Category: Pixar
365 Adventures in 2011: Day 72 – The sweet smell of artificial strawberries
I took a much-needed trip to Epcot today, not only to see the newly-added Lots-o-Huggin’ Bear topiary (which smells STRONGLY of artificial strawberry scent), but also to temporarily get away from the broken car mess I’ve been dealing with for the last day or two.
365 Adventures in 2011: Day 36 – To Pixar and Beyond!
Another day spent working on the bonus room shelves, this time populating it with a variety of collectibles from the worlds of Pixar, the Muppets, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and a few others. Tomorrow I think I’ll take a break and actually DO SOMETHING outside the house, so expect a non-bonus room photo. But until then…
Pixar grants girl’s dying wish with home viewing of ‘Up’
This is the most touching (and saddest) story I’ve read in a long time…
From ocregister.com:
Colby Curtin, a 10-year-old with a rare form of cancer, was staying alive for one thing – a movie.
From the minute Colby saw the previews to the Disney-Pixar movie Up, she was desperate to see it. Colby had been diagnosed with vascular cancer about three years ago, said her mother, Lisa Curtin, and at the beginning of this month it became apparent that she would die soon and was too ill to be moved to a theater to see the film.
After a family friend made frantic calls to Pixar to help grant Colby her dying wish, Pixar came to the rescue.
The company flew an employee with a DVD of Up, which is only in theaters, to the Curtins’ Huntington Beach home on June 10 for a private viewing of the movie.
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Colby died about seven hours after seeing the film.
With her daughter’s vigil planned for Friday, Lisa Curtin reflected about how grateful she is that Pixar – and “Up” – were a part of her only child’s last day.
“When I watched it, I had really no idea about the content of the theme of the movie,” said Curtin, 46. “I just know that word ‘Up’ and all of the balloons and I swear to you, for me it meant that (Colby) was going to go up. Up to heaven.”
Pixar officials declined to comment on the story or name the employees involved.
Every time I hear about or see a child visiting Walt Disney World courtesy of the Make-a-Wish Foundation, it brings similar emotions as this story did. It’s wonderful that a child’s last desire was fulfilled by a company going out of their way to make it happen, but also heart-wrenching to know that this was, in fact, her last desire.
Visit ocregister.com for the full article.
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Don’t worry, I haven’t abandoned this blog. I’ve just been too busy this week to get back into the habit of posting.
While you’re waiting for me to start posting again, check out the following things I’ve been busy with in the last week or so:
- Inside the Magic Show 217 – Includes my review of Disney/Pixar’s Up
- American Idol Kris Allen at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
- More of American Idol Kris Allen at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
- Star Wars Weekends 2009 Dance-Off with the Star Wars Stars – Hilarious!
- Face and Body Art International Convention 2009 Photos and Video
THURSDAY THEME PARK: Looking Back at Disney-MGM Studios Parades and Street Shows
Before there was Disney’s Hollywood Studios, there was the Disney-MGM Studios theme park at Walt Disney World. And before there were Block Party Bash, High School Musical, Power Rangers, or the Disney Stars and Motor Cars parade, there were a number of other street-based forms of entertainment in that theme park. So today we’re…
Looking Back at Disney-MGM Studios Parades and Street Shows
Disney-MGM Studios has changed very slowly over the years in its ultimate transition to Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Throughout this transition, the Studios theme park was the place to find parades and street shows that revolved around whatever the hit movie or television show was at the time.
Dinosaurs
In 1992, that hit television show was Dinosaurs, a sitcom about a family of giant prehistoric anthropomorphic lizards leading their daily lives. So in bringing them to Disney-MGM Studios, what else would be more appropriate than… a street party!
I don’t know where or when exactly this concept of theme park street parties began, but I suppose it’s comforting to know that today’s Move It, Shake It, Celebrate it! street party at the Magic Kingdom had Dinosaurs as one of its ancestors.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
From one reptile to another: Following lounging lizards in 1993 were the heroes in a half-shell, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. At the time, the fearsome foursome had a hugely popular cartoon as well as a pair of live action films. So into Disney-MGM Studios rolled the Turtle Van, April O’Neil, along with Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo, and Raphael, to show off their… singing and dancing?
Why does everything in a theme park involve singing and/or dancing? Why couldn’t the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles come out and battle Shredder? While showing off the Turtle Van was an excellent touch, those costumes really needed some more work.
Aladdin, Toy Story, and Mulan
Beginning in 1994, Disney-MGM Studios began a long line of Disney and/or Pixar movie-based parades.
Aladdin’s Royal Caravan - 1994 - Highlight: Fake cartoony people along its floats
Toy Story Parade -- 1996 -- Highlight: Green army men raising a flag, Iwo Jima-style
Mulan Parade -- 1998 -- Highlight: Never-ending dragon/Great Wall of China
These are just some of the highlights of Disney-MGM Studios street parties and parades that existed during the years leading up to the Disney Stars and Motor Cars parade premiere in 2001.
Did you have a favorite Disney-MGM Studios parade or street party? Comment!
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