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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...
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3 Mar 2013
Blog Post:
The post-Christmas origin of character dining at Walt Disney World
Jim Hill
It's one of those must-do aspects of a Walt Disney World vacation. Especially if you've got young kids. Character dining . That pricey breakfast, lunch or dinner which is periodically interrupted as Disney characters come by your table, pose for pictures and sign autographs. Copyright Disney...
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26 Dec 2011
Blog Post:
Why For WDW's 40th anniversary celebration is kind of a modest affair
Jim Hill
Brent SD writes in to ask about JHM's 40 th -anniversary-of- Walt-Disney-World coverage. Or lack thereof. I can't help but notice that while many of the other Disney news sites have been doing article after article this week about Disney World's 40 th birthday, JimHillMedia has been posting...
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29 Sep 2011
Blog Post:
Why For aren't more Disney World attractions cloned for Disneyland?
Jim Hill
Maddy Mouse wrote in to say: I have kind of a weird question for you to answer. I notice that Walt Disney World has lots of rides, shows and attractions that the Imagineers originally designed for Disneyland . But when it comes to rides, shows and attractions that the Imagineers originally designed for...
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28 Jul 2011
Blog Post:
Why For does Howard Stark look like Walt Disney in “Iron Man 2” ?
Jim Hill
IronManFan236 sent in a question that was short & sweet: Did Marvel Studios deliberately make Howard Stark look like Walt in “ Iron Man 2 ” as a tribute / tip-of-the-hat to the Disney acquisition deal? Iron Man 2, the Movie: Copyright 2010 MVL Film Finance LLC. Iron Man, the character: TM & Copyright...
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14 May 2010
Blog Post:
How "One Little Spark" nearly fried the Dreamfinder
Jim Hill
As a kid I'd tune in the Wonderful World of Color every Sunday night. Most of the time Walt would introduce some western or historic feature - or some story like "Melvin, the Manic Marmoset" - and I'd switch over to watch Ed Sullivan . He had ventriloquists ! On a good week, there'd be an animated feature...
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15 Jul 2008
Blog Post:
M-I-C ... as in "I wish that this microphone would work properly"
Jim Hill
Now THAT'S Dedication... Shortly after Disneyland opened in 1955, someone found an unpaid bill in a desk drawer amounting to thousands of dollars. When Walt heard about it, he is supposed to have said, “Well, when you do big things, you make big mistakes.“ Here's another example of this phenomenon, from...
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30 Apr 2008
Blog Post:
The story that Walt didn't want you to hear
Jim Hill
My apologies, folks. I know that JHM has been somewhat erratic lately when it comes to maintaining our usual Monday-through-Friday publishing schedule. It's just that -- in order to score new stories for this website -- I sometimes have to do a little traveling. That's what I'm doing today, anyway. Flying...
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6 Feb 2008
Blog Post:
A special "What's in a name" edition of Why For
Jim Hill
First up, Michael R. writes in to ask: I was wondering if there was any specific reason why there has not been a release of the " Disney-MGM Studios " version of (the " Imagineering Field Guide ") series? They've released books for the other three parks and I understand now they're working on the CA...
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9 Aug 2007