In 1993, Disney entered the National Hockey League with their hockey team, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, named after the hockey-themed movie released the previous year. The Ducks were profitable in their early years, fueled by strong merchandise and ticket sales, but by the early 2000s started to lose money, despite an appearance in the …
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After trying some honey in the cartoon featurette Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, Tigger is disgusted with the flavor and exclaims, “That sticky, sticky stuff is only fit for heffalumps and woozles,” creatures that don’t do much “just steal honey.” Although Pooh didn’t see any actual heffalumps or woozles except in his Tigger-induced …
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Here’s a clue for what happened on this day in 2004… a movie starring Nicolas Cage was released, about a man who takes a journey in search of a great ancient treasure. National Treasure strove to ensure the highest level of believability as Benjamin Franklin Gates unravels the mystery behind our greatest national treasure by …
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“When John Lasseter, Steve Jobs, and Ed Catmull talked to me about coming up here [Pixar] they said, ‘We are worried about becoming complacent. We want you to come in here and shake it up a bit.’ For them to ask me to do that when they had nothing but successes is amazing to me,” …
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On this day in 2004, the Touchstone Television show Lost first found its way to television screens and audiences first learned about how Oceanic Air flight 815 tore apart in mid air and crashed on a Pacific island— its survivors forced to find inner strength they never knew they had in order to survive. But …
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“Who’s a little like water and oil?” Well, according to the theme song, it’s the title characters in Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, an animated series that premiered on the Disney Channel on this day in 2004. The series tells the tales of one silly rabbit and a pampered pooch, who fell from a plane with …
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Back in the late 1800s, New York’s Saratoga County, known for its mineral springs and horse racing, became a choice getaway for fashionable society. Two centuries later, on May 17, 2004, it was possible to visit the posh and luxurious getaway of the 1800s once again when Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa opened at …
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Unlike other Disney park attractions, when you visit The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, “you’re traveling to another dimension…” as Rod Serling states in the opening of The Twilight Zone television show, on which the attraction is based. Although it appears that he has created an all-new introduction for the Tower of Terror, which opened …
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The Touchstone Pictures film The Alamo, released on this day in 2004, represented movie making on a grand scale, telling the larger-than-life story of how fewer than 200 men, led by such historical figures as James Bowie and Davy Crockett, tried to hold a small mission called the Alamo against the much-larger force of Mexican …
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On February 29, 2004, the 76th Academy Awards® were held at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California. It is here that screenwriter and director Andrew Stanton accepted the award for Best Animated Feature for Finding Nemo, the Disney·Pixar animated feature about a small clown fish that is captured and his father’s adventure to save him. …
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