Category: Disney
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Rex Richardson Jazzes Up The Disneyland Resort 2016 All-American College Band
On July 14, 2016 the Disneyland Resort 2016 All-American College Band was joined by guest clinician Rex Richardson. This fantastic trumpet player is a member of the chamber ensemble Rhythm & Brass, jazz legend Joe Henderson’s Quintet and Sextet, William Russo’s Chicago Jazz Ensemble, and the Brass Band of Battle Creek. Viewed as one of the…
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New Feature On My Disney Experience App
Disney Parks Blog has announced the new feature on the My Disney Experience app. You can now get directions to certain locations within the app through one touch. The directions use GPS on smartphones, and provide turn by turn navigation. So, for example, if you’re in a theme park and want to know the best…
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Disney’s ‘Pete’s Dragon’ Soundtrack Lands on Shelves This August 12
With Disney’s Pete’s Dragon heading to theaters this August 12, audiences too can look forward to a brand new soundtrack. The album, set for release on August 12 as well, will include three original songs written for the film by various popular artists and more! Singles such as “Something Wild” (violinist Lindsey Stirling featuring Andrew…
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Luke Cage Trailer and Moana – SDCC Day One
It’s about the end of the first day for the 2016 San Diego Comic Con. There has been much excitement, as always. One of the big panels had John Musker and Ron Clements speaking about Moana. Moana On the heels of a release of an international trailer, Musker and Clements took the stage to talk about the…
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Disney Shares Teaser Art for Upcoming Disney XD DuckTales
DuckTales comes to Disney XD next year and today Oh My Disney revealed the first teaser for the show. The image gives a taste of what the characters will look like when the show arrives in 2017 and has Huey, Dewey, Louie, Webby, and Donald Duck within the silhouette of Scrooge McDuck. Take a look: The…
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International Trailer Introduces Baby Moana
Disney released an international trailer for Moana that introduced the world to a baby Moana. Take a look below: About “Moana” From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes “Moana,” a sweeping, CG-animated feature film about an adventurous teenager who sails out on a daring mission to save her people. During her journey, Moana (voice of Auli’i Cravalho)…
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Tomorrowland Takeover – Hong Kong Disneyland In Detail
Moving through a tour of Hong Kong Disneyland it’s time for Tomorrowland! When I visited Hong Kong Disneyland it was the second day of the Star Wars Takeover, and much of the pictures reflects it. Though it’s not quite the extent of other takeovers like at Disneyland and Disney’s Hollywood Studios, it still had a…
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New Starbucks Opens At Downtown Disney
The Disneyland Resort has quietly opened a new coffee house close to the Disneyland Hotel. A second Starbucks location has opened today on July 18, 2016 for more drink enjoyment. It’s a smaller location, but well accommodates those visiting this other end of the shopping center. The inside is mostly the usual line, registers, and…
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Funko Pop Indiana Jones To Debut July 22 At Disney Parks
The Disney Parks Blog has released a date and some pictures on a new Funko Pop figure inspired by Indiana Jones. The figure is in a series of Disney Park inspired characters. July 22 will be the day that the figure is released at Disney Parks and on the Shop Disney Parks mobile app or by…
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Celebrating Disneyland’s 61st Birthday
This July 17, 2016, marked Disneyland’s 61st anniversary of park opening. Though the resort has still been celebrating the 60th, this day was still a special one to mark. And in a special celebration the park did so. At the Main Street Train Station was where the ceremony took place. The Disneyland Band marched down…
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Star Wars Celebration Europe Day Three Recap
Sunday was the final day of Star Wars Celebration Europe. The biggest panel of the day was the Future Filmmaker Panel discussion. Even with that, there wasn’t a lot that was newsworthy. Here is what was learned from this panel: Star Wars Episode VIII picks up right where Star Wars: The Force Awakens leaves off.…
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Alden Ehrenreich Unveiled as Han Solo at Star Wars Celebration Europe
Alden Ehrenreich will be Han Solo in the upcoming untitled Han Solo movie. The reveal was made during the Future Filmmaker Panel on the last day of Star Wars Celebration Europe. The panel included Lucasfilm’s Kathleen Kennedy (Producer) and Kiri Hart (Senior Vice President of Development). They were joined by director Rian Johnson (Star Wars: Episode…
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Star Wars Celebration Europe Day Two Recap
Day Two of Star Wars Celebration Europe has been a day full of fun announcements and surprises! The focus was today more on television and virtual reality. While there weren’t any big traditional movie announcements, there was an announcement of a different type of movie that is in the works. It could be very exciting! Star…
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Rebels and XLabs VR – Star Wars Celebration – Day Two
Day two has just about ended it’s run at Star Wars Celebration Europe. Today’s excitement was surrounding Star Wars Rebels, but there has been buzz with ILM’s young division – XLabs. XLabs and Trials on Tatooine There was both a panel and ongoing experiment from this new branch of Industrial Light and Magic and Lucasfilm. Their…
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Star Wars Rebels Season Three Trailer Released at Star Wars Celebration Europe
The official trailer for Star Wars Rebels season three was released today after a panel on the show at Star Wars Celebration Europe. It has quite a few revelations about the upcoming season so if you want to be surprised, don’t watch it. If instead you are curious and want to know where the show…
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Get Pizza From Rizzo the Rat This Fall at PizzeRizzo in Disney’s Hollywood Studios!
