On March 12 Disney Hollywood Studios held an event to celebrate the release of the Disney Theme Park Exclusive Ink & Paint Cel Collection: Look What I Got. Check out the details on the Art of Disney Park website.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Look What I Got
On March 12 Disney Hollywood Studios held an event to celebrate the release of the Disney Theme Park Exclusive Ink & Paint Cel Collection: Look What I Got. Check out the details on the Art of Disney Park website.
Sunday, April 3, 2011
The Seven Dwarfs Before Snow White
I have been decidedly remiss in my posting in the month of March - so we're now on to April and it seems I have missed some news -
What were the seven dwarfs up to before Snow White entered thier life? A new pilot show announced for Disney Junior will explain just that:
7D (animated series pilot on Disney Junior)
Creators, including Walt Disney himself, have long been inspired to access classic folk and fairy tales... reimagining, reinterpreting and reinventing them for new generations. The animated series pilot 7D takes a new creative approach to the beloved Brothers Grimm tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, reimagining it in a comic and contemporary storybook world. The new music-filled stories introduce the whimsical world of Jollywood, where the kind-hearted Queen Delightful calls upon the 7D — Happy, Bashful, Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Grumpy and Doc — for assistance. (From D23 News 3/17/2011)
This show is still in production and more details are sure to come. It is an interesting concept, but one that makes me more than a little nervous. Time shall tell if they get it right.
What were the seven dwarfs up to before Snow White entered thier life? A new pilot show announced for Disney Junior will explain just that:
7D (animated series pilot on Disney Junior)
Creators, including Walt Disney himself, have long been inspired to access classic folk and fairy tales... reimagining, reinterpreting and reinventing them for new generations. The animated series pilot 7D takes a new creative approach to the beloved Brothers Grimm tale of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, reimagining it in a comic and contemporary storybook world. The new music-filled stories introduce the whimsical world of Jollywood, where the kind-hearted Queen Delightful calls upon the 7D — Happy, Bashful, Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey, Grumpy and Doc — for assistance. (From D23 News 3/17/2011)
This show is still in production and more details are sure to come. It is an interesting concept, but one that makes me more than a little nervous. Time shall tell if they get it right.
Monday, February 21, 2011
New Chocolate!
How could you not love it! It's mood cholate. On last night's trip to Disneyland I found these two boxes of candy at Marceline's Confectionery.
They also had a mousekeeter, monrail, and Pinochicco themed boxes. All are really quite fun. The are priced at 3.95 and show pictures of the contents on the side of the boxes. They are labled DisneyPark Authentic thus keeping up the Disney tradition of non-park specific merchandise.
Oh, and one little thing - Disney it is the Evil Queen on the box - not Maleficent as the cash register receipt indicates - honestly!
They also had a mousekeeter, monrail, and Pinochicco themed boxes. All are really quite fun. The are priced at 3.95 and show pictures of the contents on the side of the boxes. They are labled DisneyPark Authentic thus keeping up the Disney tradition of non-park specific merchandise.
Oh, and one little thing - Disney it is the Evil Queen on the box - not Maleficent as the cash register receipt indicates - honestly!
Monday, February 14, 2011
Saturday, February 5, 2011
The Piece that Started it All
As a collector I often am asked how did this all begin? I don't have a great answer to this. I suppose that because both my parents collected things (although never to the scale I do) it was just part of my life. I had gone to train shows with my dad and Shirley Temple conventions with my mom. (for a few years my brother got into Star Wars, but after discovering that he couldn't get EVERYTHING his enthusiasm waned.) That being said I do remember the first piece I bought myself.
There was a great little toy shop in a local shopping center, you know, one of those shops that have toys you couldn't find anywhere else but were so far out of your allowance pocket change price range. Well, the toy store was going out of business. My kid brother was going to buy some Playmobile toy or maybe one of those Thomas toys; the wooden, magnetic ones. Anyway, I was waking around in this toy store, and I ran across this:
Now, I had stopped playing with my Barbie dolls by then. I was still a kid but my interests were more toward makeup and music. But I saw this Evil Queen costume and I just wanted it. You know the feeling, you look at the thing and think - what do I need this for? what am I going to do with it? - and yet you still decide to buy it.
When it was time to check out, my mother was confused by my purchase. I had been saving to go the the record store next store to buy some popular band's tape, and yet I had decided to spend the money on this. To this day I'm not sure that I knew I was starting a collection, but I did know I had no intentions of opening the package.
I wish I had a better 'Why I Collect' story. I met someone at a Disney gathering who collected Pete's Dragon. You see after the Northridge earthquake he found that everything had been destroyed. It was a traumatic time for all of us in living in the area, and many of us learned the importance of QuakeHold. So he went on to say that he had quite a few figurines he had amassed over time, not exactly a collection, but they were dear to him. All were destroyed; except one. Peter Pan. The figure was sitting safely cradled in his childhood Pete Dragon toy. See - that's a great story: natural disaster, destruction, and a thankful and hopeful tear running down the cheek.
So no great story for me. No family heirloom that centers the collection. No childhood memory I bringing back. I just stubbornly bought one toy I knew I wasn't going to play with and off it went. All my family members continued to support my collection through birthday, Christmas, and even graduation presents. I often look at everything I have and think - how did it get so big? But I suppose that is true of many of us.
So, do you have a collection story? How did it all begin for you?
There was a great little toy shop in a local shopping center, you know, one of those shops that have toys you couldn't find anywhere else but were so far out of your allowance pocket change price range. Well, the toy store was going out of business. My kid brother was going to buy some Playmobile toy or maybe one of those Thomas toys; the wooden, magnetic ones. Anyway, I was waking around in this toy store, and I ran across this:
Now, I had stopped playing with my Barbie dolls by then. I was still a kid but my interests were more toward makeup and music. But I saw this Evil Queen costume and I just wanted it. You know the feeling, you look at the thing and think - what do I need this for? what am I going to do with it? - and yet you still decide to buy it.
When it was time to check out, my mother was confused by my purchase. I had been saving to go the the record store next store to buy some popular band's tape, and yet I had decided to spend the money on this. To this day I'm not sure that I knew I was starting a collection, but I did know I had no intentions of opening the package.
I wish I had a better 'Why I Collect' story. I met someone at a Disney gathering who collected Pete's Dragon. You see after the Northridge earthquake he found that everything had been destroyed. It was a traumatic time for all of us in living in the area, and many of us learned the importance of QuakeHold. So he went on to say that he had quite a few figurines he had amassed over time, not exactly a collection, but they were dear to him. All were destroyed; except one. Peter Pan. The figure was sitting safely cradled in his childhood Pete Dragon toy. See - that's a great story: natural disaster, destruction, and a thankful and hopeful tear running down the cheek.
So no great story for me. No family heirloom that centers the collection. No childhood memory I bringing back. I just stubbornly bought one toy I knew I wasn't going to play with and off it went. All my family members continued to support my collection through birthday, Christmas, and even graduation presents. I often look at everything I have and think - how did it get so big? But I suppose that is true of many of us.
So, do you have a collection story? How did it all begin for you?
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Character Days!
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.
Monday, January 24, 2011
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.
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