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"Sex" on the Tangled banner

The word "sex" lurks in one of the banners for Tangled, which you find at at eBay.

Link roundup

1. Hugh Jackman is supposed to bulk up even more for The Wolverine:

GB: Are you going to have to go back to that intense diet, eating whole chickens so you can get that muscle mass back up?

HJ: I’m on it right now, mate, already doing it. It’s 6,000 calories a day, it’s rough.

GB: How much you weighing?

HJ: Right now, I’m at 210.

GB: Wow, so you’re going to be bigger this time? Last time, you looked about, what, 190?

HJ: Yeah, right, I was 190, something like that. I don’t know how much I want to give away about it, but Darren said with the last one, ‘Hey you looked great, but you’re so tall that in those long shots you looked kind of like Clint Eastwood, and that’s not Wolverine.”

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2. "Kids Sail Free on Seven-Night Alaska Cruises Aboard the Disney Wonder."

3. Tyler Weeks:

Weight loss advice is only good if someone listens to it. If you tell people they can't have pizza, they'll ignore you and keep living "fat and happy."

I'm telling you, I'm going to start a movement in this country: eat the foods you want, just less, and move around. You'll be healthy and happy as a clam.

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Disney's World War II mascots

This site features a few dozen of Disney's World War II mascots. I used some of them to create the widescreen wallpaper you see above. Via.

*Buy World War II : The Disney Patches at Amazon.

Pocahontas meets Tron (and more)

A few of my favorites from the CalArts Character AnimaTRON meme. Via.

*Buy Tron toys at eBay.

1. Fluxblog posted an eight-disc, 157 song mix - - a survey of some of the best and most notable music from 2010. (The mediafire links seemed to have much less annoying ads.)

2. Who could have foreseen that the ridiculous celebrity Twitter campaign would be an embarrassing failure?

3. Celebration, Florida, a town built by Disney in the '90s, just had its first murder.

*Buy Disney ornaments at eBay.

Unused Epic Mickey art

Unused Epic Mickey character design by Jon Diesta. Sam Nielsen posted more art created for the game here. (Epic Mikey is averaging only a 76.5 review.)

*Buy Oswald the Lucky Rabbit toys at eBay.

Fantasia painting by Lorelay Bove

Fantasia painting by Lorelay Bove, who has art on sale at Etsy.

*Buy Fantasia toys at eBay.

Dreamfinder and Figment Lego Cubedude

Dreamfinder and Figment (from Epcot) Lego Cubedude by Jordan "Sir Nadroj" Schwartz, who also recently posted a Lego Chris Farley.

*Buy Epcot collectibles at eBay.

Pete vinyl figure

Pete (from Steamboat Willie) vinyl collectible doll by Medicom. It'll apparently sell for $60. Via these sites.

*Buy Oswald the Lucky Rabbit toys at Amazon.

Art show based on Disney's The Haunted Mansion

A few highlights from the Guests of the Haunted Mansion show at Harold Golen Gallery:

Donella Vitale

Joe Vitale

Dienzo

*Buy Haunted Mansion collectibles at eBay.

Disney Epic Mickey opening cinematic

Here's the opening cinematic for Disney Epic Mickey. I've posted some stills below.

It's fairly dark - - Mickey gets sucked into a mirror world and tortured:

That black monster is the Phantom Blot, a forgotten Disney character:

Eventually Mickey's saved by the far more adorable Oswald:

Relatedly, here's Oswald cosplay:

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*Buy Oswald the Lucky Rabbit toys at Amazon.

The Dirtyland

Posters for Brian Viveros's upcoming show at Thinkspace.

*Buy Disneyland toys at eBay.

Disney Cruise Line's Virtual Portholes

The interior cabins on Disney Cruise Lines feature animated virtual portholes, complete with occasional cartoon characters making a visit.

*Buy Disneyland toys at eBay.

When John Lasseter snuck onto a construction site at Disneyland

Excerpt from a long interview with Tony Baxter, the Senior Vice President of Creative Development for Walt Disney Imagineering and the Creative Executive for Disneyland:

Really when John [Lasseter] came, and there are others like Pete Docter who are absolutely obsessed with Disneyland, and I think John put it into his contract that not only would he take on the film responsibilities of animation at Disney and animation at Pixar but he had to have his hand in Imagineering as a chief advisor. It’s purely out of that 12 year old mentality that, I think, John has to this day of what Disneyland meant to him growing up in Whittier, CA. He was only about as far away from the park as I was and those visits.

When I first met John, he was very cordial and overly nice to me, and I was trying to figure out “What is this about?” I should be agog at you, but it was kind of the opposite. It turned out, he was a ride operator at Disneyland on the Jungle Cruise and had come over and snuck through the fence when I was building Big Thunder. This would happen all the time, so I don’t remember it, whereas for him it was one of those milestone days. I guess I was there and he said – you have a very cool job, how did you get this job? And I said, oh come on, I’ll walk you through the whole ride. I gave him this tour and talked to him about Imagineering. Like anybody that was young and wondering what their future’s going to be it was something that was really important to him.

I had had the same thing happen to me with Claude Coats. I had snuck into the pirate ride when I was scooping ice cream at Disneyland. I peeked around the corner and they were doing the work, and I thought I was going to get arrested. Instead, I heard this voice that said, “Oh, you can’t see anything good from there – come on over here!” And it was this guy who was delighted in showing it off – turned out it was Claude, but it was always to me “just this guy.” Years later after I’d been working with him three years, I opened my old souvenir book from Pirates, and I looked at “this guy” in the picture that was in there and went “Oh my gosh, that’s Claude!” It was Claude Coats. So I could hardly wait to go into work the next day and I go “Do you remember a guy in a red and white striped…” He goes, “Yeah, yeah, the guy at the ice cream counter, I used to go get ice cream from him and I thought I’d show him the tour.” As he was saying it he goes, “Nooooo.” It suddenly dawned on him that we’d met, and he had so inspired me with that tour. When they docked me for the hour I was late, I said, “I don’t care.” I had just had the best hour of my career so far.

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*Previously: Indiana Jones: Temple of the Forbidden Eye as a Left 4 Dead level.

*Buy Disneyland collectibles at eBay.