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In a pierce that many substantially saw entrance from miles away, Disney says they are positively looking brazen to including characters from Star Wars and Marvel in their stirring game, Infinity. They don’t have anything to announce only yet, yet they wish to make certain gamers are good wakeful a intensity is there.
Disney Infinity, for those that competence not know, can simply be explained as Skylanders with Disney characters. Gamers buy a duplicate of a game, an RFID portal, and a impression starter pack and they’re off and running.
The impression station on a portal influences what impression is seen on screen, and what diversion worlds are accessible. Some of a characters that Disney has announced so distant embody The Incredibles, Pirates of a Caribbean, and Cars.
Those are yet a tip of a iceberg for Infinity, though, as Disney Interactive has already teased. Essentially, any skill owned by Disney was clearly adult for grabs, definition Star Wars and Marvel as well.
Disney Interactive’s Bill Roper serve explained a wish of pulling from Disney’s immeasurable library of properties to Games Industry:
“I consider a beauty of something like Infinity is that it’s a height that we’re building. So we don’t try to be decorous about it – we’ve finished a lot of work about identifying a properties that we felt would unequivocally make a height sing during launch, yet we never bonus any possibilities with a immeasurable array of characters and worlds that we can daub into opposite a company.”
However, given a diversion was expected in growth before Disney acquired a Star Wars IP from LucasFilm – maybe even before Disney roped in Marvel as good – they didn’t lead off with those properties. Still, we have to assume they are good wakeful a dump trucks value of income gamers would be peaceful to send Disney’s approach if they put a few Marvel or Star Wars characters into Infinity.
As Roper explains, a folks during Disney Interactive suspicion a same thing fans did when Disney acquired LucasFilm:
“That was really sparkling when that [news of a acquisition] came down from within a company. We adore a intensity for Infinity – we always joke, well, ‘the possibilities are infinite’.”
Based on Roper’s quote it sounds like Disney Interactive is deliberation enlargement packs themed around those specific properties, or maybe they are saving those characters for a final push. Maybe they wish to set adult a simple judgment of Infinity, that is indeed utterly opposite from Skylanders with a ‘Toy Box’ mode, before entrance quick and mad with a impression reveals.
So yes, Star Wars and Marvel are headed to Infinity. Maybe not this sold incarnation of Infinity, yet really someday down a line.
Does it seem like a no-brainer that Infinity would embody Star Wars and Marvel characters? Should Disney Interactive embody a characters into a categorical line diversion or emanate specific spin-offs?
Disney Infinity releases Aug 18, 2013 for a Wii, Xbox 360, Ps3, 3DS, Wii U, and PC.
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Source: Games Industry
A week after layoffs during Walt Disney Studios, Lucasfilm was strike this week with pinkish slips of a own. More than dual dozen staff members were laid off, we have learned. The cuts came essentially in a company’s financing, chartering and placement groups and were not all together unexpected. In an email to employees progressing this month, Lucasfilm boss Kathleen Kennedy pronounced all poignant classification changes during association would be finished by a finish of April. Sources tell me that this latest turn of cuts is reputed to be a final as Lucasfilm entirely integrates into a new owners Disney, that bought a Star Wars creators for $4.05 billion in October. The cuts come after LucasArts, a company’s video diversion division, shut down prolongation Apr 3 and laid off about 150 employees. There were also layoffs in Lucasfilm’s animation dialect after Disney said Mar 11 that it was discontinuing prolongation of Star Wars: The Clone Wars for Cartoon Network and pursing “ a new instruction in charcterised programming.”
About 150 employees in several groups of Disney Studios were let go final week after a association inner examination systematic late final year by CEO Bob Iger and CFO Jay Rasulo to brand remaining positions and boost efficiency.
Deadline’s Dominic Patten – tip him here.
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teenormous.comWhen Disney announced final week that skeleton are stirring to have a new Star Wars film in theatres each year starting in 2015, when a much-anticipated Episode VII is scheduled to strike a china screen, we were both anxious and unhappy during a same time.
As vital Star Wars fans, we’re automatically eager whenever anything new is expelled in a blockbuster tale (Yes, even that charcterised Clone Wars flick). But infrequently we can have too most of a good thing. Take it from Mark “Luke Skywalker” Hamill himself, who once said, “I like ice cream too…I only don’t wish it each day.”
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Since it’s unavoidable that Disney’s gonna float a Star Wars authorization like a tauntaun until it dies (or ceases creation them cashola, whichever comes first), we’re got some Obi-Wan-like recommendation about that ideas should get done and what should get jettisoned like an shun pod.
First, here’s 5 intergalactic tales we’re down to watch.
