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Disney Unveils 'Toy Story' in 4-D!
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Screw all this 3-D is the future stuff -- what I want is some hardcore 4-D! Kick it up a notch, ya know? I really want to feel this sucker. Well, thankfully, those lunatics over at Disney are already on it -- and, according to The Hollywood Reporter, they've unveiled a new attraction at both Disney theme parks in Florida and California called Toy Story Mania! And it's in 4-D! Hell yeah! Basically, riders throw on a pair of 3-D glasses and are taken through an attraction that has them "appearing to shrink to about toy-size so they might scoot through Andy's room firing virtual projectiles at 3-D targets while collecting points for accuracy." Um, sweet. Can I live there temporarily? (Actually, I did work at Disney World briefly back in the day, and the magic kinda goes away when it's 100 degrees with 100% humidity and you're wearing a ridiculous pair of Lederhosen. Did I just go there? I think I did.)
Anyway, Toy Story Mania! joins a bunch of Pixar-inspired attractions at the theme parks (Finding Nemo, Monsters, Inc., A Bug's Life), and will soon be joined by Cars Land. Due in 2012, this sucker costs $1.1 billion, will span 12 acres and will hopefully kick a whole lotta ass. For $1.1 billion (billion!), it better. Has anyone visited Disney in the past few weeks and checked out Toy Story Mania? I know it opened in Florida at the end of May. Anyone? Woody? Buzz?
Poor, poor Jennifer Aniston...Fill-in-the-Blank, April 12th, 2006
Filed under: Music & Musicals », Romance », Disney », Podcasts », Family Films », Dreamworks », Home Entertainment », Fill-In-The-Blank »
Today on Fill-in-the-Blank: Blockbuster accuses Netflix of playa hatin', studio heads refuse to cough up the stats on their bling, and Jennifer Aniston is, apparently, the saddest girl in all the world. Got more name suggestions? Drop 'em as though they were of a significantly high temperature in the comments.
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Captain Jack is going to Disneyworld
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Way back in my sophomore year of college, I actually spent a summer working
in Disneyworld's Magic Kingdom. Yes, I got drunk with Cinderella and The Little Mermaid, but they were
some crazy girls come quitting time. Oh, the memories. I remember, during my training, we would enter the park before it
opened and go on a bunch of rides in order to learn their history and the way they were operated. I could go on to tell
you some dirty little things about Disneyworld, but this post is about Pirates of the Caribbean - my favorite
of all rides.
Back then, there was no movie to connect the ride to, and so rolling along the water in a small boat surrounded by mechanical Pirates singing "Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me)" was just about as good as it gets. Now comes the announcement that Disney will be shutting the Pirates ride down in order to update it with characters from the popular film.
That's right, starting in March, both Disneyworld and Disneyland will close the attraction until early summer in order to incorporate a storyline that has Captain Jack Sparrow and his nemesis Barbossa fighting to be the first to claim a treasure. Rest assured, the original gang will still linger around, though the character Davy Jones (from the upcoming Dead Man's Chest) will also be making an appearance.
I'm not so sure how I feel about this one. I mean, I understand why they're doing it (marketing, marketing, marketing), but it will be hard to escape to this so-called magical land when Johnny Depp is staring right back at me. Theme park attraction inspires film. Film inspires theme park attraction. Somehow it all inspires me to just stay home.
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