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• What to know what’s “Up” at Pixar? Then buy a ticket to next month’s Cartoon Art Museum benefit

  Jim Hill talks up this annual fundraiser. Which allows a lucky few the chance to wander the halls at this Emeryville-based animation studio Read More... Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:00 AM | 3 Comments Filed under: Pixar, Cartoon Art Museum, Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, San Francisco, Tokyo, animation student, Pixar campus, 2009, animated feature, ticket sales, Lifted, animated features, fundraiser, animators , animation community, animation industry, animation fan, Up, Mater, fundraising event, Emeryville campus, animated film, animated films, animation fans

• Toon Tuesday: Will “Toy Story 3” will be that rare sequel that equals the original?

  WARNING !! There be spoilers ahead as Jim Hill reveals key plot points from this highly anticipated follow-up to the first two “Toy Story” films. Which hits theaters in Disney Digital 3D on June 18, 2010 Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 22, 2009 12:00 AM | 8 Comments Filed under: Pixar, John Lasseter, Pixar Animation Studios, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, movie, D23, animated feature, Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter, Disney Digital 3D, Whoopi Goldberg, 2010, Toy Story 3, Lee Unkrich, Woody , Toy Story characters, Buzz Lightyear, D23 EXPO

• Disney’s “Prep & Landing” wows animation fans at the D23 EXPO

  Jim Hill reports in on how well this ABC holiday special was received when it was screened at the Anaheim Convention Center this past Saturday. He also talks about some of the high points of this new Walt Disney Animation Studios production Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:00 AM | 2 Comments Filed under: TV, ABC, John Lasseter, Walt Disney Animation Studios, ABC Studios, Toy Story, television, Prep and Landing, Christmas, 2009, television program, TV show, TV special, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, A Charlie Brown Christmas, holiday special, Christmas special, A Tin Toy Christmas, television show , holiday elf, elf

• Lasseter sprinkles Pixar dust over Disney Consumer Products, Imagineering

  Jim Hill talks about the impact that John Lasseter’s personal involvement has had on the Toy Story Definitive project as well as on DCA’s “Radiator Springs Racers” attraction Read More... Posted Friday, August 28, 2009 12:00 AM | 4 Comments Filed under: toys, Disney Consumer Products, John Lasseter, Cars, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Feld Entertainment, YouTube, Disney Parks & Resorts, WDI, Walt Disney Imagineering, DCA, 2009, Radiator Springs Racers, 2006, 2012, 2010, Toy Story 3, Woody , Toy Story characters, DCP , Buzz Lightyear, Radiator Springs, Lightning McQueen, Mater, toy line, Toy Story Definitive, Disney On Ice, Disney On Ice: Worlds of Fantasy, Feld, Ultimate Buzz Lightyear, Sheriff Woody, Disney Living, DisneyLiving, Thinkway Toys

• Tech Tuesday: Mickey makes a move on the netbook market with Disney Netpal

  Jim Hill talks with Chris Heatherly, VP of Toys & Consumer Electronics for Disney Consumer Products, about his division’s latest initiative. Which is a computer aimed at the 6-12 year-old crowd Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 25, 2009 12:00 AM | 6 Comments Filed under: Disney, toys, Disney Consumer Products, Bob Iger, Disney Fairies, The Walt Disney Company, Labor Day, Toy Story, Disney Magic Desktop, Disney Princess, computer, Christmas, 2009, Disney Mix, keyboard, Netpal, gadget tray, Disney Netpal, Chris Heatherly, parent, school year, ergonomics, parents, netbook, browser, Consumer Electronics, Timex, Club Penguin, school, ASUS, Radio Disney, Trapper Keeper, platform, VP, Disney Pix, laptop, 6-12 year-olds, spill-proof, Toymorrow, user interface, intuitive, parental control, parental controls, white-list

• Lasseter, Burton, Zemeckis and Miyazaki to take part in Disney panels at this year’s Comic-Con

