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You can enter to win a trip to the Disneyland Resort and D23 Expo, the ultimate Disney fan event, for a family of four with the Disney Story Theater Film Festival contest! All you have to do to enter to win is make your own movie and submit it by June 23, 2013. Then, you will save and share your story with your family and friends so that they can vote for you.
Here are the three easy steps to entering the Disney Story Theater Film Festival contest:
It’s time to revisit everyone’s favorite toys again in a new Halloween special on ABC this October. Pixar and ABC have teamed up to bring us ‘Toy Story of Terror’, a new ‘Toy Story’ short film, which sees the toys ending up at a creepy hotel in the middle of a roadtrip with Bonnie. When one of the toys goes missing, the rest are left with the mystery to figure out what has happened to their missing friend, and how to make sure it doesn’t happen to them as well. The shorts sees the return of familiar faces Buzz, Woody, Rex, Mr. Potato Head, and Jessie, with Jessie taking center stage this time around. Producer Galyn Susman told TV guide why they chose to make Jessie front in center this time around:
“We’ve gotten to see a lot of development in Woody and in Buzz and we felt it was Jesse’s turn to really show some growth.”
We recently got a chance to play around with Disney Learning’s new app for Ipad and Iphones, Toy Story: Story Theater and I have to say my kids loved it !
The whole concept of the game is creating new adventures with different Toy Story characters and recording your own voice to bring the whole thing to life.
The kids get to start with Buzz, Woody, Jessie, or the gang. Then using simple puppet theater tools you can move around and resize the characters on any number of backgrounds.
Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the gang embark on exciting new adventures in the brand new Disney Learning Toy Story: Story Theater app for the iPhone and iPad!
By choosing their setting, character and props, and using their own voice to bring the action to life, Toy Story: Story Theater allows kids ages 3-7 to make their very own animated movies. Simple puppet theater tools make it easy to imagine, re-imagine and play. Best of all, the app is both fun AND educational, introducing early literacy skills through guided and imaginative story play.
Toy Story: Story Theater is now available for $2.99 in the iTunes store.
Disney-Pixar has announced this week via Twitter another new movie in the works, “Inside Out.” Although all the talk has been on Disney-Pixar’s announcement of the new Finding Dory movie that will be released November 2015, Disney-Pixar is hoping to add to the excitement with another original film planned for the summer of 2015.
The announcement was made via their official Twitter account, @DisneyPixar. “We have an announcement! Inside Out, the new film from director Pete Docter, will open in US theaters June 19, 2015.”
Pete Docter has played a major role within the Disney-Pixar company, including involvement with ’Toy Story,’ ‘Toy Story 2,’ ‘WALL-E’ and the upcoming ‘Monsters University,’ as well as directing ‘Monsters, Inc.,’ ‘Up’ and now ‘Inside Out.’
