"Saving Mr. Banks" Previews

Last week Disney released some preview materials for a film coming out this Christmas about how the movie "Mary Poppins" got made. It is called "Saving Mr. Banks". Take a look below:

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imaginear tony

Pixar Headquarters

When I lived in San Francisco, one item on my to do list was to go to the Pixar headquarters to get a picture of them. Pixar was only across the bay in the City of Emeryville. Outside the gates was as close as I could get!

 Me & Pixar's Gate

 Hard to see, but there are Seagulls on the corner of the building!

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imaginear tony

Mickey’s Compass Quest

 

A Limited Time Magic from June 3^rd to 9^th, 2013 for  the show “Mickey and the Magical Map”. There was a beautiful map created for portions of Disneyland Park with a quest to find where some compasses were located. You earned a prize for finding them.

                                               The Cover                                  The Quest

 The Map

 Close up of Fantasyland

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imaginear tony

“The Lone Ranger” Tonto’s Story

Saw “The Lone Ranger” the other day, which is basically told form Tonto’s point of view and has both Tonto’s and The Lone Ranger’s back stories included. Told in a modern western format, I liked the movie. It had a good combination of backstory and action, though there may have been some room for more action.

An interesting promotion for the movie was a little Frontierland Express newspaper put on the counters of The Golden Horseshoe in Disneyland. Pictures below.

 Front Page

 Back Page

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imaginear tony

Maps! Maps! Maps!

Maps are my favorite souvenir from nearly every place I go to. Lucky for me the Disney theme parks have a lot of maps to go around. They have: maps to help you get around, maps in foreign languages, maps for special occasions, and maps that are meant to framed and hung on the wall.

I suppose I like maps so much because they are a nice way to imagine, or to remember, a place you have had a fun time at. My favorite map of Disneyland is probably from the 50^th Anniversary, when they printed a copy of the map from opening day on the backside of today’s map. I do have some maps for sale from time to time on my ebay shop.

 

 English Disney Maps                                                                                        Spanish Disney Maps

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imaginear tony

The Enchanted Tiki Room’s 50th Anniversary

In 1963 Walt Disney opened this tropical paradise. Full of singing birds, flowers, and tiki’s made from the most advance Audio-Animatronics ever made at that point. We’ve been lucky to be able to chill with a pineapple dole whip and a cool theater for these past 50 years.

One of the Limited Time Magic events Disneyland did for Annual Passholders, in June 2013, was to hand out a copy of an advertisement for The Enchanted Tiki Room from 1963. Here are some pictures:

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imaginear tony

Disneyland’s 58th Anniversary

July 17, 2013

Disneyland’s 58^th Anniversary

It was 58 years ago that Walt Disney opened his Magic Kingdom to a large crowd in blistering heat. It might not have been as hot this year, but it is still a place full of magic.

I spent the day at the park. There were some interesting happenings on the 17^th, Cast Members wore commemorating buttons, the main event was a special show commemorating the moment when Walt Disney gave his dedication speech in Town Square. This year, they had an opportunity to participate in the show flash mob style. It was nice that the small shows and bands like the Laughing stock Co. and the Dapper Dans mentioned it was Disneyland's Birthday.

Stay tuned for some goodies on ebay.

Happy Imaginings.

imaginear tony