Rhapsody In Blue Sky (Part Three)...

Type, type, type...



And closing out the coverage Blue Sky Disney has had, here are the highlights from the last few months of the year...

This was another update on the shorts program at the Mouse known as "Tick, Tock, No."

More coverage of the Marvel buy in "Conflicts of Interest" with my own personal bias.

Many people wondered "What Four Billion Buys" in the deal to buy that Little Comic Company and I showed them.

And then we focused on some problems that might come with the purchase in "Brand Confusion/Collusion."

The most beautiful theme park in the world had a birthday in "What Do You Get The Girl That Has Everything."

And Decadent Dave's favorite Blue Sky Disney subject, Star Wars, was the focus of this post on the coming Star Wars television show known as "A Long , Long Time Ahead In A Galaxy Too Far Away."

Thoughts as to what would be "Disney's First Marvel" property were talked about in this post.

A lot of news came out of the D23 Expo and Guillermo del Toro's new production company at Disney was mentioned in "DDDY."

The Star Tours attraction at Disneyland has needed some love for a long, long time and when it was announced that there would be "Star Tours: Episode Two," I couldn't of been happier. Well, at least about the Star Tours stuff, I mean.

Jay Rasulo's D23 Keynote was thoroughly discussed in "Tale Ends."

The amount of detail at Tokyo DisneySEA is staggering and we offered up "The Hidden Sea" as proof.

Not everyone could attend the panel for "Imagineering Pixar for the Disney Parks" at D23 and YouTube helped be there. We brought you all the links in the "Luxolands" post.

"John Lasseter's Perception Conference" was covered at a D23 Expo press conference and again, thankfully, YouTube was there. And we were there for YouTube.

When we first heard of Dick Cook's firing we covered it in "The First/Last Keynote."

I've always wondered what a Pixar film would be like if it was hand-drawn and that was the subject of "New Lamp Shades, Old Lamps."

Some people thought that the "Tinker Bell" film that was released on DVD was a one shot, but there will be "Much More Pixie Dust" from the Disney Fairies.

We talked about the expansion of Honk Kong Disneyland in "The Intimate Prison."

And here's a collection of teaser poster art for the upcoming "Toy Story 3" in a post entitled "Character Counts."

Disney is in the process of revamping their stores and we mention it and a link to a story about it in "Steve Jobs' Fingerprints."

The new night time water show at Tokyo DisneySEA turned out to not be a clone of World of Color, but a clone of Disneyland's Fantasmic in "A Colorful Rumor/A Fantasmic Reality."

Yet another reflection of the Makeover of DCA in "The Reboot."

Two immensely talented Imagineers were fired from WDI sadly in "Leaving/Fleeing the Nest."

Any hopes of having Steven Spielberg being involved in the designing of a Disney attraction were dashed in "From the Creative Minds of Disney and Steven Spielberg."

All the walls and confusion that the contruction in DCA has caused was the focus of this Blue Sky Buzz known as "The Coming Carnage & Chaos."

My favorite pulp creation "Doc Savage" is getting done, but not by Disney and I talked about it in "Shane's Savage Tales."

John Lasseter is beloved by me, but I understand that he's just a man and only human in "The Limits of Power."

The animated films from the Mouse were the focus of "Animated Road."

Blue Sky Disney celebrated its third anniversary in November that we marked as "Blue Sky Disney X's Three."

The magic that is Pixar was celebrated in "A Vacation From Reality, A Haven From Chaos."

Like my focus on comics that could be adapted into films, I decided we should focus on what games Disney could adapt into films. Good films, not the really bad adaptations we've seen in this post "Game On/Over."

Back over to animation, we went over one of the projects that has recently came back from development hell in "What made Joe Jump."

And that brings us up to December 2009. Last month. Which should still be fresh in your mind, but if it's not then click on the link and you can see everything that came out the last of this year on the blog. Whew. That was a lot of work. Not just all those posts, but this posts as well.

Let's all make sure to have a good start to a great year...

Rhapsody In Blue Sky (Part Two)...

Type, type, type...



And here we are with the second of our three part review of some of the more interesting posts of 2009 that Blue Sky Disney had. So without further ado...

Finally, Disney and the Oriental Land Company announced what we told you about earlier in the year. Toy Story Mania was coming to Tokyo DisneySEA in "American Mania in Tokyo."

We looked at what Disney under Dick Cook's strategy was going for in the film division in "Lights, Camera, Action."

There was the passing of Wayne Allwine and his coming replacement as Micky's voice in "A Fourth Echo."

And Blue Sky Disney celebrated the day cinema changed forever, at least for me; and probably several million others in "32 Years Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away."

Finally, the second part of my "What Was Gotten Versus What Could've Been" was posted. DisneySEA fans and Port Disney fans hearts felt the crush of what Japan got and we could have had.

We then talked about Pixar and their flawless record in "A Perfect Ten."

I posted this one with links to a trailer for a new Star Wars game that made me think this was "What The Prequels Should Have Been Like."

The hole in Disney's animation lineup was filled when it added a new hand-drawn film in "More Pooh For You."

And here I celebrated my favorite film of all time and the only true out of body experience I ever had at the movies with "The Greatest Action-Adventure Film Of All Time."

Shorts at the Hat Building got the attention of this post entitled "Short Sighted."

All those people that believed "Up" would fail because no one wanted to see a 72 year old action hero I laid into in "The Experts That Aren't" right here.

Steve Jobs finally returned to Apple and we let everyone know in "The Return."

And when it comes to Star Wars animated series, I gave an example of what "The STAR WARS Animated Series I Want To See" would be.

