july 30th

count down to next disneyland trip
tomorrow yay me

this day is disney history

1999:

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith, officially opens to all guests as part of the largest property-wide expansion in Disney World history. The indoor steel roller
coaster features a high-speed launch of 0-60 mph in 2.8 seconds, three inversions, rock-concert lighting
and a specially created Aerosmith soundtrack blasting from 120 on board speakers in each coaster
train - all firsts for a Disney World attraction.

Also at Walt Disney World, FASTPASS begins in the Magic Kingdom
on Space Mountain and Splash Mountain.

fun fact of the day
Film star Kevin Costner was once a wisecracking Jungle Cruise skipper

fun quote of the day
I’m so rumbly in my tummy. Time for something sweet. - Winnie the Pooh

ok ok i know i was bad, i didnt post anything yesterday. but i did add music. if you have any disney favorites not on the list let me know and ill see if i can add them

yesterdays day in history

1998:
Disney's first cruise ship The Magic,
is christened!(It will embark on its maiden voyage two days later.)


and yesterdays quote of the day lol

"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't." -Alice in Wonderland


todays day in disney history

1989:

Disney announces an agreement-in-priciple with Jim Henson to acquire
the merchandising, licensing, and publishing rights to the Muppets.
(Sadly, Henson will suddenly pass away in May 1990 causing the deal to temporarily end the following December.)

todays quote

"That's a piecrust promise. Easily made, easily broken." -Mary Poppins

fun fact of the day

Walt Disney's Private Apartment at Disneyland -

When Disneyland was being constructed Walt Disney wanted to be able to stay nearby to supervise. Anaheim where Disneyland is located was about an hour away from where he lived so Disney had an apartment built above the fire station on Main Street where he could spend the night.

Everyone knew when Walt was there because of the light left on in the window of the apartment. After Disney died a light has been left on in the apartment window in his memory. The apartment has been left the same way it was when he died but it isn't open for public viewing.

Next time you go to Disneyland look for the light on above the fire station. The fire station is located on Main Street near the entrance. The fire station like all of Main Street resembles what it would have looked like in 1910 Middle America complete with an old time fire engine and Dalmatian dog.

july 27th

Well the blog background went thru another change. its getting closer to i think where i ultimately want it. im sure it will recieve some minor tweeks. let me know what you think of it so far.

This day in disney history

1945:

Disney's Pluto cartoon Canine Casanova, directed by Charles A. Nichols,
is released. Pluto (voiced by Pinto Colvig) is smitten with Dinah the
dachshund ... but unfortunately she ignores him.

Quote of the day

Keep your chin up, someday there will be happiness again. - Robin Hood

fun fact of the day

Best Location to Watch the Nightly Fantasmic Show at Disneyland -

At night in Frontierland there is a spectacular Fantasmic Show. Guests line the streets to watch and the best spots are often staked out long before the two shows begin. Guests who have small children may find it difficult to locate a spot for viewing everything.
Here is a little known insider secret: Above New Orleans Square (adjacent to Frontierland) is the Disney Gallery. The Disney Gallery showcases the art and history of Disneyland but it also has a balcony that offers an unobstructed view of the show.
Guests who pay a small fee for dessert can be seated on the balcony to watch the free Fantasmic Show. This is a delightful way to enjoy the show.
Be sure to make reservations early in the morning when you first arrive at the park because the few balcony seats fill up fast.
Most guests watch the first show and not the second show. Lines for the most popular rides are shorter during the first show so that is a good time to go on the rides. Watch the second show when the crowd is smaller.

July 26th

hope people are having as much fun reading this as i do writing it. It really is alot of fun. My next trip to disney is set for july 31st.

Picture of the day



Cinderalla riding in the electrical parade

This day in disney history

1951:

Disney's animated Alice in Wonderland has its world premiere
in England, at London's Leicester Square Theatre. It will be released
in the U.S. two days later. Based on Lewis Carroll's books "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass," it is the thirteenth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon.The film will be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.

Disney fun facts

When park visitors buy a cup of coffee they can hold on to the empty cup after finishing and get free coffee for the rest of the day. Guests simply give their empty cup to any vendor and receive free refills all day.

Balloons that are popped or lost are also replaced free. Even if a guest picks up the remains of some other guest's broken balloon they can still present it to any balloon vendor and receive a new free

Fun quote of the day

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. - Winnie the Pooh

Character of the day

un-loving and rambunctious, Huey, Dewey, and Louie are three mischievous kids out to have a good time. They never mean to cause a problem (well, almost never), but havoc seems to follow "the boys" wherever they go. It's not that they're so reckless -- they are Junior Woodchucks, after all; it's usually the fault of their vigilant guardian, beloved "Unca' Donald." Even when they try to do something nice for him, he can foul up their plans with his suspicious nature. Still, while they are good kids at heart, their motives are not always so angelic. They've been known to play hookey from school, inflict practical jokes on their susceptible uncle, and wreak general havoc. Even so, they've often got a better handle on their own natures than Donald's got on his, and they know it. That's why, every once in a while, the lines between guardian and guarded get a little blurry, and nephews can occasionally seem more like uncles.

