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Song of the South: the Ride. Photo by Joe Penniston [CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] via Flickr.

Controversy: Disney announces live-action Song of the South

Every other animated feature has had a live remake, so now it's Song of the South's turn. BURBANK, CA - Continuing with its latest business model of remaking beloved animated features, Disney announced that it had begun production of a live-action reboot of the 1946 classic Song of the South. "We feel that this reboot has been necessary for decades," said ABC Disney spokesperson Stephen White. "While the film has received a lot of flack for expressing old sentiments, we'd like to retell the story ...
September 17, 2018 by Ub in Other
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NO taping dates! Disney Christmas Parade to be live-streamed

"Slick production values and days of preparation are so 1990's." BURBANK, CA -- Every year, Disney fans on both coasts eagerly await the announcement of taping dates for the Disney Christmas Parade. Those are the days when guests vie to be one of the lucky thousands of crowd members for the Disney Christmas Day TV special. If they plan things right, they'll get to stand for endless hours in the sun for the privilege of maybe being a semi-identifiable blur in the ...
September 15, 2018 by Marty in California, Florida
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A small sampling of John Ratzenberger's Pixar characters. Photo courtesy Ratzenberger.com.

Coming to Pixar Pier: “A Very Ratzenberger Adventure”

The new dark ride will incorporate every Pixar character voiced by John Ratzenberger. ANAHEIM, CA -- A brand-new attraction is on its way to Disney's California Adventure Park, and it promises to be the original, innovative ride that the park has needed. Just months after California Adventure rethemed its Paradise Pier area to be Pixar Pier, park officials have announced "A Very Ratzenberger Adventure." The ride will incorporate 3-D projection and trackless vehicles, much like Ratatouille: L'Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy at Walt Disney ...
September 13, 2018 by Marty in California
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Animatronic Dancing Han Solo arrives at Disneyland.

Animatronic dancing Han Solo arrives at Disneyland

We're starting to sense a pattern. ANAHEIM, CA -- In what is an apparent attempt to keep crowds manageable after the highly-anticipated opening of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, another less-than-exciting audio-animatronic figure has been spotted arriving at the Disneyland Resort. As Uncle Walt's Insider reported, Disney already installed less popular figures from the Star Wars Universe: Jar Jar Binks and Bea Arthur's Ackmena from the Star Wars Holiday Special. But even the arrival of beloved central character Princess Leia was marred. Somehow the Imagineers ...
September 12, 2018 by Marty in California
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Disney's Go Away Green - building, speaker, Club 33 door, & Phil

Disney licenses “Go Away Green” to military

Pictured uses of Go Away Green (L-R): 1. show building. 2. speaker. 3. Club 33 door. 4. Phil. BURBANK, CA -- For decades Disney Imagineers have been painting buildings and objects within their parks a dusky shade of bluish-green they call "Go Away Green." It's a color whose entire purpose is to not draw attention, so it can be found on speakers, employees-only gates, a certain Cast Member named Phil that no one likes, and most famously, the original door to the secretive ...
September 6, 2018 by Marty in California, Florida, Other
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