As Dreamers Do Part Deux

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Disneyland's 55th Anniversary Special
Aired on the night of July 17, 2010 as a special edition of the anthology series on Fox

Hosted by the stars of Glee
Jane Lynch
Mike O'Malley
Chris Colfer
Dianna Agron
Kevin McHale
Amber Riley

What's new at Disneyland Park?
Tomorrowland
- In response to overwhelmingly negative criticism, Horizon Spaceport's name is changed back to Tomorrowland, repurposed with a space-fantasy theme while keeping the Tomorrowland 2055 design that didn't get built IOTL.
- With Stitch's Great Escape taking over at the Magic Kingdom in Orlando, the Alien Encounter (based on The X-Files ITTL) finds a new home in Anaheim.
- Star Tours is undergoing refurbishment into Star Tours: The Adventures Continue with new planets, etc.
- Autopia will revert to its shorter track layout from 1955 to make way for the expansion of Fantasyland.

New Orleans Square
The lameduck World Holiday Land (above) is being rethemed as an expansion of New Orleans Square. Disney has been tight-lipped on what rides could be part of the expansion. Jim Hill Media speculates that it could be a Bayou-themed dark ride based on The Princess and the Frog. Likely a condensed version of OTL's Tiana's Bayou Adventure. Others say that WED Imagineering has asked Blanche Boudreaux to be a consultant. Others point to Del St. Pierre writing new background music for the land. Users on Marvel fan messageboards have their fingers crossed for a Gambit-themed attraction.​

 

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What's New at Disneyland Park?
Part 2

Discovery Bay
A condensed version of the Submarine Voyage, based on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea [1], will open at Discovery Bay to make up for the original Submarine Voyage and Motorboat Cruise at Tomorrowland being phased out to make way for Fantasyland expansion.

[1] As part of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit returning to Disney, Walt Sr. co-produced 20,000 Leagues in 1954 with Walter Lantz, Richard Fleischer and George Pal.

At the moment, the only real E-Ticket at Discovery Bay is the Island at the Top of the World. The 1974 film of the same title inspired the blimp used in the logo for Hyperion Pictures' logo.

Discovery Bay is on the Northwest corner of Disneyland Park where Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge sits nowadays IOTL.

Mickey's Toontown
Mickey's Runaway Railway should come much sooner ITTL if Paul Rudish's take on the Fab Five proves successful in the near future.

Fantasyland
Early talk of retheming the Matterhorn with a Snow Queen overlay quieted down after a few years because of a potential mismatch with the storyline of the existing ride. Instead, we'll see a whole new ride which is basically the Frozen Ever After ride that replaced the Maelstrom at Epcot IOTL.

Ariel's Undersea Adventure should fit somewhere here.

Adventureland and Frontierland
No changes to either of these lands as of 2010 ITTL.

What's New at the Epic Kingdom?
Across the esplanade from Disneyland Park is the Epic Kingdom, which opened in 2001 on the site of the OTL California Adventure.
These new lands and attractions were added last year.
AJAX Crimenet (Carmen Sandiego franchise)
Pixel Pier (Atari, TRON and Kingdom Hearts franchises)
Little Tokyo (Urusei Yatsura, Naruto, Inuyasha, Tenchi Muyo, Ranma 1/2)
Pico Boulevard (Die Hard or Speed stunt show)

Notes: The OTL Avenger Campus is known ITTL as Excelsior Square with attractions based on Marvel, TMNT and Gargoyles.

In the coming years, if Big Hero Six proves successful, San Fransokyo Square could help bridge Pixel Pier and Little Tokyo.

And in case you're wondering....Yes, in Orlando, there is an Urusei Yatsura ride at the Japanese pavilion at Epcot. Since 1988.​

 

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June/July 2010 Movies
Part One

Totally Spies! The Movie
Released by Paramount Pictures in association with Lionsgate

Production Companies
Williams Street (US)
Marathon Media (France)

English voices ITTL
Drew Barrymore as Sam
Reese Witherspoon as Clover
Rosario Dawson as Alex
John Cleese as Jerry
All other voices are the same as OTL.
Logo trivia
Here's how Totally Spies! The Movie starts in North America. Overseas, it's the other way around. Apologies for OTL bylines.

