Animation by Glen Keane* ( @GlenKeanePrd ) | Beauty and the Beast (1991) #penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

I expect a common GenX/Millennial childhood experience is having VHS tapes from random stuff recorded off TV to watch over and over. One of ours was Totally Minnie (1988) starring Robert Carradine and Suzanne Somers, and I’ll tell ya: it was a damn DELIGHT every time. 🩷

Happy Lunar New Year! I watched Mulan and then tortured myself, apparently. World Showcase is the only true Disney Legend in this video.

Happy Mark Wahlberg's 40-Day Challenge Eve to all who celebrate before solemnly observing.

Some of the matte paintings by legendary matte artist Peter Ellenshaw for 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1954) One of the first feature-length films to be shot in CinemaScope, it meant the paintings had to be very large & shot from distance due to the shallow depth of field.

@matt.horizons.one A very happy birthday to you!

The ending of Home Alone 2 already wrecks me. Thanks, Catherine O'Hara.

Core WDW memory

Roger Allers. What a loss.

Irrational pet peeve: Raoul yelling BRAVO instead of BRAVA after Christine's triumphant performance of "Think of Me" in Phantom of the Opera.

Aww, it makes me smile to find this because a few of you guys tagged me. 💕

I still want this to be a thing so badly. I miss "riding on slow boats past pretty things" as a dominant ride concept terribly.

Reminder from my Twitter in 2021: if you start playing ABBA's "Happy New Year" at 11:59:13, they'll sing you the title at the stroke of midnight.

Just brooding over the idea that this is probably the bean counters' biggest dream. Can't ride? BUY BUY BUY.

Susan Lucci swung open a backstage bathroom door at the Studios during Super Soap Weekend, exiting just as I was about to go in. We nearly collided, giggled, and politely apologized.

On the 4th day of Christmas, I cried into the dishes I was washing while listening to The Soundtrack Show discussing the musical finale of Home Alone. In a 5 year old episode I play yearly. Discussing a movie I've seen many times. ♥️💚🎄

I got to go see Cinderella at the Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute today. The last time I saw Cinderella in a theater, I was 2. What a lovely experience.

I love how we went from “virtual queues are the future of theme parks” to “pay us to get in the same length line as before, or don’t pay us and never get on the ride.”

"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour." - Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol ❤️

Words are insufficient for me to summarize the extraordinary life of the brilliant Eddie Sotto, even after a day of writing notices of varying lengths. Although I knew this day was approaching, I still don’t know where to begin. Eddie had been signaling it to me in the most paradoxical, “Eddie” way…

Eddie Sotto knew and cared how mind-blowing that was and how much other people who GET theme parks would think so too, and that if they didn't know why, they should. That's a legacy as beautiful as his own work, and we were so lucky he shared so generously with all of us. 💔

Remembering Eddie Sotto progresscityusa.com/2025/12/18/r...

Eddie Sotto?!! 😭😭😭😭 Waking up and just shocked

Absolutely the best!

Randomly came across Disney artist Frans Van Lamsweerde in one of those posts that casually boasts, “My father was an artist at Disney.” And my follow up, “What was his name?” Then the unfamiliar name, followed by a Google search. And then, “Holy Cow!” Pictured here are his private Christmas cards.

I think I'm a fairly well-read person who had a pretty darn solid high school reading list, but you will notice some gaps (which are on my shelf and waiting!). Red means I had to read it at school (and several I have reread for my own interests), blue means I've read on my own.

I read this article without throwing my phone at a wall, and I think I deserve a little treat for that.

Vile, disgusting, appalling.

6 times ever? Piece of cake. This one MAY be on for the 5th time since the week before Thanksgiving right now.

I don’t understand why people attempt to denigrate Hallmark Christmas films by referring to them as “too cheesy”, as if that is a bad thing? I mean, have you *had* cheese? It’s not exactly the insult that you think it is.

Why yes, I did get Bob Iger's book (secondhand) to have quotes handy for moments like "what do we think of the 3rd anniversary of his return from his already-postponed retirement?"

"We all want to believe we're irreplaceable. The trick is to be self-aware enough that you don't cling to the notion that you are the only person who can do this job." - Robert A. Iger, "The Ride of a Lifetime" (2019)

It shouldn't be so complicated.

I've seen very few, but Beauty and the Beast soured me forever. Another teacher showed One Jump Ahead from the new Aladdin during homeroom today and it started my day on the most horrible note. I'd never seen or heard it, and that arrangement was SO BAD.

The really depressing thing about AI is it proves how little most people care about art. This is very funny, but also, so many people will have had to look at this and not one of them stopped and said "what is this absolute shit?"

The Disney company, as it exists in the year 2025, losing rights to play in the sandbox of others' creations seems like a win for creativity as a whole. Look at the treatment of their own work! Reading this on Mickey Mouse's birthday and on the heels of a Moana remake teaser is weirdly satisfying.

So, so good.

"A Little Fall of Rain" from Les Miserables "... and rain will make the flowers grow..." 😭

100 years of Disney films and at no point have I ever seen one that I wish had been made by robots instead of humans

“Hey we could put all the OOP Disney Treasures DVDs on streaming” “Nah, let’s let our users generate AI slop”

Me, age 9ish, learning that Elton John would be writing the music for a new Disney movie, The Lion King: "... Oh, the guy who sang with Minnie Mouse!"

JB Kaufman's latest epic, about the making of Fantasia, is out today and I Am Very Very Excited: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTXB439...

Monday December 8th is rapidly approaching. Have you got your copy of SCOUNDRELS, VILLAINS, and KNAVES yet?? amzn.to/3JEsCyQ

Not more than any others, but boy has my appreciation of them increased with time. Love them. Melody Time is my personal favorite.

This pretty much sums up why Disney Parks are being ripped up to shove up random franchises in every corner. Just a stunning lack of awareness of what makes these things special, why they work. Sometimes, most of the time, it ain't about storytelling.