5.25 billion expansion is to be completed by 2014.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on June 26, 2008 at 9:49 am · Permalink
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From nytimes.com:
The Walt Disney Company, concerned that its main Web site is not entertaining enough, is moving once again to overhaul Disney.com.
Among the changes on the new Disney.com, visitors can use a cellphone to create a butterfly pet for an avatar in Pixie Hollow, a virtual world built around the character Tinker Bell.
It will be the second recent makeover for the company’s marquee site, which is still the top Internet destination for children’s entertainment but faces increasing competition from players like Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network and WebKinz. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Dr. Disney on June 26, 2008 at 9:46 am · Permalink
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Category: Pixar
From pixar.com:
We Would Love To Meet Our Future Employees at Siggraph 08 in Los Angeles in August.
Below please find a list of our job openings.
Animator
Art Director
Character Designer
Digital Painter
Graphic Artist
Layout Artist
Matte Painter
RenderMan Customer Support Engineer (Seattle Office Location)
RenderMan Engineer (Seattle Office Location)
RenderMan Sr. Developer (Seattle Office Location)
Software Engineer (Studio Tools)
Software Engineer (Production Engineering)
Technical Director, Lighting
Technical Director, Generalist
Technical Director, Shading
Technical Director, Character
Technical Director, Global Technology
Technical Director, Effects
Technical Director, Rendering
Technical Director, Cloth Modeling and Simulation
Please leave those pesky demo reels at home. They will not be accepted at the booth. To be considered for a potential interview at SIGGRAPH, please follow instructions at link.
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Posted by Dr. Disney on June 26, 2008 at 6:08 am · Permalink
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From news.com.au:
MELBOURNE will be put on show as one of the world’s top food destinations if a bid to recreate the city at Disney World is successful.
Tourism Victoria told Melbourne Leader the city is vying for the right to be featured as one of the world’s four great food cities at the Florida themepark when the biggest food festival on the planet kicks off in September.
The Epcot International Food and Wine Festival attracts more than 1.3 million visitors to Florida’s Walt Disney World Resort each year.
Tourism Victoria marketing director Don Richter said Disney had invited Victoria to bid because of its reputation as a food and wine destination. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Dr. Disney on June 25, 2008 at 8:37 pm · Permalink
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From ocregister.com:
Members of the union representing 2,300 workers at three Disneyland hotels dressed as cartoon characters and protested at the park Tuesday morning.
The pickets are part of an ongoing effort by the union to influence contract talks that are underway between the union, Unite Here Local 681, and Disney management.
“Talks have progressively gotten worse,” said Unite Here 681 President Ada Briceño. “We have been making sure Disney knows we’re serious.”
Briceño complained that Disney’s proposals have included a two-tiered wage system under which new union workers would not make the same wages as veteran union workers in the same positions. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Dr. Disney on June 25, 2008 at 8:34 pm · Permalink
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From google.com:
Japanese police arrested a 19-year-old man Monday for allegedly threatening on the Internet to go on a stabbing rampage at Tokyo Disneyland.
The message, posted on a website by someone using a cellphone June 15, came a week after a man posted similar warnings before killing seven people in a downtown Tokyo knifing rampage. Authorities were also searching for a woman suspected of wounding three people in a knifing incident Sunday.
Since the deadly stabbing attack in early June, police have arrested several people for allegedly using the Internet to make chillingly specific threats of violence. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Dr. Disney on June 25, 2008 at 8:31 pm · Permalink
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