March Hare Mania Disney Songs

Test Your Disney Song Knowledge with Our Disney Track Trivia Quiz

By Jocelyn Buhlman The March Hare Mania: #D23TrackBracket voting is now open, but after you help choose which Disney song reigns supreme, why not test your knowledge? We know that D23 fans are some of the biggest Disney fanatics out there, and our last Trivia Quiz had you asking for more! Are you ready to …

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Disney movies based on fairy tales

11 Stories to Celebrate on “Tell a Fairy Tale Day”

By Megan Deppe “Great stories change lives, take kids to amazing places, grow their imaginations and teach them incredible things to prepare them for bright futures.” This is the motto behind Disney’s “Magic of Storytelling” initiative, and what better time to celebrate great stories than on Tell a Fairy Tale Day? Disney has a long …

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pinocchio storyboards

Dickie Jones with Pinocchio Storyboard

In this 1939 photo, two Disney Legends review storyboards before recording the voices for Pinocchio (1940). Ten-year-old Dickie Jones was already a veteran of dozens of Hollywood films when Walt Disney cast him as the voice of the wooden puppet, and Cliff Edwards had appeared in some100 motion pictures, starting with the earliest “talkies,” before …

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Common Disney Misconceptions quiz

Only Disney Know-It-Alls Can Ace This Quiz

By Jocelyn Buhlman Being a D23 Member means you’re pretty obsessed with Disney. You’ve memorized the details on all your favorite movies, rides, and television shows, and you may think you’re a regular Disney know-it-all… but do you still fall back on common mistakes? We’ve rounded up some trivia on common Disney misquotes, misspellings, and …

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12 Disney Mentors Who Inspire Us to Greatness

By Megan Deppe Walt Disney once said, “Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children,” and entertainment that inspires both children and adults is part of his enduring legacy. So many beloved Disney films have featured mentors who’ve taught their mentees—and us!—very important lessons. After all, where would Hercules be if Phil hadn’t …

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kiss at pinocchio screening

KISS at Pinocchio Screening

Gene Simmons, bass guitarist for the heavy metal rock group KISS, loved “When You Wish Upon a Star” ever since he saw Pinocchio as a child, and he recorded the Academy Award®-winning Disney anthem on his 1978 album Gene Simmons. So Gene and the rest of KISS were right at home at a Pinocchio party …

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Lady and the Tramp, Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, and Bambi

Get to Know the Animators Behind Your Favorite Disney Films

Celebrate some of the most legendary artists behind classic Disney animated films with this year’s D23 Member Gift. By Greg Ehrbar The first “nine old men” were Supreme Court justices—all more than 90 years old—who were trying to block President Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal” in the mid-1930s. When Walt Disney selected his first-string supervising animators, …

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it's a small world

Spring Forward with Your Favorite Disney Clocks

By Jocelyn Buhlman Today at 2:00:00 a.m. all the clocks turned forward an hour, so if you’ve been running late or are just plain confused, now you know why! You better make sure to spring your clocks forward, or, if you still need some help with the time, why not look to these famous clocks …

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Peter Pan's shadow

Shadowing Disney: 10 Shadows for Groundhog’s Day

By Jim Fanning Looking to see your shadow today? Or do you leave that to Punxsutawney Phil, the celebrated groundhog who retreats back to bed for six more weeks of winter if he sees his shadow but promises an early spring if he doesn’t. Shadows have been part of Disney animation almost from the start, …

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