Originally there was no way to tell Donald's nephews apart, because the colors on their costumes were used interchangeably. Because the stories for the "Ducktales" television series were more complicated than they were for the short Donald Duck cartoons, it was deemed necessary to distinguish between the three nephews. So Huey was dressed in red, Dewey in blue, and Louie in green. You can remember this by noting that the brightest hue of the three is red (Huey), the color of water, dew, is blue (Dewey), and that leaves Louie, and leaves are green. The nephews made their debut in the Donald Duck Sunday comic page on October 17, 1937, and first appeared on film in "Donald's Nephews" (1938).

july 25th

This day in disney history

2007:

A press release announces that the Walt Disney Company has made a commitment to end cigarette smoking in Disney-branded films. Disney will discourage depictions of cigarette smoking in its films and will place an anti-smoking PSA on DVD's of any future film that does depict smoking.

picture of the day


tom sawyer island

Disney fun fact of the day

Dumbo was made to recoup the financial losses of Fantasia. The film has been criticized as being racist (the leader crow in the film is named "Jim Crow"), yet is also considered to be one of Disney's finest films. It was a deliberate pursuit of simplicity and economy for the Disney studio, and is now generally regarded as a classic of animation. At 64 minutes, it is one of Disney's shortest animated features.

The film was designed as an economical feature to help generate income for the Disney studio after the financial failures of both Pinocchio and Fantasia in 1940. Storymen Dick Huemer and Joe Grant were the primary figures in developing the plot, based upon a children's book written by Helen Aberson and illustrated by Harold Perl (the only involvement the authors had with the cartoon industry). Their book was made of only 8 drawings and just a few lines of text. When it was published in 1939, the edition was so small and obscure that nobody knows how Disney got his hands on it. He gave it to his lead animators and told them to see what they could get out of it.

When the film went into production in early 1941, supervising director Ben Sharpsteen was given orders to keep the film simple and inexpensive. As a result, Dumbo lacks the lavish detail of the previous three Disney animated features (Fantasia, Pinocchio, and character designs are simpler, background paintings are less detailed, and a number of held cels (or frames) were used in the character animation.

Despite the advent of World War II, Dumbo was still the most financially successful Disney film of the 1940s. This was one of the first of Disney's animated films to be broadcast, albeit severely edited, on television, as part of Disney's anthology series. The film then received another distinction of note in 1981, when it was the first of Disney's canon of animated films to be released on home video and also was released in the Walt Disney Classics Video Collection in 1985. That release was followed by remastered versions in: 1986, 1989, 1991 (Classics), and 1994 (Masterpiece). In 2001, a 60th Anniversary Special Edition was released. In 2006, a "Big Top Edition" of the film was released on DVD. A UK Special Edition was released in May 2007 and was a successful Disney release.

Character Spot Light

Cheshire Cat

In the 1951 Disney movie, Alice in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat is depicted as an intelligent yet mischievous character that sometimes helps Alice and sometimes gets her into trouble. He is voiced by Sterling Holloway and later by Jim Cummings after Holloway's death. The Disney version of the character can also be spotted during the final scene of the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Prior to the release of the Walt Disney animated adaption of the story, scholars observed few specific allusions to this character. Martin Gardner, author of the The Annotated Alice, wondered if T. S. Eliot had the Cheshire Cat in mind when writing Morning at the Window but notes no other significant allusions in the pre-war period

Alice first encounters it at the Duchess's house in her kitchen, and then later outside on the branches of a tree, where it appears and disappears at will, engaging Alice in amusing but sometimes vexing conversation. The cat sometimes raises philosophical points that annoy or baffle Alice. It does, however, appear to cheer her up when it turns up suddenly at the Queen of Hearts' croquet field, and when sentenced to death baffles everyone by having made its head appear without its body, sparking a massive argument between the executioner and the King and Queen of Hearts about whether something that does not have a body can indeed be beheaded.

At one point, the cat disappears gradually until nothing is left but its grin, prompting Alice to remark that she has often seen a cat without a grin but never a grin without a cat

24th july. new co-author

Well we are making progress. The blog is getting easier to read. the background is completed and in, and i have asked my sister to be an author on this blog. Once she starts going back to disneyland ( mid august) i believe she will write a couple articles for us.

P.S if anyone enjoys blogging and has passes to disneyland or disney world, and you feel like you may want to blog with us let me know. adding a couple more authors may not be a bad thing.

Picture of the day



this comes from the electical parade that winds thru california adventures.It is quite a site to see and i highly recommend it to any one.

This day in history

1966:

The New Orleans Square area opens at Disneyland, California, with
a ceremony presided over by Walt Disney and the real mayor of New
Orleans, Victor Schiro. The 3-acre site, the first new themed "land" added to
Disneyland after its 1955 opening, has cost $18 million to build. New Orleans Square (not a square so much as an intricate series of "streets") is the only land in the Magic Kingdom to debut without a single attraction. Although filled with shops and restaurants like the One of a Kind shop and Mademoiselle Antoinette's Parfumerie, the Pirates of the Caribbean and Haunted Mansion attractions won't open until 1967 and 1969. (Sadly, due to his health, this will turn out to be Walt's last major public appearance in the park.)


Fun fact of the day

What no Pepsi at Disneyland? -

Coca-Cola products are the only soft drinks that you can buy at Disneyland. Coca-Cola made a deal with Disney to sell their products exclusively. Coca-Cola gives Disneyland all their Coca-Cola products for free as long as they don't allow any of their competitors to be sold at Disneyland. So don't try to order a Pepsi, Dr. Pepper or Mountain Dew because you won't find any Pepsi products sold at Disneyland.

Disneyland makes pure profit from their Coca-Cola sales and they also get other products free with similar partnerships with other companies.