The Orange County Register online has the lowdown on the new Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters attraction which opens today at Disneyland, “but the groundbreaking component begins June 6, when anyone in cyberspace will be able to tag along with park visitors – in real time – with an online connection” (free subscription required to read […]

Yahoo! Finance reports that The Incredibles has reached sales of five million units on its first day of release for home video in North America. “The superheroes at Pixar who created The Incredibles have made it even more thrilling in this extraordinary DVD release,” said Pixar CEO Steve Jobs. “We are gratified that millions of […]

Check out Mark Evanier’s site for photos and an account of the unveiling Wednesday of the wall sculpture dedicated to animation legends Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera held at The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in North Hollywood (original link via Cartoon Brew).

Follow the ‘More’ link to view five images from yesterday’s Incredibles DVD signing held at the Hollywood Virgin Megastore. Apparently writer/director Brad Bird was there (in addition to story supervisor Mark Andrews and music supervisor Michael Giacchino) even though he wasn’t mentioned in the announcement.

After you get your DVD today of The Incredibles be sure to go hunting for Easter eggs. If you want some hints, just look here:

Just received some late-breaking news that two members of the crew for The Incredibles, Mark Andrews, story supervisor, and Michael Giacchino, music supervisor, will be signing copies of the DVD tomorrow at the Hollywood Virgin Megastore (8000 W. Sunset Blvd) from 6:00-8:00 P.M. According to BVHE: “Creators of this amazing film will meet with fans […]

Forget that business about Flushed Away being retitled Ratropolis. Now it’s back to being called Flushed Away again. The IMDb page also has updated casting information.

Yahoo! Finance has posted Roy Disney and Stanley Gold’s response to the naming of Bob Iger as Michael Eisner’s successor to the position of CEO of The Walt Disney Company.

Cory Mitchell in our Animated News forum points out a site by artist Michael Paulus that imagines what the skeletal structure of many famous cartoon characters might look like.

The official site for Disney/Pixar’s The Incredibles has been updated to reflect its pending DVD release. Check it out to preview some of the DVD’s great special features. Thanks to ‘macontosh2000’ and ‘scofo’ in our Animated News forum.

After the debacle of the Cat in the Hat movie, the widow of Dr. Seuss swore to never allow a live-action adaptation of one her husband’s books again. But she has now warmed up to the idea of allowing a CGI-adaptation Horton Hears A Who to be produced by Fox’s Blue Sky studio, according to […]

On Thursday, April 21, the Hollywood Heritage Museum/Lasky-DeMille Barn will be screening “historic ‘home movie’ footage shot by Ward Kimball,” one of Walt Disney’s legendary Nine Old Men. While animation is not specifically mentioned, knowing Ward Kimball’s reputation this footage is likely to be quite entertaining.

Kristin writes in to point out that one of the promotional posters for Pooh’s Heffalump Movie looks quite similar in concept to one of the promotional posters used for Lilo and Stitch. Compare the two images here:

This may not qualify exactly as animation news but Latino Review has posted the cover image for July’s Harry Potter and The Half-blood Prince.

Chuck Oberleitner has posted a new article at his o-meon site discussing the visionary nature of the material contained in the Tomorrowland: Disney In Space And Beyond DVD from Wave 3 of the Walt Disney Treasures series.

File this one under “bizarre and unexpected.” Papadapolis writes in and points out a site where Napoleon from Napoleon Dynamite and Fender from the upcoming Robots have an online dance competition. It looks like it’s even an official Fox site.

Kristin writes in to point out that the FOX Network is hosting a preview tonight at 8PM entitled Assembling ROBOTS: The Magic, The Music and the Comedy. Robots hits theaters next week, March 11, and is 20th Century Fox’s first CGI movie since Ice Age in 2002.

Six screen shots of deleted scenes that can be found on disc 2 of the March 15 DVD release of Disney/Pixar’s The Incredibles can be found here:

On the online auction block now at eBay is a Disney book from 1973 entitled Brer Rabbit and His Friends. Only difference between this and the original story is that the infamous tar baby has been replaced by a glue-coated stuffed bunny rabbit in an attempt to be politically correct.

Coming later this month at Hollywood’s historic Egyptian Theatre is a three-part program centered on animator extraordinaire Genndy Tartakovsky. Genndy will be playing some of his Samurai Jack material, his brand-new Clone Wars cartoons, and works of others who have influenced him (original link via Cartoon Brew).

Yahoo! Finance reports that first day sales for yesterday’s release of Disney’s Bambi reached one million units, knocking out all of the other competition. Not bad for a sixty-three year old movie. Apparently the public does like traditional animation.

An exclusive sneak preview of Krypto the Superdog is now up at Cartoon Network. The new series is set to premiere April 4.

Apparently ads for Star Wars: Clone Wars Season 3 are starting to air on Cartoon Network. Read a description at TheForce.net and a related story.

Here’s something else for Syndrome to geek out about: Chuck Oberleitner has just begun a new column at his o-meon site dedicated to “helping to improve the Disneyland Resort experience of a lesser served group of visitors, grownups traveling without children,” especially during this 18-month period in which Disneyland is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.

The official site for Disney’s Tarzan II has just gone live. There’s not much there right now except for an order link and a trailer, which is unusual since trailers usually come later.

For a 24-hour period (beginning who knows when) Salon is making available three animated shorts that have been nominated for this year’s Oscar.

Yesterday we posted about The Incredibles going 2D (briefly) but today we point out The Incredibles presented in yet another format. Ultimate Disney has posted five screen captures from the bonus features on Disc 2 and one shows sock puppets apparently acting out a scene from the movie.

Brad Bird sure was right when he said he was going to load this DVD up with special features. Following are five images from the Mr. Incredible & Pals feature on disc 2 of the Incredibles DVD. The feature pokes lighthearted fun at 70’s television animation, the Superfriends in particular, complete with cheesy dialogue and […]

Follow the ‘More’ link to view six images from the Jack-Jack Attack short which is included on the March 15 DVD release of Disney/Pixar’s The Incredibles. The short reveals the trouble the supposedly powerless Jack-Jack Parr puts Kari the babysitter through when the rest of the Parr family are off fighting the omnidroid and Syndrome […]

Check out Electric Tiki’s new statue of Popeye based on the Fleischer Studio’s design of everyone’s favorite spinach chewing sailor man. Thanks to GeorgeC for pointing this out in our Animated News Forum.