The Disney Frontier Blog

Description: Looking Old!

Description: A presentation I did for school.

Description: Audio Animatronics

Description: Walt Disney Imagineering pulls back the curtain of secrecy to explain many of the myths and stories found within the Disney Parks.

Description: Promos and bumpers that aired on The Disney Channel on October 31, 1990. 1. Disney Channel in November (Promo) 2. A Disney Moment (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) 3. Happy Halloween (Eyecatch) 4. Disney Channel - Tonight (Bumper) 5. JFK: A Celebration of His Life & Times (Promo) 6. Mickey Mouse Mobile (Eyecatch) 7. Disney Night Time - Feature Presentation (Bumper) *I edited out the "Walt Disney Imagineering" segment w/ Eric Boardman for time reasons. (all copyrights are acknowledged)

Description: Show dos passaros,Tokyo Disneyland.Adventureland The Enchanted Tiki Room in Adventureland will be renewed, with Stitch blundering into the enchanting show of Hawaiian birds. Find out what happens as the show reaches an exciting climax joined by the tiki gods and the Guests! Attraction The presentation features a "cast" of over 150 talking, singing and dancing birds, flowers, the aforementioned magic fountain, tiki drummers and tiki totem poles that perform the attraction's signature tunes, "The Tiki Tiki Tiki Room" by the Sherman Brothers and "Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing". The finale has every Audio-Animatronic figure performing a rousing version of "'Hawaiian War Chant". The choice of exit music is somewhat unusual, namely an arrangement of "Heigh Ho" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with lyrics thanking guests for watching the show and which hurry them along on their way to the exit. So innovative was the technology by 1963 standards that an Audio-Animatronic talking "barker" bird (The MC of the show, José) once located near the walkway to beckon visitors inside caused enormous traffic jams of visitors trying to catch a glimpse of it. While waiting outside in a lanai area for the show to start, visitors are serenaded by Hawaiian music which at one time included that of Martin Denny and Bud Tutmarc. Hawaiian gods are represented as well around the perimeter of the lanai and each has a story to tell via Audio-Animatronics. A brief documentary of the history of the pineapple is presented as well. The story, filmed in the early 1960s and updated at the end with a Macromedia Flash presentation of a parade of Dole products, is shown on a screen on the rear of the roof of the Dole snack bar at the entrance to the lanai. Other than the removal of a minor musical number set to the "Barcarolle" from Jacques Offenbach's opera Tales of Hoffmann and the final verse of "Let's All Sing Like The Birdies Sing", the show has remained otherwise unchanged since its 1963 inception due to a stipulation in the sponsorship contract with Dole that the attraction remain unchanged. As such, the attraction is arguably dated[who?]. One chorus of "Let's All Sing Like The Birdies Sing" has José crooning like Bing Crosby, Fritz scat-singing in a gravelly voice like that of Louis Armstrong and Pierre singing like Maurice Chevalier. The attraction nevertheless remains popular. The show re-opened in March 2005 with the original seats for crowds after a seven-month refurbishment, commissioned by new Disneyland management in a bid to restore the park to its former glory for its 50th birthday. Feathers were regularly falling out of the Audio-Animatronics, the thatched roof of the building was breaking away in broad daylight, and the movements of the Audio-Animatronics were noisy and slow. After the renovation, the original show and storyline remained but with a digitally remastered audio (remastered by the same person who remastered A Musical History of Disneyland (2005)), a new sound system both indoors and out, and completely new Audio-Animatronics. These look the same as the previous ones, but have a completely different infrastructure. Updates in technology allowed Walt Disney Imagineering, the descendants of WED Enterprises, to create a show to satisfy 21st century expectations while retaining its classic look and feel. The original Tiki Room was controlled by a large room full of floor to ceiling computers which operated the birds with data on magnetic tapes, which was located underneath the floor of the main show room[1]. As of 2008, Wally Boag is the only surviving castmember of the voices for the four parrots.

Description: Muppet Mobile Lab, a Walt Disney Imagineering 'test' inside DCA, featuring classic Muppets, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew & his ever-able assistant Beaker, independently-operating, self-balancing and amazingly interacting with Guests of all ages, while cruising thru the Hollywood Pictures Backlot, inside Disney's California Adventure, at the Disneyland Resort, Daytime, CLIP 1, filmed on 03/04/07.

Description: Muppet Mobile Lab, a Walt Disney Imagineering 'test' inside DCA, featuring classic Muppets, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew & his ever-able assistant Beaker, independently-operating, self-balancing and amazingly interacting with Guests of all ages, while cruising thru the Hollywood Pictures Backlot, inside Disney's California Adventure, at the Disneyland Resort, Daytime, CLIP 2, filmed on 03/04/07

Description: Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland is Walt Disney's signature attraction. California Travel Tips host Veronica Hill takes a peek inside this beautiful creation and points out some little-known facts. This just in from Disneyland PR as it prepares to open the Sleeping Beauty Castle walkthrough: "The interior of Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland will open in time for the December holiday season, offering guests a "reawakened" version of its classic walkthrough presentation kissed with vibrant scenes of Aurora, her charming prince, the evil Maleficent and other characters from the beloved fairy tale film. "It is fitting that we are announcing the return of a classic on the 53rd anniversary of Disneyland," said Tony Baxter, Senior Vice President of Creative Development for Walt Disney Imagineering, who unveiled a model of the castle on July 17, the birthday of Disneyland park. Next year marks the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty," and the excitement generated by the anniversary of the motion picture spurred interest in the return of the Disneyland attraction. Also celebrating the milestone 50th Anniversary of "Sleeping Beauty" is Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, which will release a two-disc Platinum Blu-ray™ Hi-Def disc, making "Sleeping Beauty" the first Walt Disney animated classic title to be released in high definition, as well as on two-disc Platinum DVD. A bonus feature on the new release will be "The Original Sleeping Beauty Walk-Through Attraction With Walt Disney Imagineering," an immersive experience recreating the original castle walkthrough. On April 29, 1957, nearly two years before the premiere of Walt Disney's animated feature "Sleeping Beauty," the Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough opened with an in-park ceremony featuring Walt Disney and actress Shirley Temple who, some 20 years earlier, had presented Disney with his special Academy Award -- one Oscar and seven little ones -- for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." The crafting of the 1957 walkthrough show fell to Walt Disney Imagineer Ken Anderson and animation art director and color stylist Eyvind Earle, credited with giving the motion picture "Sleeping Beauty" the distinctive and colorful look of storybook illustrations in medieval style. An entirely new look appeared in 1977 when the attraction's redesign featured miniature dioramas, including moving figurines similar to the window displays in the shops on Main Street, U.S.A. When the attraction is unveiled later this year, the "show" will differ from the dioramas of the 1980s and '90s, returning to the unique style of the original 1957 show and motion picture. Enhanced with new scenes and special effects magic, the re-Imagineered attraction will employ technology not available in the 1950s to represent scenes from the story of Sleeping Beauty, including the magic of good fairies Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, and the more sinister spells of the evil Maleficent. For the first time, guests who are unable to climb stairs or navigate the passageways of the Castle will be able to experience the walkthrough "virtually" in a special room on the ground floor of the Castle."

Description: A video made for a scientist presentation. An Imagineer from Walt Disney Imagineering.