2 Castles, 2 Send out 2011 & Ring in 2012...12 Days of Christmas

[annmarieda]

Have yourself a very blessed Thanksgiving. That image looks amazing. It looks like quite the place to relax.

 

[Dream426]

Love the fireplace. It looks so cozy. Have a Happy Thanksgiving as well.

 

[FosterA]

Have a great Thanksgiving at your cabin!!
p.s. we ate at SCi Fi and loved it!! I think hubs may have liked it more than any other eating establishment on the whole trip. Granted, mostly for the alcoholic shakes he ordered but he did like his burger too!

p.s. your trip is getting super close!!!

 

[lovethattink]

Beautiful fire place! Happy Thanksgiving!!

 

[Monknmom]

You lucky duck with your fire place! I hope that you have a very happy thanksgiving and that you get most of the stuff that you need to done- but don't forget to spend time with the family too!!! Get home safe!

 

[momabaarjo]

About to start our first princess movie night at the cabin...the boys are less than thrilled! We are doing 5 princess movies over the next 4 days! Should I tell them about CRT?

 

[lilpixiebabe101]

About to start our first princess movie night at the cabin...the boys are less than thrilled! We are doing 5 princess movies over the next 4 days! Should I tell them about CRT?

No that should probably be kept a secret till you get there! lol

 

[momabaarjo]

Wednesday's Trivia
What was supposed to be the name of the movie Tangled? Why was it changed?

BTW...no one answered yesterday's....

 

[Dream426]

Wednesday's Trivia
What was supposed to be the name of the movie Tangled? Why was it changed?

BTW...no one answered yesterday's....

Rapunzel was the original name of the movie. It was changed because boys wouldn't go see it if it was named Rapunzel.

 

[Monknmom]

Tuesday's Trivia
In the Little Mermaid when Ariel sees Prince Eric, what type of celebration was happening on the ship??

I didn't even see this! Is it Prince Eric's birthday? He gets the big statue of himself!

About to start our first princess movie night at the cabin...the boys are less than thrilled! We are doing 5 princess movies over the next 4 days! Should I tell them about CRT?

Oh my those poor things! Although my son won't admit to it he likes some of the girl Disney movies like Tangled (your trivia question), Sleeping Beauty and he really likes Beauty and the Beast! I hope that everyone is having fun and taking pictures of your yummy movie nights!

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope that you have a really great day! I also found this website for sending a greeting from Santa if you wanted!

So here is the website for that! I sent it to Damien and thought it was cute how he interacted with it!

 

[lilpixiebabe101]

 

[shocky5]

About to start our first princess movie night at the cabin...the boys are less than thrilled! We are doing 5 princess movies over the next 4 days! Should I tell them about CRT?

Enjoy princess movies nights! Mine act like they are less than thrilled also and always become mesmerized and watch them anyway!! AND they loved CRT! Not sure what that says about them but...

Have a wonderful and relaxing Thanksgiving!

 

[momabaarjo]

Thursday's Trivia
Name the 2 Disney animated movies based on true stories

 

[swwake]

Thursday's Trivia
Name the 2 Disney animated movies based on true stories

Pocahontas and Mulan.

It's strange to think that Pocahontas, put into production at the same time as The Lion King, was seen as the more prestigious and promising film. This fictionalised take on the historical figure was been criticised by some Native American groups for its portrayal of Pocahontas (inevitably: Disney films always stir up controversy somewhere) and proved too adult to entertain children in the way that its predecessor had. Still, it's beautifully put together, in the same mannered, slightly flat style used for films like Sleeping Beauty decades before.

And the story is a compassionate one of culture clash and the need for tolerance - watch the Colours of the Wind number if you doubt us. Which, yes, is probably why the kids yawned and fidgeted and stayed home, but it makes Pocahontas better than you remember.

Fun fact: it's tempting to conclude that Terrence Malick is a fan of this particular cartoon. Not only did he tackle the same story from a rather more realistic point of view with The New World, but he employed two of the same principal cast members: Christian Bale and Irene Bedard, who voices Pocahontas here and her mother in the Malick film.

Mulan is a real figure in Chinese history, and a folk heroine who's better known than, say, Robin Hood in her country of origin. There's no evidence that she was accompanied by a small, motormouthed dragon when she left home to fight in her ailing father's place, but hey! There's no evidence that she wasn't either.