 

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June/July 2010 Movies
Part Two

Knight and Day
Released by 20th Century-Fox

Toy Story 3
Released by Touchstone Pictures
Produced by Pixar
ITTL: Tim Allen was replaced by Patrick Warburton as the voice of Buzz Lightyear

Splice
Released by Carolco through Warner Bros.

The A-Team
Released by Universal Pictures through Peacock Releasing

ITTL: To promote the movie, Sony/MCA Home Entertainment released this deluxe DVD box set of the original TV series.

 

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June/July 2010 Movies
Part 3

The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Released by Walt Disney Pictures
Produced in association with Legendary and Jerry Bruckheimer Films

Notes: ITTL, the premiere for The Sorcerer's Apprentice was held at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis. Fittingly, the venue has been home to the NFL's Sorcerers since 2007.

Despicable Me
Released by Paramount Pictures
Produced by Illumination

Grown Ups
Released by Columbia Pictures
Produced by Happy Madison

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Released by Lionsgate

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Released by Walt Disney Pictures
Based on the Atari video game series

Predators
Released by Warner Bros. under the Carolco label​

 

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2010 San Diego Comic Con
Held on July 22 thru 25, 2010

With billions of dollars at stake, what was once a simple gathering for pop culture nerds to meet their idols has become a lucrative testing ground for Hollywood to gauge the public's interest in the next box office franchise.

Thursday
Hall H
Universal Pictures officially confirmed the long-rumored casting of Andrew Garfield as Archie Andrews as part of Marc Webb's live action Archie film slated for a 2012 release. Archie, along with Ridley Scott's Oppenheimer and Defenders of the Earth (in association with Paramount) will each be the centerpieces of the studio's year-long centennial celebration in 2012.

Later on at Hall H, Universal gave attendees a preview of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which hits theatres worldwide in just three weeks.

Finally, Universal capped off its Hall H slate as the entire cast of Defenders of the Earth came together for the first time. When the panel for the upcoming 2012 film ended, John Cena (Popeye), Chris Evans (Flash Gordon), Benedict Cumberbatch (Mandrake), Ben Affleck (The Phantom), Michael Clake Duncan (Lothar), Ryan Potter (Kshn), Elizabeth Olsen (Jedda Walker) and Thora Birch (Dale Arden) stood together on the stage to a standing ovation.

Attendees at Ballroom 20 saw a preview of Gramercy's upcoming sci-fi disaster film Skyline. IOTL, despite the ambitious marketing campaign like you see above, the film was overwhelmingly panned by critics.

Exhibit Hall
On the exhibit hall floor the entire weekend, AMC offered an interactive preview of its new exclusive series The Walking Dead.

 

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Before we dive further into the 2010 Comic Con, let's pause to get everybody caught up on the logos used by Touchstone Pictures for each theatrical film featuring the Muppets.

The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Muppet Treasure Island (1996)

Muppets from Space (1999)

 

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Before I start, I'm gonna give the poll a few days before I pick a winner.

2010 San Diego Comic Con
Part Two

Thursday (Continued)
Ballroom 20
USA Network offered fans a preview of Spartacus: Blood and Sand. ITTL, the series is set in the same universe as Stanley Kubrick's 1960 epic.

Tiffany Disney and Joyce Chung shared the stage to announce the promotional night schedule for the Mighty Ducks' 2010-11 season.​

Month	Opponent	Giveaway/Promotion
September (Preseason)	Indianapolis Racers (IHL) at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, IN with the Racers as the home team	Commemorative poster by Jim Davis and his staff at Unicorn Comics
September (Preseason)	Vancouver Canucks (NHL Global Series at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia)	Commemorative boomerang courtesy of Victoria Bitter beer
October (Home opener at the Sempra Energy Center)	Los Angeles Kings	Western game of SBC's first Wednesday Night doubleheader of the regular season. The eastern game before that will be the Blackhawks ring and banner night at the United Center against the Milwaukee Admirals
November	Edmonton Oilers	Urusei Yatsura night
December	Montreal Canadiens	Star Wars night
January	San Jose Sharks	Outdoor Classic on New Year's weekend at Petco Park
February	Winnipeg Jets	Winnie the Pooh day
March	Boston Bruins (at TD Garden; Boston, MA)	St. Patrick's Day (National telecast carried by ESPN with Kid friendly simulcast over on ESPNick)
April	New York Rangers	TMNT night

Room 7AB
Paramount Animation president Sam Register moderated a panel offering attendees a preview of the upcoming straight-to-home media crossover Tom and Jerry: Top Gun: Original Movie, which will hit store shelves on August 27. And yes, Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone" blares while Jerry commandeers a fighter jet with Tom hanging on to a wing. And yes, Red Hot Riding Hood will play Charlie Blackwood.