5. Young Lando
It’s been widely reported that Disney is deliberation a film clinging to Han Solo’s progressing adventures, that we’re certain will underline an equally younger chronicle of his Bespin bestie (and a strange owners of a Millennium Falcon), Lando Calrissian. Once that proves to be a success, cruise basing another whole spinoff on a “card player, gambler, [and] scoundrel.” Cast rapper/actor Childish Gambino, a male with adequate strut to lift it off, or even Scrubs star Donald Faison, who’s lobbied for a partial for ages.
Over a past few years, Darth Vader has done a dress of violation into Disney’s press events. He initial did it behind in 2009 when a revamp of Star Tours was announced during a D23 Expo and he’s been speckled many times since, including during today’s “Monstrous Summer” presentation.
While Walt Disney World boss George Kalogridis was vocalization about Limited Time Magic, Vader, this time assimilated by Boba Fett, interrupted a arrangement for a special announcement.
Video: “May a 4th” jubilee announced for Limited Time Magic
On “Star Wars Day,” reasonably antiquated May a 4th, Disney’s Hollywood Studios will underline additional jubilee that includes relatives being means to join children in a Jedi Training Academy, a dance jubilee hosted by DJ Lobot, and even characters fasten guest for rides on Star Tours. Then it will all interpretation with a special fireworks uncover during a finish of a night.
It’s all function on May 4, 2013 only, as partial of Limited Time Magic. And those who wish to take partial in a Jedi Training Academy with their kids are speedy to uncover adult early, as there are singular slots available.
Here’s a full outline of a offerings, many of that will also be during Disneyland in California:
Meet Iconic Characters
Kick a jubilee off in style—experience a tighten confront with some of a many renouned characters from opposite a whole Star Wars saga.
Darth Vader, Chewbacca, Boba Fett and many some-more will be creation appearances and posing for pictures, including a few faces we competence not expect. Don’t let this extraordinary accommodate ‘n’ hail impulse pass we by!
Join Your Kids as a Jedi
Finally, all we relatives can group adult alongside your younglings and turn associate Padawans in a special book of a Jedi Training Academy.
Get prepared to chuck on a Jedi dress and flip a switch on that lightsaber, given it’s adult to we and your kids to frustrate a Sith and better Darth Vader, Darth Maul and a Dark Side of a Force once and for all!
Collect Cosmic Merchandise
A load reason of sorcery sell awaits collectors of all kinds, including limited-edition pins and special tees done only for a occasion!
With messages like “May a Fourth Be with You” and “Revenge of a Fifth”, we can literally wear a hyperspace hilarity on your sleeve. Collect these celebratory pins and tees during Superstar Shop in Disney’s Hollywood Studios while reserve last.
Dance a Dark Side Away
Get into a galactic groove, rebound to a Bespin kick and boogie your approach over to a Star Wars-themed Dance Party!
Join DJ Lobot as he spins informed tunes from a Star Wars saga, and afterwards bust a pierce on a dance building alongside some associate fans and a few favorite characters too!
See a Symphony in a Stars
Cap off “May a 4th Be with You” underneath a sea of stars as a vast array of colorful explosions lights adult a summer sky.
Come dusk time, take a chair on Hollywood Boulevard and settle in for “Symphony in a Stars,” a fantastic fireworks arrangement set to tighten a celebration. Catch all a extraordinary sights and sounds, a likes of that haven’t been seen given a tumble of a Empire!
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The Skinny: Sorry to start a day with a sales representation though if we are meddlesome in removing an email alerting we when a Morning Fix is available, send me a note. If adequate people pointer up, we’ll try to get this going. Now behind to business. Friday’s headlines embody a weekend box bureau preview and skeleton for a existence uncover that won’t atmosphere on TV.
Daily Dose: Al Jazeera was recently mentioned as a intensity swain for a Tennis Channel. But I hear (I wanted to use that irritating word only once to see how it feels) that Al Jazeera, that recently bought Current TV, has no seductiveness in shopping a Tennis Channel, that has not pronounced that it is for sale.
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No pain. Director Michael Bay’s “Pain Gain,” a dim comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson, is approaching to flesh a approach to a tip of a box office. For Bay, best famous for large movement flicks such as “Transformers,” a $26 million “Pain Gain” is a low-budget affair. Tom Cruise’s “Oblivion,” that had a clever opening final weekend, will expected have adequate extract left for second place. Also opening is “The Big Wedding,” (couldn’t they have come adult with a improved title?) that will broach small box office. Previews from a Los Angeles Times and Hollywood Reporter.
