Saturday, November 19, 2016

Some Disney Pan Background Art Coming Up For Auction in November

Heritage Auction begins taking bids on most of these items starting November 21st

For more information on the auction pieces and schedule:

www.ha.com

You can also check out more items up for auction.

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Snow White Painted Pan Background

Beach Picnic Background Art and Cel

Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip Cel and Master Background

Fun and Fancy Free Cel and Background Art

Lullaby Land Background and Cel Setup

Lullaby Land Details

Lady and The Tramp Pan Background

Background Art Little Whirlwind

Bambi Production Meadow Background

Winnie The Pooh Pan Background

Sleeping Beauty cel with Pan Production Background

Friday, November 18, 2016

Vintage 1970's Disneyland Hotel Brochure from Jasperdo

Jasperdo's Flickr Home

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mytravelphotos/

For more travel brochure photos, check out Jasperdo's Travel Brochures Album

Travel Brochures

Disneyland Hotel Brochure Front cover - folded fully open

This wonderfully detailed property map was a fold out inside the front cover

Vintage Disneyland Hotel Brochure Pages 2 and 3

Disneyland Hotel Brochure Pages 4 and 5.

Disneyland Hotel Brochure Pages 6 and 7.

Disneyland Hotel Brochure Pages 8 and 9.

Disneyland Hotel Brochure Pages 10 and 11.

**NOTE: Many of the attractions listed on this map are no longer there. Lion Country Safari, Movieland Wax Museum and Japanese Village are all history.

Disneyland Brochure backcover.

Jasperdo's Flickr Home

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mytravelphotos/

For more brochure photos, check out Jasperdo's Travel Brochures Album

Travel Brochures

Other Interesting Flickr Albums from Jasperdo You Might Enjoy

Post Offices

City Walk

The Loneliest Road in America

1939 New York World's Fair in Pictures

Mackinac Island, MI

California Gold Rush County

All photos via Jasperdo on Flickr

My Favorite Disney "Art of..." Books Part 1

My Favorite Disney Art Books (Part 1)

The Art of The Lion King

by Christopher Finch (Author), James Earl Jones (Foreword), Penelope Niven (Foreword)

HUGE book! One of those old school Hyperion sized books. Plenty of Chris Sanders artwork. It's also nice to see him being credited for it as well. I'm winking beneath my eye patch right now but you can't see it.

It will only set you back around $13.00 right now, well worth it if you ask me.
The Art of The Lion King - Amazon

The Art of Wreck-It Ralph (The Art of Disney)

by Maggie Malone (Author), Jennifer Lee (Author), John Lasseter (Preface), Rich Moore (Foreword)

Art Director Mike Gabriel hit a home run with the look of Wreck-it Ralph. Ian Gooding was the Co-Art Director here and I'm happy they are both back to do the sequel. Each world could be it's own movie and the book is beautiful in the way that the Tangled and Frozen art books are. It does the film justice. The only trouble I have with it is that I would like to have seen more work by a variety of artists besides just the few that are predominately featured. It seems the same few artists show up on every page with this book more than in some of the others and even though the art is stunning, I'm bummed that I didn't see more artists or anyone new. I legit think Bruce W. Smith was featured on one page. ONE PAGE. I could be wrong but that's how I remembered it. Great book though all around, just for me the balance seemed off a bit and that's why Tangled is still probably my favorite "Art of..." book released by Chronicle so far. This is still very much worth purchasing though. Jeff Turley is AMAZING here.

$20.00 Brand New on Amazon!

The Art of Wreck-It Ralph - Amazon

The Art of Frozen

by Charles Solomon (Author), John Lasseter (Preface), Chris Buck (Foreword), Jennifer Lee (Foreword)
The Art of Frozen - Amazon

Beautiful book and the forward by Jennifer Lee is simply inspiring. This book is full of girl power and not just because it's a story about sisters. Lots of great art by some of Disney's lovely female artists. I've been a huge fan of Brittney Lee ever since this book came out and she is certainly one of the artists at Disney right now who is a legend in the making. I think this book must be in it's 20th printing by now. I have 2 copies myself and I'm pretty sure one if listed as being the 11th edition. How crazy is that?

The Art of Pocahontas

by Stephen Rebello (Author)

The Art of Pocahontas - Amazon

This is the second "Art of.." book that is from Hyperion on this list. This book is the one I remember looking at the most when I was little despite The Lion King being my favorite Disney movie. I think Glen Keane's sketches for "The Colors of The Wind" sequence are sometimes as mesmerizing as the sequence itself. Absolute perfection. Also there is a variety of concept pieces from Mike Gabriel that you will want to frame and put on your walls.

Pocahontas Art by Glen Keane

Pocahontas Concept Art by Director Mike Gabriel

The Art of Tangled

by Jeff Kurtti (Author), John Lasseter (Preface), Nathan Greno (Foreword)

The Art of Tangled - Amazon

This book is a dream come true for any Glen Keane and Claire Keane fans. Part of this book makes me a little sad because I'm one of the people who would have preferred for Tangled to be a 2d movie and this gives a glimpse of what might have been. My heart is breaking at just the thought of it now.

Tangled Concept Art

Part 2 will be posted soon! There's just too many books that I love to make a single post.

Monday, November 14, 2016

Emma Watson as Belle in the first trailer for Disney's long-awaited live action for Beauty And The Beast. Disney Press Release!

Beauty and the Beast US Official Trailer:

The highly anticipated film by Disney released the official U.S. trailer for the live-action fairy tale Beauty and the Beast on Monday. Emma Watson is seen for the first time in her role as Belle!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvW_L8sTu5E&spfreload=5

Friday, October 28, 2016

Photos From Disney's Coral Reef at Epcot (October 2016)

I recently dined at Disney's Coral Reef restaurant located at The Living Seas in Epcot earlier this month and I was lucky enough to be seated at one of the tables right next the tank. Needless to say it was an absolutely fascinating dining experience and I will be posting a full dining review next week but I thought it might be fun to show off some of these photos first. The food was great and the meal I had was one of my favorite things I had during my entire trip (which included a Disney Cruise and The Food &Wine Festival). Still, I think that I'd rather do a full review of the separately because the creatures in The Living Seas were really the best part and deserve a separate post. This restaurant is incredible because of the aquarium and you feel like you are under the sea. If you have little ones who loves Nemo or Ariel, this would a very special place to visit!

The color of the water was the perfect Finding Dory shade of blue. That's the part that I can't get over. Only at Disney. I kept thinking that the way the light looked passing down through surface of water and into the tank was visually identical to how the sunlight breaks into the ocean during certain scenes in the Finding Nemo/Dory movies. Pixar nailed that special effect. Even though I sort of already knew that because I've seen the Blu-Ray special features and videos, it's breathtaking to see in person. I don't spend too much time under water so I don't get see how light works down there too often. Anyways, here are some of my favorite photos from inside Disney's Coral Reef restaurant.