If you like pizza and you like Muppets you will be very happy this fall when PizzeRizzo opens its doors at Disney’s Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World. The new pizzeria will be at the former home of Toy Story Pizza Planet and be run by Rizzo the Rat. Diners visiting this establishment will be able to…
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Star Wars Celebration Europe Day One Recap
Today marked the first day of Star Wars Celebration Europe in London. The day included several notable moments and newsworthy events. Mark Hamill Things began with Mark Hamill taking the stage to share about his Star Wars experiences both past and present. He shared a treasure trove of stories that included the infamous Luke and Leia…
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Teaser Poster and Sizzle Reel Unveiled at Star Wars Celebration
Star Wars Celebration has now pretty much wrapped up its first day of Star Wars exaltation. This yearly event, occuring in London this year, had several highlights (you can read about here) with one being the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story panel. This panel kicked off Star Wars Celebration with director Gareth Edwards and producer…
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Ahsoka and Rogue One – Star Wars Celebration 2016 – Day One
Ahsoka’s Untold Tales Dave Filoni and Ashley Eckstein talked about the story arc that was to be told in the Clone Wars series. But, the biggest news spinning out of it was that the character will be back in Star Wars Rebels’ third season. At the end of the second season, a battle with Darth…
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Halloween Time At Disneyland Announced
Announced on the Disney Parks Blog is the return of Disneyland’s Halloween Time. Starting September 9 and running until October 31, the festivities include some great fun at Disneyland. Ghost Galaxy, Haunted Mansion Holiday, and more will return. Mickey’s Halloween Party will be back with 17 nights between September and October. In addition to the…
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For the First Time in Forever… Frozen arrives to Epcot’s Norway Pavilion
Frozen Ever After and the expansion of the Norway pavilion at Epcot in Walt Disney World has been anxiously anticipated by fans and critics of the Frozen franchise. I can happily say that Frozen Ever After and the rest of the expansion in Norway did not disappoint. The new ride, new meet and greet in…
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Disneyland Reveals New Star Wars Themed Land Concept Art
Guests visiting Disneyland will notice that a new image has been posted on the fence for Big Thunder Mountain trail in Frontierland. This new image reveals another conceptual look at what the future Star Wars themed land will look like. It also happens to be at one of the entry points for the future land. When it…
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Entering Main Street – Hong Kong Disneyland In Detail
When I went to Shanghai Disneyland’s grand opening, I booked ended it with visits to Hong Kong Disneyland. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, this is the first Chinese Disney park that has opened. Having a more classic feel, for an avid original Disneyland goer, this had a same but different feel to it all. To…
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Drummers Descend on Disneyland Resort All-American College Band
This week some very talented drummers descended on the 2016 Disneyland Resort All-American College Band. The band was joined by two guest clinicians throughout the week, Steve Houghton on Thursday and Gregg Field on Saturday. On each of these days, director Dr. Ron McCurdy stepped back and enjoyed the show as these talented musicians led…