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STAR WARS: The Force Awakens Soundtrack to be Released on Vinyl LPs with 3D Holograms

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Walt Disney Records is set to release a new hologram vinyl version of the original motion picture soundtrack for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. With score conducted and composed by five-time Academy Award®-winning composer John Williams and liner notes by the film’s director, J.J. Abrams (emphasis mine – Fab), the double LP features a 16-page booklet on 180 gram vinyl.

This one-of-a-kind vinyl set, hand etched by Tristan Duke of Infinity Light Science, offers a 3D hologram experience featuring the Millennium Falcon on Disc 1/Side B and a TIE Fighter on Disc 2/Side B.  For optimal viewing, use a direct light source or simply hold a mobile phone flashlight above the vinyl to view the holograms.

Tristan Duke founded Infinity Light Science in 2008, a research laboratory with an emphasis on laser holography, interferometry, light-field imaging, hand-drawn holography, and relativistic imaging.

The must-have vinyl album also features Direct Metal Mastering (DMM) for an optimal listening experience.  Disney Music Group has joined forces with Pro-Ject Audio Systems to showcase this unique, next-level advancement in holographic vinyl technology with the Elemental turntable, a combination of minimalist design and maximum performance from the world leader in high fidelity turntables. The two brands will collaborate on co-promotions at retail, online, and radio.

Pre-order the @StarWars #TFAhologramVinyl from @DisneyMusicEmp now! 

The Star Wars: The Force Awakens 2-LP hologram soundtrack will be available on June 17, 2016 at Disney Music Emporium, the destination for collectible Disney music products.  The vinyl set is available for pre-order beginning today, at www.disneymusicemporium.com and also at Amazon.

If you pre-order it using the link above, it supports Fab News. Thanks!

If you do get the vinyl version from Amazon, you also get AutoRip, a digital version.  Product will be released 6/17/16.

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Thanks for the awesome Nerf-Herders at StarWarsReporter.com for cluing me into this beauty:

Plus, it’s a charity fundraiser, and you know that I am all about those. Also, there’s apparently a clue as to whom Negan does that thing that Negan apparently does that thing to in last season’s finale during the above video somewhere, somehow. I am unconvinced that the clue exists within this video. I think that it’s a reach. A far reach. Judge for yourself. Though, I wonder, why isn’t…never mind.

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Dave Avanzino Appearing at Disneyana!

Incredible artist Dave Avanzino will be making an appearance inside Disneyland next weekend, June 4-5 at the Disneyana shop and gallery from 11:00 AM until 7:00 PM.

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Dave will have copies of his new Hatbox Ghost and Disneyland Alphabet limited editions available. Remember, you can purchase your art when the shop opens, and they’ll be happy to hold it for you while you enjoy your day in the park. Return after Dave has arrived and have your purchase signed, and you’ll be sure that the precious artwork you’ve had your eye on won’t be snapped up by someone else if you really want a rare piece, original. limited edition or certain number.

Also, 11-7 is 8 hours, I’m reasonably sure they’ll give him a couple of breaks, so if he’s away from the table when you get there, don’t freak out, just ask a Cast Member when he’ll be back.

Next Week is a Zoo – topia!

June 7th, Zootopia is coming home! I’m so excited! I have seen the Bonus Features and they are AWESOME! Especially the “EASTER EGGS!!!!!”

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Last Tuesday afternoon, I was invited to DisneyToon Studios in Glendale to do a few interviews, which you’ll read and hear next week, as release date draws closer. But just to whet your whistle, I wanted to just give you a little teaser, a little tidbit, a small photo of me with a very famous celebrity:

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Frances the Fish: A Lovely Note for a Beautiful Project

I got a really sweet email from Frances the Fish creator Anika Tourse, as did everyone who attended:

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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! 

