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By Michael - January 21st, 2010 Concept art for The Velveteen Rabbit by Fred Warter
The last decade, filled as it was with corporate turmoil at the Walt Disney Company, has proved a veritable elephant’s graveyard of abandoned ideas and projects at Walt Disney Animation. First there were the long-in-gestation projects that were scuttled with the purge of traditional animation […]
By Michael - January 12th, 2010 I got a press release today about an event this Friday, January 15th, in Kansas City that every Disney fan in the area should attend. I certainly wish that I could make it!
Local group Thank You, Walt Disney is holding a fundraising event and special premiere screening of Ted Thomas’s documentary Walt and El […]
By Michael - January 9th, 2010 Sometimes, I think the folks in Disney marketing are asleep at the switch. It happens when I have to accidentally stumble across something incredibly awesome, that they should be screaming from the rooftop. To wit:
“Oh that’s nice, they’re re-releasing Fantasia on Blu-Ray and WAIT WHAT?!”
We know how originally there was a plan to […]
By Michael - January 7th, 2010 Making the circles online:
It’s funny ‘cuz it’s true (click to enlarge)
This made me laugh, especially because a couple of these crossed my mind during the movie.
Not to bag on Avatar; I’m a sucker for James Cameron’s particular brand of insanity. The guy’s a madman, but he can sure create spectacle on an […]
By Michael - December 23rd, 2009 It hasn’t been long since word emerged that one of the directors had been removed from King of the Elves, the computer animated film from Walt Disney Animation Studios that had been publicly announced for release in 2012. Since then, I’ve received lots of visitors to the site from Google searches about the film being […]
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The Progress City Primer
 From the Progress City archives comes this collection of 33 tall tales and true from Disney history. Available in paperback, hardback, and ebook formats.
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