I recently saw a link to The Walt Disney Productions 1957 Strategy Diagram (via Kotke). I’ve seen this several times, and every time, it impresses me. Specifically, the Disney Company treats their movies as the source material for everything else they make, whether it…
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Ten Hours in Batuu
Tonight Disneyland officially opened Galaxy’s Edge, their new Star Wars themed “land”. Galaxy’s Edge contains the planet of Batuu, a way station on the edge of wild space where the Black Spire outpost exists. It’s an ancient place but also thoroughly Star Wars, where…
Continue reading →Galaxy’s Edge Symphonic Suite
John Williams wrote a new score for the Disneyland Galaxy’s Edge expansion. I’ll write more on Galaxy’s Edge later but for now, why don’t you check this out on Apple Music?
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This one pushes all of my buttons. As an annual passholder, I’ve enjoyed watching Star Wars grow out of the Disneyland backlot over the last year. The new Star Wars themed land will be called Galaxy’s Edge and, thanks to Josh Gad (long story),…
Continue reading →The Disneyland Star Wars Experience
I spent part of today at the Disney D23 convention where they’ve got an entire section devoted to the Star Wars Experience at Disneyland. I spoke with lots of Imagineers and learned a lot of information. The Saturday sessions will disclose a lot more…
Continue reading →Star Wars Land Progress at Disneyland
My wife went to Disneyland yesterday and documented the current progress of the Star Wars expansion. My favorite image is where she rode the Thunder Mountain roller coaster so she could get a shot down at the construction. This confluence of Star Wars and…
Continue reading →January 26 Disneyland Meetup
Adam Christianson and I get together every few months for a nerd dinner. We are both Disneyland fans and we’ve been talking about meeting there one day forever. We are finally getting serious about it and we decided to invite anyone else to join…
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