Once again, I attended D23 for 2024. This time, my family and I were dressed up as characters from James and the Giant Peach. I was James. I went for a day and a half, due to circumstances beyond my control.
As always, too, I have taken pictures of other people in their costumes, so many that, as usual, I cannot fit them all into one page. This post is from the first day:
Pixie Dust Pastiche
Sunday, August 25, 2024
My 2024 D23 cosplay gallery, part one
Custom ideas for Disney Lorcana cards, part two
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Custom ideas for Disney Lorcana cards, part one
One of my newest interests at the moment is the Disney card game Disney Lorcana, which is basically Disney's answer to Magic: The Gathering.
I've become so enamored of the game that I've not only played it every so often, but I've also come up with some of my own ideas for game cards. I've tried to fit them to the actual game as much as possible so that they would seem like real cards that could realistically be used in the game, even though they probably never will. Most of my ideas are either expansions of preexisting franchises or the addition of new franchises.
To start things off, I decided to create some card ideas for Donald Duck (for his 90th birthday) and Goofy, one each (though they both will have many more to come in their own franchises). I actually came up with the idea for the Donald card, based on the addition of a real card in the game called "Mickey Mouse - Leader of the Band", which is based on The Band Concert:
My idea for Donald, in this case, is another card based on that cartoon. I used an online card creator to create this card and all other cards, and I've tried to make it fit as best that I could:
I think I did a good job with this card. It also shows how and where you can make your own cards.
As for Goofy, especially with the Olympics coming up, I gravitated towards his iconic sports cartoons to see what would be best:
Anyway, those are the first of a few new cards that I came up with for Disney Lorcana. I have several more ideas to come.
Monday, May 27, 2024
MouseCon 2023 cosplay gallery
In November of 2023, I went yet again to MouseCon. I dressed up this time, again as Mickey Mouse, as I did in 2019. Among the guests I saw this time were John C. Morris (again!), Amy O'Neil (who played Amy Szalinski in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids) and one particularly great surprise, Tony Anselmo, the voice of Donald Duck! Unfortunately, I could not get pictures of them.
And of course, I got pics of cosplayers like usual, although they were fewer in number this time:
Saturday, February 3, 2024
"Once Upon a Studio" was robbed!
...or maybe not.
Sorry for starting on such a dramatic title, but it's just that Once Upon a Studio, one of the greatest things Disney has done in recent years, was denied an Oscar nomination. It seemed like such a shoo-in, considering what it is and what it was celebrating (the 100th anniversary of The Walt Disney Company). Everyone seemed to think it was going to happen. Presented below is the full and complete video:
Basically put, it's a love letter to Disney animation fans and quite an emotional E-ticket from start to finish (speaking of, incidentally, the film is also playing at Disneyland, if I recall).
I myself have felt that given the enormous crowd of Disney characters, heroes and villains alike (albeit only from Disney proper; no Pixar characters), I initially was reminded of the closing scene of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which, of course, features a whole crowd of Toons, Disney and non-Disney alike, all gathered together to learn that Marvin Acme had bequeathed Toontown to these lovable characters, who then all sing "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile":
I also have made comparisons with the closing scene of the Disney anthology series episode "This Is Your Life, Donald Duck", which ends with a huge crowd of Disney characters, parading onto the stage to pay tribute to Donald:
However, it seems the idea that Once Upon a Studio would receive a nomination was not much more than online chatter, particularly since it wasn't even really shown in theaters, only on TV and streaming. In hindsight, they seemed to have dropped the ball by not showing in theaters as planned (save for in all of one country). That, combined with Disney's currently dismal performance, probably contributed to the Academy's decision to not include this film in their shortlist.
Saturday, June 24, 2023
New shorts on Disney Plus!
Dreams do come true! Kind of.
It has been confirmed a few days ago that, presumably in honor of Mickey and Minnie's 95th(!) birthday, Disney Plus will be streaming several new classic shorts over the course of four months, 28 in all.
Included will be several black-and-white Mickey cartoons, the premiere Silly Symphonies cartoon The Skeleton Dance, and even a few Oswald cartoons. Below is the full schedule:
Friday, March 31, 2023
MouseCon 2022 cosplay gallery
In November of 2022, I went again to the convention, but I did not stay for a very long time. I did not dress up either, instead wearing a custom-made Mickey Mouse button shirt. But as always, there were booths, galleries, other cosplayers, and guest celebrities. There were several returning guests, including John C. Morris (the voice of Andy in the Toy Story series) and Mary Gibbs (the voice of Boo in Monsters, Inc.). Alanna Ubach (the voice of Imelda in Coco) was supposed to be there, but couldn't make due to prior commitments. Other celebrities who did make it included Heather Matarazzo (Anne Hathaway's best friend Lily in The Princess Diaries) and, most significantly, Donnie Dugan and Peter Behn, the voices of Bambi and Thumper, which I thought rather appropriate given that Bambi was having its 80th anniversary that year!
Here are just a few of the cosplayers that I saw that day: