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Darth Vader Goes to Disneyland

It was only a matter of time before this happened but Disney Parks just posted a video that shows Darth Vader going to Disneyland. It shows ol’ Darth riding that stupid Teacup ride, going on Space Mountain and using the Force to his advantage. The happiest place on Earth is even fun for Darth Vader!…

Tech News Casey Chan Nov 1

All the Creepy Monsters that Wreck-It Ralph Could Have Looked Like

John C. Reilly describes video-game villain Wreck-It-Ralph as sharp, witty… and possibly a working model of Keynesian economic theories. As long as Ralph is “Gonna Wreck It!”, Fix-It Felix Jr. will have a job, well, fixing it. We approached voice actor John C. Reilly about our theory, and also talked about the rules of this…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 31

Disney’s new Star Wars movie will be all original

After a hefty amount of speculation on what inspirations Disney and Lucasfilm would use for the plot of Star Wars: Episode VII, the latest reports claim the new movie won’t be based on any existing source material. Forget Timothy Zahn’s Thrawn Trilogy , the video games and the graphic novels. The next Star Wars is…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 31

Welcome to the Bizarro NMA World In Which Star Wars and Disney Fight to the Death

Any NMA take on Disney’s acquisition of LucasFilm is bound to be very strange, but the finished product is even stranger than you could imagine. Backroom deals made in a strip club. Yoda strong arming George Lucas. Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the Avengers brawling with Yoda, Darth Vader and Han Solo. And Ronald McDonald? Just…

Tech News Adrian Covert Oct 31

5 Possible Storylines for the Next Star Wars Movie

Disney just paid over $4 Billion for Lucasfilm and the jewel of George Lucas’ eye, the Star Wars Universe. The House of Mouse wasted no time, announcing that a new live-action Star Wars film (tentatively titled Star Wars Episode VII) will be released in 2015, with new films following every few years. With only two…

io9 Keith Veronese Oct 30

What About Indiana Jones? All of Your Disney/Lucasfilm Merger Questions Answered

Shortly after the “Disney buys Lucasfilm” announcement, Disney execs hashed out the details on an investor conference call, and explained just what this massive acquisition means for you and me. Here’s the run down of what we learned: In 2015, Disney hopes to release Star Wars: Episode VII with plans to release Episode VIII and…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 30

Newly merged Disney/Lucasfilm plans new Star Wars films every two to three years

Disney has purchased LucasFilm for a whopping $4.05 billion. And the Mouse House already has big, big plans for George Lucas’ creation. According to a press release given to Street Insider, Disney is already planning Star Wars Episode VII for release in 2015! And on a conference call with reporters, Disney execs said they aim…

io9 Meredith Woerner Oct 30

Monsters University concept art shows off a new cast of Monsters!

Monsters University the prequel to Monsters Inc., promises naked monster coeds streaking the quad, monster beer bongs, and students pulling all-nighters to pass their monster finals. Plus brand new characters! We know that Sulley and Mike will both be returning for this origins story film, which showcases the beginning of their friendship, but there’ll also…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 29

The Disney Voltron figure is so completely insane, and I want one

Have you ever wondered what Mickey Mouse and friends would look like if they narcissistically constructed giant robot duplicates of their own personages? And what if these smaller Disneybots could snap together into an intergalactic war machine that zoomed around the cosmos, annihilating evildoers with the Disneyfied version of Lou Bega’s “Mambo #5” blasted at…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 22

These are the probably the most terrifying Mickey Mouse costumes ever worn

Between 1930-1960, there was an unspoken law that whenever people dressed up as Disney characters, their costumes had to be downright ghastly. https://gizmodo.com/vintage-disneyland-character-costumes-were-the-fabric-o-5912099 https://gizmodo.com/behold-the-mickey-mouse-gas-mask-from-world-war-ii-5888018 https://gizmodo.com/disney-cosplay-in-the-1930s-was-unadulterated-horror-5850211 And indeed, these Mickey Mouse outfits from 1931 are the kind of pervert suits that you find in spanking clubs located in condemned rendering plants. (Not that we’d know anything…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 15

These are your toys on drugs! Watch the full Toy Story short now

The water toys in Toy Story certainly like to party. Watch what happens when Rex meets the bath toys and begins doling out the water like it’s free. Rex becomes Partysaurus Rex and the hungry demon inside us all climbs out of his gut and begs for more, MORE! (We’re actually super-happy that the Toy…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 10

