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Happy 2011! I hope it's a great year for you.

Santa was good to me this Christmas, dropping off three excellent books that you should add to your Disney collection as well.



In Service to the Mouse
Jack Lindquist (with Melinda J. Combs)

For 38 years, Jack Lindquist worked for the parks division of Disney. He began his career as ...

Maybe it was because I was sitting at a midnight showing with a theater full of enthusiastic TronGeeks. Maybe it was because, after being up all day, I was wired on caffeine and sugar. Or, maybe it was simply because I refused to listen to the critics who nitpicked everything that's wrong with Tron: Legacy and didn't focus on what's right about it.

I had a blast. Tron: ...

The reviews are mixed, but that's not stopping me from getting my game grid geekery on tonight and catching the midnight showing of Tron: Legacy. I'll post my own review later, but in the meantime, here's a behind-the-scenes look at the film with some "blue carpet" comments from the cast and crew:

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Forget about seeing the whole movie, how early would you get up to be first to see a trailer for a movie? A group of dedicated Pirates of the Caribbean fans, many dressed in full buccaneer garb, tested that idea at the AMC Theatre in Disneyland's Downtown Disney district yesterday. Winners of a local radio contest, they were lined up before dawn to see the trailer for the newest installment of the Pirates franchise, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, hours before it was released to the

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This week, Disney offers up a wealth of video releases for the holidays. The flashiest choice is Walt's great experiment of animation and classical ...