When asked about Tom and Jerry: Ghostbusters: Original Movie being delayed to 2011, Register confirmed that the sudden decline of Earl Kress's health played a role. Another factor was the legal issues regarding likeness rights for the original actors prompting Paramount to recycle the character designs from the 80's SatAm series (known IOTL as The Real Ghostbusters) at the last minute. A third factor, Register said, was not wanting to cannibalize Answer the Call, which comes out the weekend before Halloween.​

 

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2010 San Diego Comic Con
Part Three

Friday
EA Sports announces the return of the Mutant League franchise, a series of arcade-style sports video games that were popular during the early 1990's.

A trailer for Mutant League Football reveals that the teams featured in the game will be NFL and WLAF teams parodied with names like the Los Scandalous Scavengers (LA Avengers), Croakland Vultures (Oakland Condors), Cracksumskull Hellcats (Jacksonville Tomcats), Magic Kingdom Mayhem (Orlando Thunder), Skin Andbonio Hexans (San Antonio Texans), Scarizona Strangers (Arizona Wranglers), Killer Whales (Vancouver Orcas), Barfelonoius Lizards (Barcelona Dragons), Slashgow Slaymores (Scottish Claymores), Damned Abominables (Amsterdam Admirals), Gotham Threats (New York Jets), Galaxy Chaos (Frankfurt Galaxy) and Dungeon Tyrants (London Monarchs) just to name a few.​

 

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2010 San Diego Comic Con
Part Four

Friday
Ballroom 20
ESPNick dropped a trailer for The Muppets Take the Ice, a Muppet-themed Tuesday and Thursday Night simulcast for ESPN's National Hockey Night. One snippet includes Tiffany Disney interacting with Ernie squeaking a rubber duckie and a few incidental Muppet ducks.

ESPNick also teased the return of Guts and Figure it Out with new episodes, along with a Toy Story-themed simulcast slate for NFL Slimetime and Monday Night Football.

Hall H
Paramount Pictures started the day by trotting out the cast of Ghostbusters III: Answer the Call. Director Jason Reitman was accompanied by Mario Lopez as Eduardo Rivera, Kenan Thompson as Roland Jackson, Felicity Jones as Kylie Griffin and David Harbour as Garrett Miller. The fim will be released in October on the weekend before Halloween.

After that, Paramount held a panel for the upcoming Barbie film slated for a 2012 release. Director Sofia Coppola was joined by screenwriters Greta Gerwig and Linda Woolverton, along with Barbie creator Ruth Handler. Also there were the main stars of the anticipated film, Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken.​

 

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2010 San Diego Comic Con
Part Five

Saturday
Room 7AB
Longtime Universal Animation executive Phil Nibbelink officially introduces Akari Tomoson as his successor.

As day turned to night, Blanche Boudreaux presented a live version of Cartooning Made Easy.

Ballroom 20
Fox gave attendees a sneak preview for the new seasons of The Simpsons, American Dad, Futurama, Family Guy and The Cleveland Show.

After that, 20th Century-Fox Animation introduced the world to a new series, nockForce, which will launch late at night on FX this fall. After a slideshow of character turnaround sheets, creators Ian Jones-Quartey and Jim Grisel pointed out that they had to modify FuckForce's name to FrickForce due to FCC regulations.

Hall H
Disney started their Hall H marathon with a panel and trailer for Power Pack, which comes to theatres in November of this year.

After that, panels and trailers for Rumpelstiltskin (WDCA), The Royal Swashbucklers (Legendary), Rio (Blue Sky) and The Haunted Mansion (Laika).

