Tag: Toy Story
Mesmerizing Dutch music video features Disneyland Paris and Disney characters
Dutch singer Jan Smit is currently climbing the charts in the Netherlands with his song “Leef Nu Het Kan” (which Babel Fish tells me translates to “Live now it is possible”).
A strangely mesmerizing music video for this song has shown up on YouTube, including shots of Disneyland Paris’ Main Street and castle, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear and Woody, and a bunch of random girls stepping in and out of frame.
It’s a music video that only a Disney fan could enjoy:
Thanks to Inside the Magic listener Clarissa for sending me a link to this video!
TweetBest new toys and collectibles at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con
Judging from the amount of toys showcased at Comic-Con, if I attended, I would probably spent most of my time staring at them wishing the release dates were sooner than later. Of course, that’s exactly what I’m doing here at home, so I suppose there’s really no difference. Anyway, here are my favorite toys, sculptures, and other collectibles that I’ve found photos of:
Ghostbusters from Mattel
I’m extremely excited to finally get my hands on some official Ghostbusters action figures. Egon comes out in just a couple of weeks followed by the rest over time. There’s even a figure of movie “villain” Walter Peck coming out, complete with containment unit accessory. It appears that the figures were guarded at Comic-Con by some Ghostbusters booth babes.
Pictures from toynewssi.com and mwctoys.com – Visit both sites to see a ton of more Ghostbusters figure photos.
TweetToy Story Playland On its Way to Disneyland Paris
From photosmagiques.com and De Telegraaf (in Dutch):
TweetDisneyland Paris will be getting a new attraction based on the movie Toy Story. That’s what John Lasseter, head of Disney’s Animation Studios, told at the film festival in Cannes. The festival opens with ‘Up’, the new movie from the producers Pixar and Disney.
‘The park will be getting a separate area in which the Toy Story characters will be coming alive’, told Lasseter. The new attraction will open in summer of 2010, simultaneously with the release of the third part of the Toy-Story-movies.
Disneyland Paris currently already has an attraction with Buzz Lightyear, one of the characters of the Toy Story-movies.
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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