  Jim Hill shares a press release that Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures just passed along. Which offers details on the Mouse’s presentations at this year’s Comic-Con International Read More... Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 12:00 PM | 3 Comments Filed under: Disney, John Lasseter, Beauty and the Beast, John Musker, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Group, 2009, Disney / Pixar, Kirk Wise, 3D, 3D film , 3D film format , 2010, 3-D releases , 3D digital motion pictures, Toy Story 3, Lee Unkrich, Pretty in Pink, 3D movie, Tron , San Diego Convention Center , San Diego, Comic-Con , Comic-Con International, The Princess and the Frog

• Toon Thursday: GAME OVER for TRON's first director

  Jim Hill's back with even more news about this eagerly awaited sequel. Including who's replaced Steve Lisberger as the new creative lead on the "TR2N" project Read More... Posted Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:00 AM | 20 Comments Filed under: Disney, Pixar, John Lasseter, Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Productions, Toy Story, film, movie, Disney / Pixar, 2010, Toy Story 3, motion picture, TR2N, Tron , 1982, Tron 2, Steve Lisberger, Tron Sequel

• Monday Mouse Watch : Get ready for WDW's monstrous new coaster

  WARNING !! There be spoilers ahead as Jim Hill shares what he knows about the family-friendly attraction that will be opening at Disney's Hollywood Studios in the Fall of 2011 Read More... Posted Monday, July 21, 2008 12:00 AM | 31 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, theme park, Pixar, Jim Henson, attraction, Imagineering, Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Disney's California Adventure, Cars, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, A Bug's Life, Toy Story, Disneyland Resort, Disney Princess, WDI, Monsters Inc., WDW, Imagineer, Walt Disney Imagineering, DCA, Walt Disney Studios, animated character, Pixar campus, Disney World, animated feature, Cars Land, Pete Docter, theme park attraction, soundstage , 2011, coaster, Imagineers, Disney Pixar , thrill ride, DHS

• Still can't find Nemo? Then try looking inside of your room the next time you stay at Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort

  Jim Hill shares some shots of these newly rethemed rooms, which now feature characters from that 2003 Pixar Animation Studios release Read More... Posted Monday, July 14, 2008 12:00 AM | 13 Comments Filed under: Disney, theme park, Pixar, Pirates of the Caribbean, resorts, Walt Disney World, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Pixar Animation Studios, Toy Story, Disney Parks & Resorts, WDW, hotel, resort, 2009, Disney World, The Walt Disney World Resort, Disney / Pixar, 2003, Disney World vacation, WDW guests, WDW vacations, Disney Pixar , Pirates of the Caribbean franchise , Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort, Shanghai, hotel rooms, WALL-E, Shanghai Disneyland, Disney's All-Star Movies Resort, retheming, Nemo, Dory, Buzz Lightyear

• When it comes to the retail world, Speed Racer whomps WALL-E

  Jim Hill shares an interesting tidbit about Pixar's latest picture. To be specific, how difficult it was for Disney Consumer Products to convince toy manufacturers to produce "WALL-E" -related merchandise this year Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:00 AM | 26 Comments Filed under: Disney, Pixar, Disney Consumer Products, Cars, Pixar Animation Studios, Toy Story, Disney / Pixar, merch, merchandise , Speed Racer , WALL-E

• "Kung Fu Panda" 's opening weekend grosses really kicked butt ... but here comes "WALL-E"

  Jim Hill shares what he's heard about this new Andrew Stanton film. Which looks ready to reverse the domestic box office trends that tripped up Pixar's last three pictures Read More... Posted Monday, June 09, 2008 12:00 AM | 21 Comments Filed under: Disney, DreamWorks, CG, Walt Disney Pictures, Cars, Ratatouille, Shrek the Third, DreamWorks Animation, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Labor Day, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Shrek 2, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, box office, 2008, Disney / Pixar, animated feature, opening weekend grosses, opening weekend, TV show, franchise, Andrew Stanton, Cloverfield, animated features, animated series , CG feature, Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both World Concert, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Kung Fu Panda, John Stevenson , Mark Osborne , WALL-E, Iron Man, Kung Fu Panda TV series, Kung Fu Panda animated series, Sex and the City, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Ice Age: The Meltdown , Ice Age , box office projections, box office estimates, research, Camp Rock 2: Final Jam, 2004, Summer

