Cool Disney Stamps

No snowglobe news, but I purchased a book about Disney stamps that arrived today and it led me to these cool stamps depicting the Disney characters as Jules Verne characters. I'm going to be using the 2 souvenir sheets as my new desktop images for awhile. If anyone has this complete set for sale at a reasonable price or has a Disney stamp collection gathering moss on a shelf somewhere, I'd sure love to hear from you.

Jammin In The Jungle

Stopped by Animal Kingdom a couple of days ago to check out this years edition of the Christmas parade. Here are some of the pics I took while I was there.

• The lions on the safari were actually moving! I've been on the safari ride at least 50 times and this is the first time I saw the lions actually up and about.
• Many of the animals stank to high heaven. They've got an excuse, they are animals after all, but what about the tourists? Do us all a favor, next time your in Orlando on vacation: PLEASE take a bath once in awhile!
• If you want to see the pics in the order took so you can see the parade pictures in the order in which the parade is presented, you will need to scroll to the bottom of the post and scroll upwards.
• Didn't spot any new snowglobes and at this late date not expecting to see any new ones before Christmas. Haven't even been able to find a miniature snowglobe for 2009 yet. They are usually out by now, but I haven't seen any 2009 items yet.

Sneak a Peek at Pooh & Dumbo Snowglobes

Velvet dropped by today to deliver these two images of future snowglobes that will be released on DisneyShopping.com. We do not know when they will be released.

Cut it Out

Here's the back cover of a Dell Disney Giant comic book with another of those cut-out activities.

Castle Lights

Here's a few more pics that I took the other night.

The Comics are Coming!

It's been awhile since I mentioned my love of Disney comics. The Pixar and Muppet lines of comics are still in development at Boom Studios and should start appearing around March. Here's an interview with the editor of the line that mentions his hopes of getting them into book stores, libraries and scholastic. I hope they have better luck then Gemstone has had with Mickey and Donald.
Each series will be stand-alone issues without being continued but each 4 issues will be an arc which will then be collected into book format. I know that statement seems to contradict itself, but that's what the interview says.
The titles are:

• The Incredibles
• Cars
• The Muppet Show
• Toy Story
• Finding Nemo
• Wall-E
• Monstes Inc
• Muppet Show spoofs (probably a series of one-shot titles)

The first 3 titles are the ones that will launch the line with the others to follow soon after but it may depend on how the first ones do if they get to the other titles or not. It doesn't say that in the interview but that's how these things usually work.

I'm not sure if all the titles are supposed to be ongoing past 4 issues or not. I know Incredibles is but again, it may depend on sales of the first few issues if they continue past 4 issues or not.