Highschool Musical 3 news

Just for the record - I really don't like the movies... I'm not afraid to admit that I've seen both... and hated both...

Anyway, apparently the two main stars of the series will only do Highschool Musical 3 if they get more money than offered. It should be noted that the movie will hit theaters, while the other two were just made-for-TV.

I don't think they deserve an upgrade in cash for doing such a crappy job at acting...

Rumor - Kingdom Hearts Wii to be shown at TGS

Note that this is just a rumor folks, but the-bell-tree.com is reporting that a Kingdom Hearts game will be revealed over at TGS. It'd be great to see a KH for Wii, and I'm really hoping that this rumor ends up being true, because I loved the first two, and sort-of-liked Chain of Memories.

Rumor - Ratatoullie roller coaster for Disney's Hollywood Studios

This one I'd say is true - Reports are suggesting that Walt Disney Studios has just approved the creation of a Ratatoullie roller coaster for Disney's Hollywood Studio (MGM). The coaster will apparently be a spinning coaster, and will be based off of the recently opened Crush Coaster in Disney Paris. Construction is expected to start in the next six months, and will be next to the currently in-production Toy Story Mania ride.

It should also be noted that it'll be an indoor ride, if the rumors are true that is.

As expected, Universal's price goes up as well...

Earlier in the month Disney raised their prices for their parks by four dollars. It was pretty much a given that Universal would do the same to match their competitor's price, and today they have... No word on whether SeaWorld, which is also in Orlando, have done this yet...

And yes, that picture above is from Universal... You've got to love the four main Universal monsters!

Disney MGM Studios to be renamed the Disney-Hollywood Studios

I don't know why, but I actually expected something like this would happen, though I feel that the name's a bit long. None-the-less, it probably won't effect the park in anyway, though it'll be a hastle for Disney to remove all of the products that say Disney MGM Studios on it.

Child molester arrested at Disneyland Paris

So, get this - A child molester was arrested this week at Disneyland Paris after one of the park's guests spotted him putting itching powder on children, and filming them as they scratched it. Once the police arrested him for obvious reasons, they searched his house, which apparently was full of child pornography.

According to the source below, the 50-year old man sprinkled itching powder on an 11 year old's underwear.

Also, as aforementioned, the man had plenty of child pornography. One video showed him raping his niece, and having sex with other underage minors.

The man will get, at tops 20 years in prison. I personally think that some one who comits such a crime should be in jail for life...

Link

Toy Story Mania update

First off, Toy Story Mania is just an upcoming ride for MGM-Studios at Disney World, and not some, unknown Toy Story movie or show...

Well, apparently the ride will have two seperate tracks, though whether or not they'll just be clones or completley different is yet to be announced. Obviously I'm hoping for the latter, though I'm not getting my hopes up.

Today, according to sources, Disney will raise the price of theme park tickets.

Apparently, Disney rised the prices of tickets to go into their parks from $67 to $71. While four dollars may not seem like much, you also have to take into consideration that last year at this time, Disney rised the price by four bucks. This is completely outragious - We go to Disney once a year, and having to pay $32 bucks more than, say, 2 years ago just isn't something to take lightly. You should also expect Disney's competition, which includes Universal Studios and Anheuser-Busch (owner of SeaWorld and Bush Gardens) to do the same.

One new Wall-E image!

Well, there you go, one new image of the upcoming Pixar movie Wall-E!

New National Treasure: Book of Secrets info

I really didn't care for the first film. It mave have been fun, though it was obviously not a good movie. I fail to see why Disney felt like they should make a sequl, though they are... and guess what - the plot is even more pathetic then the *sort of* understandable plot that was featured in National Treasure... here's how it goes -

Apparently Benjamin Gates (John Bla... errr, I mean Nicolas Cage) finds out that one of his ancestors was a co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. This leads him to find out about the "Book of Secrets", which apparently is a book that every president has that lists all the secrets that the government doesn't want anybody to know about, includeing the JFK assassination conspiracy, the contents of Nixon's 18-minutes gap in the Watergate tapes, and... Area 51...

Well, if you thought it couldn't get worse... just know I haven't gotten to the bad part yet - According to the trailer shown at Comic-Con, Gates kidnaps the president so he can get his hands on the "Book of Secrets".... yah, smooth move.

Disney proves their pansy-ness by not releasing Ratatouille wine...

When I first started my blog a few weeks back, I reported that Disney, in celebration of thier (well, actually, Pixar's movie) new movie Ratatouille, would release a wine that would be Ratatouille related. Though, obviously being a kid company, they were getting to much "pressure", and decided not to release the wine because of underage drinking. Apparently some old hag thought that the wine, which showed Remy (the main character in the movie) holding a wine bottle, and would thus please kids.

Rumor: New water flume ride at Animal Kingdom

Rumors are suggesting that a new water flume ride will be built at Disney's Animal Kingdom, which will follow their new Everest attraction that was built recently (which happens to be my favorite Disney coaster). Once more information regarding this subject is released, I'll report it!

E3 2007: Disney's press conference.... oh boy...

This is almost sad...

Theme Park news - July 25, 2007

*Rumors are stating that Disney may, after Space Mountain in Magic Kingdom reopens, call the ride Space Mountain: Mission 2, similar to what they did in Paris, France.

*The Galaxy Orbiter at Galaxyland is now open. Check out an image of the ride to the right.
*According to Parksmania, Plopsa has just announced a new park that will be both indoors and outdoors in the Netherlands.
*Rumors have it that the Huss Rainbow ride at Elitch Gardens may be removed from the park in order to build a newer ride.
*Apparently Dollywood repopend Timber Tower sometime last week after being closed.
*Rumors are stating that Cedar Fair may make another family attraction for Knott's Barry Farm. Rumors are also saying that the park may build a new roller coaster!

Crazy woman might like Disney's Teacups a little too much!

A woman from Alabama was sentanced to go to jail after choking and beating another woman who was allowed to get on the Teacups ride (Disney's Magic Kingdom) before her. At first the judge allowed her to go, but once he saw the pictures of how bad the beatings were, he sent out an arrest sentance.

Disney bans films that involve smoking.

Disney has just announced that it will not allow any future movies published by them to include smoking of any kind. U.S. rep Edward Markey said that the announcement is groundbreaking and earged other companies to do so...

How many Disney movies feature smoking so far? Well, they didn't say, but I'll try to remember some -

*Alice in Wonderland
*Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
*101 Dalmations
*Pinocchio

Theme park news - July 16, 2007

*Rumors say that an Indiana Jones roller coaster might be built at Disney's MGM Studios in Orlando Florida.
*Another coaster rumor that comes in from Orlando - People are reporting that SeaWorld Florida is planning to reveal a new roller coaster in 2008, though reports also say that the coaster probably wouldn't be finished until 2009 or 2010 depending on the depth of the project.
*A new restaurant and garden have been confirmed for Liseberg.
*Legoland Windsor's upcoming attraction Land of the Vikings will apparently be opened on August 9th of this year.

E3 2007: New Turok images

Touchstone has released 11 new images of PS3 and 360 title Turok. Check three images of the game below, then check out the link for more.

E3 2007: "Dinosaurs play an important role in [Turok]", so says Captain Obvious

I just read this article over at Joystiq and just had to post it. Apparently at Disney's press conference, they stated that in Turok, "Dinosaurs play an important part"... No, really?

E3 2007: Spectrobes 2 announced!

Spectrobes is a popular title that was released on the Nintendo DS just a couple months ago. Well, luck (and Disney's advertising team) happened and the game was a huge success. At Disney's keynote speach, they just announced that they are indeed making a sequel for the Nintendo DS as everyone expected!