• Monday Mouse Watch : WDI complains about all those complainers

  Whose side are you on? The WDW cast member who finds fault with "Toy Story Mania" 's acoustics? Or the veteran Imagineer who's grown tired of the online Disneyana community continually knocking WDI's efforts? Read More... Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 12:00 AM | 77 Comments Filed under: Disney, Jim Hill Media, theme park, Imagineering, Disneyland, Walt Disney World, Orlando, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Toy Story, Spaceship Earth, Orlando International Airport, it's a small world, Imagineer, Walt Disney Imagineering, MiceAge, WDWMagic, Disneyana Enthusiasts, theme park visitor, theme park guest, Disney World, The Walt Disney World Resort, theme park fans, Disneyana fans, theme park attraction, Disney World vacation, Disneyana community , Imagineers, Toy Story characters

• Toon Tuesday : Was John Lasseter stung by that mean caricature of him that appears in "Bee Movie" ?

  Did an awkward conversation between Jerry Seinfeld & John Lasseter at Vanity Fair's 2006 Oscar party actually lead to an unflattering joke being inserted into this DreamWorks Animation release ? Jim Hill shares the story that's making the rounds in Hollywood Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:00 AM | 32 Comments Filed under: Disney, John Lasseter, DreamWorks Animation, A Bug's Life, Toy Story, Bee Movie, Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Disney / Pixar, animated feature, 2007, Disney Feature Animation, animated short, Tin Toy, 2006

• DreamWorks Animation bets big on digital 3-D

  Jim Hill shares the latest news from ShoWest 2008. Where Jeffrey Katzenberg revealed that, as of March 2010, DA will only be produced digital 3-D films Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 12:00 AM | 15 Comments Filed under: animation, DreamWorks, CG, Michael Eisner, Dick Cook, Epcot, Robert Zemeckis, Disney's California Adventure, DreamWorks Animation, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Marty Sklar, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Frank Wells, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, DCA, digital projection, 2008, Shrek Goes Fourth, animation industry, CG feature, 3D, Chairman, Tales from the Laughing Place, 1984, 3D film , Warner Bros. , Paramount , TRON: Legacy, Comin' at Ya! , Jaws 3-D, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, 3D film format , red-and-blue lenses, digital 3-D , Ultimate 3-D, Montagues & Capulets, Monsters vs. Aliens, 2010, alien, alien spacecraft, digital 3-D production, big figure, Chicken Little , Malibu Hills, 2D CG film, 3-D releases , Disney Studios , 3D digital motion pictures, 2D movie , Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in Disney Digital 3-D , digital 3-D conversion, Toy Story 3, Lee Unkrich, digital 3-D project, Disney Pixar , CG studio , digital 3-D format, Robert Coltrin, Kevin Rafferty, Toy Story characters

• Animation fans prematurely shoot off their mouths about "Bolt"

  Jim Hill points out the parallels between what WDAS's next release is now going through and "Beauty & the Beast" & "The Lion King" 's troubled productions Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:00 AM | 18 Comments Filed under: animation, Disney, movies, Pixar, DreamWorks, computer animation, John Lasseter, Walt Disney Pictures, Beauty and the Beast, John Musker, Ratatouille, Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, DreamWorks Animation, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Toy Story, WDAS, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, WDI, Ed Catmull, Walt Disney Imagineering, Walt Disney Studios, Bolt, Academy Award, film, movie, 2008, animated feature, Richard Purdum , Cranium Command, Kirk Wise, Gary Trousdale, award, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Disney Feature Animation, The Emperor's New Groove, Kingdom of the Sun, Kiskaloo, blind men and the elephant, Indian fable, pre-release image, teaser poster, November 2008, gadget tray, Mittens the cat, Rhino the hamster, Chris Williams, American Dog, Chris Sanders, quirkiness, Jan Pinkava, George Scribner, Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers, S Gross, lemons into lemonade, November 28