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A lot of Disney Food News floating around the interwebs the past weekend which is making my mouth water.
It seems Germany Pavilion will be getting a Werther’s Candy Shop. Should be up and running by this fall. The shop will replace the Goebel store. It is going to feature live candy making in a big cauldron. No official word yet from Disney just talk around the Boards.
Disney has chosen a name for the Cantina de San Angel at the Mexico Pavilion. Hacienda de San Angel is the new name and will serve as a counter service eatery during the day, and a table service eatery at night. It should be open by September.
Also Opening in September is the new Via Napoli, in the Italy pavilion. This is Disney’s brand new 300-seat restaurant in Epcot’s World Showcase. The wood-fired pizza ovens in the restaurant will represent three volcanoes in Italy! I wonder if they mean the 3 active ones.
I am sure we will hear more on this subject.
Finally A special paid preview for the Food & Wine Festival called the Food & Wine Delicious Discoveries will provide guests a chance to preview the new cuisine coming to the festival, including dishes from Belgium. As soon as I get more information on this I will post it.
The Garden Grill Restaurant is a rotating restaurant with Character Dining featuring Chip ‘n’ Dale located in The Land Pavilion at the Future World area of Epcot theme park.
Garden Grill features generous all you can eat, family-style dinners include such delicious favorites as grilled steak, roast turkey, and all the fixins. While your eating, look out the windows of this rotating restaurant to enjoy scenes from the Living with the Land attraction below. One cool thing is some of your food might even be grown in the Land greenhouse! And make sure you save some room for the special desserts.
Don’t worry about the getting sick on this revolving restaurant as it usually will do one complete rotation during the whole course of a meal.
Be sure to make those Advanced Dining credits as this place is very popular with the little ones and will likely fill up quickly. So pull up a chair, make yourself at home and dig in to this Good Eats!
Disney Cruise Line was the first cruise line…
Very Cool! Pirate Goofy is now doing a meet and greet in Advertureland at World Disney World. Video is from one of our favorite Disney Videographers Jeff Lang DVD
Aflac is collaborating with Disney*Pixar to create the Aflac Duck’s 50th television ad and to celebrate the Duck’s 10th birthday by reminding people that Aflac is there to help out when you need it most. The commercial is part of Aflac’s integrated marketing campaign with Disney*Pixar to promote Aflac together with the highly-anticipated release of Toy Story 3, a 3D comical adventure opening June 18, 2010.
The new TV commercial will feature the Aflac Duck with celebrated characters Woody, Buzz Lightyear and other familiar faces from the Toy Story franchise. The campaign will also include print ads in a popular magazine, online advertising, in cinema ads, social media, a consumer sweepstakes and a Toy Story 3 themed paint scheme for the No. 99 Aflac Ford Fusion for the NASCAR race on June 20th in Sonoma, California.
Aflac is also sponsoring People en Espanol’s screening of Toy Story 3 in five key Hispanic markets and hosting a special screening of Toy Story 3 for the children at the Aflac Cancer Center in Atlanta, Ga.
Toy Story 3 welcomes Woody, Buzz and the whole gang back to the big screen as Andy prepares to depart for college and his loyal toys find themselves in… daycare. These untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice, so it’s all for one and one for all as plans for the great escape get underway. The new ad places the Aflac Duck in the daycare center with a narrator talking about how life can be rough from time to time and how Aflac is there to protect you.
“The Aflac Duck deserves a blockbuster for its 50th television ad that explains how Aflac is a vital part of any financial plan — and this summer nothing will be bigger than Toy Story 3,‘” Aflac Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Jeff Charney said. “Just like the toys at the daycare center discover, life can be unpredictable and we want people to know that when you are thrown for a loop Aflac’s policies can help keep you protected.”
The television commercial will begin airing nationally on May 17 on network and cable television. A print ad will appear in the July issue of Parents Magazine featuring the Aflac Duck with Toy Story 3 characters Woody and Buzz Lightyear with the message saying “Even the toughest of us can use a little extra protection.” Aflac will also place online banner ads on various websites and run in-cinema ads in theatres across the country.
Stitch Kingdom has the video up at Youtube already!!!
Check it out below:
This article comes to us from Ads of the World. It is really a cool idea, I would be interested to see if they could pull it off here in the states.