But those were mere appetizers as Disney saved the best trailers for last.

 

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2010 San Diego Comic Con
Part Six

Saturday (Continued)
USA Cartoon Express (USACX) hosted a panel and released a trailer for its upcoming primetime adult series Bloom County, based on Berkeley Breathed's newspaper strip. It was at this panel that the voice cast was confirmed. Opus the Penguin will be voiced by Ryan Reynolds while Bill the Cat will be voiced by Katt Williams. Robert Downey, Jr. will voice Steve Dallas while Mitch Musso voices Milo Bloom and Jaleel White voices Oliver Wendell Jones.

Sunday
Disney held a panel for the revival of Shining Time Station on PBS and released a trailer for a new Thomas movie slated for a Christmas 2010 release. In response to the 2008 passing of George Carlin, the role of the Conductor has been recast with Mark Hamill taking over the role. Serving as executive producers for the Shining Time reboot will be Margaret Loesch (current Disney SVP), Rick Siggelkow (Disney Channel CEO) and Rachel Stone-Abbott.

Note: Legendary Learning, Rachel's educational/public television label, was established a few years earlier to co-produce Cartooning Made Easy with Blanche Boudreaux with Disney, Columbia-TriStar (Season 1-2 only) and the WGBH Educational Foundation.

Atari and Humongous Entertainment confirmed that by popular demand, Backyard Hockey will finally feature younger versions of Tiffany Disney and Joyce Chung as playable characters you can add to your team.

To compete with live action small screen hits like Nickelodeon's Hannah Montana, Disney's Rockin' Rhonda and Oaxis's Gidget, Paramount is rebooting the totally awesome 80's series KIDS Incorporated this fall on TBS. Jennifer Love Hewitt, who starred on the original KIDS Incorporated in its later seasons, will serve as an executive producer.​

 

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2010 San Diego Comic Con
Part Seven

Sunday (Continued)
A panel for the 20th Anniversary of Home Improvement was cut short when a man later identified as Breitbart contributor Ben Shapiro had to be escorted out of the convention center for disrupting Johanna Thomas's attempt to answer a question asked by another attendee.

Nickelodeon held a panel for the return of Clarissa Explains it All and other 80's and 90's classics as part of a new late night programming block called The Splat. It was confirmed that this block would replace Nick at Nite, whose programming (licensed from other studios) will move to XYZ starting in July of 2011. The panel was headlined by Melissa Joan Hart, Kenan Thompson, AJ McLean, Lori-Beth Denberg and Gus St. Pierre.

When asked by an attendee about future projects, Gus casually leaked that he will have a secondary role in Universal's Fast Five next year.

Christina Ricci and Devon Sawa and creator Marlene King headlined a panel for the third season of XYZ's original series Memory Lane.

[adult swim], desperate to stay competitive with FX's ADHD block, has acquired the multimedia rights to Jesse Barboza's webcomic Forever 16 [1] for a possible series slated for Fall 2011.

[1] Also known IOTL as Maxwell Silver Hammer and its current title Nineteen Ninety Something. Barboza can be found on DeviantArt as @jbwarner86.​

 

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The Sports Page for Late July 2010

With Mike "Doc" Emrick now leaving SBC to join NBC for the chance to call the Stanley Cup Finals, here's how the commentator pairings for each of the NHL's US TV partners will look this coming season.

SBC Wednesday Night Hockey
Studio: Curt Menifee with Brian Hayward and Anson Carter
Booth
Kenny Albert and John Davidson
Sam Rosen and Chico Resch

The NHL on New Line (Friday Nights)
John Forslund and Ray Ferraro

The NHL on NBC (Weekend Afternoons)
Studio: Bob Costas with Brett Hull and Joe Micheletti
Mike "Doc" Emrick and Eddie Olczyk
Chris Cuthbert and Butch Goring
Randy Hahn and Jamie Baker

ESPN National Hockey Night and The NHL on ESPNick (Tuesday and Thursday Nights)
Studio: John Saunders and Barry Melrose
Booth
Gary Thorne and Bill Clement
Steve Levy and Mike Milbury

The IHL on FX
Studio: Hannah Storm
Booth: Gord Miller and Dave Maloney

 

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Entertainment News for Late July 2010

