Tuma the Hippo has given birth to the first hippopotamus born in Disney’s Animal Kingdom in 13 years!
Just in time for Disney’s Earth Day Celebration!
Augustus, Disney’s new calf, weighs in at 168 pounds and can be seen by guests on the Kilimanjaro Safari.
Congratulations Tuma on your new baby!
CaribbeanDays can book your stay and tour to see this new miracle of life.
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Downtown Denville Community Calendar 2018
Roland Fargo “Rolly Crump is an American animator and imagineer for Disney. He was inducted as a Disney Legend in 2004.
Crump served as an in-between artist and later, assistant animator, contributing to Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Sleeping Beauty, and others. He was an assistant to one of Walt Disney’s nine old men, Eric Larson.
Crump became a Disney Imagineer in 1959.
Crump served as key designer on the Disney attractions featured at the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair, including It’s a Small World.
CaribbeanDays can book your stay at Disney so you too can see It’s a Small World!
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Disney Animal Kingdom is mostly known by guests as being a park. But it is much more than that. Disney Animal Kingdom also is a full veterinary hospital and research facility. The Disney Cast Members in Animal Kingdom are doctors, researchers and scientists. The veterinary hospital even has an operating theatre that hosts students of veterinary medicine for teaching experiences.
The facilities are available for guests of Disney to see in booked backstage tours.
Have a look:
This Earth Day celebration includes:
– Music, dancing and Disney Characters at the Tree of Life
– PhotoPass Opportunities in the Animal Kingdom Park theming “Reverse the Decline” campaign with overviews of Disney’s global wildlife conservation
– Wilderness Explorer Badge opportunities
– Rafiki’s Planet Watch with tours of the veterinary hospital
– Special Edition Menus at Tiffins
– Penny Press designs celebrating Disney’s Conservation Fund
February 21, 1978, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the song “Candle on the Water” from the film Pete’s Dragon for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Original Song. How many of you remember Pete’s Dragon? This was the best song!
Have you seen Disney’s remake of Pete’s Dragon? Tt is a live action film with our lovable, dragon; Elliott, and a young orphan named Pete. It takes place in a small fishing town in Maine in the early 20th century. Elliot acts as Pete’s protector. Elliot can make himself invisible and is generally visible only to Pete, which occasionally lands him in trouble
Disney remade Pete’s Dragon and released it August 12, 2016. Here is Pete’s Dragon’s new original song by The Lumineers, “Nobody Knows” which is beautiful:
~~Love is deep as the road is long…And moves my feet to carry on…It beats my heart when you are gone…Love is deep as the road is long~~
Did you know Disney and Google built an Augmented Reality game for Pete’s Dragon? It’s called “Dragon Spotting”, dragonspotting.com, the game runs on an iOS or Android smartphone and mimicks Pokémon Go. You must find Elliot throughout various places in their homes or neighborhoods. But if you want to have some real fun, CaribbeanDays can bring you to Disney and you can see where Elliot is hiding there!
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CaribbeanDays is proudly partnered with Royal Coachman Worldwide and Enterprise, Alamo and National Car Rental Services.
~~“Who’s got the sweetest disposition?…One Guess. Guess Who?…Who never never starts an arguement?…Who never shows a bit of temperament?…Who’s never wrong, but always right?…Who’d never dream of starting a fight?…Who gets stuck with all the bad luck?…No one but Donald Duck!”~~
Donald Fauntleroy Duck was created by Walt Disney when he heard cast member, Clarence Nash (December 7, 1904 – February 20, 1985) doing his “duck” voice while reciting “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” Disney Legend Clarence “Ducky” Nash was Donald Duck’s voice from 1934-1984.
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CaribbeanDays is proudly partnered with Royal Coachman Worldwide and Enterprise, Alamo and National Car Rental Services.
Toy Story Land was debuted on Good Morning America with Slinky Dog arriving in Time Square.
Watch the Preview of Walt Disney World’s latest park attraction.
Toy Story Land opens in Disney World June 30, 2018. CaribbeanDays can take you here!
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Turtle Nesting Season is approaching.
Thousands of female sea turtles emerge from the ocean to lay their eggs. Vero Beach has been one of their nesting habitats since the time of the dinosaurs. Two months after their nests have been built, the eggs hatch and scores of tiny turtles emerge from the sand at night and clamber into the water. 3 species of sea turtles can be observed at Disney’s Vero Beach: loggerheads, greens and leatherbacks. Disney has contributed about $1.26 million to sea turtle conservation through the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund.
Disney’s scientists from Animal Kingdom have an entire an entire team that partnered with Florida’s Fish and Wildlife to monitor and protect these turtles. Guests that book the Turtle Tours by Disney enjoy a presentation as well as witness the wonders of nature unfold.
Meet Captain Ron of the Disney Animal Kingdom Turtle Team”
Guests get to observe the nesting experience with night vision goggles and radio earpieces.
Turtle Night Walks start June 1st.
CaribbeanDays can book your stay at Vero Beach along with a Turtle Night Walk Tour.
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February 15, 1989, the Disney film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit was nominated for several Oscar Award in multiple categories.
Michael Eisner, Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, was responsible for initiating “The Disney Decade”, which included creating the Who Framed Roger Rabbit franchise as a project within “The Disney Decade”.
Little Disney insider tip! If you ever hear the term used, “Bumping the Lamp” from a Disney cast member, this is a quote developed by former Disney CEO, Michael Eisner. The term originated in reference to a scene from the Disney film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” This film had a masterful use of live action with animation. In one particular scene, Roger, hiding in a darkened room bumps his head on a lamp which causes shadows to continuously move throughout the remainder of the scene. As originally written (and animated), the “bump” did NOT occur. The director, after seeing the rough cut, decided that it would be funnier if the “bump” occurred. The animators had to go back to the drawing board to re-create the entire animation sequence, hundreds of drawings, to accommodate the shadow. All of this effort, just to make a better product.
The term to “bump the lamp” in house at Disney is an expression used for extra effort to make an improvement on a program/incident/event/guest experience.
Bump the Lamp Scene from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
In Disney’s Echo Lake you can see some offices above the restaurants. One of these offices belongs to the Private Detective, Eddie Valiant, from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The outline of Roger can been seen in the Window with the destroyed blinds!
Would you like to see these offices in Disney’s Echo Lake? CaribbeanDays can take you here!
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February 14, 1990, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated the song “Under the Sea” from the Disney film The Little Mermaid for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Original Song.
Disney’s film The Little Mermaid is loosely based up the Hans Christian Anderson story, The Little Mermaid.
Did you ever notice near the start of the movie when King Triton is seen riding a dolphin-pulled chariot over an audience of mermaids and mermen, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy can be seen in the audience.
Disney World’s resort, Art of Animation has exclusive Little Mermaid rooms. CaribbeanDays can book guests to these featured rooms.
CaribbeanDays, Wants You to See, Under the Sea!
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