6 posts tagged “disneyland”
You know that feeling you get when you cross that line of eating too much candy or cake? That's the way you will feel if you make it all the way through this.
For the past 60 some years, the company has been heavily involved with Toys for Tots. In my building, each dept. is given a collection box to decorate and be judged. Each year, our box is usually horrible because we do not have any time or resources to devote to decorating.
We had a bit more time this year. Not as much as we would have liked, but 90 minutes is 90 minutes. Disneyland's "Small World Holiday" was what we were going with.
I was volunteered to do the clock face. I was told (or thought I was told) that judging would be on Mon. I thought I had the weekend. Come in this morning to find out that I was wrong... and had 20 min or less.
After a mad scramble of photocopying, scanning, outlining in Illustrator, and running into way too many "printer failed" errors for no reason, I got something together. A co-worker taped the 2 halves together and was in the process of cutting it out when I heard voices coming down the hall. It was the judges. She ran out and slapped the face on to the the front of the main box just as they rounded the corner.
I think the group did a pretty good job with the limited time and resources we had. There are several things that I would have done differently, but that type of stuff takes more time than any of us had. I kind of like that it isn't a direct copy of the clock facade, but more of an interpretation or "inspired by" look. That makes the odd scaling, and crooked lines look OK.
I'm actually happy that I didn't do much work on the face prior to this morning. I was going with a 19" diameter. That would have fit the main part of the box, but would have been totally out of scale with what they actually did with that part. 10" worked much better.
The thing lit up and someone hooked up their iPod with a loop of the Small World Holiday music in the background (alternates between the classic Small World song and Jingle Bells). It is driving us a bit insane.
I was BoingBoinged via John Frosts' wonderful "The Disney Blog".
Cory Doctorow is a huge Disney fan and I have no idea why I didn't think to submit this to the site myself. I discovered BoingBoing through Cory after he linked to some pics I took of the Walt Disney World's Haunted Mansion's Madame Leota Tombstone the day it was installed. I had no idea why the Geocities site (this was several years ago) that I threw them on was always maxed out on bandwidth- checked the stats and discovered BoingBoing.
Back to Captain Eeyore...
Jim Hill has additional info on the backstory of Captain Eeyore (why it was created, info about the Disneyland event it was created for, some of the performers and others who worked on it, etc.)
- Never mind "Captain EO" -- what about "Captain Eeyore" ??? - August 11, 2003
- Why For? - about halfway down September 05, 2003
A long time ago (10 years or so), I saw a complete version of this thing at a co-worker's house. One of the funniest damned things that I think I've ever seen (I know it probably isn't to everyone). Basically it is a shot for shot remake of the George-Lucas-Produced-Francis-Ford-Coppola-Directed-Michael-Jackson-Starring-Theme-Park extravaganza, Captain EO with the Disney Characters.
This was created in Disneyland for one of their character banquets and was done with permission. Stuff like this wouldn't be permitted by the upper levels today. This was way before the internets made it easy for this stuff to get out.
I so wish someone would post the complete film.
We never get cool local ads for the Walt Disney World parks. The only local ads that ever run are for hard ticket after hours events (Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party, Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party).
I'm surprised that this one was approved. Just goes to show that there really are some execs who have a sense of humor.
WDW didn't get the Christmas Special overlay this year (improvements were/are made to the costumes and lighting... hopefully the sound will be next) and Disneyland lost their show to Pooh.
Here is a pretty good video of the complete WDW show.
