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This Week – On the Main Street Gazette
We spoke from the heart about the closing of Sid Cahuenga's One-of-a-Kind.
There was some Muppet business going on at the front gates to Disney-MGM Studios.
We grabbed a seat at Boatwright's Dining Hall for a delicious dinner.
A little background was given about Morocco's Fez House.
Silent Saturday was spent admiring Rosie's Victory Garden.
This Week – Around the Disney Blogosphere
The 1989 Walt Disney World Resort Vacation Handbook
uncovered by George Taylor for Imaginerding sets my heart aflutter,
particularly the artwork!
AJ Wolfe has the Disney chef in your life in mind when she
presented her guide to Disney cookbooks on The Disney Food Blog.
Even a bad situation can be fun at Walt Disney World, as
Melissa Sue Sorrells Galley reminds us in Mouse on the Mind.
Melissa Knight Coulter and Estelle Hallick chatted about The
Boys, the documentary about the Sherman Brothers. You can find Part I at This
Happy Place Blog and Part II at Disney On Wheels.
Fantasy in Flight, Beautifully Disney’s Tink inspired line,
is broken down by Nicole Siscaretti for Sparkly Ever After.
Sarah Holodick whips up a Brown Elephant, an Outpost
favorite from the 2013 International Food and Wine Festival, at the home base
of Eating WDW.
The history of the motion simulator attraction is covered by
Sam Gennawey at Samland.
Roundtable Contributors: Alan Mize and Blake Taylor (BlakeOnline.com).
Give That Button a Squeeze
Alan Mize
In a move that should finally close the shutter on Kodak, Disney has announced a deal where Nikon will become the official camera of the Walt Disney World and Disneyland Parks. This partnership will see previous Kodak photo spots rebranded to Nikon photo spots. In addition, all Disney PhotoPass photographers and Disney Fine Art photographers will be equipped with Nikon photography equipment.
Re-Viewing Disneyland
Alan Mize
In a move that should finally close the shutter on Kodak, Disney has announced a deal where Nikon will become the official camera of the Walt Disney World and Disneyland Parks. This partnership will see previous Kodak photo spots rebranded to Nikon photo spots. In addition, all Disney PhotoPass photographers and Disney Fine Art photographers will be equipped with Nikon photography equipment.
This move ends an almost eleven month period where Disney had no official
camera sponsor. Honestly, I had almost given up on the idea of Disney naming a
new official camera partner. In the age
of smartphones, many guests simply use their phones to take pictures of their
vacation. And even those guests that do
have a higher technology digital camera probably aren’t going to have their
equipment choice swayed by a corporate sponsor, so I fail to see the reasoning
behind this decision from Nikon. It made
sense for Kodak to get in the parks because there was an almost steady flow of
guests needing to buy a roll of film, but the days of running out of film
mid-vacation are gone. On the other
hand, I guess it’s always a good move to have your name prominently displayed
at a location that is visited by millions of people each year. And for Disney, sponsorship money is money
that they don’t have to spend out of their own pocket so perhaps it is a
win/win situation.
Re-Viewing Disneyland
The View broadcast live from Disneyland last week, and lucky for fans of
the Mouse, all of the Disney-centric segments are available to watch online
individually at ABC.com/TheView. From John Lasseter giving Whoopi a tour of
Cars Land, Demi Lovato performing "Let It Go" from Frozen, and interviews
with special Disney-connected actors like Kurt Russell and Tim Allen are among
the fun highlights.
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