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Blog Post: When it comes to D23's Fanniversary events, it's all about making those connections

Jim Hill

So what does it actually take for D23 to pull together those Fanniversary events that they've been presenting around the country for the past few weeks? According to Jeffrey Epstein, spokesman for the Official Disney Fan Club, it takes a solid six months of behind-the-scenes effort to produce each...

on13 Mar 2013
Blog Post: Is Brad Bird's "Tomorrowland" movie about that "UFOs are real" TV show which Walt Disney Productions almost made back in the 1950s?

Jim Hill

For three weeks now, photos of a mysterious bankers box have been making the rounds on the Web. Brad Bird and Damon Lindelof reportedly deliberately put these images out there to help whet people's appetites for " Tomorrowland ," the sci-fi -themed project that these two wrote which is...

on7 Feb 2013
Blog Post: Walt Disney Studios: "Saving Mr. Banks" Begins Production in Los Angeles

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Los Angeles, Calif., September 19, 2012 -Disney began production today on "Saving Mr. Banks," the account of Walt Disney's twenty-year pursuit of the film rights to P.L. Travers' popular novel, Mary Poppins , and the testy partnership the upbeat filmmaker develops with the uptight author...

on18 Sep 2012
Blog Post: D23's "Treasures" exhibit offers a comprehensive look at the Walt Disney Company's past, present and future

Jim Hill

Last Monday afternoon, I was at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum and overheard a pretty funny exchange between two of the docents who'd been assigned to work the " D23 presents Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives " exhibit. Photo by Alice Hill It seems that one of these...

on27 Jul 2012
Blog Post: The "UFOs are real" documentary that Walt Disney Studios almost made

Jim Hill

I have long been a fan & supporter of Didier Ghez 's "Walt 's People" books , that series of paperbacks which collects amazing interviews with Disney Legends. But with Volume 11 of this series, Ghez has truly out-done himself. This 630-page book features 36 separate interviews which...

on5 Mar 2012
Blog Post: "Be Our Guest" features an unvarnished take on Disney Company history

Jim Hill

I have to admit that It's been kind of amusing to watch the reaction (both here and elsewhere around the Web) that Tuesday's "What's really behind the sudden change in Disney Parks & Resorts' facial hair policy" story has been getting. With all sorts of would-be Disney scholars...

on26 Jan 2012
Blog Post: What's really behind the sudden change in Disney Parks & Resorts' facial hair policy?

Jim Hill

You're going to read a lot today about how - by revising their long-standing policy on facial hair - Disney Parks and Resorts is now turning its back on nearly 60 years of tradition. Which isn't entirely true. I mean, if Walt Disney himself really insisted that no one with a beard or a mustache...

on24 Jan 2012
Blog Post: Are the Imagineers taking another shot at getting a shoot-the-chutes built at a Disney theme park?

Jim Hill

It was supposed to be Disneyland 's first thrill ride: Monstro the Whale ... Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved Which - in much the same way that Dumbo the Flying Elephant ... Copyright Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved ... was just a Disneyified version of that amusement...

on9 Jan 2012
Blog Post: Did Disneyland inspire the Universal Studio Tour in Hollywood? Or was it actually the other way around?

Jim Hill

What with James Cameron's tour of Disney's Animal Kingdom on October 17 th (which was then followed by this Academy Award-winner's visit to Universal's Island of Adventure on October 18 th ), the Web has once again been a-buzz with stories about how The World of Avatar is supposed to...

on6 Nov 2011
Blog Post: Disney World's 40th anniversary celebration entertains Cast Members as well as Guests

Jim Hill

Since The Walt Disney Resort has long been associated with fairy tales, I'd like to borrow a turn-of-phrase from "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" to describe Saturday's 40 th anniversary celebration at the Magic Kingdom . It wasn't too long. It wasn't too short. It was just...

on2 Oct 2011

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Blog Post: When it comes to D23's Fanniversary events, it's all about making those connections

Blog Post: Is Brad Bird's "Tomorrowland" movie about that "UFOs are real" TV show which Walt Disney Productions almost made back in the 1950s?

Blog Post: Walt Disney Studios: "Saving Mr. Banks" Begins Production in Los Angeles

Blog Post: D23's "Treasures" exhibit offers a comprehensive look at the Walt Disney Company's past, present and future

Blog Post: The "UFOs are real" documentary that Walt Disney Studios almost made

Blog Post: "Be Our Guest" features an unvarnished take on Disney Company history

Blog Post: What's really behind the sudden change in Disney Parks & Resorts' facial hair policy?

Blog Post: Are the Imagineers taking another shot at getting a shoot-the-chutes built at a Disney theme park?

Blog Post: Did Disneyland inspire the Universal Studio Tour in Hollywood? Or was it actually the other way around?

Blog Post: Disney World's 40th anniversary celebration entertains Cast Members as well as Guests