Disney movies

Three videos for your weekend entertainment today.
First hop on over to the Department of Energy site to see a cute spot filmed by Ratatouille star Remy on how you can play your part in Energy Conservation. Look for this PSA to hit your TV soon
Below the cut find YouTube Videos of Muppet Pirates, and Gideon [...]

Believe it or not, Anaheim Garden Walk is set to open with its first tenants November 15th 2007. Since 1998 until 2006 Garden Walk was the very definition of vapor construction. A lot of talk, but not a shovel full of dirt moved. But once ground was broken boy did they move fast. Now the [...]

You wouldn’t think you could tie Bats Day, High School Musical, and examples of tolerance and intolerance together.

Although the City Council didn’t go as far as overturning their previous decision to allow high priced condos in the area zoned for tourism business only, they did finally schedule the matter for a city wide vote. More than half of the people who spoke last night supported the Save Our Anaheim Resort backed referendum. [...]

This was left in a comment in another thread. But I think it deserves more attention so I’m promoting it to it’s own post. The author is David Michael, better known as Darkbeer around the Disney fan community.
Here are a few thoughts and comments about info I gathered from watching the Public Comments and Council [...]

Gary Gentile of the Associated Press brings us an update on the DVD format battle.
People who own an HD DVD player can forget about watching “Spider-Man 3″ in high definition when it goes on sale during the holiday season. The movie from Sony Pictures will only be available in the Blu-ray DVD format. Likewise, people [...]

This is something the folks at Walt Disney Parks & Resorts have been working for for a long time
Under the new law, more countries could qualify to send tourists to the United States without visas for up to 90 days. Only 27 nations can do that now, but tourism officials hope others will be added [...]

I’ve had a very similar experience to this, but I only saw a few strikes. Sounds like this was a whole lot more.
Tonight was the coolest lightning storm ever. We were at Typhoon Lagoon in the early afternoon, and it started raining at about 2. We left and did random errand-type stuff until our 5:30 [...]

A few more.
You know you’re a Cast Member when…
* You don’t know any of the names of your managers, but you have your shop stewards cell phone number in your speed dial!
* You have an overwhelming sensation to pick up trash on your off time.
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This comes from the how did they think of that department. A new study by Pali Research shows that Disney World’s recent 5.7% price increase for daily admission was designed to increase revenue for the park. To that I say, and they pay you to come up with these things? How do I get that [...]