Many thanks to our esteemed panelists, our auction donors, volunteers, sponsors, entertainers and YOU for making our tribute to Disney Legend Floyd Norman a truly extraordinary evening. Special thanks to our media sponsor LAX Coastal Chamber of Commerce and the Angell Foundation for their generous contributions. Much love to all of you who came out on Tuesday night, for supporting our event auction, and to those near and far who gifted tickets to students. Now let’s keep swimming to our campaign goal so that we can begin production on our target date of July 23, 2016! Your tax-deductible contribution of ANY SIZE to our LIVE campaign at https://igg.me/at/francesfish will help to create a stunning animated short film that will inspire audiences to care for our natural resources and the plight of wild salmon. Please contribute, please share, and swim, swim, swim. Let’s DO this!

And was it ever a wonderful evening! The Federal Bar and Restaurant was a fantastic venue for the event, with a private bar and stage upstairs, and restaurant with two separate rooms and bars downstairs. It was poutine night, so a few of us dined downstairs before heading up to the party. The layout was perfect, with an artist doing caricatures, legendary artists, students, fans and friends all mingling together, wonderful music, food and a fantastic fundraising silent auction on a balcony overlooking the gorgeous color-changing sky as the sun set, with the Hollywood Hills in the distance. Truly lovely.

That gorgeous fella sure looks familiar...why, it's Michael-Leon Wooley!
That gorgeous fella sure looks familiar…why, it’s Michael-Leon Wooley!

Our own Dusty Sage kicked off the evening by introducing Michael-Leon Wooley who knocked our collective socks off with his stellar rendition of “Cruella de Vil”, then there was a fantastic panel of animation experts: moderated by David Derks (VP of AISFA Hollywood & Host to the Annie Awards) and featuring Peter Ramsey (Director of Golden Globe nominated the Rise of the Guardians,) Marlon West (Visual Effects Head for Academy Award winner Feast & Frozen) Nik Ranieri (Animator for The Little Mermaid, The Princess & the Frog, and Annie Award winner for his character animation in Hercules,) Lorna Cook (Four time Annie Award winner, Director of Spirit and co-head of Story for Prince of Egypt,) Jun Falkenstein (Director of the Tigger Movie, the first and youngest female director of an animated feature)

I actually got pulled away to meet an artist with whom I will share an interview in the coming months – he has an incredible story to tell. You’re going to love him. Here’s his contribution to the evening:

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Floyd Norman took to the stage, and thanked everyone for coming. He was his usual humble self. He’s amazing and so is another brilliant Disney Senior Artist,  Adrienne Norman, who happens to be married to him. She was also in attendance last Tuesday, so it was a fantastic evening.

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So many great people, such lousy selfie skills - still.
So many great people, such lousy selfie skills – still.

At the end of the evening, there was cake (Thanks, Nik!) and we got to meet some of the actual Frances the Fish animation team, and everybody went home happy and tired. No one runs an event as well as you Dusty. Well done!

If you went, THANK YOU! If you didn’t, GO NEXT TIME! In case you missed it, here’s the link for the Indiegogo page for Frances the Fish: https://igg.me/at/francesfish

Speaking of Next Time…

Does anyone know where THIS is? Find out Thursday!

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Shelly Valladolid
Shelly Valladolid, aka Fab, has been writing about Disney and theme parks for about two decades. She has written for various fan and pop culture sites, Disney Magazine and OCRegister.com and participated in several books, including Passporter's Disneyland and Southern California and Disney World Dreams. She was co-founder and president of the Orlando, Florida chapter of the NFFC (now Disneyana Fan Club). She taught a class on theme park history at a Southern California University. She is creator and co-owner of Jim Hill Media, one of the creators of MousePlanet and was a consultant on MSNBC, The Motley Fool and others about Disney and various media matters. She was a Heel wrestling manager on TV and a voice artist on the radio in Honolulu, HI, where she grew up. She has a blog and a podcast with her daughter, Mission:Breakout Obsessive Alice Hill. She and her husband, MiceChat columnist Noe Valladolid, live in Southern California with Alice.