Disney World PF Gathering and Tips for Disney Mania!

[hypatia]

I got tinkerbell with my happy meal a few days ago..hmm this makes the 3rd tinkerbell thing i own...

 

[ZapperZ]

I got tinkerbell with my happy meal a few days ago..hmm this makes the 3rd tinkerbell thing i own...

You must have gotten the tail end of the Disney's promotion. The MacDonalds around where I live no longer carry that anymore.

So what card did you get with Tink? Those have become an active trading/collecting thingies. Unfortunately, there's a finite supply since they're not distributing those anymore.

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

They released a surprise pin today at WDW at the Contemporary Resort. The last few surprise pins they have released have been on pin trading themes. This one is no different, although it is now Tink who's involved.

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10924758.jpg

 

[Moonbear]

They really need to get the animators to fix Tink's eyes. This is the second Tinkerbell pin you've posted here where her eyes just looked scary. I can tell they're trying to make her look like she's pleading, sort of the puppy-dog eye look, but it looks more like her eyes are rolling back in her head for a seizure to me. I think the exaggerated almond shape makes it impossible to draw the pupils so she doesn't look possessed or cross-eyed if she's looking any direction other than straight forward.

Out of curiousity, has Tinkerbell always been drawn so "chunky" or has she been working out in recent years? I always thought of her as the slender pixie, but everything I've seen recently has her looking very buff...sort of like an olympic figure skater...so I don't mean in the fat sense, but the sense of how a short woman with lots of muscles looks.

 

[ZapperZ]

Moonbie dear, you're going to give Tink a complex if you keep mentioning about her eyes! :)

I don't collect Tink stuff, so I can't say if I notice any change in her "size". She has always looked the same from my perspective. Maybe a serious Tink collector can comment on this. Is there any on here? :)

Zz.

 

[JamesU]

I know that I'm not

 

[Moonbear]

I think of Tinkerbell more like here:
http://disney.go.com/desktopstop/characters/tinkerbell/index.html

or here: http://www.peterpanfan.com/images/DPP/cap028.jpg

It does help when they give her eyes some color. Oh, and look at the difference in shape of her eyes! They're still almond-shaped, but the pins have the pointier direction toward the center, and the old animation has it toward to outer sides. Aha! That's probably what's been bugging me. Hey, eyes shouldn't change like that! And her chin is now rounder, where it used to be more angular. I think Tink has been having some plastic surgery! Though, she is getting up in years, so I guess it's understandable if she's put on a few pounds and had a few nips and tucks done.

 

[ZapperZ]

Hey Moonbie, looks like Tink isn't the only one who suffers from weird-eye syndrome. Look at Peter Pan!

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/9742206.jpg

 

[ZapperZ]

Here's a pleasent tidbit to start off your day with...

Did you know that the winding brown path throughout Liberty Square represents a river of sewage?

Yesssirreeee...

In colonial America, there were no indoor plumbing. So residents pour sewage and waste water out front into a trench along the walkway. Disney, in its bid to recreate the atmosphere as accurate as possible, decided to represent the sewage drain as a brown path in the middle of the pedestrian walkway. So in essence, if you're walking on it, you're walking in the sewer drain. A pleasent thought, no?

Oh, and it doesn't stop there. Since there were no indoor bathroom/toilets in the homes at that time, Disney decided NOT to put any washrooms anywhere in the Liberty Square land. The washrooms located along the walkway connecting Liberty Square and Adventureland is technically in Adventureland. And the washroom in Columbia Harbor House restaurant is situated only at one very back corner of the restaurant - making it technically in Fantasyland!

Details... attention to details...

Zz.

 

[Moonbear]

Hey Moonbie, looks like Tink isn't the only one who suffers from weird-eye syndrome. Look at Peter Pan!

Creepy! He looks like The Joker!

 

[ZapperZ]

OK, I don't have any intention of collecting Chicken Little's pins... yet! But this is an opening day pin, being sold only at the Disney Studios Store in Burbank, CA, with a limited edition of only 500. If the movie becomes a humongous hit, I have $5 that says this pin will be one of the most sought-after pins around.

It should pass your cute meter, Moonbie and Evo. :) I like the fact that it's shapped like an egg.

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10904237.jpg

 

[Moonbear]

I think I'm going to have to see that movie. I can't get over the fact that Chicken Little looks like an egghead. And I'm really curious to find out what that three-eyed, hairy thing Chicken Little is holding is. I'm pretty sure I don't remember any 3-eyed hairy things in the original story.

 

[ZapperZ]

I think I'm going to have to see that movie. I can't get over the fact that Chicken Little looks like an egghead. And I'm really curious to find out what that three-eyed, hairy thing Chicken Little is holding is. I'm pretty sure I don't remember any 3-eyed hairy things in the original story.

I would suggest that if you're going to see the movie anyway, look and see if there's any theater near you that's showing it in digital 3D. Might as well get the full treatment that it was designed for. That's what I'm going to do.

Zz.