At Hall H, Touchstone Pictures held a panel for the upcoming Yogi Bear film slated to hit theatres Christmas Eve. In attendance was Seth Rogen (voice of Yogi), Zooey Deschanel (voice of Cindy), Ashton Kutcher (voice of Boo-Boo) and Will Ferrell (Ranger Smith). Touchstone president Lisa Henson casually leaked that a live-action adaptation of Jonny Quest is in the works for a possible 2014 release.
- G4 Attack of the Show

Qubo and PB&J, two of the names that were considered for Festival's rebrand as HBO Family will instead be used by Bally for other purposes. One could be a preschool/morning block for HBO Family starting January 1, 2011. The other could be the Saturday Morning block for ION Television starting in just a month and a half.
- The Chicago Tribune

Queen Latifah: "Diddy always assumed Tiff just had a giant booty for a white chick. Nobody bothered to tell Diddy that she wore diapers."
- MTV News

Lost Media Found
Two short lived animated series that aired on TBS right before KIDS Incorporated during the afterschool hours in the fall 1988 and spring of '89. The first was a Ruby-Spears reboot of Filmation's 1974 series George and Jimmy based on the Dutch comic book. In this version, the characters were redesigned by Robert van der Kroft. The other was Maverick and the Top Guns, produced by DiC for Paramount Pictures in an attempt to compete with the Nelvana/TriStar version of GI Joe. Each ran for only 26 episodes.

 

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Entertainment News for Late July 2010 Part Two

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) pumps more than $45 billion USD into western entities like Miramax Films and Bad Boy Records.
- CNBC

Daniel Day-Lewis has been cast as Honest Abe in Steven Spielberg's long awaited Lincoln biopic. With principal photography starting next year, Lincoln is slated for a November 2012 release by RKO Radio Pictures.
- Variety

Cillian Murphy confirmed for the lead role in Ridley Scott's Oppenheimer, slated for 2012 release by Universal.
- Variety

Peacock and Toho reach an agreement for another western Godzilla film for theatrical release in 2014.
- The Hollywood Reporter

Hard Rock's acquisition bid rejected by CBS Discovery's board of directors.
- The New York Times

 

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@Crawfish2567
2011

Anyways...
Here's how the 1995 VHS of A New Hope starts for those who are new to the TL.

Trilogy VHS promo similar to OTL [1]

An Interview with George Lucas (Part 1 of 3)
Fantasound Bumper
"Formatted to fit your screen" Bumper
Start of the film

[1] Notes:
ITTL, Han was played by Kurt Russell.
George Takei's Rakatan ronin Boba fills Lando's shoes.
The promo avoids spoiling the reveal of Sigourney Weaver's Nellith for the "Whole new generation."

The 1995 release of the first Trilogy was not the "Last Time" ITTL. Disney sent the negatives of the theatrical versions to the Library of Congress. In the mid-90's, however, Disney made separate prints when George Lucas and Amblin Entertainment requested access to said negatives to both restoration and enhancements for the 1997 Special Editions. The '95 prints of the first trilogy were released to generate buzz for Shadows of the Empire, the Special Editions and the prequel trilogy. Since then, Disney and Amblin have made both the theatrical and Special Edition releases available through Limited Run. This year, the theatrical versions are what Disney has prioritized for newer reissuses as part of Fox's Diamond Celebration collection.

IOTL, at age 7 in 1995, I was part of that "new generation" of Warsies.

 

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Here's a brief logo history for Nickelodeon movies released by Touchstone ITTL.

Harriet the Spy (1996)
Wild America (1997)

Good Burger (1997)

 

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The Rugrats Movie (1998)
Touchstone logo [Link]

Snow Day (2000)
Touchstone Logo [Link]

Rugrats in Paris (2000)
Touchstone Logo [Link]

Hey Arnold! The Movie (2002)

 

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Adventure Time
The first full season was launched on Nickelodeon on August 2, 2010.
Before that, an episode that served as a sneak preview aired on the night of April 5.

Created by
Pendelton Ward

Voices
Same as OTL

Notes
Season One will be availaible on DVD, UMD and BluRay through Touchstone Home Entertainment and VHS through Limited Run in the summer of 2012.​