Character Days!

Looking through the family photos this is the first, and only, photo I have with a dwarf.  (Yup, that's me, shaking hands, 1988ish).  I seem to have lots with Snow White herself but only this one of a dwarf (and it is really bugging me I can't see the eyes well enough to tell who).  Well, it may be time to capture another photo and it looks like now is the perfect time:

January 28 - 30 will be a Family Fun Day at the Disneyland Resort.  After taking a Facebook poll, Disneyland is bringing out some of the favorite characters - including the seven dwarfs!  Character Fan Days will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Festival Arena.

Well, I may be there all day waiting for my guys as the characters will rotate every half hour with different characters making appearances all day.

Happy Helping Hands

In this see-through storybook the dwarfs are off to do their chores: Doc wash the windows, Grumpy collect apples, Sneezy collect flowers, Dopey dig a well, and Sleepy clean out the chimney.  Well Grumpy 'borrows' the ladder from Happy, Bashful and Doc play with Grumpy's basket, Sleepy takes a nap, Dopey creates a mess, and who thought it would be a good idea for Sneezy to pick flowers?  Published in 1996.

Uh Oh, Dopey!

Poor Dopey and Grumpy wake up late and are left at the cottage - all the other dwarfs have already gone!  In the rush to leave Dopey mayhem for Grumpy - It seems the better title would be Uh Oh, Grumpy!  Of course all turns out fine and Snow White thanks Dopey and Grumpy for cleaning up the cottage.
The book is a board book with a rubber Dopey squeaker in the center.  You squeak Dopey each time the book says "Uh Oh, Dopey!" (published 1994)

Snow White's Scary NEW Disney World Adventure - Demolition!

Today I opened my Google reader and was bombarded with news from the Official Disney Blog (and 2719 Hyperion, The Disney Blog, The Laughing Place,  GDP, Disney and More).  The new Fantasyland has even more in store for us! 
The previous announcements had made Fantasyland sound like 'princess' land (It is still pretty heavy in that direction).  It seemed everything was coming up princess - Ariel, Belle, Briar Rose...but nothing for the first and "fairest of them all." 
Until now - sort of.
The new Fantasyland has new plans include a seven dwarf mine train.  According the the official Disney Blog: "The Seven Dwarfs Mine Train will take you on a rollicking, musical ride into the mine “where a million diamonds shine.” The coaster will feature a first-of-its kind ride system with a train of ride vehicles that swing back and forth as they whisk along the track. The journey will be accompanied by music from the classic Disney film and animated figures of Snow White and the Dwarfs."
In addition, Snow White's Scary Adventure will be removed and in place a permanent meet and greet with the princess will go there: Princess Fairytale Hall. (No word when this will close but I am glad I went to Disney World this December to say goodbye - even though I didn't know it at the time).
So I'll accept that changes must be made to create the new and say great!  I can't wait to see it. 
Just don't touch Disneyland's Snow White's Scary Adventure -

If You Met Snow White

 

Snow White tells her own tale in this version.  When talking about her stepmother: "she was very beautiful, but she had little time for me."  Of the nasty business in the woods with the huntsman all she has to say "one day I was taken from the castle and left alone in the woods" - seems the little princess is blocking some memories.

Well, she found the dwarfs where they made her a bed and she does all kinds of things for them: finding glasses, picking berries, gathering flowers, singing, listening to Happy yodel, and playing the concertina.  And what does she do for fun?  Ride in the dwarfs mine cart, wade in a pool with her animal friends, and sketch - of course!

Released in 1996

Snow White: A Read-Aloud Storybook

A read-along storybook, there are large wonderful pictures in this book.  The Queen/Hag has quite a few pages throughout.  This book was released in 1999.  Ten years later, the book was re-released as a 'limited collector's edition.'  The differences are the front cover, the inside of the front cover and back cover, and the special poster that is included.  The poster is the image on the front cover.

The Seven Dwarfs Find a Home

This book, released in 1948 (this is a 1952 release) is a Mickey Mouse Club Book with pictures by the Walt Disney Studio.
You see, the dwarfs had a mine, but nowhere to call home.  They slept in tress, caves, or just on the ground.  Doc, being the practical leader he is, decides they need a home, and calls upon the forest animals to find one.  Which they clean up to call their own.  Luckily there were seven little beds already, and Happy cooked a wonderful meal.  Grumpy played the organ (again, how lucky to have it t here) and Doc insisted they wash up.
My question is when did the dwarfs get so lazy?  They did just fine cleaning up the place when they moved in, Sneezy even used the broom.  So how did this group get so lack?  And who were these mysterious people that lived in the cottage before the our dwarfs found it?  There was really another group of seven individuals who used seven little beds with names carved on them.  Just sayin'