A Spoon Full of Disney!

This blog is a place where I will post whatever I want to all about Disney. I absolutely love the Disney Company, and was inspired by Thingamavlogs to make this a platform in which I could share my love for Disney! Here I will post things all about the history of Disney, new things coming up, as well as my tips on how to make the most of your Disney trips!!

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The Disney Movie Eras

(Not including films made in association with Pixar, Lucasfilm, or Marvel)

1937-1942: The Golden Era

The Golden Era represents the films that Walt Disney personally oversaw, and that established the Walt Disney Animation as one of the top animation studios. They consist of:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Pinocchio

Fantasia!

Dumbo

Bambi

In terms of finances, the Golden Era wasn’t that golden. It suffered a great loss from Fantasia!, and tried to make up for the financial loss with Dumbo, which was originally suppose to be an animated short.

1943-1949: The Wartime Era

The Wartime Era consists of movies that were made during World War II, and because of this they were quite low budget films and were not very popular. This era is also known as the “Package Era” because the movies were not a continuous story, but rather just a bunch of short films put together. Thest movies consisted of:

Saludos Amigos

The Three Caballeros

Make Mine Music

Fun and Fancy Free

Melody Time

The Adventures of Icabod and Mr. Toad

1950-1967: The Silver Age

This period of Disney History is also known as the restoration period of Disney. It was when Disney started making full length animated feature films again, and went back to the classic Disney animation. During this time the Disney Company also made advancements in mixing animation with live action like in Song of the South and Mary Poppins, but that doesn’t really count since it is live action mixed with animation.

Cinderella

Alice in Wonderland

Peter Pan

Lady and the Tramp

Sleeping Beauty

101 Dalmatians

The Sword in the Stone

The Jungle Book

1970-1988: The Bronze Age

The Bronze Age (also called Disney’s Dark Age) saw a time where Disney Studios was struggling to make good animated movies. Without Walt Disney, who had died in 1966, to lead them they has sort of lost their footing, and were in a period of trial and error.

The Aristocats

Robin Hood

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

The Fox and the Hound

The Black Cauldron

The Great Mouse Detective

Oliver and Company

Most of these films received very little success, and The Black Cauldron was a complete flop in the box office. The only film to be commercially successful was the The Great Mouse Detective

1989-1999: The Disney Renaissance

Like the Disney Silver Era, the Disney Renaissance was Disney’s return to making musical fairytale type animated films. It is considered by many to be the best of the Disney movie eras. This period not only had great animated features, but also brought so many wonderful talents into the spotlight like Howard Ashman and Alan Menken.

The Little Mermaid

The Rescuers Down Under

Beauty and the Beast

Aladdin

The Lion King

Pochahontas

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Mulan

Tarzan

2000-2009: The Post-Renaissance Era

The Post-Renaissance era is also known as Disney’s Second Dark Age. In this time Disney was marketing more towards the kids who had grown up during the Disney Renaissance, and not everyone like they had used to. Most of the films released during this period only received moderate success, but this was mainly due to the fact that they had to compete with huge movie franchises like the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Despite this not being a very commercially successful period, Disney was able to develop new technology, and released the first films that used CGI animation.

Fantasia 2000

Lilo and Stitch

Treasure Planet

Brother Bear

Home on the Range

Chicken Little

Meet the Robinsons

Bolt

2010-present: The Second Disney Renaissance

Just like the first Disney Renaissance, the Second Disney Renaissance also followed a dark age. This era marked another return to classic Disney storytelling, as well as the additions of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Lucasfilm. Because Disney bought Marvel and Lucasfilm, they no longer needed to worry about pleasing people of all ages. They had their classic animated features films, as well as more high action thrills

Princess and the Frog

Winnie the Pooh

Tangled

Wreck It Ralph

Frozen

Big Hero 6

Zootopia

Moana

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Disney Movies

It has recently come to my attention that I have not seen nearly enough of the old animated movies and cartoons that the Disney Company made, so I am challenging myself to watch every Disney movie that is classified in one of the “Eras of Disney Movies”, such as the Golden Age, or the Disney Renaissance, as well as just other films that I have interest in watching like Pete’s Dragon. So far I have watched every movie in the Golden Era, The Disney Renaissance, and all of the Disney Pixar Films.