 

[Moonbear]

I would suggest that if you're going to see the movie anyway, look and see if there's any theater near you that's showing it in digital 3D. Might as well get the full treatment that it was designed for. That's what I'm going to do.
Zz.

I live in the middle of college-town nowhere. I highly doubt there's a theater that will have digital 3D, but I'll look.

 

[ZapperZ]

I live in the middle of college-town nowhere. I highly doubt there's a theater that will have digital 3D, but I'll look.

It's might be unlikely that it will still be playing all over in January (unless it becomes a monster hit), but if it is, we might be able to see it at the theaters in Downtown Disney. I would guess that that's as likely as place as any that would show this in 3D.

We may have to drag Evo along kicking and screaming... :)

Zz.

 

[Evo]

It should pass your cute meter, Moonbie and Evo. :) I like the fact that it's shapped like an egg.

Yep, that's a cute one. You know what I like.

I agree with MB on tink's eyes. I was thinking wandering eye syndrome.

 

[Math Is Hard]

Out of curiousity, has Tinkerbell always been drawn so "chunky" or has she been working out in recent years? I always thought of her as the slender pixie, but everything I've seen recently has her looking very buff...sort of like an olympic figure skater...so I don't mean in the fat sense, but the sense of how a short woman with lots of muscles looks.

The animators modeled her figure based on Marilyn Monroe's (at least that's what I've heard), back when curvier women were in vogue.

 

[ZapperZ]

The animators modeled her figure based on Marilyn Monroe's (at least that's what I've heard), back when curvier women were in vogue.

I think I posted this already, but no harm repeating.

The connection between Tink and Marilyn Monroe is actually a myth. The Disney Insider had a full story on the origin of Tinkerbell's animation at Disney...

http://disney.go.com/inside/issues/stories/v050920.html

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

Secrets of the Haunted Mansion

Just in time for Halloween, I almost flipped when I found this website. Not only does it have all the secret of the Haunted Mansion attraction at Disneyland and WDW, but, get this, they even have the full layout of both attractions! It is an unbelievable site, and I don't even want to know how they got it.

I don't know how long this site will be up till Disney hears about it, but if you want to see it, see it now before it goes away...

http://www.grimghosts.com/secrets/SCindex.html

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone! This is a terrific picture from WDW, courtesy of rainfully from WDWmagic.com. Thanks rainfully!

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

OK, so now Moonbie has made me pay way too much attention to Tink's eyes. Here's another one. This is a lanyard medal to be released tomorrow. Just LOOK at her BIG eyes!

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10025291.jpg

 

[Moonbear]

OK, so now Moonbie has made me pay way too much attention to Tink's eyes. Here's another one. This is a lanyard medal to be released tomorrow. Just LOOK at her BIG eyes!

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10025291.jpg

Okay, it's an improvement on the other ones; she definitely doesn't look scary. But, but, but, ...I never knew Tink was such a naughty girl...well, maybe mischievous, but she's looking very, very naughty there. What's with the bedroom eyes?

 

[Math Is Hard]

Okay, it's an improvement on the other ones; she definitely doesn't look scary. But, but, but, ...I never knew Tink was such a naughty girl...well, maybe mischievous, but she's looking very, very naughty there. What's with the bedroom eyes?

No doubt! Looks like she's about to sing "Santa Baby".

 

[ZapperZ]

Today is the final day the historic El Capitan theater in Hollywood will be showing Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas. Each showing of the film is accompanied by a panel discussion, including the movie director himself.

The link below shows picture from one of this event. Looks like it would have been a blast to be at one of these...

http://www.laughingplace.com/News-ID509730.asp

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

Disney is putting a lot of its eggs into the Chicken Little basket. It is the first movie out of its new animation division that no longer has any hand-drawn animators, it is trying to get out of the slump of box-office bomb, and it is trying to push digital animation. That's a lot to put onto the shoulder of one little chicken whose main worry is that the sky is falling.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051030/ap_en_bu/3d_movie_comeback

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

This is the last pin being released as part of Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party, which ends today. This is a very cute scarecrow Mickey pin.

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10904429.jpg

 

[ZapperZ]

Wired looks at the technological advances at Disney's theme parks, especially the amazing Turtle Talk with Crush. This should give you an idea at how amazing this attraction is.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69297,00.html

Zz.

 

[Moonbear]

DisneyQuest was tried as a small, stand-alone Disney attraction, but one in Chicago was unable to sustain itself without a major theme park to draw guests, and plans for a third in Philadelphia were scrapped in mid-production.

I can't believe you alone didn't visit enough to keep the place running well in the black!

 

[ZapperZ]

The BIG news bomb of the day is the report from the NYTimes that Steve Jobs is ready to sell Pixar for the "right amount". In all of this, there's even MORE riding on Chicken Little. Things are just happening all at once here.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/31/news/midcaps/pixar_disney/

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

I can't believe you alone didn't visit enough to keep the place running well in the black!

I couldn't use my Annual Pass to get into it. Go figure!

:)

Zz.