Official Trailer: Toy Story 3

Did you hear?

The Official Toy Story 3 Trailer is out.

Yep.

This movie is going to be awesome.

Volunteer, then Go to Disneyland!

Did you hear about the Give A Day, Get A Disney Day promo yet? Starting January 1, 2010, you can sign up to volunteer for a day with a participating organization and you'll earn yourself a ticket to either Walt Disney World® or Disneyland® for FREE! (My second favorite word of all time.)

Certain restrictions may apply:

-You must be 18 to sign up and age 6 to participate. (You can sign up a maximum of 8 additional members of your family.) Children ages 6-17 must be accompanied by an 18 and over adult when volunteering.)

-Valid for US, Puerto Rico, and Canada residents only.

-Some blackout dates, depending on the resort.

(image from my birthday trip to Disneyland earlier this year!)

Do a good deed AND go to Disneyland for free? Count me in! =)

Weekend Finds

I'm sharing my weekend finds early this week because it's Labor Day Weekend and the LA County Fair is in town! It's only $1 admission on Sat-Mon between 10am and 1pm!

Disney-Marvel mash-up pictures

Twisted Disney princesses (via the Awesomer)

30 hilarious license plates

23 Amazing works of Origami

Free iTunes summer music playlist (30 songs) from Stanford - good till Sept 30

This is Why You're Thin - finally a response to This is Why You're Fat!

I'm going to the LA County Fair on Monday! Hopefully will have great pictures to share with you next week... and hopefully not much of the scary looking-at-it-will-give-you-a-heart-attack food that they love to sell at these things. What do you have going on for Labor Day Weekend?

Toy Story 3

Have I mentioned I love this blog, Children of the 90s? The well-researched posts feed my Wikipedia-addicted hunger for knowledge while the content bring back fond memories of things I grew up with.

So, yeah, the long-awaited triquel to Pixar's breakthrough computer animated film (now a classic) is scheduled for release June 18, 2010.

The plot, from what I've heard, is going to revolve around a college-bound Andy who decides that the best new home for his old friends is a day care center. Hilarious results ensue, I'm sure.

I gotta tell ya, between Toy Story 3 and Burton's Alice in Wonderland, 2010 is shaping up to be an amazing year for movies.

The Simpsons ripped off Disney??

To have some background noise/music, I popped in The Little Mermaid while I cleaned. Do you remember that scene where Scuttle (the seagull) and all the other animals help to stall the wedding when they realized that it was Ursula the Sea Witch in disguise? After she falls into the cake and gets sprayed by dolphins, Scuttle flies over to squawk in her face and she actually grabs him by the neck, shakes him, and says, "Why, you little --" in a way that is reminiscent, nay nearly identical to the way Homer strangles Bart in the Simpsons!

A quick search on Wikipedia turned up that The Little Mermaid was released into theaters on November 17, 1989 and the Simpsons debuted on December 17, 1989. A little more digging gave:

"Homer's extreme strangling of Bart first originated in the Tracey Ullman Short "Family Portrait". Often before strangling Bart, Homer will yell 'Why you little...' [...]"

That particular short aired on the Tracy Ullman Show March 6, 1988.

Ha! I guess the Little Mermaid ripped off the Simpsons! I can't imagine anyone on the Disney team taking something from Matt Groening though... the movie is so beautiful and elegant whereas the Simpsons is especially crude in its first year, both in art and story. Or maybe it was just one big coincidence and they happen to sound EXACTLY THE SAME while doing EXACTLY THE SAME THING.

On a tangent, how hard is it for Eric to have a father-in-law who is the ruler of the seas?