Here are the films I still need to watch: Sauldos Amigos, The Three Caballeros, Make Mine Music, Melody Time, The Adventures of Icabod and Mr. Toad (The Wartime Era); 101 Dalmatians (The Silver Age); The Aristocats, The Black Cauldron, The Great Mouse Detective, Oliver and Company (The Bronze Age); Treasure Planet, Home on the Range (The Post-Renaissance Era); Princess and the Frog (The Second Renaissance).

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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit came before Mickey Mouse, and was used in short cartoons that Disney produced. He was created in the 1920s by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks to be used for the “Funny Animal Films” that was distributed by Universal Studios. There were 26 animated Oswald cartoons. The Oswald Cartoons got so popular that Disney had to ask for more money in order to produce them, but Universal would not give him the money. They said that Disney could keep making cartoons with the money that they were giving him or that he could leave the company, but the company would keep the rights to Oswald despite it being Iwerks and Disney’s creation. Most of the world forgot about Oswald, and he almost disappeared from history.

In 2003, The Disney Company wanted to create a video game that would featured Oswald, however they did not have the rights to him. It wasn’t until 2006 that they were finally able to get the Oswald rights, as well as all the Oswald Cartoons from Universal Studios. Oswald has since appeared in many Disney video games, animated shorts, and is the main subject of the 2015 documentary “Walt Before Mickey”. He also has his own shop in Disney’s California Adventure called “Oswald’s” where you can get any piece of Oswald merchandise you can think of. The only appearance that Oswald has made in the parks was on the date that Disney acquired Oswald rights, and has not since appeared any other times.

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Sweet 16 Disneyland Haul

Haul from my March 17-19, 2017 trip

Clothing: 

Disneyland 2017 Sweatshirt

Pins: 

Limited Edition 6,000 Star Wars Pin

Limited Edition 2,500 Pirates 50th Pin

Mickey Paradise Pier Hotel Pin

Minnie as Mary Poppins

Mickey as Bert

Practically Perfect In Every Way Pin

Best Friends Mystery Pack of 5

Mickey and Pluto

Pooh and Piglet

Oliver and Dodger

Genie and Aladdin

Mulan and Mushu

Pins I traded for:

Minnie Black and White Portrait

Jiminy Cricket Hidden Mickey Pin

Kanga and Roo Hidden Mickey Pin

Owl Hidden Mickey Pin

Tomorrowland Rocket Hidden Mickey 60th Pin

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Disneyland Trip Recap March 17-19, 2017

Mom picked me up from school at 1:00 and we headed to get some gas and Starbucks then headed to pick up Maddy from her house and Leslie from school. We then drove to Disneyland, and it took about 3 ½ hours to get there. We checked into our hotel, Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel (rooms 503 and 505). Afterwards we went to dinner at Storyteller’s Cafe where Leslie and I had the buffet and Mom, Paula, and Maddy  ordered something off of the menu. We then went into Downtown Disney and I got a Mystery Pack of 5 pins, and a sweatshirt. We then went to Marceline’s Confectionary and got some sweet treats for dessert. Afterwards we went up to the hotel and then Leslie, Maddy, and I went to the pool only to find out it closed in 5 minutes. Emperor’s New Groove was playing though, so we stayed and watched that, then afterwards we watched the Fireworks from the Rooftop Deck. Maddy really wanted to go in elevator “D” since it was a clear elevator, so we went up to the 15th floor where we got to watch some of  World of Color. We then went down to the room and went to bed