Peace during last. Movie museum bondage Regal and AMC Entertainment have struck a understanding with Walt Disney Studios on a income separate from sheet sales for “Iron Man 3.” The pacts came after both bondage had stopped offered allege tickets for “Iron Man 3,” that opens May 3. More from a Los Angeles Times and Deadline Hollywood.
That’s what friends are for. Kathie Lee Gifford, co-host of a fourth hour of NBC’s “Today,” felt so bad about all a nasty stories about Matt Lauer that she attempted to take out an ad ancillary a “Today” anchor, according to a New York Daily News. She collected adult signatures from a show’s expel and organisation and was scheming to put it in USA Today when Lauer put a kibosh on a idea.
From TV to Twitter. The Chernin Co. is building a existence uncover for amicable media platforms. According to Variety, @SummerBreak will play out on Twitter, YouTube and other outlets, though not on television. The meditative is that if immature people aren’t examination most television, afterwards a shows improved go to where a kids are unresolved out. Hopefully a subsequent step will be a existence uncover that doesn’t atmosphere anywhere.
Another eventuality ruined. The White House Correspondents Assn. cooking used to be a Washington insider affair. It was a night when domestic reporters and a White House could reduce their ensure and mangle bread and have a few laughs. Now Hollywood has impressed a cooking as news outlets try to land prohibited stars to lay during their tables and come to parties. Once a cooking tailor done for C-Span, now E! covers it. The Washington Post on a income large media now blow on this once undisturbed affair.
Inside a Los Angeles Times: Betsy Sharkey on “Pain Gain.”
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Picture yourself sailing aboard an sea boat from a grand epoch of cruising, with prosperous décor and a autocratic structure.
This is a picture that Disney is perplexing to emanate in a renovate of a journey line’s initial ship, a Magic, following scheduled upgrades this fall.
The Magic, set to be in dry wharf in Cadiz, Spain from Sept. 10 by Oct. 7, will underline some vital changes, including a lineup of new super favourite characters, a H2O slip with a 37-foot drop, an extended day sauna and refurbished dining spaces.
“Walt Disney was a master storyteller…Our pursuit is to take what we schooled from Walt and request it to a practice on house a ships,” Joe Lanzisero, comparison artistic clamp boss for Walt Disney Imagineering, pronounced to FoxNews.com.
As a tip Disney Imagineer overseeing a pattern group during a shipyard, Lanzisero binds a redesign plan tighten to his heart. (He indeed lived aboard a 84,000 ton Magic when it was initial launched in 1998.) He says a upgrades on a Magic will heed this boat from others in a Disney’s fleet, and from other journey lines in general.
For example, a initial place guest see when they house a boat is a atrium–which has been redesigned in a picture of prosperous 20th century journey liners in coral and aquamarine hues, with a bronze statue of “Helmsman Mickey” gripping watch. As passengers transport by a ship, they’ll see that any space has a possess story, as good as an ocean-themed tone scheme.
Some of a biggest changes will take place in a kids club, that is desirous by a namesake Disney captivate “It’s a Small World.” The Avengers will shortly join Mickey, Tinker Bell and a Toy Story expel in Disney’s Oceaneer Club, in that hulk storybook facades side 4 activity spaces. Here kids can check out Captain America’s defense and turn super favourite recruits in a Avengers Academy; reconfigure a life-size Mr. Potato Head or slip down a Slinky Dog slip in Andy’s Room; play dress adult in Pixie Hollow with Tinker Bell; or emanate crafts in a Mickey Mouse Club. And for a comparison kids, a Oceaneer Lab will duty as a high-tech digital diversion zone.
On a Magic, adults can relax in a Senses Spa and Salon, that will now underline a barbershop. Or they can squeeze a dash in one of a 3 new bars, or share a fine-dining experience.
The many fun expected to be had, though, will be in a top decks in a dash section – and where, Lanzisero explains, families can unequivocally come together. The ship’s pool rug – all duck-themed after Donald Duck and his 3 nephews Huey, Duey and Louie – has been redesigned to embody waterfalls, a wading area, dual new H2O slides: Twist N’ Spout and for thrill-seekers, a near-vertical AquaDunk.
But where a sorcery unequivocally takes place is in a dining areas. The dining halls have been remodeled to give a feel that we are in outlandish locations sampling universe cuisine.
A favorite among both kids and relatives is a Animator’s Palate that facilities an animation cooking show, where guest emanate characters on interactive placemats, that afterwards seem on screens alongside normal Disney characters in shorts along a walls –allowing guest to turn a Disney Imagineer.
Lanzisero is many vehement to sup in a newly renovated Cabanas, that is set in Australia, and draws décor impulse from a Disney-Pixar film “Finding Nemo.” The beach-themed room allows for indoor and outside eating many renouned during breakfast.