An extremely trippy photo of the old Disneyland cafeteria

Old Disney outfits were an infinitely deep reservoir of nightmare sludge. But when you threw all the characters in one room together for a casual meal, the results were delightful. As the Disney Fan Club explains of this snapshot: https://gizmodo.com/vintage-disneyland-character-costumes-were-the-fabric-o-5912099 Disney’s first park [was] just six years old when this truly behind-the-scenes photo was snapped…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 9

Behold the wild campus from Pixar’s Monsters University

Pixar’s prequel to Monsters Inc. might a long ways away, but marketing for Monsters University is already underway. The school where Sulley and Mike learned all about the art of scaring has a website, and it’s adorable. The whole thing is pretty interactive — there’s even a run-down of monster Greek Life. Fingers crossed Disney…

Movies Meredith Woerner Oct 8

The 10 Creepiest Human-To-Animal Transformations, In Order Of Mental Scarring

For every birthday-suit shapeshifter to appear on True Blood or denim-short teen wolf to pop up in the Twilight books, there are dozens of science fiction and horror narratives informing us that polymorphing into a marmoset, wombat, or whatever would legitimately suck. Here are ten squirm-inducing transformations that tattooed themselves onto our collective psyche. 10.…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Oct 8

3D-Printed Optics Could Light Up the Gadgets of the Future

3D-printing is awesome, but it has its limits. For the time being, we mostly get static plastic figures, and while resolution is getting better all the time, we’re far from a real replicator future. A new development is bringing us one step closer, however: printable optics. A paper recently published by Disney Research—the folks who…

Tech News Eric Limer Oct 6

Watch a deleted scene from Lilo & Stitch about racist tourists

Here’s a nixed, incomplete scene from the 2002 Disney cartoon Lilo & Stitch that took a break from the film’s main “alien experiment on the loose” storyline. This sequence showed how filmmakers were willing to confront those rude tourists who treat Hawaii’s residents like the denizens of one big exotic playground. This cute scene would’ve…

Movies Cyriaque Lamar Oct 4

What if Disney villains all won their respective movies?

What if the evil stepsisters had perfectly sized feet? What if Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was ten minutes long? What if Cruella de Vil evaded the authorities and those animal hoarding charges? Such scenarios have been realized by Justin McTwisp in this series of portraits of Disney films gone tremendously awry. Will there…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Oct 1

Concept art for 1937’s Snow White is gorgeous in its own right

We’ve seen so many iterations of Snow White over the last few years, but it’s always lovely to return to Walt Disney’s iconic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. These production illustrations, created by Gustaf Tenggren, the film’s chief illustrator, go a long way toward highlighting the storybook wonder that made that early animated feature…

Movies Lauren Davis Sep 29

These action figures give Monsters Inc. a totally unnecessary gritty reboot

Because nothing needs an extreme reboot quite like a heartwarming Pixar flick, custom action figure designer Panzer Vargas has transformed the cast of Monsters Inc. into deranged loons. These will be the product of some fevered Disney exec who is concerned that Pixar films don’t appeal to enough demographics. [Via Toy Story 3 director Lee…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Sep 11

What it’s like to work as a professional party princess — with hilarious illustrations

In addition to the theme park Meridas and Mulans who roam Disneyland and Disney World, various companies hire out princesses for birthday parties and other children’s events. So do those paid princesses get treated like royalty? Or does donning the dress and tiara make you feel more ready to play Ursula than Ariel? AssassinPrincess, a…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 1

Darth Vader Goes to Disneyland

All the Creepy Monsters that Wreck-It Ralph Could Have Looked Like

Disney’s new Star Wars movie will be all original

Welcome to the Bizarro NMA World In Which Star Wars and Disney Fight to the Death

5 Possible Storylines for the Next Star Wars Movie

What About Indiana Jones? All of Your Disney/Lucasfilm Merger Questions Answered

Newly merged Disney/Lucasfilm plans new Star Wars films every two to three years

Monsters University concept art shows off a new cast of Monsters!

The Disney Voltron figure is so completely insane, and I want one

These are the probably the most terrifying Mickey Mouse costumes ever worn

These are your toys on drugs! Watch the full Toy Story short now

An extremely trippy photo of the old Disneyland cafeteria

Behold the wild campus from Pixar’s Monsters University

The 10 Creepiest Human-To-Animal Transformations, In Order Of Mental Scarring

3D-Printed Optics Could Light Up the Gadgets of the Future

Watch a deleted scene from Lilo & Stitch about racist tourists

What if Disney villains all won their respective movies?

Concept art for 1937’s Snow White is gorgeous in its own right

These action figures give Monsters Inc. a totally unnecessary gritty reboot

What it’s like to work as a professional party princess — with hilarious illustrations

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