Disney Parks Blog - Banner Headers, part 9

If you know the date when something started, then you can mark or celebrate its anniversaries. For example, Disneyland’s official opening date is July 17, 1955. Every 17th of July, Disneyland celebrates its birthday with at least special cake at specified restaurants and ribbons or pins for Cast Members which proudly declare “It’s Our Birthday.”

Consider the fact that Walt Disney Pictures has been producing filmed entertainment for over 80 years while introducing hundreds of beloved characters, and Disney has opened 7 theme parks* since Disneyland each premiering new attractions every now and then. All those characters, films, Parks and attractions had starts and all of them have anniversaries. Disney Parks Blog (DPB) will celebrate anniversaries with special one-day sets of themed banner headers and some times accompany them with specially designed Blog logos. They do this for two reasons: 1) the blog format makes it easy to do so with virtually no additional overhead; 2) its fun to do so.

This year Disney had a number of celebration worthy anniversaries.

— Muppets —

10th Anniversary of Disney’s acquisition, Feb. 17, 2014

[DPB article]

— Typhoon Lagoon —

25th Anniversary, June 1, 2014
Walt Disney World

[DPC article]

— Donald Duck —

80th Birthday, June 9, 2014

[DPB article]

— The Lion King —

20th Anniverary, June 15, 2014

[DPB article]

— The Twilight Zone® Tower of Terror —

20th Anniversary, July 22, 2014

Disney’s Hollywood Studios, WDW

[DPB article]

— Haunted Mansion —

45th Anniversary, August 9, 2014

Disneyland Park, Disneyland Resort

[DPB article]

Disneyanadocious rating so far: (9/10): D D D D D D D D D -

[read part 1: Standard Banners]

[read part 2: Castles]

[read part 3: Cars Land]

[read part 4: Star Wars Weekends]

[read part 5: Disney’s Art of Animation Resort]

[read part 6: New Fantasyland, WDW]

[read part 7: Fireworks]

[read part 8: Disney Animal Kingdom]

[read part 10: 2014 Events]

*Although included in the count, Tokyo Disneyland is own by The Oriental Land Company.

All Images © Disney Enterprises.

Imagineering Disney

Here’s another blog of interest to Disneyphiles:

What it’s about:

“Welcome to our unofficial Disney blog where we share our thoughts about Walt Disney Imagineering and the Disney parks of yesterday and today. We launched this blog in 2009. Our small volunteer staff is made up of a few people who have at one time worked for the Walt Disney Company.”

[more]

And here below are some interesting articles you might like as an introduction.

The Haunted Mansion Like You’ve Never Seen it

[article]

The Haunted Mansion Like You’ve Never Seen It [Part 2]

[article]

Disneyland Turns 59

[article]

THEN and NOW: Walt at Disneyland

[article]

The Myriad Monikers of Gotham’s Villains 2.0

Found on Pop Chart Lab.

For $20 and just in time for the Dark Knight’s 75th anniversary, Pop Chart Lab’s taxonomy of Gotham’s rogues gallery has returned to strike again! Featuring an all new pulp-inspired design, this 12" x 16" chart is a veritable Who’s Who of knaves and ne’er-do-wells, and categorizes by name nearly every one of Batman's colorful combatants--from big-time baddies like the Joker and Mr. Freeze, to lesser-known lawbreakers like the Walrus, Batzarro, and Larry the Judge.

[see details and order a print]