And lastly, a staterooms will also accept an ascent with uninformed coats of paint and code new furnishings for when a Magic sets cruise from Miami in October.
“Filmmaking is a story of a association and in a film a ‘establishing shot’ sets a scene,” Lanzisero said, adding, “It’s all about formulating moments by a storytelling.”
You can find some-more information per fares and itineraries during a Disney Cruise Line website.
Leah Zanolla | Posted: Apr 26, 2013 | Updated: Apr 26, 2013 – 11:59:31 AM
At this morning’s media breakfast during Walt Disney World, it was announced that a new daytime march will be entrance to a Magic Kingdom in open 2014. The “Disney Festival of Fantasy Parade” will applaud New Fantasyland with new innovative floats, costumes and an all-new soundtrack that will underline songs from renouned Disney films. A new thesis strain is also being grown for a parade. In this parade, we’ll see nods to The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, Dumbo, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, Tangled and Brave, as good as many others.
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by Leah Zanolla
Apr 26, 2013
Several sparkling enhancements were announced for Disney Cruise Line’s ship, a Disney Magic.
First adult is a Oceaneer Club – one of a areas for children age 3-12. The Club will be removing several new experiences, some formed on a Oceaneer Club on a Dream and Fantasy and some will be mint on a Magic. Disney’s Pixie Hollow and Andy’s Room from Toy Story, only like on a Dream and Fantasy ships, will come to a Magic. New to any Disney Cruise boat will be Marvel’s Avengers Academy. Children will be in assign of a authority post directing a Avengers’ tip missions and training. Another new further will be a Mickey Mouse Club, flashy in red, yellow and black. Kids will make crafts and play games, as good as exam out Goofy’s Gears, an oversized activity core with magnetic, spinning gears to play with.
The other girl clubs will get an renovate as well. The hothouse will be remade into a It’s a Small World nursery, formed on a thesis park attraction, only like a nurseries on a Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy. The Oceaneer Lab, that is also for kids age 3-12, will get a new pirate-themed area. Kids will use Navigator Simulators to drive a bandit boat by a Caribbean.
Several new interactive facilities will be entrance to a pool deck. Water play facilities identical to a Fantasy’s AquaLab will be combined to a 1,800-square-foot space. Kids can burst around a cocktail jets, geysers and bubblers. The infants/toddlers dash area will be re-themed around Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Donald’s nephews. The Twist N’ Spout H2O slip will let guest turn behind and onward opposite a boat in 250 feet of twists and turns. This slip is for guest between 38 and 64 inches tall.
Brand-new to any Disney boat is a AquaDunk, a three-story physique slide! Riders step inside a transparent tube and a building underneath them opens like a trap door, promulgation them on a near-vertical dump that will eventually take them 20 feet over a side of a ship. This slip is for guest 48 inches or taller.
Changes are entrance to a ship’s dining establishments as well. Animator’s Palate will be remodeled with high-def prosaic screens and animation decorating a walls. The renouned Animation Magic uncover from a Disney Fantasy will be entrance as well, giving any guest a possibility to turn an artist.
A new Brazilian grill will be accessible for guests, move a suggestion of Rio de Janeiro to a ship. Carioca’s will be designed like an outside marketplace and will be formed on Jose, a parrot from The Three Cabelleros. In a daytime this space will have a festival thesis and renovate during night to a city of Rio, with soothing lights and illuminated lanterns. Carioca’s will reinstate Parrot Cay.
Cabanas smorgasboard will reinstate Topside Buffet, that is now on a ship, and be themed around Finding Nemo. Cabanas is a infrequent atmosphere during a day and a table-service grill in a evening. The grill space will also be expanding, giving it 9,460 block feet of space and 455 seats.
Palo, a adults-only dining location, will be removing a makeover suggestive of a cafeteria in Venice. Glass artwork, mill floors and red and white striped poles will give a grill a apparition of being situated on a canals of a Italian city.
Each boat has an adults-only area with nightclubs and bars. After a Magic remodel, this area will be called “After Hours” and benefit O’Gill’s Pub from a Disney Fantasy. New clubs will be Fathoms, an undersea-themed bar that changes atmosphere as a night goes on and Keys, a laid-back piano bar.
Senses Spa Salon will be upgraded to a some-more contemporary design, and also be stretched by 725 block feet. Smile Spa, a new addition, will offer teeth whitening services, barbershop services for group and a Chill Spa will support privately to teenagers ages 13 to 17.
D Lounge will reinstate Studio Sea as a hangout for games, dance parties and family-friendly activities.
These enhancements will take place while a boat is during dry wharf Sep 7 – Oct 10, 2013 in Cadiz, Spain.
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