Disney® Mania

ZapperZ

Happy Halloween!

If you don't know where "This is Halloween" came from for our photo contest last week, here is a video of an over-the-top Halloween display that used this tune from the soundtrack to Disney's "Nightmare Before Christmas".



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Ivan Seeking

The amazing Jackie Evancho crosses paths with Disney




Disney Christmas Parade 2010

ZapperZ

Jackie who? :)

I must plead ignorance on her. Even after doing a Google search, it still doesn't ring a bell. But then again, I hardly ever watch Network TV.

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Ivan Seeking

You haven't had much time to hear about her as she's only eleven years old and was discovered at age ten! She is widely expected to become the premier lady of opera. In fact she has already performed a brief duet with Sarah Brightman [and possibly bested Brightman on stage].

She is the youngest person ever to be invited to peform at the Lincoln Center, which she did just recently. She also has a concert that will be appearing on PBS's Great Performances, next March - again, the youngest person ever to be featured.

She just released a new CD called Dream with Me.
http://www.target.com/p/Dream-with-M...i_sku=13487892

It's no surprise that Disney snagged her very quickly.

ZapperZ

Mickey Mouse got the the planet Mercury well ahead of everyone else. Here's the evidence:

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/...,2897421.story

:)

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ZapperZ

How not to wear a Disney sweater.



Poor Mickey!

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lisab

Oh my !

DiracPool

That's gotta be photoshopped. Either that or Mickey passed out on a park bench by the Pirates of the Carribean ride, and this lady accidently sat on him.

Borg

I want to go there just to see if it's true.

ZapperZ

Supposedly, this works elsewhere also, not just at Disneyland.

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ZapperZ

I have taken many photos of Cinderella Castle (well, duh!) under numerous lighting conditions. But the one that I took recently became one of my all-time favorite. It is a lighting on the castle that one doesn't get to see very often.



And yes, I am still using my cheap Canon Digital Elph point-and-shoot camera.

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AnTiFreeze3

I was just at DisneyLand this last Sunday. It was my first time going there, and I remember going to DisneyWorld when I was much younger. Which of the two would you say is the best?

EDIT: By the way, great photo

Evo

Wow, that's spooky!! Love it, I never would have imagined the castle that way.

ZapperZ

WDW is certainly bigger than DL resort. So for me, that's a plus for WDW.

However, I've noticed that for many people, the park they prefer tend to be the one that they went to first, and certainly the one they went to as a child. Since my first introduction to a Disney theme park was WDW, it has become my favorite.

I certainly like DL. After all, it is historic, and the only theme park that Walt walked on. However, after being introduced to the Magic Kingdom at WDW first, the park looks a bit cramped and small. People who like DL find that aspect of the park to be an advantage. They call it charming. Sleeping Beauty castle certainly looks a bit underwhelming when compared to the majestic size of Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom.

However, to me, the biggest problem I had with the DL resort when compared to WDW is the location and the neighborhood. At WDW, because of its size, there is a buffer between the theme park and "real world". If you are from off-site, it forces you to either drive, or take a form of transportation to get to the theme park. This gives the feeling that you are going somewhere, and somewhere different. If you are staying on-site and have to drive to get to the theme parks, it is the same. If you are at one of the resorts that are walking distance to one of the theme parks, then you are already being immersed in the Disney atmosphere. So by the time one gets to a WDW theme park, one has already, consciously or subconsciously, divorced oneself from the real world.

I couldn't do that at the DL resort. One could just cross S. Harbor Blvd., for example, and voila! One is already on Disney property. There isn't that buffer, and I couldn't get it out of my head that real life is just across the street from Disneyland. You get on, say, the old "sun wheel" at California Adventure, and you could see the surrounding neighborhood, which obviously ruins the "magic" and the theming that is so important in a Disney theme park. You don't get that at WDW.

So WDW is definitely my favorite Disney resort. Certainly, my familiarity with it is a big factor. Still, my biggest goal is to make a trip to Tokyo Disneyland resort (Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea) and then go to Shanghai when the new theme park opens there in a couple of years.

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