Directors Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft went for epic sweep here, throwing everything at the screen in scenes like that where an army of Huns sweeps down a snowy mountainside - and that's appropriate, since this is the first - and, to date, only - Disney animated film to go to war. But it also has the comic stylings of Eddie Murphy as dragon Mushu, the funniest sidekick since Genie and the equal of Murphy's DreamWorks Donkey, and a strong heroine in Ming Na's Mulan herself. Little girls obsessed with being a princess after watching Cinderella should be force-fed this as an antidote until they stop wearing pink.

Mulan also holds two unlikely claims to immortality. It was the first ever Disney DVD, and it also launched the career of Christina Aguilera, who landed her first recording contract after singing Reflections over the credits. Whether that's a claim to fame or infamy, we leave to the individual conscience of the reader.

and for extra trivia points - Katie sang "My Reflection" (in the style of Christina Aguilera) when she was 10 years old at her voice lesson recital, with curls in her stick-straight hair and a pretty little lavender dress.

 

[momabaarjo]

Friday's Trivia
For how long was snow white the number one movie? What movie knocked it out of the number one spot? What did walt disney use the profits from snow white on?

 

[annmarieda]

I just noticed that today marks you first tickers LAST day of noting 1 month +

Congrats!!!

 

[Dream426]

Friday's Trivia
For how long was snow white the number one movie? What movie knocked it out of the number one spot? What did walt disney use the profits from snow white on?

1 year
Gone With the Wind
Walt Disney used the profits to finance a new $4.5 million studio in Burbank, the location on which the Walt Disney Studios is located today. Within two years, the studio completed Pinocchio and Fantasia, and had begun production on features such as Dumbo, Bambi, Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan.

 

[shocky5]

I just noticed that today marks you first tickers LAST day of noting 1 month +

Congrats!!!

 

[momabaarjo]

Saturdays Trivia
Who served as the model for Sleeping Beauty?
Describe the hidden Mickey in Sleeping Beauty?

 

[Dream426]

Saturdays Trivia
Who served as the model for Sleeping Beauty?
Describe the hidden Mickey in Sleeping Beauty?

Helene Stanley
I found this about the hidden Mickey's in Sleeping Beauty:

In Sleeping Beauty, the moment the storybook closes and the movie begins with the people marching in the crowd, there is a man walking with a stick. There is a pair of Mickey ears on the top of the stick.

In the movie Sleeping Beauty there is indeed a man at the beginning carrying a stick with Mickey ears on it. Further, a few seconds later another man appears carrying an identical stick.

At the very begining, when Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather are talking about Maleficent Merryweather says "I'd like to turn her into an old toad" Look at the green bench she is sitting on. There is a very clear hidden Mickey carved into the front of it.

At the beginning of the movie, there is an upside down Mickey on the footboard of Princess Aurora's cradle.

In the scene in which the two kings discuss their children's wedding, there is a balcony. The balcony wall pattern is comprised of alternating right-side-up and upside-down Mickey ears, about half the height of the wall.

The scene in which Kings Stephen and Hubert get in an argument begins with King Stephen on a balcony. If you look to the right of the King's robe, in the architecture of the balcony, you see two or three classic Mickey heads.

The part where the kings are talking about their children's future there are lots of hidden Mickey's on the balcony along with on a piece of furniture behind King Hubert in his first appearance.

When Briar Rose starts singing "I Wonder", and as she walks over to the owl on the tree branch. Look in the background at the tree upward diagonal to Briar Rose's head, you will see several light green circles on the dark green tree. The largest circle is the head and the ears are the two smaller circles right the larger circle. The circles are not connected, but the ear circles are evenly seperated from the head, that you can see a Mickey head pop out at you.

When Briar Rose and Prince Phillip are singing in the forest. One of the bushes has a Mickey in it. It isn't shaped like it, but the shadows make his head. It is just when Phillip starts singing with her and she says that she can't talk to strangers and he says that they have met before.

If you look on Aurora's blanket the flowers make a Hidden Mickey. It's kind of streched out though.

It does appear similar to Mickey, but it's only several circles. Too many to be a hidden Mickey.

In the scene when the three fairies are discussing how to help the king and queen, the are conjuring up tea and cookies for themselves: the cookies are in the shape of Mickey's head!

Yes, indeed, the cookies that Merryweather, Flora, and Fauna are eating early in the movie while having their tea is deffinatly a Hidden Mickey.

I noticed Fawna (while serving tea) is eating a cookie that is Mickey in the scene where The Good Fairies are trying to decided how to keep Aurora safe.

When the three faries are having a cup of tea and talking about what they should do about Maleficent's curse on Aurora, if you look at the cookie that the blue farie eats with her tea, it's in the shape of a Hidden Mickey!

