Disney Interative executive writer John Vignocchi has oral out to downplay a similarities between Disney Infinity and Activision’s Skylanders series. Speaking with Polygon, Vignocchi certified some similarities do exist, though claimed that overall, Infinity is a singular game.

“There are similarities, in that we have figures, though a similarities stop there,” Vignocchi said. “Infinity is dictated to be a height for all things Disney. The playsets inside of Infinity are new and strange stories. They are open-world games.”

Another poignant differentiating factor, according to Vignocchi, is Disney Infinity’s Toy Box mode, that allows gamers to make whatever they want.

“And afterwards of march a Toy Box mode is some-more Minecraft-meets-LittleBigPlanet,” he said. “It’s something totally opposite where we concede kids to use their imagination and take a brands to build whatever they want.”

When Disney Infinity launches in August, it will have most work to do to locate adult with Activision’s Skylanders series, that has minted some-more than $1 billion worldwide to date from a sale of over 100 million toys.

Activision is not disturbed about Disney’s attainment in a toys-to-life market. The Call of Duty association pronounced in Jan that it is unfazed by Disney’s pierce and is good positioned to continue to be a genre marketplace leader.

For companies specializing in providing rent-a-princess services to children’s birthday parties, business is sepulchral in a Washington, D.C., area.

We’re articulate gigs that compensate roughly $40,000 per year.

“I consider I’ve finished some-more than 800 parties now,” Rebecca Russell, owners and “principal Cinderella” of Princess Parties of Virginia, told a Washington Post. “It’s usually removing busier and busier.”

“It’s usually grown like crazy,” Heidi Martin, who started her possess princess-themed association in Stafford, Va., adds.

True, childish ardour with Disney-esque princesses is frequency new, though a rising direct in a D.C. area for all things princess-y has held a few relatives by surprise.

“I have relatives from D.C. all a time who call and say, ‘We don’t know where this came from, Disney is removing to her somehow,’” Russell told a Post. “They say, ‘We don’t even play with princesses though all she wants to do is put on a dress and dance around a house, and now she really, unequivocally wants Cinderella during her birthday party.’ ”

And a high-powered relatives of D.C. and Northern Virginia aren’t fearful to bombard out some critical income for a service.

“[At] an normal of $220 per party, even a correct princess can lift down $40,000 a year,” a Post records [emphasis added].

However, since Disney is (understandably) protecting of a billion-dollar princess empire, Russell schooled fast that she indispensable to be aware of copyright laws.

“I can contend I’m Cinderella since she was around before Disney,” she explained. “Rapunzel they don’t own, though ‘Tangled’ they do. Our Little Mermaid is not their Ariel. But we do demeanour like them.”

Again, deliberation a time and income Disney has invested in a princess business, it’s not startling that a association would strengthen a code so carefully.

From a WaPo:

Without doubt, Disney was a large crash that launched a ever-expanding princess universe. For decades, a association promoted princess products usually each 7 years or so, when “Snow White,” “Cinderella” and a other charcterised facilities would be expelled on a rotating basis.

But in 2000, executives carried those characters out of their films and began selling them together, year-round, as a “Disney Princesses.” The outcome has been annual sell sales of some-more than $4 billion, according to Disney, some 26,000 princess products and a era spooky with gowns and crowns.

A multi-billion dollar sovereignty that has spawned gigs with $40,000 per year? Not bad, Disney, not bad during all.

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Disney acquired Lucasfilm in a late 2012, put Lucasilm’s future underneath a instruction of President Kathleen Kennedy to get new films in theaters, formed on a delay of a story created by George Lucas, definition informed universe, informed timeline and informed characters.

 Carrie Fisher is one of a strange pivotal figures, that are all rumored to be returning for a new film Star Wars Episode VII.

“I like being bought by Disney, since they never wanted to buy me before,” Fisher reportedly pronounced this weekend during Canada’s Calgary Comic Expo.

“I’m blissful they are doing a new film since they are promulgation a tutor to my residence so we can get in unequivocally good shape. So I’m unequivocally eating a lot of sugarine in advance, as we can see. By a time we unequivocally get down to it we will have eaten everything.”

Fisher recounted some highlights from her Princess Leia days: kissing Han Solo and murdering Jabba a Hutt.

“Here’s a thing: There’s a disproportion between shade kissing and life kissing,” she says. “Harrison doesn’t like shade kissing. we trust one time he put an oyster in his mouth. Not with me, he only told me about that so I’d act myself. So, not so good onscreen. But we were personification spin-the-bottle and he was better.”

