“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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Never say “never” is but one lesson to be learned from Destino, as it was released in theaters on this day in 2003, 57 years after work had begun on the film. Renowned surrealist artist Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, better known as Salvador Dalí, was a friend of Walt’s. In 1946, Walt …
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Here’s the sitch: It was on this day in 2003 that Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time, based on the popular animated series, debuted on Disney Channel. The feature-length special launched Kim Possible on her most extreme mission yet. Relentless villains Drakken, Shego, Monkey Fist, and Duff Killigan join forces to steal the Tempus Simia, …
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It was on this day in 2003, that The Haunted Mansion film, based on the theme park attractions, first came to life on the big screen. Complete with creepy old crypts and 999 happy haunts, the film tells the story of real estate agent Jim Evers (Eddie Murphy) and his wife and business partner, Sara …
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When Disney’s then Chief Executive Officer Michael Eisner wanted to do a new animal film, none was in the works except a few ideas involving grizzly bears. Thrilled at the idea of working on a bear film, directors Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker took the bear by the horns and ran with it, giving shape …
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Did you know that Brother Bear debuted on this day in 2003 in a New York and Los Angeles limited release, eh? The film tells the story of a young man who is turned into a bear by the Great Spirits and befriended by a young bear named Koda. Also in the animated cast is …
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