When Flora, Fauna, and Merriweather are discussing how to keep Aurora from pricking her finger they are drinking tea. Merriweather is materializing cookies to eat with her cup of tea. Look closely, and you will notice that they are shaped in the form of Mickey. There are two small circles and one big one, which makes the Mickey head.

I definitely saw the hidden Mickey when Merriweather magically made a second cookie, when discussing what to do about Auroa's safety.

The three fairies discuss what they can do to stop Malificent's evil spell from coming true. During this discussion the fairies are drinking tea, and Merryweather (the blue fairy), makes her own cookies to eat with the tea. The cookies are in the shape of Mickey ears.

Merriweather does conjure up cookies in an oblong looking Mickey's head! My husband Michael was excited to find it until we saaw the extensive list of people who had aready noticed it!!

The Good Fairy Maryweather eats a mouse-head shaped biscut. It is in the scene where the three fairys shrink themselves in the throne room and go into a clock or something to discuss what to do with Princess Aurora to try to protect her from the evil curse put upon her. They are all drinking tea, and Maryweather conjurs up a biscut that looks like Micky's head!

There is a very obvious Hidden Mickey in the scene where Merryweather is producing cups of tea and biscuits from her wand. If you look you can see that the second biscuit she produces and eats is a definate tri circle Mickey shape!

During the scene where Maleficent's crow is flying over the forest, looking for Briar Rose, you can see an overview of the trees in the forest. There are light-colored circles over the dark areas of the trees. They are shaped like Mickeys!

When the crow is flying over the forest looking for Briar Rose the trees are made up of circles and together they are in the shape of mickey heads!

When Aurora is following Malificent into the fireplace just before she goes in there are upside down and right side up Mickeys on the wall to her left!!

When the crow is looking for Briar Rose over the forest there are trees. The trees are made up of circles and the circles form into Mickey heads!!

After the fairies send Briar Rose out to pick berries and throughout the scene, look at the carving on the lower exit door. Sure looks like Mickey to me!

The so-called Mickey on the lower exit door of the cottage in the glen. The carving sorta looks like a Mickey, but are the 'ear' circles smaller than the 'head' circle? When Briar Rose comes back from picking berries and she closes the door, the carving on the door looks more like a Mickey head there then at the other time.

In the scene where Prince Phillip goes to the cottage to find Briar Rose, as he enters the cottage, and the door shuts behind him, there is a Mickey head in the design on the lower panel of the door.

When the 3 fairies are taking away the baby (Princess Aurora) right when they walk out of the door of the castle the on the bottom right hand castle columns there are hidden Mickeys.

When the fairies are taking baby Aurora away from the King and Queen to raise her in the forest, when the King and Queen are looking out of their window, above the arch and pillars are Hidden Mickeys.

In the scene where the Fairies are taking Aurora away, and Flora stops to cover the head of the baby, the outstanding bricks have a Mickey print.

There are several times throughout the movie when the good fairies Flora, Fauna, and Merriweather use their wands and in the process create fairy dust. A lot of these twinkles are in the shape of hidden Mickeys... just pause the movie here and there and you will notice several throughout!

Right when Flora give Aurora the gift of beauty there is a Mickey head in the magic swirls right when it says beauty rare ....

When Briar Rose is in the forest...it looks like there are many Hidden Mickeys in the "grass," or ground. There also appears to be some in many of the bushes.

I recently bought a small art plaque of Sleeping Beauty at Disneyland. It shows the scene where Aurora is picking berries. Some of the berries in her basket are in clusters which form Mickey heads. They are probably in that scene in the movie, too. If you see the art plaque (they have other movies too), look for the little Mickeys!

I have a poster from Sleeping Beauty with Aurora dancing in the forest and picking berries. Although I've had it for years, I never noticed some of the berries in the basket are hidden Mickeys!

During the scence where Fauna is making a cake for Briar Rose the sugar jar and sugar spoon dance across the table. If you look carefully you can see there is an upside down Mickey on the handle of the spoon. Also, the handles on the sugar bowl are Mickeys.

The sugar jar and spoon do have a Mickey on them. If you put the tape in slow-motion and watch the spoon and jar turn, when they reach certain directions you will see the Mickey head and ears.

When Flora, Fauna, and Merriweather are outside of Aurora's castle room talking about her marriage the tapestry behind them has little hidden Mickeys across the bottom.

Right after the fairies take Aurora to raise her on their own, the movie turns into the "Storybook" form. There is a stone structure one the right side of the picture, and on it there appears to be Hidden Mickeys.

Right after they give Sleeping Beauty her crown and leave the room outside the room where Fauna & Merrywether are sitting on a bench there is a carpet right above them. Along the bottom part of it there is Hidden Mickeys.