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A Farewell to Epcot’s Norway Ride: How Fake Experiences Shaped My Life

I’ve never been to Norway. I guess it’s supposed to be like Minnesota, but with more fjords and trolls or something. But you know where I have been? Epcot. Which is kind of the same thing. Right? Yesterday, the Epcot attraction officially known as Maelstrom (more commonly just called “the Norway ride”) carried its last…

Someone Animated The Creepy Scar/Nala Song From The Lion King Musical

“The Madness of King Scar” is a song that was based on a scene cut from the original Lion King movie that ultimately made it into the stage musical. One animator took the disturbing Scar and Nala portion of the song and imagined how it might have looked in the animated movie. The full song…

Disney Deleted Scenes From The 1950s Reveal A Very Different Maleficent

Disney is releasing a new Blu-Ray version of the classic 1959 animated movie Sleeping Beauty—and with it a collection of recreated animatic sketches that show the many different versions of Disney’s biggest and baddest villain, Maleficent. The new collection (which will be available on Oct. 7th) has a ton of behind-the-scenes interviews and recreated sketches-turned-animatics…

Ingest A Fairy Tale With Disney’s Projection Mapping Wedding Cake

Now you can gain the power and strength of Disney’s happily ever after by ingesting your very own living fairy tale on your wedding day. Disney’s video projection wedding cake is just so damn magical. Presented in all its splendor at the Fairy Tail Weddings Expo, this video cake will put you back a pretty…

There’s A Peter Pan Workplace Sitcom Coming To NBC

NBC Is making a live-action, Peter Pan-inspired workplace comedy titled Wendy and Peter. It sounds like The Office meets J.M. Barrie’s classic fairy tale. I volunteer the whole of Brooklyn as both a cast and location (including myself). According to Deadline, the half-hour, single camera show will be more of a romantic comedy and less…

See Shaun Of The Dead’s Triumphant Return In This Phineas & Ferb Clip

If its Marvel Super Heroes, Star Wars or Lost-themed episodes haven’t drawn you in, maybe this will: this week’s Phineas & Ferb takes on the zombie genre with a guest appearance from none other than Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, recreating their characters from Shaun of the Dead. And you can watch it here! This…

You Don’t Need To Be a Bridezilla To Want an Animated Wedding Cake

It doesn’t come as much of a surprise that Disney has a whole division at its theme parks dedicated to making fairy tale weddings a reality. But what is surprising is the awesome technology those wedding planners have at their disposal, like wonderful projection-mapped cakes that make it look as if the frosting is magically…

Disney USB Chargers Make Outlets Fun, Which, Uh… Guys?

For those us without kids, these Disney-themed USB chargers seem like an adorable way to replace the adapters that came with our smartphones. But to anyone with a toddler roaming the house, exploring every last nook and cranny, they also serve as an engraved invitation to start playing with power outlets. Available come November for…

Oh God, The New Big Hero 6 Trailer Is Making Us Cry

The earlier trailers and clips for Disney’s superhero film Big Hero 6 have focused mainly on how funny and adorable its characters—especially medical robot Baymax—are. But this trailer hits home the tragedy at the heart of the film. We already knew that Big Hero 6 was going to be a tale of grief and emotional…

Disney’s New Big Hero 6 Trailer Is as Delightful as the First

Big Hero 6 is Disney’s first attempt at creating a film based on Marvel comics. This isn’t Spider-Man or The Avengers, mind you. This film is a different take on 1998’s relatively obscure Sunfire and Big Hero 6 comic, but despite its sub-superstar status in the comics world, the film looks amazing. As in the…

Winnie the Pooh was based on a real bear that participated in WWI

Everybody loves Winnie the Pooh and his adorable addiction to honey. It’s often believed that the children’s book character is based on a teddy bear that the author, A.A. Milne, gave to his son Christopher Robin Milne. But this is only partially true. In fact, Christopher Robin named his stuffed bear after a real bear…

Lucasfilm’s Sidewalk Art Event made for some amazingly nerdy Chalk Art

Every year, ILM and other tenants at San Francisco’s Letterman Digital Arts Center take part in a sidewalk Chalk Art contest – and this year’s competition had some wonderful Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Disney inspired art. Take a look! Header Image: ‘Episode VII Droid casting’ by HTTPicasso The competition takes place on the LDAC’s…

The Inspiration For Disney’s Robin Hood Wasn’t Actually Robin Hood

Andrew E. Larsen is an historian who specializes in Medieval England and blogs about pop culture and history at An Historian Goes to the Movies. In “Disney’s Robin Hood: A Bit More Medieval Than You Might Think,” Larsen explores the film’s true inspiration, which wasn’t Robin Hood but a different medieval tale. A couple weeks…

‘Pirate Speak’ Is A Myth Perpetuated By Disney

Today is International Talk Like A Pirate Day, but before you get carried away with your ahoys, and your mateys and your timber-shivering, there’s something you should know: Pirate-speak, as most of us know it, was invented by Disney; and pirates – real pirates, that is – probably sounded nothing like they do in the…

Maleficent Deleted Scenes Reveal More Creepy Pixie Behavior

The parts of Maleficent we actually enjoyed were when Angelina Jolie went full villain. The rest, not to much. Specifically, we weren’t fans of the odd, slapstick pixies whose backstory has been fleshed out in these recently released Maleficent deleted scenes. These deleted scenes are from the soon-to-be released Maleficent DVD (Nov. 4th). What they…

Concept Art For Big Hero 6‘s San Fransokyo Is Absolutely Charming

Disney’s upcoming superhero film Big Hero 6 is set in San Fransokyo, a futuristic city with San Francisco’s layout and a bit of Tokyo’s aesthetic. And this delightful concept art from the film gives us a sense of how that mashed-up city came together. Walt Disney World cast member Holly, a.k.a. shining-magically, snapped tons of…

Chromecast Just Got Twitch and a Bunch of Other New Apps

Chromecast just got another wave of apps. Leading the charge this time is the newly Amazon-owned Twitch, along with iHeartRadio, and a handful of Disney streaming apps. Amazon-owned Instant Video, however, is still nowhere to be seen. But still, you just got a few more excuses to never leave the couch! https://gizmodo.com/why-everyone-wanted-to-buy-twitch-1626616566

Inside the Fantastic World of Disney’s Most Famous Art Director

Walt Disney, for all his vision, was not an artist at heart; he was smart enough to surround himself with talented people. The look that we associate with Disney art came largely from one woman he hired: Mary Blair, the designer and illustrator behind animated films like Alice in Wonderland and the ride it’s a…

Twenty styles of children’s sunglasses—215,000 pairs, in all—have been recalled for having “excessive” amounts of lead in them, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Many Disney and Marvel-branded sunglasses are included in the recall. So if you bought lil’ Johnny some Spiderman sunnies this summer, you may want to check out the recall…

How Disney Upgrades The Haunted Mansion to Scare New Generations of Fans

The manifesting and disappearing ghosts in the grand ballroom of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion aren’t holograms or digital projections. They’re based on Pepper’s Ghost, a nineteenth century technique that, until the Haunted Mansion was constructed, had never been used on such a grand scale. This is Part Two of our excerpt series from The Unauthorized Story…