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Blog Post: Theme Park University website now offering insights about how the themed entertainment industry actually works

Jim Hill

The Internet is really a wondrous place. Especially if you're a young person who's considering a career in animation. If you've ever considered becoming a character designer someday, you can always swing by Tom Bancroft 's Character Mentor Studio or Stephen Silver's blog and then...

on3 Mar 2013
Blog Post: Animation fans can make a real difference this coming weekend

Jim Hill

Greetings from the Universal Orlando Resort . Where I’m now in my final day of covering the grand opening of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter . Photo by Jim Hill It has been an absolutely amazing couple of days. And I’m heading back to New Hampshire tonight with all sorts of stories to share about...

on18 Jun 2010
Blog Post: Volume 9 of the “Walt’s People” series features some great behind-the-scenes stories

Jim Hill

Good God. Are we really already be up to Volume 9 in the “Walt’s People” series? I can recall when Disney Historian Didier Ghez initially proposed these books (which – if I’m remembering correctly – was sometime back during the Pleistocene Epoch) that would collect & then reprint the very best Mouse...

on5 May 2010
Blog Post: Toon Tuesday: How to have a rockin' good time on Mickey Mouse’s birthday

Jim Hill

So where will you wind up spending MM’s b-day? It’s tomorrow, you know. November 18 th . That’s the date that The Walt Disney Company officially acknowledges as being this iconic character’s “ birthday ” (i.e. the day that “ Steamboat Willie ” – the first Mickey Mouse cartoon with synchronized sound...

on17 Nov 2009
Blog Post: IAAPA Attractions Expo showcases the spectacular and the surreal

Jim Hill

What can one say about IAAPA 's Attractions Expo ? Let's start with Ai-yi-yi-yi-yi. Photo by Nancy Stadler The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions' annual conference & trade show is big. Scarily big. So big that it fills the entire North / South Building at the Orange County...

on20 Nov 2008

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Blog Post: Theme Park University website now offering insights about how the themed entertainment industry actually works

Blog Post: Animation fans can make a real difference this coming weekend

Blog Post: Volume 9 of the “Walt’s People” series features some great behind-the-scenes stories

Blog Post: Toon Tuesday: How to have a rockin' good time on Mickey Mouse’s birthday

Blog Post: IAAPA Attractions Expo showcases the spectacular and the surreal