“What was his name? Jabba a Hut? we always get his name churned adult with other boyfriends,” she pronounced joking about a hulk slug-like character. “Oh God,  we desired doing that. You know, they ridiculously asked me if we wanted a attempt double to kill Jabba a Hut. Can we imagine? we got to saw that neck off, it was really, unequivocally fun and one of a highlights of my career.”

The new film arrives in theaters in 2015, destined by JJ Abrams.

continue a story crafted by George Lucas, definition informed universe, informed timeline and informed characters.

Mark Hamill reliable that he’s in talks to reprise his purpose as Luke Skywalker and Harrison Ford has already reportedly sealed to lapse as Han Solo. And if there’s a Han Solo, there’s a Princess Leia, and that binds loyal when the Star Wars tale earnings in 2015 with Episode VII.

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Carrie Fisher has suggested that she has started scheming for Star Wars: Episode VII.

Speaking during a Calgary Comic Expo, Fisher seemed to endorse a long-standing rumors that Princess Leia will be behind for JJ Abrams’s arriving Star Wars sequel.

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“I like being bought by Disney, since they never wanted to buy me before,” she said.

“I’m blissful they are doing a new film since they are promulgation a tutor to my residence so we can get in unequivocally good shape. So I’m unequivocally eating a lot of sugarine in advance, as we can see. By a time we unequivocally get down to it we will have eaten everything.”

Reflecting on a knowledge of creation a strange Star Wars films in a ’70s and ’80s, Fisher named her final fight with Jabba a Hutt as one of her favorite scenes to film.

“I always get his name churned adult with other boyfriends,” she quipped. “Oh God, we desired doing that. You know, they ridiculously asked me if we wanted a attempt double to kill Jabba a Hutt. Can we imagine? we got to saw that neck off, it was really, unequivocally fun and one of a highlights of my career.”

Star Wars: Episode VII is also approaching to move behind Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford, while C-3PO star Anthony Daniels recently hinted to Digital Spy that his custom droid will be back.

Disney will recover a blockbuster in cinemas in 2015.

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Carrie Fisher has suggested that she is now training to reprise her purpose as Princess Leia in “Star Wars Episode VII.”

The singer seemed during a Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo over a weekend. She spoke to fans and settled “I like being bought by Disney, since they never wanted to buy me before.I’m blissful they are doing a new film since they are promulgation a tutor to my residence so we can get in unequivocally good shape. So I’m unequivocally eating a lot of sugarine in advance, as we can see. By a time we unequivocally get down to it we will have eaten everything.”

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There is no acknowledgment on either Fisher will lapse to a authorization though a approach she has been articulate about a film creates it seem as if she has already been approached. Back in March, a 56-year aged singer settled that she would play Leia in a new film. She settled “She’s in an intergalactic aged folks’ home. we usually consider she would be usually like she was before, usually slower and reduction prone to be adult for a large battle.” Scared of leaking information, her member denied a information. However George Lucas after reliable her participation.

Fisher’s news comes a day after J.J Abrams and group vowed to keep a prolongation as tip as possible. Producer Kathleen Kennedy pronounced she would have to adjust if leaks and spoilers occurred. Abrams also reliable that he would combine with Lucas on a new film so that he could be as true to a universe as possible. He combined that a “Star Wars” universe would not resemble “Star Trek’s.”

“Star Wars” is now in a pre-production proviso with Michael Arndt as a writer. Casting has not started though gossip has it that Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill have also been approached to reprise their roles from a strange trilogy.

Disney is set to betray a finished product in 2015.

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Star Wars fans visiting Walt Disney World this weekend will be treated to a special out-of-this-world experience.

Disney’s Hollywood Studios will reason a special Limited Time Magic eventuality in respect of a Star Wars-based celebratory joke “May a Fourth Be With You” on May 4, 2013.

According to Disney Parks Blog, this year’s holiday will “feature special Star Wars entertainment, characters, commemorative merchandise, a Star Wars dance celebration and a Star Wars-themed fireworks show.”

In addition, guest might find themselves sitting subsequent to Star Wars characters like Chewbacca or others while on a Star Tours — The Adventure Continues ride, as good as a special chronicle of Jedi Academy Training that will concede relatives to join their kids in a experience.

Will we be during Disney’s special May 4 event? Let us know, we might only see we there.

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A high propagandize tyro from upstate New York died unexpected during a category outing to Disney World.

Jeffrey Cintron, 17, was rushed to sanatorium Friday dusk after angry of a bad behind — he was conspicuous passed shortly after during 10:45 p.m.

It is believed a Lackawanna High School senior, from Buffalo, suffered from genetic commotion Marfan Syndrome, that can lead to heart defects.

