This Week in Disney History (August 3-9)
1923: Actress Jean Hagen (Freeda Daniels in The Shaggy Dog) is born in Chicago, Illinois.
1933: The Mickey Mouse Watch enters U.S. markets at a cost of $2.75.
1953: Animator Jim Jenkins (creator of Doug) is born in Virginia.
1955: The 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Exhibit, a walk-through exhibit, opens in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland.
1955: Voice actor Corey Burton (The Incredibles, Stitch! The Movie, Treasure Planet, Return to Neverland) is born in Granada Hills, California.
1955: Actor Wayne Knight (Al in Toy Story & Toy Story 2, Tantor in Tarzan, Demetrius the Pot Maker in Hercules) is born in Cartersville, Georgia.
1961: The Flying Saucers attraction opens in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland.
1964: Disneyland’s Astro-Jets are renamed the Tomorrowland Jets.
1967: The Adventure Thru Inner Space attraction opens in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland.
1967: Lee Unkrich (supervising editor for Finding Nemo and A Bug’s Life, co-director of Monsters, Inc.) is born in Cleveland, Ohio.
1968: Actor Eric Bana (Anchor in Finding Nemo) is born in Australia.
1969: The Haunted Mansion opens in Disneyland’s New Orleans Square.
1988: Ground is broken for Euro Disney
1992: Actors Dylan and Cole Sprouse (The Suite Life of Zack and Cody) are born in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy.
1995: Ground is broken for Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
1999: Buena Vista Pictures’ The Sixth Sense premieres.
2001: Disney’s The Princess Diaries premieres.
2003: Disney’s Freaky Friday remake premieres.
2007: Disney’s Underdog premieres.
2008: The Muppets return to TV with “Studio DC: Almost Live” on the Disney Channel.
Disney Ticket Prices Increase
The Walt Disney Company made public the information that has been suspected for the past week. Along with rising food and gas prices, tickets to Walt Disney World and Disneyland will increase.
One-day tickets for guests age 10 and above for the Orlando park will increase from $71 to $75 (a 7% increase) and tickets for those ages 3-9 will increase from $60 to $63 (a 5% increase).
In California, guests age 10 and above will have to shell out $69 (from $66-a 5% increase) and tickets for children ages 3-9 will increase from $56 to $59 (a 5.5% increase).
Adding the park hopper action will now cost $50, up from $45 (an 11% increase).
More Disney Websites Go Live
The Walt Disney Company’s internet division sure has been busy lately. Especially with the Bolt and Up websites going live last week. Now, two more movies have their own websites:
The Race to Witch Mountain, a reimagining of the 1970s film Escape to Witch Mountain, has a website with few details: there’s only a logo and a link to register for updates.
The Princess and the Frog (renamed from The Frog Princess), the film featuring Disney’s first African-American princess, has a website full with a picture gallery (with new pictures being uploaded monthly), the story behind the film, a trailer, and cast and crew details.
Netcot Podcast #113 - The backwards show (show notes)
Since this is the 113th episode of the show, I decided to do the entire format backwards beginning with the end. That way, I know what went wrong and didn’t have to leave it up to “lucky number (one hundred and) 13.”
News:
- Batman - The Dark Knight, beat the record previously held by Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, for getting to the $300,000,000 mark in the least amount of time. Batman did it in 10 days, Pirates took 16.
- Johnny Depp is reported to be considering the role of the Mad Hatter in the upcoming Tim Burton rendition of Alice in Wonderland.
- A helpful tip list from the Canadian Press about keeping your cool at WDW.
- Videos are now out from the Disney Moms featuring some “how to’s” on subjects related to traveling to Disney parks.
- One popular podcast was recently featured as a suggested podcast by Bret, one of the Disney Moms website contributors.
- Disney announced some new comic book series books that will be based on Disney-Pixar movies. At the event, they also showed a teaser trailer of Tron 2.0.
- Disney now has a new website up for their next animated feature: Bolt.
- Disney has yet another website up for their next Disney-Pixar feature: Up.
- Disney people really were going website crazy in the last few weeks because they also launched a site for the new American Idol Experience attraction being built at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
- Hanna Montana can call you.