To announce the premiere of the latest box office hit ‘Prince of Persia, The sands of time’, Walt Disney launches the worlds first augmented reality outdoor campaign. Lucky users of Android- and iPhones who are standing near one of the outdoor film posters can play the movie trailer and play an augmented reality game just by using their Layar browser. They can collect 50 Movie Minute value points as a reward for playing the game.
The posters of the brand new Walt Disney movie ‘Prince of Persia’ are marked with special logo that explains that you can play a unique augmented reality game with the Layar browser that is available for Anroid- and iPhone. As soon as a person who is near one of the ‘Prince of Persia’ posters starts up the Layar browser on his smartphone a gps connection is made to locate his position and the augmented reality game for ‘Prince of Persia’ automatically appears in his screen.
The beautiful Tamina from the movie speaks to the player and explains to him that he should watch the trailer and immediately enter the augmented reality game to answer 3 questions. If the player can answer all questions correctly he has earned 50 Movie Minutes value points that can be used on movieminutes.com. (A dvd can already be purchased with 90 Movie Minutes.) The Layar also gives the player access to an augmented cinema locator to find the nearest cinema and the option to share the game with his social networks.
The campaign will be served widely on all major outdoor media networks of JCDecaux, CBS Outdoor, Hillenaar (Clearchannel), Brouwer & Partners in the Netherlands and on the locations of 100 cinemas across the country.
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You might remember my last Picture of the Day by Juan Pablo Bravo who made the Pixar 100. If not check it out! His most recent accomplishment is a timeline of all the Disney Villians. He goes through the entire Disney history showing all the Villians and Henchman in a very cool poster.
I wish I could host the picture here because it is so cool but Flickr does alot better job.
Check out the Full Image here.
Captain Nemo and his Nautilus are surfacing again.
Months after deep-sixing a McG-helmed version of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” Disney is in negotiations with David Fincher to direct, and hot “Bourne Ultimatum” scribe Scott Z. Burns to write, a new take on the classic Jules Verne story.
The project came together after Fincher approached Disney’s new production head Sean Bailey a few weeks into his job this winter. The Oscar-nominated helmer wanted to tackle a four-quadrant tentpole movie, somewhat of a departure from the dark, R-rated dramas such as “Fight Club” and “Zodiac” (or even “Curious Case of Benjamin Button”) that he’s done in the past.
The project was being developed under the radar as Bailey settled into his position under new studio topper Rich Ross, then gained steam in the past few days with Fincher and Burns entering talks for deals.
According to an interesting article from Debra Peterson a writer for the Examiner it seems that Disney might be changing over the way we dine at Le Cellier Steakhouse at the Walt Disney World Resort:
Epcot’s Le Cellier Steakhouse, one of Walt Disney World’s most popular table-service restaurants may be undergoing significant changes in its operation, transitioning to a Signature Dining sometime in fall 2010 or early 2011.
According to a rumor circulating on the discussion forums of The DIS, one of the largest and longest-running of the Disney fan websites, Le Cellier staff has been informed that the restaurant will be upgraded to Signature Restaurant status as early as September 2010. This information and its source were treated as credible enough for The DIS to send a Twitter link to the discussion on May 14, 2010.
If Le Cellier does indeed shift to a Disney Signature Dining experience, the restaurant will likely undergo several changes that may affect Disney guests’ dining plans. The most obvious change would be increased prices. Signature Dining restaurants are, on average, more expensive than other table-service restaurants, a change which would affect both guests paying “out of pocket” (for each meal individually) and those participating in the pre-paid Disney Dining Plan (DDP); Signature Dining experiences on the DDP require two table-service credits rather than one.
If Le Cellier Steakhouse did upgrade to a Signature Dining experience, there would likely be other changes to align it with other restaurants with the same designation. A menu redesign would take place, with new dishes reflecting the price increases mentioned above. Also, Le Cellier might shift to accommodate fewer tables; Disney’s Signature Dining restaurants tend to offer guests an intimate, exclusive dining experience – though Le Cellier is already a relatively small restaurant.
Click here to keep reading this great article from Debra at the Examiner.
Stay tuned for more information as well as the Official Word from Disney.
