Can’t access my blog to update

Hi everyone. Just a quick note to let you know I’m on an indefinite break from blogging. For some reason I can’t access either of my blogs or blogger to make any changes. I can’t even see what I’ve already posted, and many blogger blogs are not opening on my computer. :-(
So for now I’m on an indefinite break until I can get it figured out. It really bums me out because I had a lot of really cool stuff planned for this week. But right now I can’t post anything. I managed to get this post up because my wonderful brother (who is currently 3 states away) was able to access my account to quickly post this. Right now, the Catching Fire Contest will remain open indefinitely until I can figure out what’s going on.
If you can see this post, please, please, please, comment here so that I can try to figure out how big the problem is. Even if you don’t normally comment or you want to comment anonymously, please (!) consider doing so on this post. And if you have problems commenting, but can see the post, please send me an email at shadyglade AT mail DOT com and let me know. I really need your help on this one!
Thanks for hanging in there. We’ll get this worked out soon (hopefully)!

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Royal Rebels

As I hinted last week, today's the first post of the Disney web comic: Royal Rebels.

The Disney Princesses that make their home at Disneyland no longer roam the park like the used to. Instead the Fantasyland theater has been turned into a huge princess meet and greet where you can meet your favorite princess for two seconds before being hurried along. This is now the only area you can see Ariel, since Tinker Bell and friends turned King Triton's Gardens into Pixie Hollow.

So what do the princesses think about this? It's time to find out.

Episode 1: Un-Faire
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Jasmine's looking pretty desperate. What's she going to do? Will Ariel get her sanity back? Find out next week!

Royal Rebels: Un-Faire is reprinted with permission. Royal Rebels is completely owned and created by Valerie Flynn. To see more of her work, you can visit her at her website, Valerie Gallery.

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Welcome back!

Despite my best intentions, it always seems like my posting here is sporadic. After all, I don't have work to post about anymore...

So to try and keep at least one thing on this blog alive, I'm going to start a new series next week by featuring a Disney web comic! Here's a sneak peak:


Intrigued? If you like princesses and/or Disneyland, you'll love this comic. You know I love both. :-) I'm very grateful to the comic's owner, who has granted me permission to reprint it here for your enjoyment. I've added a follower widget and a feedreader button to the blog, so you can easily subscribe if you want. That way you won't miss anything.

The first episode will be posted next Thursday, with a new post every week.

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Princess and the Frog Trailer OUT!

So you can probably figure out I'm super excited for this movie. Let's hope that it ushers in a new era of Disney hand-drawn animation. If you haven't seen it yet, check out the trailer. My commentary (and spoliers if you haven't seen the trailer)below:



So first can I say: hehe. I like it when she hits him with the book.

Okay, so the one thing that bugs me is that it starts out by saying "75 years of animation" and then only shows clips from the last 15 or so years. Le sigh. Where is all of Walt's classics? Despite that, I really like how they go from pencil sketch to animation. That's a nice effect.

The other thing that bugs me is they are making the idea that the princess also turns into a frog seem like such an original idea. Yes, I'll admit it's unique, but it's been done before. So I think the setting/characters are really going to make the difference on this one.

For some reason, seeing this trailer reminds of a combination between The Swan Princess/Anistasia/Beauty and the Beast. Which is funny because those first two are NOT Disney movies (despite what a lot of people think). The magic swirls remind of Swan Princess, and the prince reminds me of Dimitri, I think. Tianna reminds me of Belle. Not in her voice, of course, but her animation seems Belle-like to me.

All in all, it reminds me of the animated Disney movies I grew up on (Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahantas, etc.) So I'm so waiting for this one. I don't think I can wait until December.

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A Disney Classic

On this day 80 years ago, Mickey Mouse was born. Look at all that he's accomplished in that time. Here's to you Mickey! Happy birthday pal

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New "Frog" teaser

Not park related this time, but here's a little dose of Disney for your day. Disney's next big animated feature film is going to be The Princess and the Frog. It's due to come out in 2009, and features the first African American Disney princess, Tiana. I was browsing YouTube the other day and an official teaser (not a trailer, yet) for the movie. So here you go:



What do you think? I'm excited. She reminds me of Belle for some reason...

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So Here I Am... Again

Okay, so I haven't been doing so well at keeping this up. Let's just say as soon as my program ended (Aug 15) I went to Disneyland for 5 days, then came up to school and that's what's been keeping me busy. Recruiting for the Disney College Program has especially been keeping me running, but the season is pretty much over now. It's been so fun doing that, I'm going to miss it when I graduate in December.

So I'm going to try and make a better effort of keeping this updated. Of course, now that my program is over I'm not working for the Mouse anymore. But I still have plenty of Disney stuff to talk about. So I guess this will turn into more of a Disney rambling blog. And I may surprise you. I think I've got one or two more CM stories saved up that I haven't posted yet. One of my goals is to eventually get to a series of posts about the not-to-miss things to do at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. But we'll see what happens here. As I said, I graduate in 5 weeks (panic attack!) so I'm not sure how much I'll have time to update until after that.

But I'm going to try anyway. Watch me go! And talk to ya later!

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