The next morning we got up at 6am in order to be at the parks for magic hours at 7am. Leslie also had to leave for a Cheer Competition. We go to the parks and the first thing we did was look at the Main Street Windows, then we went on Peter Pan’s Flight. Maddy and I then went on some rides and did some shopping, then met up at noon with leslie, then had a lunch reservation at 12:40 at Cafe Orleans where we ordered Monte Cristo Sandwiches (THEY ARE HUGE),  and I got a birthday Mickey Beignet.  After lunch we did some more rides, as well as the Tiki Room, and a little shopping. We had dinner at 6:30 (though none of us were hungry) at Carnation Cafe. After dinner we went on more rides, and we also went up into Tarzan’s Treehouse. The last ride we went on was Peter Pan’s Flight. While we were in line for Peter Pan, I decided to quickly run over to Little Green Mens Store Command and see if they had the small pin book that I had been looking for, and they did so I bought it. As we were heading out we stopped in the Candy Palace and Maddy bought a Snickerdoodle, Leslie bought Ice Cream, and after seeing Leslie’s Ice Cream I decided that I needed Ice Cream too despite the fact that I had already bought some of Goofy’s Candy Co. sour candies, and a BB-8 Rice Krispie treat.

What was particularly cool about this trip was that March 18 was the exact 50th anniversary of Pirates of the Caribbean. This was both a blessing and a curse because the line for that was SUPER long (like an hour wait all day), but the perk was that I got to get a Limited Edition Pirates of the Caribbean 50th anniversary pin!!

The next day we got up at around 10:00am and went to Downtown Disney to get some breakfast as well as some last minute shopping. We got off to a little bit of a rough start, but we worked it out and went to Starbucks for breakfast. Maddy wanted to do some last minute shopping so we went into World of Disney (as well as Sephora to get a spoolie for Leslie). She bought a Pluto and Stitch pillow pet, and Leslie bought a necklace and some candies. After that, we stopped at the pin trading store, and I bought all of us a Paradise Pier Hotel as a “thank you for coming,” although Leslie already knew about this, I was able to surprise Madison with it. Then we went and dropped off Madison, and Leslie stayed at our house for a little because her mom had gone to Palmdale.

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I’m crazy, I know XD I hope you like it!

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Disney History: The Sherman Brothers

The Sherman Brothers, comprised of Robert B. Sherman (1925-2012) and Richard M. Sherman (1928) are two of the most important people in Disney history, and are responsible for writing so many iconic Disney songs.

Below is a photo of Richard (Left), Julie Andrews (Center), and Robert (right) at the Academy Awards for Mary Poppins

They wrote more motion picture musical songs than anyone else in the history of film. I’m only going to talk about their contributions to Disney, however if you would like to learn more about them there is a documentary that Disney released called The Boys: The Sherman Brother’s Story that is amazing. Back when Disney was making Mary Poppins (1964), he hired the Sherman brothers to write the songs. Mary Poppins went on to win 6 Academy Awards including Best Original Song (Chim Chim Cher-ee) and Best Score. Other scores that they wrote for Disney include:

The Parent Trap

A Symposium on Popular Songs

In Search of the Castaways

Summer Magic

The Sword in the Stone

Big Red

The Happiest Millionaire

The Jungle Book

The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band

Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day

The Aristocats

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

Welcome to Pooh Corner

Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore

The Tigger Movie

Winnie the Pooh

They not only wrote songs for the Disney movies, they also wrote songs that are used in the Disney Theme Parks all around the world. These include The World Showcase March from EPCOT, One Little Spark from Journey into Imagination, The Best Time of Your Life and There’s a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow from the Carousel of Progress, The Tiki Room from Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, as well as one of their most famous songs, It’s A Small World from the It’s A Small World Attraction. Well that’s all that I can tell you! I encourage you to look up and learn abou the Sherman Brothers because they are amazing!! I mean think about it, without them we would not have so many songs that are now considered classics in Disney History.

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Disney History: Peter Pan’s Flight

Here is a brief history of Peter Pan’s Flight at Disneyland in California!

