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That look

merkal — Sun, 06 May 2012 20:25:28 +0000

There’s a new Disney blog in town, Disney FanCast! . Like me you might be like, so what? And you’re right after all blogs are going up everyday. But this blog opened with Aladdin making me curious if there’s something that I haven”t seen before. Well check out this

That LOOK

Fun Interview with Jonathan Freeman, Scott Freeman and Linda Larkin

merkal — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:24:07 +0000

The guys behind the Tiara Talk Show talked with the lead voice actors of Aladdin, Scott Wienger, Linda Larkin and Jonathan Freeman about how they ended up being the voice of popular Disney characters for almost 2 decades, how they got the part, why they love their work and working for Disney in general. There’s some inside talk about things like the Music behind the Magic 4 CD box that contains demo recordings for songs that didn’t make into the final film, the inside joke of Scott Weinger dressing up as Aladdin in that Full House 2 part episode when the family went on holiday to Walt Disney World. And other stuff like the musical stage show in Disney California adventures.

Part of His World – celebrating Howard Ashman’s life & work

merkal — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:51:46 +0000

Howard Ashaman’s sister, Sarah Ashman Gillespie s recently started a blog devoted to her brother the amazing lyricist, composer, producer, writer and creative genius who past away far to early now almost 21 years ago to the day. With this blog she recalls her childhood and talks with the many people Howard worked with and became friends like some of the big names at the Disney animation studio in California. One of them John Musker co-director/co-writer/co-producer of The Little Mermaid and Aladdin anwsers 10 questions about working with Howard Ashman. So far he is on the 3th question. The second one, counting down from 10 it’s actually the 8th, he’s been asked.

“This is a tricky one. How different would Aladdin have turned out had Howard lived? Did Howard ever write a screenplay or did Linda Woolverton write the original draft?”

It’s a bird, it’s a cloud, it’s… a flying carpet?

merkal — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:26:13 +0000

From

Flying carpet-
Average speed:98250mph
Max Speed:250921mph
First journey:
(Let’s just say) Riyadh (although it would probably have been a much further journey especially since the original story of Aladdin has him as a southern Chinese man) to Giza (pyramids): 1022 miles taking 51 seconds equaling ~7214mph
Second:
Great Pyramid to Sphinx: .373 miles taking 2 seconds equaling ~671.40671mph
Third:
Giza to Athens (Parthenon):697 miles taking 10 seconds (including horse detour) equaling ~250921mph

Disneyland TV Commercial from a long time ago featuring the Aladdin parade

merkal — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:37:46 +0000

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Time Magazine: Meet Agrabah’s Newest Royal Prince

merkal — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:19:48 +0000

Artist Petite Tiaras made a series of fake could-be covers of the Disney princes on the cover of (men’s) magzine’s like Men’s fitness and Time Magazine.

via geekologie.com

Aladdin on Blu-Ray in 2013

merkal — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:39:42 +0000

Over at the Blu Ray forum someone posted a picture of the Lady and the Tramp Diamond Edition insert. Just when I was sure Disney did everything to ignore Aladdin a miracle happened. Disney hasn’t forgotten about us. Rumors said that the big A was nicked from the Diamond series after disappointing sales of the Platinum edition. Now keep in mind that spring 2013 is still far away so the suits at Disney still could change their minds. I’m a disappointed that the film doesn’t get a 20th anniversary release instead. Since the Diamond edition titles are lacking in bonus features compared to their Platinum ancestors which doesn’t sound good for Aladdin. I for one would’ve like to know more about the earlier Howard Ashman draft.

Listen to the Voice of the Sea

merkal — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:47:41 +0000

Listen… just listen