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Darth Mater at Comic Con 2008 – Video

Josh — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:17:12 +0000

I couldn’t see Mater as the evil Darth Vader. He’s much more of a chewbacca character.

YouTube – Mattel CAAF Darth Mater Comic Con 2008.

via (The Disney Blog)

Cars, Disneyland Paris

Josh — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:07:30 +0000

Cars, Disneyland Paris

Originally uploaded by oclipa

This is an interesting take on the whole Tea Cups ride idea. It’s very similar to Francis’ Ladybug Boogie in Disney’s California Adventure. I hope they don’t make it part of the DCA expansion – the whole new Cars area – as that would be pretty redundant.

Turn Your Car into a Pixar Cars Car

Josh — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:06:02 +0000

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NASIOC forum member psychochild has a great post on using Photoshop to turn your daily commuter into a happy go lucky car from the movie Cars. It’s not for the faint of heart as it uses Photoshop features well beyond cropping and resizing, but with a little faith, a little trust and maybe a handful of pixie dust, your car could be Carsified.

If you don’t have Photoshop and don’t want to slap down a couple hundred dollars just to experiment, try using the Gimp. It’s a free photo open source photo editing program that can easily do everything required in this tutorial. You may have to search the menus for the exact commands, but they are there.

If you take the time to transform your car, please email it to me. I would love to post it up here at the Disney Frontier. Or, if you have your own site that you post it on, send me the link. I would love to see how creative you all are.

Whether you want to donate a car or truck or maybe you’d like to donate your boat sitting in the yard. Money goes to the charity of your choice and you get a tax deduction as well for donating a car with us.

Pixar’s Cars Advent Calendar

Josh — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:19:53 +0000

The popular Pixar blog, Luxo, has posted a link to a very fun interactive advent calendar hosted off the Disney UK site. An advent calendar is one where you open a door a day until Christmas and behind each door is a little piece of candy, usually chocolate. This one has a sound bite from a Cars character behind each door.

Pixar Rendering Times for Cars

Josh — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:46:34 +0000

If you haven’t read The Long Tail, you should. It’s a fascinating book on what I believe will dictate the future of economics especially on the Internet. Author Chris Anderson had a chance to sit down with a friend at Pixar and found an interesting fact. He found out that in 1995 it took two hours to render a frame from the movie Toy Story. Read his post to find out how long it took to render a frame from Cars.

[via The Disney Blog]

Cars DVD Easter Egg

Josh — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:07:17 +0000

I won’t ruin it for anyone but if you haven’t seen the hidden video on the Cars DVD, its definitely worth checking out. I just wish it was a little longer. Here’s how you get to it:

On the DVDâ€šÃ„Ã´s Main Menu simply wait and let the menu run through a few times. Eventually, a ‘Dinoco’ logo will appear in the lower right corner of the screen that you can select by pressing the ‘Right’ arrow key on your remote control. After highlighting it and pressing the ‘Enter’ key it will give you access to a short clip

-via DVD Review

Review of Cars Video Game for the Xbox 360

Josh — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:09:24 +0000

I recently picked up Cars for the Xbox 360. I’ve had the Xbox since it came out last year and this is the first and only game I’ve purchased. Having a 3 year old and 1 year old makes it difficult to kill zombies or shoot at people with AK-47s. This is really been the first non-mature game that has appealed to me.

The game is made up of mini games and piston cup races. It’s fun but a little easy. As Lightning McQueen, you get to drive all over Radiator Springs and collect trophies. I’ve also been able to drive as Mater, Sally and the Sherif. For a full review check out VGGen.com.

72 Cars Icons

Josh — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:17:01 +0000

Courtney has created 72 different Cars icons that you can download and…use them for…well I’m sure there’s something.

Lightning McQueen Spotted in Australia

Josh — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 03:17:53 +0000

Continuing on the impromptu Cars theme, here is a photo of a four door Holden decked out as Lighting. Apparently it is part of a DVD promotion going on in Australia. Read more here.

[via Naik's News]

Technorati Tags: Cars, Disney, Pixar

XBOX 360 Cars Demo

Josh — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 03:06:34 +0000

If you have an XBOX 360 and are a XBOX live gold member you can download a demo for the Cars game. Since I am a silver member, I can’t download it for another week. I have had my XBOX 360 for almost a year and am still yet to buy a game. I will download Cars though as soon as I can. Maybe it will be my first game purchase.

[via 360Racer.com]

Technorati Tags: Cars, Game, Xbox 360