Peter Pan’s Flight was one of Disneyland’s original Fantasyland rides along with classics such as King Arthur’s Carousel and Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.It is one of Disney’s most popular rides, and can therefore have very long wait times even on off days. The ride is currently featured in all of the Disney Parks with the exception of Disneyland Paris, and is slightly different in every park. Obviously, the ride is based off of Disney’s animated Peter Pan movie (1953), which was based off of the story Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. Originally you were meant to experience this ride from the perspective of Peter, however this changed after audiences were confused as to why Peter was not in the ride. Back when Disneyland used the ticketing system, this ride remained a “C” ticket ride. The ride underwent a renovation in 1961, as well as in 1983 during the remodel of Fantasyland. On February 2, 2015 - July 2, 2015 the attraction underwent another refurbishment during which they added new animations for Wendy, John, and Michael as well as some new special effects throughout the “London” and “Neverland” scenes.

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Disney Park Bag

Your Disney Park Bag is a pretty important little bag. You don’t want to over pack it, but at the same time you don’t want to to forget something important that you might need later. Here is what I like taking with me when I go to the Disney Parks:

The Bag: I like using my Disney Dooney and Bourke crossbody bag in the pattern Disneyland Retro that I got from Disneyland about 7 years ago. It is a very well made bag, and is just the right size for me.

Cell Phone: For me having a cellphone at Disney is very important. Not only is it useful for taking photos and communicating with other people, it is useful for checking the Disneyland app or the MyDisneyExperience app, as well as for playing games in line (my personally favorite is the “Disney Deck’ From “Heads Up”)

Portable Charger: If you are going to be using your phone for all of the afore mentioned things, you are probably going to notice that you will need to recharge it at some point in your day. I personally like taking a portable charger so that I can charge my phone on the go, and not worry about having to find an outlet somewhere. Although, Disney has “charging lockers’ that you can rent, so you could just charge your phone there, but then you would have to go phoneless for a bit while your phone is charging.

Wallet: Of course you need your wallet so that you can buy things, as well as have things like your Annual Pass and ID/Driver’s License.

Pins: I love pin trading at Disneyland, so I tend to bring pins just in case I see that last Winnie the Pooh Hidden Mickey pin that I need to complete my set, or just some other  pin that I like.

Lotion and Lip Balm: I can tell you that being at Disneyland and having chapped lips, or dry skin is THE WORST! It is so uncomfortable, and can ruin your day. I believe that they do have lotion at some of the First Aid Stations, but it is just so much easier to bring a travel size lotion with you.

Magic Band: If you are going to Disney World, you are obviously going to need your Magic Band. Your Magic Band serves as you everything in WDW. It has your room key, park ticket, fastpasses, photopass, and your credit card if you want it to. It is literally life in WDW.

Hand Sanitizer: Most people like bring hand sanitizer or wipes to the park, however I personally don’t. I just wash my hands at the bathroom throughout the day.

Advil/Tylenol: Some advil or tylenol is very handy in the park. If you are having cramps, or if your feet are just hurting from all the walking around, some ibuprofen can be a life saver!

What I bring in my bag may not be what works for you. You really have to see what items you feel are necessary, and just bring what you need to. Disneyland has no problems with you bring water or snacks into the parks. They may ask if you have meds that you need to take, but just explain what it is, and they’ll be more than happy to let you take it into the parks with you.

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Intro

Hello I am just starting this disney blog, however you can visit my other tumblr, @yer-a-jedi-gandalf where I mostly reblog things that I like like Disney, Harry Potter, and Lord of the Rings! The main goal of this blog is to try and share some of my Disney Knowledge, as well as try and give you some tips that can make your next Disney Vacation more magical! So far I’ve only been to the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim California, as well as Walt Disney World in Florida, but I do hope to change that in the near (or distant) future! So you can get to know me, here are my “top 5 lists”!

Top 5 Disney Movie

Mary Poppins

Winnie the Pooh

Peter Pan

Moana

Emperor’s New Groove

Top 5 Disney Attractions:

Hyperspace Mountain

Big Thunder Mountain

Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room

Star Tours: The Adventure Continues

Expedition Everest

I can’t wait to share my Disney experiences here!