Posts Tagged ‘Pixar’
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Tags: construction, Pixar, Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop, Toy Story, Toy Story Playland, TSPL, Walt Disney Studios, Walt Disney Studios Paris, Walt Disney Studios Park, WDS
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Monday, April 12th, 2010
With the New Generation Festival a whole collection of merchandise has arrived in the shops and boutiques across the whole Disneyland Paris. However, so far only one item features a specific logo naming the “New Generation Festival”: a red t-shirt, available in children size only. The remainder of the new merchandise that arrived for the start of the festival prominently features the characters at the heart of the festival in bright colors – in particular the stars of Pixar, such as Remy, Mike, Sully, Nemo, Woody etc., but certainly also Tiana who was officially welcomed to the resort as part of the festival.
The recurring theme of the new merchandise (a whole gallery of which you can find below the jump in this post) are colorful close-ups of the faces of the various stars of the festival. However, if not a “New Generation Festival” logo there is another new logo artwork that features prominently on the extremly bright and colorful merchandise… (more…)
Tags: boutique, Merchandise, Mike, Mr. Incredible, Nemo, New Generation, New Generation Festival, Pixar, Remy, shop, souvenir, Stitch, Sully, Tiana
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Friday, March 19th, 2010
Toy Story Playland is going big, very big! Especially when it comes to Buzz Lightyear.
This oversized statue will be the star of the playground and will become a prime location for those family snapshots. New pictures on the web show you how big Buzz will be. Over at Theme Park Review a collection of pictures have emerged where you can see the full statue erect in the workplace. Also in this photo report is a picture of buzz in “smaller” parts. Just like a puzzle, it is lying around on the work floor and on some tables. It is an impressive sight, especially when you see a grown man posing in front of the finished Buzz. Can you recognize the man posing next to Buzz? Yes, it is John Lasseter.
The only thing missing on that picture is the colors on Buzz. This can be found on the next picture in this series. Buzz chest plate is carrying his well known color pallet.
But there is more to see. Scroll down and you’ll get to see some army men getting ready for battle. A first look at the Slinky Dog for the Slinky Dog Zig Zag Spin attraction and a big RC Racer car mold. Visit the Theme Park Review forum for all the pictures.
Pictures copyrights Filipv via Theme Park Review
Tags: Army Men, Buzz, Disney, Disneyland, Dog, John Lasseter, Lightyear, Paris, Pixar, Playland, Slinky, Story, Studios, Toy, Walt
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Merchandise for the movie “G-Force” is found in numerous shops all around Disneyland Paris, in particular the Disney Store in the Disney Village, the Disney Hollywood Store and Studio 1 in Walt Disney Studios and Emporium in the Disneyland Park but also in other shops; in fact there is more G-Force merchandise than merchandise for UP. Plus the G-Force merchandise is placed more prominently then the new UP movie is.
Could it be that the cuddly factor makes the big difference here?
G-Force is a Jerry Bruckheimer produced Disney feature starring computer animated guinea pigs saving the world (the first movie for Bruckheimer starring computer animated characters in the lead parts).
G-Force has also an exclusive for Disneyland Paris. The “I was born ready” T-shirt can only be bought at the Paris resort. Next to the T-Shirt there are the action figure toys for the boys and the more cuddly plush for the little once and the girls.
With UP getting rave reviews more collectibles might find its way into the shops, but even if the characters are likable it will not be easy to beat the possibilities G-Force has in merchandise and its bigger market appeal. However, even with their nice display and choice, G-Force might not be able to brake the Cars merchandise success. Cars premiered in 2006 and merchandise of this Disney/Pixar feature is still going very strong at all Disney shops around the globe.
Tags: Cars, Disney, Disneyland, G-Force, Paris, Pixar, shop, shops, UP, Village, Walt
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
… the Hollywood Picture shop in the Disney Village that is. The shop is dedicted to the Disney magic of Hollywood and related merchandise featuring according themes, such as a large statue of Mickey Mouse in his best dress for the OSCAR ceremony. Following the trend of the recent years to introduce the universe of the Disney Pixar characters to the Disney resorts a giant clap board on the right side wall of the shop, right next to the CD display, now is displaying a family photo of some of the most memorable characters from the Disney Pixar features – even so it is a bit scary to see Nemo and his friends swim in the air above the other characters. Even so the decoration is pretty new it is worth noting that the characters of the latest Disney Pixar feature, UP, are not yet features in the “family photo”.
Tags: boutique, Disney Village, Hollywood Pictures, Merchandise, Pixar, shop, store
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Disney Pixar’s UP is ready to return to France (after its official premier at this spring’s film festival in Cannes) July 29 when it opens nation-wide in cinemas. By then it is the first European country that opens the movie as in most other countries the movie will only arrive in cinemas in late September, in some even only at the end of October (when France will already be looking forward to the DVD release currently scheduled for November 29, 2009). However, as always the Disneyland Resort Paris is ahead of everyone else and things take flight (literally) already! (more…)
Tags: Balloon, Castle, dug, La-Haut, Merchandise, movie, Pixar, plush, Sleeping Beauty Castle, UP
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Welcome back to our walk through Toy Story Playland at the Walt Disney Studios. After a few meters on the path leading into the new area on which we started in the second part of our series the bamboo moves back on the left side to make room for first attraction: Toy Soldiers Parachute Drop. The marquee for the attraction is actually a plastic toy plane propped up next to the walkway leading toward the twoer, with the attraction’s name painted on the undersides of its two wings. 
Guests passing by this unique marquee and then turning around will be able to see that Andy has scrawled his name on the side of the plane in the same writing which he already used on the underside of Woody’s boot.
Since an army with just one plane would be a bit small Andy also brought in a second plane – a small plane with a wind up air-screw. In fact the halfway wound up elastic band that would propell the plane into the air can be seen in this toy, which has been propped up right next to the first plane as if ready to start. 
In front of the two planes two large benches have been placed for those who do not want to join the Toy Soldiers and fellow guests on their parachuting mission. Both benches are actually (fittingly oversized) curved segments of a wooden toy-train track. But don’t even think to lift them up … obviously they are out of concrete and way to heavy. Now further toward the attraction… (more…)
