We discuss the latest in Disney news including the next gen initiative, New Fantasyland, Test Track 2.0, and more Hollywood Studios rumors. You can find Krystin at http://www.disneytripexpert.com, Josh at http://www.youtube.com/countertopguy, and me at http://www.discussingdisney.com.

We discuss the various Disney news of the past month including possible Avatar blueprints.  We talk to our guest Josh about his trip to WDW.  I discuss my trip to Disneyland and go through every attraction I saw.  You can find Krystin at www.disneytripexpert.com, Josh at www.youtube.com/countertopguy, and me at www.discussingdisney.com.

We talk about the awful D Tech me princess product, Grand Floridian water play area, New Fantasyland, Disney Studios cancer, a billion dollar Sister Act suit, Disney’s Butterbeer clone, Tangled bathrooms, new castle projection show, Oswald hats, and the Art of Animation.

We are back! In this episode we talk about Hollywood Studios rumors, Adventureland rumors, Hocus Pocus rumors, Toy Story Mania in Tokyo, Hong Kong Disneyland construction, Tangled bathrooms, and crazy people getting in trouble at the parks.

The IR glowing ears that glow along with DCA’s World of Color is coming to Disneyland’s Fantasmic at the end of the month. I think this is an interesting concept and adding more places for them to interact will make the price seem more reasonable.

From the Disney Parks Blog:

This summer, guests at Disney California Adventure park have been surprised and delighted by the ways in which the new “Glow With the Show” Ears magically interact with everything from “World of Color” to Mad T Party and more. Reaction to the “Glow With the Show” Ears has been so positive, the team is already working to expand the magic at the Disneyland Resort.

I’m happy to tell you that you’ll soon be able to “Glow With the Show” during “Fantasmic!” at Disneyland park. Imagine experiencing this classic nighttime spectacular in a whole new way – shimmering with the lights of romance as Disney’s royal couples drift by or becoming part of a virtual sea of flames when Maleficent sets the river on fire.
You’ll be able to get glowing with “Fantasmic!” later this month – stay tuned to the Disney Parks Blog for more updates.

This is an awesome rendition of Married Life from UP played on handbells.  Beautiful.

According to Deadline, Andrew Stanton will be directing Finding Nemo 2.  Stanton’s last movie, John Carter, lost Disney millions of dollars.  This will hopefully be an easy turnaround for the director of the beloved Pixar films Finding Nemo and WALL-E.  While critics like to cry foul of the over sequelization of Pixar, they should remember that BRAVE and the two films following Monsters University, The Good Dinosaur and Pete Docter’s untitled film that takes place in the mind, are original.

From Deadline:

While Andrew Stanton‘s live-action feature directing debut John Carter led to a precedent-setting $200 million write-down for Disneyearlier this summer, the filmmaker is officially out of director jail. I’ve been hearing for months that he would come aboard to direct the sequel to Disney-based Pixar‘s Finding Nemo, with the idea that Disney would give him another shot behind the camera on a live-action film.

I’m told he’s now officially come aboard the Finding Nemo sequel and has a concept the studio loves. Pixar continues to not be helpful on this, as they don’t comment on development. It’s understandable why Disney and Pixar would be excited by this. Stanton won two Oscars for his animation work on Wall-E and Finding Nemo. That original 2003′s fish tale’s $867.9 million worldwide gross makes it still Pixar’s second-highest-grossing film and the third-biggest Disney animated film release ever. And that comes before Finding Nemo is re-released in 3D in September.

As for Disney coming through with another live-action project, I’m hearing that nothing is firm but that the studio is working on it. It looks like the studio is ready to give Stanton a mulligan on John Carter. Stanton, who has played a big role in many of Pixar’s hits going back to Toy Story, has an opportunity to put a big flop behind him and he’s certainly not the first director to have trouble out of the gate, as David Fincher did with Alien 3. Plenty of others failed the first time out and lived to fight another day and Stanton will get the same opportunity from the studio that has made a fortune off his successes.

This is an amazing parody of Belle’s opening song in Beauty and the Beast. It even has Hide Your Kids Antoine.

Disney just released this ad showing a giant group of kids racing Lightning McQueen power wheels into Carsland. I was always jealous of kids with power wheels.