Archive for May, 2007
By alain on Thursday 31 May, 2007
After our Tunnel-‘look behind the scenes’ at Walt Disney World Florida, a couple of days ago, First Coast News now takes you to the center of the park: The castle of Cinderella.
The highest tower of this fairytale castle isn’t a mere storage room anymore like it used to be. Since january this year, it’s been transformed into one of the most exclusive hotelrooms in all of Disney history. In Cinderella’s suite you can take a bath underneath the stars, fit your private glass slipper or watch all Disney dvds on your flatscreen tv/painting on the wall. At the end of the day you can see the fireworks around your own castletower where the clock never hits midnight.
This will probably cost you a lot of dollars you may think … but how wrong can you be: it is completely free! The chances of you sleeping there are however very, very small. Every day one family is the lucky winner of this hotel sleepover. If you are on the right seat somewhere in the Disney parks, on the right time, on the right day, you could be so lucky. Also included are: your own private park guide and fast VIP entrance to all the attractions. There’s a maximum of 6 people per night that can enjoy this unique experience.
Click here for the report. (You have to watch 10 seconds of ads, but it’s worth the wait)
Category: Disney, Amusement Park
By alain on Thursday 31 May, 2007
Joost is the new way of watching online television. You can download a small program for this, with which you can watch many movies and series in perfect quality. It is a completely legal way of p2p television. To pay for the costs of the distribution rights there will be some advertisements between the programs. Joost is still in a beta phase, so you can only use it once you’ve received an invite.
The good new is that we’ve still got loads of incites, so if you are interested, you can leave a message and we’ll invite you.
Why this article on an animationblog? Next to all the movie, series and sport channels there are also some animation channels available. At this point there are 5 of them available worldwide:
- Aardman Animation: Aardman classics, like:
- Creature Comforts
- Rex The Runt
- Morph Smart
- A town called panic
- GONG: Various Anime-series, for example:
- Ikki Tousen - Battle Angels
- Gun Frontier
- Saturday Morning TV:Classic Cartoon, like:
- Rocky and Bullwinkle
- Mr. Magoo Show
- Harveytoons
- Wildlight Channel: Short Animations
- Channel Frederator: shorts and animation by amateurs
In the US there are some extra channels available:
- Adult Swim channel
- G.I. Joe channel
- Transformers channel
Category: Aardman, Television
By alain on Monday 28 May, 2007
In the 60-year old history of the amusement parks of Walt Disney, hardly anything has been revealed about what is happening behind the scenes. First Coast News, a regional television channel from Florida, now gives us a sneak peak. We get an exclusive look at the impressive underground corridor network of Walt Disney World in Florida.
If you make a stroll on Main Street, you are really on the second level of the Magic Kingdom. All facilities are undergound in a 2 mile long circular tunnel, invented by Walt Disney. He found it extremely important that everything that happened behind the scenes would never be visible to the public. It would be a bit strange if you would see a pirate in Tomorrowland, so this will never happen.
Throughout the whole park, there are hidden doors that lead to the underground section of the park. To make sure nobody gets lost in this tunnelconstruction, you will find maps everywhere and some color coding standards have been used. Every ‘part of the world’ has its own color, this way you have to follow the pink doors or arrows to get to Fantasyland. Walt Disney called this underground facility the Utilidor: an abbreviation for Utility Corridor.
In videoreport 1 on the site of First Coast News you will find the described tunnel and you will get a better view of the enormous organisation of this entertainment park. (You will have to watch 10 seconds advertisement before the report will begin, but it’s worth the wait.)
Videoreport 2 gives an insight in the costume department of the park. Every day about 40,000 people have to get dressed and this will not go smoothly if things aren’t extremely organised.
Category: Disney, Amusement Park
By alain on Monday 28 May, 2007
Bernard Bear: primitive, egocentric and impatient. Or at least, that’s how his creators describe him. You can also add clumsiness to that. The bald icebear (don’t ask him how that happened) experiences adventures from modern times: skydiving, motorracing, tennis, gymnastics and so much more… I like to think of him as the Mr. Bean of bears: excellent fysical humor and no dialogues. You’ll only hear a strange “gnorfl”-sound from him. The stories never last longer than a couple of minutes. Will his tales know a happy ending? You better watch it yourself!
Category: Television, Bernard Bear
By alain on Monday 28 May, 2007
Ratatouille is the new Pixar/Disney coproduction about Remy the mouse from Paris. The movie will be released in the US on June 29th 2007 and in the UK on October 5th 2007. You probably recognise the voice of dorky Spence from ‘The King of Queens’ as Remy.
The story is based in Paris. Remy, a culinary rat dreams about becoming a chef. He loves food, especially making it. Unfortunately in real life a rat isn’t supposed to have such a daring careerchoice. But one day he meets Linguini, a servant in the kitchen from his favorite restaurant. Linguini can’t cook, but desperately tries to keep his job. Quickly it becomes clear that together these two could well be the best chef of France. There is only the small detail about the very nosy colleagues and the head chef who can’t stand rats…
If you look at the trailer, you’ll see the advanced animation used in the movie. Paris is beautifully displayed with the nicest details. I can’t wait to see the movie!.
If you click on more, you’ll find a nice behind the scenes movie.
(Read more…)
Category: Disney, Pixar
By alain on Monday 28 May, 2007
No Time for Nuts is an oscar nominated animation short from 2006 featering the prehistorical squirrel Scrat from Ice Age. In this adventure he finds a time machine that brings him in different time zones in the desperate chase of his beloved acorn.
Category: Entertainment
By alain on Monday 28 May, 2007
What better way to start than with Purple and Brown: a short animated series from the Aardman stables. The show is created by Rich Webber in 2006. Tonight we watch episode: Bubblegum:
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