An all new Fairytale Fantasies calendar collection of scantily-clad Disney characters by artist J. Scott Campbell and colorist Nei Ruffino is available for ogling throughout the year.
Check out the illustrations after the break and you’ll understand why this calendar has been popular for the last several years.
Once upon a time, Princess Aurora fell into a deep slumber and waited for her Prince to wake her up with true love’s first kiss. Unfortunately, she wasn’t just sleeping. She was infected with a zombie virus, and the Prince’s kiss only awakened her hunger for brainssss. At least, that’s how it went in Shira-Chan’s version.
See all the zombie Disney princess glory after the break. [click to continue…]
Comic book and pop culture fans aren’t the only ones who get conventions. There is a convention for darn near everything, and Disney is no exception. D23 is a club for Disney fans that was launched in 2009. The first D23 expo was held that year, and the second expo took place over last weekend. The line-up included panels, autograph signings, presentations, and a Dick Van Dyke concert. I’m not kidding. Just like San Diego Comic-Con, a day of the convention (Saturday) even sold out. Disney came armed with news from all corners of their vast kingdom, including Pixar, ABC, and Marvel. [click to continue…]
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Disneyland’s Star Tours opened last Friday, June 3, after the almost year long closure to perform upgrades. Actually, it’s better than upgrades. The ride got a complete makeover and a new name. It’s now known as Star Tours: The Adventures Continue. The original ride opened in 1987, and it took passengers on a tour to the forest moon of Endor. It was overdue for touch-ups. The technology wasn’t in step with the rest of the park, and the Star Wars universe has expanded since 1987. The new ride takes place in between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope. To say that fans were eager to hop aboard the new Starspeeders is an understatement.
You might know this, but allow me to reinforce it – Star Wars fans are dedicated. Combine that with Disney fans, and you have a force that cannot be stopped. Many people lined up outside the park on June 3 before the gates even opened. Darth Vader and Stormtroopers greeted them upon entering the park. Some people waited in line for four or five hours.
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So, Darth Vader goes to Disneyland to try out the new Star Tours ride with a bunch of Stormtroopers, but leaves his kids at home. Wow, he is a terrible father.
Check out the video after the break.
As if you didn’t already have a good reason to visit Disney theme parks (especially now that Star Tours has reopened) you might want to plan a trip this fall specifically to get your hands on the new line of Muppets Star Wars action figures.
The figures include Beaker as C-3PO, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew as R2-D2, Link Hogthrob as Han Solo, Fozzy the Bear as Chewbacca, Sam the Eagle as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Gonzo as Darth Vader with his Stormtrooper chicken Camilla, Kermit as Luke and Miss Piggy as Leia.
Each figure pack will run about $19. Prototypes can be viewed at Star Wars weekends in “Jabba’s Hut, the specially-designed merchandise location near Disney’s Rock ‘N’ Roller Coaster.” More pictures are available after the break as well.
The revamped Star Tours ride at Walt Disney World is now open for business, and here’s a little taste of what visitors can expect:
The second room of the queue is now a security check area, similar to a TSA checkpoint. The two G-series droids are still there, G2-9T scanning luggage and G2-4T scanning passengers. For those attraction junkies, you’ll remember that the G-series droids are so named because in the original Disneyland Park version of the ride, they were created by removing the “skins” from two of the goose animatronics from the soon-to-close America Sings attraction (Goose = “G” series). While we won’t tell you why, you’ll enjoy paying a lot of attention to what the scans of the luggage show is inside. When it’s your turn to go through the passenger scan (a thermal body scan), you may be verbally accosted by a security droid. Also, keep an eye out in the queue for an earlier version of RX-24 (“Captain Rex”) from the original Star Tours; he’s labeled “defective” and has some familiar dialogue.
(Mouse Planet via BoingBoing/Image via DPB)
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The following trailer was officially commissioned by Pixar for the upcoming release of Cars 2. It’s the original trailer remade in Lego by Patrick Boivin, who you you might remember from such promotional videos as Ninja Nexus S.
Pixar’s got the right idea with that whole digital animation thing. Lego would just take forever.
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