- Hanna Montana might be over soon.
- Hanna Montana aka Miley Cyrus posted a YouTube video making fun of other teen stars.
- Netcot.com announced a new iPhone and iPod Touch optimized site design which appears automatically when the site is accessed from one of these devices. Users can toggle between the optimized site and the original one through links at the top/bottom of the Netcot.com site, when viewing it from these devices.
Features:
- Rides that go backwards
- Top 7 rides that need to return (to WDW).
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The Pirate Synergy Continues
The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort will be getting a retheming. Walt Disney World management has unveiled a rendering and a few details of the renovations showing that 384 rooms in the Trinidad South Village Area will be rethemed after the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (ship-like beds, old crate-like dressers, sail-like curtains, etc). Click on the picture for a larger version.
Disney also announced a revision to the Magic Your Way Plan. For a certain price per day, starting Jan. 11, 2009, guests can add a Quick Service Dining Plan. This plan includes two quick service meals and two snacks per each night of stay as well as a refillable mug for unlimited refills of non-alcoholic beverages at Disney resort hotels. For those guests that book their stay through the Walt Disney Travel Company, 30 minute play-cards for Disney’s resort hotel video arcades will be given.
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New Out-of-Park Experiences
Many of you know that there are Treasure Cruises for children available around the Walt Disney World Resort.
Existing Cruises:
- Albatross Treasure Cruise: 9:30am departure from the Yacht and Beach Club Monday and Wednesday
- Disney’s Pirate Adventure: 9:30 am departure from the Grand Floridian Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Island of the Caribbean Pirate Cruise: 9:30am departure from the Caribbean Beach Resort Tuesdays
- Sassagoula River Adventure Cruise: 11:30am departure from Port Orleans Riverside Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday
Now, there is a new cruise that has been added at the Polynesian Resort, the Haunted Pirates Cruise, and it is scheduled to run throughout October. Call WDW Guest Services or the Polynesian for more information.
There is also a new Archery Experience at the Fort Wilderness Resort and Campground. Reservations can be made and the experience opens up on July 31. It will run every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 2:45-3:15 pm. The cost is $25 plus tax for guests age 6 and up.
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News from the San Diego Comic Con
News from the San Diego Comic Convention:
BOOM! Studios and Disney Publishing Worldwide announced that more Pixar movies will be developed into comic books. The two studios had already agreed to bring The Incredibles to the medium and have now decided to also bring Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc., and WALL-E into the comic world.
Also, Pixar advertised their upcoming film “Up” at a local hotel. Of course, Pixar being Pixar, the ads aren’t normal. They decided to redo the elevator(s) at a hotel in the form of a ad for the movie. Check out the pics:
Disney also announced that Tron 2.0 (the well kept secret) is in production, with even a teaser trailer prepared, although it will be over a year before more footage is ready. Jeff Bridges (Kevin Flynn/Clu in the first) and SARK (possibly) are back in the sequel.
All involved with Race to Witch Mountain are fans of the original. The movie will be a re-imagining rather than a sequel or remake. The new version will be more action packed, to keep people interested, with Carla Guigino playing a discredited astrophysicist and Dwane “The Rock” Johnson playing a cab driver. The kids in the first Escape to Witch mountain, Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann, make an appearance in the movie.
Disney screened 10 minutes of their next release, “Bolt”, starring Miley Cyrus as Penny and John Travolta as Bolt. Also, the Bolt website went live last night. This will be Walt Disney Animation Studios’ last mainly computer animation movie as the division heads towards mainly 2D hand-drawn animation. While the studio will have some 3D computer-animated movies (Rapunzel, The Bear and the Bow, TR2N), WDAS’ main focus will be on 2D (The Princess and the Frog).
After the presentation on Bolt, Pixar showed a clip from their next film, “Up”. The plot was also revealed: An elderly man, Carl (voiced by Ed Asner), is the lone holdout in a neighborhood that is going to be redeveloped. When a bus comes to pick him up to go to a retirement home, he asks them to wait and goes back inside his house and releases lots of balloons. His intention is to travel to Venezuela to keep his promise to his wife that they would sight-see in the South American country. The Up website also went live last night.
