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One million views and counting! Time to celebrate ClickMagique’s PicParade…

ClickMagique’s PicParade is loaded with more then 8000 Disney related pictures and recently had the honors of the 1.000.000th picture being blended in. Only the pictures that are actually opened will be counted, so we can honestly say that this is an impressive result. This result can only by accomplished because of you, the fans and visitors, so a big thank you for sharing your pictures on ClickMagique’s PicParade and a big thank you to all visiting and looking at the pictures too.

The picture that was blended in on 1.000.000 was the picture of Tigger walking past “It’s a Small World” waiving at the photographer in Disneyland Resort Paris. A very nice picture to celebrate this mile stone. But it isn’t enough. We want more!

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Disney is doing very well again with a better than expected 22% rise in profit. Especially the movies National Treasure: Book of Secrets and the fairy tale “Enchanted” together with Disney theme park attendance are taking care of the big profits in their last quarter.

Even with the frightening economic situation at the moment, Disney seems unstoppable boosting their profits and making their shareholders happy.

“All of the big media companies are doing fundamentally very well and the market just refuses to acknowledge it,” (Reuters)

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Hong Kong Disneyland has opened their version of “It’s a Small World” only days ago. Their version differences itself from other worldwide version by adding 38 Disney Characters to the classic ride. Disney fans and purist where horrified by the idea that a classic ride would contain Disney Characters. Especially since the news came out the Disney company would be adding the same Disney characters in the Disneyland Anaheim version. Disney fans stood up and let themselves be heard by expressing their thoughts and feelings all over the web about the upcoming changes Disney wants to do. (Example Save the Rainforest website). They didn’t like it…

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Disney has released the poster for the upcoming third part in the High School Musical series. The success of the previous two movies made it possible to release the third part in the theater. No choice as to go and see it for myself (as my son will drag me into the cinema to see it), but I hoped the franchise would end here. What more can they tell about the group and friends after they left school.

But the success of the series will be used to start another movie with new kids. So I think we are in for High School Musical IV and V and…

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Typhoon Lagoon,… I love that place. How often I dream about that place,… I lost count. And that’s why I wonder sometimes how people say they will not go to a Disney Water park, they don’t want to loose time there, they don’t see the pleasure in visiting the place, they will not add water park option to their tickets… You’re missing out Disney fans, as this is an amazing place to be…

Find yourself a nice spot (avoid sitting right at the wave pool, I know it’s easy and near everything but there are so many more and nicer places), go for a dive in the waves, enjoy the sun, have fun on the slides, etc…

But most importantly enjoy that lazy, lazy, lazy river Castaway Creek…

Still not convinced? Check out the picture I added here and click this link to see another collection of Typhoon Lagoon pictures. Now, next time you go to Walt Disney World, give it a shot,… You’ll love it…

Night Kingdom rumors have been going for a while and although I thought that’s it, those plans are shelved, the rumors are alive again. This time you can find some info on the always great screamscape.com site where it is claimed that Disney is creating some new experience.

The big attraction and icon of the park, right now, appears to be a large central Disney-made mountain structure where guests will be forced to ‘rock climb’ to the top, take zip lines down again and explore a serious network of caves. The goal is for this to be a very interactive game based adventure experience, with both mental and physical challenges. (Screamscape.com

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Ed Grier, Disneyland Resort president, is talking about a possible third gate for the Disneyland Resort. While many thought that with the big rehab of Disney’s California Adventure a third gate would be something not for the near future but now Disney talks about it themselves. Obviously they did not give any more information other then the location of the possible 3rd gate expansion.

A third theme park was hinted at by Grier on Wednesday. “We do see a tremendous opportunity on our 88 acres of land,” Grier said. (OC Register)

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Last year’s visit of the Disney Cruise Line to the Mediterranean wasn’t much of an event for the European markets. Sure DLRP did do a small event in Spain but due to the selection of invited press the event pretty much turned into a non-event. What could have been the big entry of the Disney Cruise Line into Europe’s booming cruise market (especially Germans are more and more turning to this type of vacations) and could also have opened a new market for DLRP of guests combining a Disney cruise with a visit to DLRP just didn’t do anything.

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Disney has started a new film label to produce nature documents from world top documentary filmmakers. The label, named DisneyNature, will release movies about the beauty of our planet. On of them called simply “Earth” (April 22, 2009)., a movie that will be produced an directed by the award winning British Alastair Fothergill who already gave us the “Blue Planet” and the “Planet Earth” series. Darth Vader, oeps, I meant James Earl Jones will be the narrator of this new production.

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We are still waiting for the May 16 opening of the second installment of the “Narnia”-series, titled “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” (or even longer for some of us here in Eruope, where at least in Germany the movie won’t open till July!) … but the powers at Disney and Walden (the partner of Disney for this franchise) already proof all the gloom sayers on the internet wrong by announcing, that Disney and Walden are NOT abandoning the franchise!!

While some popular sites already declared the series dead or nearly dead unless the second movie did outstanding business the partners used the Comic Con in New York to announce that filming for the third movie in the series will commence as early as October of this year!