And the talk of a new Club 33 type of place over at the new DCA was the point of "California Sweet."

Pixar's "Up" became the second highest grossing Lamp film and I mentioned it along with posting some swanky poster art in "Second to None, But One."

Great home movies of the making of Star Wars was linked from this post, "Decades Ago, In A Galaxy Far, Far Away."

You want to see how busy Tokyo DisneySEA can be at its opening? Then check out "The Rush" and remember that this is the park that has less guest in it.

Some of the "Tron Legacy" artwork that was shown at Comic-Con was the focus of "The Art of the World of TRON: Legacy" post.

Most people don't know much about the Disney Strike back in the 40's and even less know that it contributed quite a bit to the creation of Disneyland. Check out the footage of the picketing in "The Seeds Of Disneyland."

Here was the first release of some amazing concept art for "Rapunzel" in "Rapunzel Begins To Let Down Her Hair."

Disney went to the patent office for a certain web domain that I mentioned months before this post called "Copy Right."

Some great artwork can be found in this set of cards released for "The Princess and the Frog" in "Fortune Teller."

And John Hughes passing away had a profound effect on me and countless other children of the 80's. I paid homage to him and his work in "Fifty Nine Candles," "PULSE: The Stories Of John Hughes" and "Not Forgetting About Him."

On its tenth anniversary, I talked about "The Greatest Non-Disney Animated Film. Ever."

The Lamp has had an amazing run, but nothing last forever, so I wondered "When Will The Lights Go Out?" in this post.

Without a doubt, the biggest news for the Walt Disney Company in 2009, was the purchase/merger of Marvel Comics into the family. Naturally, Blue Sky Disney covered it quite a bit. From "Mouse Buy Marvel" to "The Statement" to my own personal commentary, "Part One," "Part Two" and "Part Three" and "Marvelous" here.

Whew, that was a lot of writing. I need a raise...

Rhapsody In Blue Sky (Part One)...

Type, type, type...


Twelve months, 600+ posts and very little sleep...

Wow, I can't believe I logged that many but apparently not sleeping leaves me the opportunity to do all these. Since this blog started (recently celebrating our 3rd anniversary) I've done almost 2000 posts. With that in mind let me take a moment to put the spotlight on several posts over the year that have gotten a lot of comments/e-mails, ones you might have missed or that I simply think might be worthy of a second look...

Being a fan of film posters/art I did this post of classic Disney marketing known as "Raiders of Lost Art."

And Decadent Dave just loved my post about George Lucas' move to the Dark Side called "The Turn."

Then there was this one where I dreamed about projects that I would love for Walt Disney Studios to film entitled, appropriately, "When I Dream."

I've always loved it when a company makes a great product. This post focused on some of Disney's best products that most people don't know about entitled "The Beauty in All Things Tangible," and yes, I know it's called Part One. Part Two is coming.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull disappointed me, would be an understatement. Here I put a review of a script of one of several attempts to make another Indy film back in the Nineties called "Indiana Jones and What Came Before." And again, yes, there are more coming this year. I have two that will hopefully appear sometime soon.

And long before Bob Iger announce his acquisition of Marvel, I noticed the lack of super-heroes at the Mouse in "Without Tights" and suggested some independent properties that could be ripe for filming under Disney's moniker/logo.

I reported on Tokyo DisneySEA getting Toy Story Midway Mania before it was announced and out there on a web last year in a Blue Sky Buzz entitled "The Sun Also Rises in the East."

And all the changes that came to the Electrical Parade in this Blue Sky Buzz known as "Electrifying Changes."

Then there was this one about "The Most Important Character in Tokyo" that would surprise most Disney fans here.

I got a lot of flack when my birthday greeting to DCA's Eighth Anniversary entitled "Mary Shelly's DCA Turns Eight."

And one Blue Sky Disney's other authors, Shrunken Ned put up this some nice examples of Kem Weber's wonderful design work in "Deco Digs to Animation Cribs."

Some people were reporting that the Tower of Terror would become a theatrical film and I shot that down in "Tower Film a Ghost Story" for the time being. No plans at least under Dick Cook. We'll have to see what Ross does.

There has been no official response from the Lamp, but I mentioned that Monsters Inc 2 was in active development almost a year ago entitled, "Just What the Docter Ordered" and it still is, I might add.

Colonel Kurtz gave his view of all the remakes that Hollywood were doing in "Dastardly and Muttley in that Wacky Hollywood."

And the latest look back on a decade of Disney posters is logged in "Retrography: The 90's."

I lamented on the differences between the DCA Monsters Inc. attraction and the Tokyo version in "Monsters Vs. Monsters" with links to videos!

And when Michael Eisner was seen walking around with a cain, I put up my alibi entitled "I Know Nothing."

We reminded people that even at Pixar, ideas begin hand-drawn in "Pixar In Pen & Pencil & Paper."

The Walt Disney Company became the largest entertainment company in the world and I noted that "It's Lonely At the Top."

And one of the most popular posts of the year was the comparison of "What Was Gotten Versus What Could've Been" about Tokyo DisneySEA and Port Disney. Part One, of course.

Some of my favorite Pixar film, The Incredibles incredible artwork was featured in "Syndrome's Island." It just shows you more of the genius that is Brad Bird.

DCA got a little bit more theming during the year and the Imagineers gave Paradise Pier a little bit more of a storyline in "Under New Management"and that was a welcome addition indeed.

Jay Rasulo's decision to clone Toy Story Mania was broke here in another Blue Sky Buzz called "Toys For Everyone."

And we compared the different looks of the park websites of the Mouse in "Websights For Sore Eyes."

And that was just the first third of the year...