John Lasseter will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in a ceremony featuring guest speaker Bonnie Hunt, on November 1 at 11:30 a.m. in front of the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California. D23 reports that John Lasseter, the two-time Academy Award®-winning director who creatively oversees all films and associated [...]

For years the non-magical resorts that surround the 45 square miles of WDW property have had one tiny thing over their magical Disney counterparts — free Wifi. Despite all the perks and magic that go along with staying at an official Disney resort, this was the one thing that the Muggle-thinking guests had to their [...]

The Disney Parks Blog has posted a fascinating account of the history of my tied-for-number-1-and-2-Disney-World-resrots-to-stay-at!… Filled with awesome, never-before-seen pictures of their construction, (incredibly, construction began in February 1971, less than eight months before the first guests were scheduled to arrive!) this is not to be missed by an WDW fan! …And for the rest [...]

If you’re a fan of the Toy Story movies, you’re going to want to check out this fan film that’s in the works. These guys are going through the original movie, shot-by-shot, and re-creating scenes using actual Toy Story toys. It’s quite ambitious and incredible, and another reason why fans are the greatest people on [...]

From Upcoming Pixar — “By the time Lee Unkrich began creating a strong following on Twitter, his latest project was already far along in the pipeline. Now, the Toy Story 3 director is taking this type of personal fan interaction to another level using his recently announced endeavor, a new Pixar film that has just [...]

Hear lots of exciting talk about nothing specific from Cameron, Iger and the gang…

So, by now you know this: James and his producing partner Jon Landau and their team at Lightstorm Entertainment will serve as creative consultants on the project and will work side-by-side with our Walt Disney Imagineers as we dream up experiences that will take our guests deep into worlds of AVATAR like never before. There [...]

With an Avatar themed land coming to Disney World in 2013, the Na’Vi invasion of Earth has begun! Disney made a deal with James Cameron to create attractions based on Avatar, the first of which will begin construction by 2013 in Orlando. If all goes as planned, there should be Avatar rides and attractions in [...]

The Lion King 3D is coming, and these Bloopers and Outtakes are here to remind you of how awesome it’s going to be. Disney added new animations to cover the voice bloopers and outtakes for its upcoming Lion King re-release and the results are hilarious… from James Earl Jones trying to find his voice to [...]

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Walt Disney World, D23 spoke with the Hollywood stars of the resort’s most beloved attractions. As Captain Rx-24 (Rex), in Star Tours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios (1990-2010) Paul Reubens took Starspeeders to Endor and back daily. Ruebens tells D23 about working with George Lucas, trips to Florida, and [...]

As a huge fan of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels, I’ve been really excited to see where Disney was going to go with the John Carter series. This first glimpse of the world courtesy of the new John Carter trailer answers that call and gets me super excited for 2012. Plus, it’s directed by Andrew [...]

From Coming Soon via Variety — Horrible Bosses co-writer Michael Markowitz has come aboard Walt Disney Pictures’ animated King of the Elves, which the studio is eyeing for a holiday 2013 release. Legendary storyteller Phillip K. Dick’s short story becomes the basis for this fantastic and imaginative tale about an average man living in the [...]

Disney has released a list of Easter eggs and fun facts from Pixar’s Cars 2. Did you miss the “car-ified” version of one of the characters from Pixar’s 2012 film Brave? Check out the list over at Slash Film!

One of the most nifty pieces of TRON: Legacy advertising last year was the TRONorail, the Tron makeover given to their Monorail in Walt Disney World. I remember thinking how I wish they would keep it like that forever. Now, word has just come in that the Tronorail is, in fact, just that! The Tronorail [...]

Although this has much more of an impact in a Disney Digital 3D theater or IMAX, the teaser for Pixar’s next (100% non sequel, original) film, due 6-22-12, is now online… Since ancient times, stories of epic battles and mystical legends have been passed through the generations across the rugged and mysterious Highlands of Scotland. [...]

Michael J. Fox will lend his voice to the fifth and final chapter of Telltale Games’ Back to the Future adventure, but we didn’t know he’d be supplying the voices of two characters. Telltale’s creative director, Dave Grossman, confirmed the dual appearance during a preview of Telltale’s coming work at E3 2011. Grossman wouldn’t say [...]

Disney’s California Adventure Theme Park may be in the process of improving itself throughout this year and next, but there is one beloved attraction that will be leaving for good after tomorrow — Tthe Mission Tortilla Factory. The Mission Tortilla Factory was one of DCA’s 2001 opening day offerings that gained a loyal following for [...]

In honor of the 34th anniversary of Episode IV, I was looking for something Lucasy to post that wasn’t necessarily Star Wars-related. Well, thanks to Disney and More, we can all “Change The World” with the Captain and his ragtag band on our computer screens, thanks to their upload of the entire 1986 3D comic [...]

Disney’s Contemporary Resort was the first Disney resort I ever slept at (back in 1984) and has always been my favorite alongside Disney’s Polynesian Resort. Here’s a great shot of what the rooms looked like when the resort opened back in October 1971, thanks to the Disney Parks Blog… For comparison, here is what the [...]

According to Inside The Magic, “A ride based on the 2007 Disney/Pixar film “Ratatouille” is all but officially announced for Disneyland Paris, as concept art and building renderings have been uncovered in a local city planning office… Found were concept art and two engineering drawings of the entrance area, themed as the entrance to Gusteau’s [...]