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Today, April 22, 10 years ago Animal Kingdom opened its gates to the general public for the very first time. The park opened with 5 attraction, 9 exhibits and 12 live entertainment show on a 500 acres location. The main attraction of the resort are its inhabitants, the many incredible animals.

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How many families dream about a Disneyland visit, How many do so today and how many did in the past. No matter what time, the dream stays the same. One family in 1956 had a dream like this, a dream that was fulfilled after buying scotch tape and winning 1 of 25 Disneyland trips. This happened in 1956. Now, in 2008, everybody is invited to a look into the past and enjoy a holiday Disneyland movie from the wining family made in 1956 by “dad”. The movie runs a good 34 minutes, but with fun editing and the added narrating it’s a nice look into the Disneyland past.

SeaWorld is om of those parks us Disney fans can appreciate so I wasn’t to surprised when I found some concept art related to the new B&M flying roller coaster that will be build there on a Disney website.

The British website “The Disney Information Bulletin Board” has some nice artist impressions of the new Manta coaster that will open in 2009. Click on the picture to see all three artist impressions, including a track lay-out.

Pictures copyrights Busch Entertainment Corporation

Just a short post for all fellow LOST fans in Germany: FOX (the all new tv-station on air as of May 19 via satellite and as of May 20 in the cable of UnityMedia) announced that the season premiere of LOST’s season 4 (currently on air in the US) will be aired on June 15 (a Sunday).

It is that time of the year again - no, not awards, even so I had one of those posted about for Brad Bird. I am talking about the time the stations decide which shows will be allowed to return for another season. According to the TAG Blog decisions for two of Disney’s animated shows have just been made:

“The Replacements” (on the Disney Channel in the US, on Toon Disney in Germany) will not get a third season but will end after 52 episodes. In the meainte “Phineas and Ferb” got picked up again and an order for 26 and 13 episodes seems to have been placed. “Phineas and Ferb” in the recent months managed to garner fans on the Disney Channel in various age groups and is currently also introduced to the European market. E.g. guests visiting the all new “Stitch Live!” attraction at the Walt Disney Studios Paris at Disneyland Resort Paris are introduced to the show during the pre-show.

Pixar continues to astonish the market by collecting award after award (not counting high presitge nominations here) not only for its movies but also for its various members of the creative staff. The latest addition to this collection goes to Pixar writer / director Brad Bird. He already collected the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film earlier this year for Ratatouille. However, this time the 50 year old (birth name: Phillip Bradley Bird) didn’t receive an award for any specific work of his … instead the Writers Guild of America West’s Animation Writers Caucus (AWC) has awarded him its 10th annual Animation Writing Award for lifetime achievement. He will honored with the award at the Guild’s 2008 Honorary Awards Luncheon on April 23 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles

Congratulations … and one appeal: please keep that lifetime achievement growing, the public wants more
Information found via the Deadline Hollywood Daily blog.

Disney’s international mega hit “LOST” might soon be banging the drum for FOX, one of the big competitors of Disney’s network ABC. No need to worry if you are in the US. Certainly the fifth season will be back on ABC. What I am talking about is Germany.

The first four seasons of “LOST” in Germany premiered on “Premiere”, a pay tv station to move on to the free tv station “Pro7″ roughly six months later. While Premiere is a partner of Disney as it also provides the platform via which the Disney Channel is offered in Germany, Pro7 is “just” a regular customer for Disney tv products. But now “Premiere” seems to be out of the picture…

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13! Is it your lucky number or does it spook you out? I love the number, but then I also love spooky things.

So what better moment to show a scary Disney picture. Obviously that’ not an easy task, because lets be honest, is there really anything scary in the Disney Parks…

Loving anything Halloween it’s no surprise that I have a small collection of “scary” Disney pictures. Especially a Mickey’s Not so Scary Halloween Party visit brings the opportunity to fill the camera. Here is one from my last trip, but be warned as I am sure I will not be able to withstand any opportunity to show another “scary” Disney picture in the future…

If you are living or are going to be in or around Newport Beach during the Newport Beach Film Festival and you’re a Disney animation fan you might want to check out a special Evening of “Disney Animation Rarities” presentation. Many of the clips are treasures not available on DVD or have never been released in the cinema’s

Join noted filmmakers and Academy Award nominees Roy E. Disney and Don Hahn as they present an unforgettable evening of rarely seen Disney animated shorts and experimental films. Roy and Don will screen a collection of short animated films that had limited theatrical presentations, many of which are not available for viewing on DVD. (Newport Beach Filmfest)

Screening of “An Evening of Disney Animation Rarities with Roy E. Disney and Don Hahn” will take place on Wednesday April 30 at 7:30

It’s one of those Disney movies that is and will be loved for many years: The Lion King. It’s no surprise the movie has been adapted for the stage so many times. For example at Disneyland Resort Paris which has its own version.

Another version has been on the Lyceum Theatre stage in London. The production has gone into it night year and to celebrate BBC has release some great rehearsal pictures of the actors and the amazing looking masks they wear during the show. To see a collection of 8 pictures follow the link to the BBC In pictures: The Lion King pages.

Picture copyrights BBC.co.uk