Among an abundance of expensive stationary, pens and apparel, Disney has included a very interesting piece of merchandise as part of their Disney Twenty Three / D23 fan club reveal:

D23 Membership Exclusive Framed Limited-Edition Song of the South Cel (Item #300886P)

It costs $1,495.95 and is available to D23 members here.

Does this mean Disney is embracing its long-shunned Song of the South film? It’s a topic that has come up at many of the recent Disney shareholder meetings and fans of the film are eager to see a release on DVD.

The 2009 Disney shareholder’s meeting is about to begin, so we’ll see if Disney finally brings Song of the South out of the Disney Vault.

From wesh.com:

The park plans to close the “Twister” ride on Monday, WESH 2 News has learned. Park officials told WESH 2 News that the ride will close until the spring and will reopen seasonally. 

All team members who work on the ride will be assigned to other attractions, park officials said.

Universal announced last week the closure of the “Fear Factor” attraction because the forecasted demand for the theme park is down.

I was never a fan of the Twister attraction. When it first opened, I remember waiting 90+ minutes to experience it and was disappointed afterward. It’s a fun attraction if there’s a short wait, but not worth spending an hour and a half standing in the sun.

With the Rip, Ride, Rockit roller coaster track being assembled just down the road from Twister’s entrance, I’d imagine that more attention will be paid to the coaster zipping around once it opens.

Twenty-five years ago, two men named Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman produced 3,000 copies of a 40-page black and white comic that paved the way to reach this year’s milestone of…

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 25th Anniversary

Growing up, I was a big Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) fan. No, make that a huge TMNT fan. I used to watch the cartoon when it was on TV religiously. I had all of the action figures. I wanted to be Donatello (you know, the geeky turtle).

Now, 25 years later, I am still an enormous TMNT fan. I have purchased the DVD sets of the original cartoon series. I have begun to re-accumulate my action figure collection that left my possession somewhere beyond elementary school. I own a multitude of awesome Turtles shirts from 80stees.com. I even had my wife make a Turtle cake (yes, Donatello) for my birthday:

Needless to say, I was very excited to find out that the Ninja Turtles would be honoring their 25th anniversary with a big “shell-abration.”

It all begins at TMNT25.com, where you can get turtle-ized by taking a quiz to find out which character you are most like. Take a wild guess what the result of my quiz was. Yep, Donatello.
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Dingbats at dafont.com

Everyone goes font-crazy at some point as a new computer user. It’s an easy way to make bizarre-looking messages or create ‘funny’ ransom notes. So while dafont.com has plenty of great fonts to download for free, I’m specifically linking to their Dingbats section, as it recently amazed me with the wide variety of little scaleable pictures that are available in font format. Here’s a sampling:

Movie Gallery

Peanuts Gang

Hayden Panetierre

Because you’ll never know when you’re going to need a two-tone image of that cheerleader girl from Heroes.