Cintron — described as a “great person” by his cousin Tony Darmstedter — was one of 48 seniors and 4 chaperones on a annual outing to Florida.

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School officials pronounced he started angry about a pain in his behind while during a Disney thesis park progressing in a day, and that his decrease was rapid.

An autopsy was achieved Saturday by Orange-Oscelola counties Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Jan Garavaglia.

The exam formula will be done open after this week, a Orlando Sentinel reports.

Disney mouthpiece Andrea Finger said: “We demonstrate the deepest sympathies to Jeff Cintron’s family, friends and classmates on this loss.”

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Every fanboy’s dream date says she’s removing behind in figure for her lapse to her many famous role.

Saturday, Carrie Fisher appeared during a Calgary Comic Expo, a comic and anticipation gathering in Western Canada, and spoke about her practice in a initial 3 “Star Wars” movies. This of march led to a unavoidable doubt … is Fisher returning as Princess Leia in a nearing “Star Wars: Episode VII,” a initial vital “Star Wars” plan given LucasFilm was purchased by Disney?

While Disney has nonetheless to officially endorse her casting, George Lucas pretty many did brief a beans. And now Fisher is observant Disney wants her for a project, though would like her to dump some weight first.

“I like being bought by Disney, since they never wanted to buy me before,” Fisher said, according to a Calgary Herald. “I’m blissful they are doing a new film since they are promulgation a tutor to my residence so we can get in unequivocally good shape. So I’m unequivocally eating a lot of sugarine in advance, as we can see. By a time we unequivocally get down to it we will have eaten everything.”

This invites a question: Is Disney anticipating a 56-year-old Fisher will be adult for wearing a iconic worker lady dress (aka “the steel bikini”) that set pulses racing in “Return Of The Jedi”? Fisher offering no clues, though in a universe where we will be removing 6 “Star Wars” cinema between 2015 and 2020, that no one illusory could occur before to a Disney/LucasFilm deal, anything seems possible. Besides, a susceptible immature group who saw her in “Return of a Jedi” in 1983 are scarcely 3 decades comparison themselves; they might good be in a marketplace to see Fisher broach some age-appropriate sexiness as Princess Leia.

On theatre in Calgary, Fisher mostly talked about her practice in a strange “Star Wars” trilogy, responding questions about murdering Jabba a Hut on shade (“Oh God, we desired doing that. You know, they ridiculously asked me if we wanted a attempt double to kill Jabba a Hut. Can we imagine? we got to saw that neck off, it was really, unequivocally fun and one of a highlights of my career”), divulgence that Harrison Ford doesn’t like kissing his heading ladies on shade (“Not so good onscreen, though we were personification spin-the-bottle and he was better”), and observant giving Chewbacca a cuddle was a good thing (“Hugging is good no matter what partial of a universe we are in. we suggest it with wookies and without”).

She also emitted her “Star Wars” undergarments … or miss thereof (see video next during 1:30-in). “George did not let me wear a bra in a [first] movie,” Fisher pronounced of her Princess Leia costume. “They used masking fasten — solely for one stage when Mark [Hamill] arrives and R2 is blown adult and we run underneath a ship… greatfully demeanour closely during what’s function as we run toward a nearing mark,” she pronounced as a fan-filled assembly laughed.

Fisher, always a intrepid talk subject, even discussed an annoying part in Feb where she gifted a bipolar part while behaving her one-woman-show aboard a journey ship. “It takes a lot of balls to be mentally ill,” Fisher said. “It takes 3 or 4 balls. It takes a certain kind of heroism. we usually have bipolar, we don’t even consider that’s one of a ones that requires a many chutzpah.”

If Fisher is drastic adequate to be bipolar, time will tell if she also has a courage to wear that steel bikini again on shade … or even go bra-less!

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Kenneth Branagh will direct, with Cate Blanchett personification a immorality stepmother.

James played Lady Rose MacClare on deteriorate 3 of Downton Abbey and will reprise her purpose for deteriorate four. The British actress’ film work includes personification Korrina in Warner Bros.’ Wrath of a Titans.

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Emma Watson was in talks to star as a princess, though a understanding never closed.

The Cinderella plan was initial set adult during Disney in May 2010 in a arise of a studio’s success with Alice in Wonderland, a live-action instrumentation of a Lewis C. Carroll book that starred Johnny Depp.

Devil Wears Prada author Aline Brosh McKenna wrote a initial breeze of a script.

James is repped by UTA in a U.S. and by Charles Collier during Tavistock Wood in a U.K.