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This Week in Disney History (July 27-Aug 2)
1916: Actor Keenan Wynn (John Slade in The Shaggy D.A., Alonzo P. Hawk in The Absent Minded Professor and in Son of Flubber) is born in New York City.
1932: The 29th Silly Symphony, Flowers and Trees, is the first full-color animated film.
1933: Actor Dom DeLuise (Bacchus in Hercules and Fagin in Oliver & Company) is born in Brooklyn, NY.
1940: Actor Philip Proctor (Treasure Planet, Monsters Inc., Aladdin, Toy Story (1 & 2), A Bug’s Life, The Lion King) is born in Goshen, Indiana.
1941: Actor David Warner (Voice of Master Control Program, Ed Dillinger, and SARK in TRON) is born in Manchester, England.
1951: Disney’s 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, is released in U.S. theaters.
1955: The Casey Jr. Circus Train (from Dumbo) debuts in Fantasyland at Disneyland.
1961: Actor Val Bettin (Professor Porter in Tarzan, The Sultan of Agrabah in The Return of Jafar, Dr. David Q. Dawson in The Great Mouse Detective).
1967: Animator Tom Bancroft (The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tarzan) is born in California.
1986: Disney’s Flight of the Navigator is released in theaters.
1993: Indiana Jones et le Temple du Péril debuts at Euro Disney.
1995: Disney announces the acquisition of the ABC network.
1997: The Coronado Springs Resort opens at Walt Disney World.
1997: Disney’s Airbud is released in theaters.
1998: The Disney Magic embarks on its maiden voyage.
1998: The Parent Trap, starring Lindsay Lohan, is released.
1999: Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith officially opens to guests.
1999: Fastpass systems are installed at Space Mountain and Splash Mountain.
2005: Disney’s Sky High is released in theaters.
Rumors Of New Disney Park Cause A Run On Property In Shanghai
Rumors about Disney opening a new park in Shanghai has caused a run on property in Shanghai with people opening businesses and expanding homes according to the Wall Street Journal. Residences of Jinjia, a Shanghai village, believe that by expanding their homes and opening businesses, Disney and the local government will be offering relocation compensation paying by the square footage of a home and the number of trees it has.
Disney spokeswoman Leslie Goodman said there is “no agreement and no deal” for a Disney park in Shanghai but many rumors persist saying the park will be opening in 2012.
Netcot comes to the iPhone
Its no secret that a bunch of us here at Netcot get just as excited about tech as we do about Disney. Today, we’re blending those two passions together.
Netcot.com is proud to announce the launch of an all new version of the website designed to work with the iPhone and iPod Touch devices. When you visit Netcot.com on these devices, you’ll be taken to our new site design with all the same great Disney news stories you’ve come to expect from Netcot. The new interface is easy to use and lets you see a snapshot of all the recent news headlines. Simply click on any story to see more details or to open up the full story text. If comments have been left on the story, you’ll also see a number beside the story’s date icon, so you can instantly see which stories people are chatting about.
In addition, if you bookmark Netcot.com on your iPhone or iPod Touch and add it to your home screen, you’ll also see a custom Netcot icon appear that’s designed to fit in nicely with the rest of your application icons. At any time, you can scroll to the bottom of this page to return to the full Netcot.com site design (and at that point, you can use the links at the top of the “normal” page to return to the optimized site).
For those of you who haven’t yet run out and purchased a new iPhone or iPod Touch, click the image beside this posting for a larger example of what the site looks like
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Hannah Montana Will Call Your House
As school starts back up, parents often have a hard time dealing with sleepy kids as they transition from a summer routine to a school routine. Well, Disney and Walmart have come up with a way to deal with that problem and they have enlisted the help of Hannah Montana. Parents can log onto the website, choose the day and time, and then select either a wake-up call, an activity reminder, or a back to school shopping reminder (with emphesis on going to Walmart to pick up the latest Hannah Montana gear).
American Idol Experience Web Page Now Live
Walt Disney World has released the American Idol Experience web site. The web site gives guests an overview of what the attraction will be about along with videos and news updates about the American Idol Experience. The attraction is currently scheduled to open January 2009.
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