The Descendants Cast: A Fan Celebration at Downtown Disney : Descendants 2 is on its way.

I was checking out the Disney Parks blog Saturday morning and I came across the news that the cast of the Disney Channel movie Descendants would be a Downtown Disney that day.  

My stepdaughter watches the Disney Channel non-stop -so I knew that a chance to see the actors from the film which are also stars of some of her favorite TV shows was an opportunity we couldn't pass up on. So off to Downtown Disney we went.

We got there about a 40 minutes early and of course it was already packed so our view would be difficult at best.  They should have had big screens showing what was on the stage like they have done for other events, but they didn't. 

We waited in the hot sun melting like a witch in OZ--wishing someone would throw a bucket of water on me.  The show started right on time with the director Kenny Ortega talking briefly about the film.  He has also directed the High School Musical movies, Hocus Pocus and Newsies.

Then they brought out the films stars which include: Cameron Boyce (Jessie, and Gamer's Guide) and Booboo Stewart (who played Jafar's son in the movie

 Then Dove Cameron (Liv and Maddie) and Sofia Carson joined them on  stage. 

I got some okay pictures over the tops of out raised arms and kids on shoulders.  If I had run the event I would have had an area for kids to sit up close to the stage and all the parents in fold out chairs behind a rope.   The first come first serve standing home only was an ineffective way for the true fans (kids to see everything).   My step daughter still had fun though.  All these pictures are zoomed in after the fact.

After a brief Q&A with the cast they posed for some pictures with a couple early arrivals that were dressed up like characters from the film.

This unzoomed shows what our actual view was like....How early did the people in front show up for this event?

Then they did a fun little sing- a -long featuring some of the hit songs from the movie

The Choreographers from the film came out on the stage and taught the audience the dance moves to "Set it Off" and then the cast danced with the audience to the song.  I caught that on my phone --but for some reason couldn't load it to my Disney Facebook page...only my regular one.

As we were leaving a line had grown where the cast was exiting and my step daughter lined up to watch them exit...

My thoughts on the event:   It was free!  Parking in Downtown Disney for this short event was also free.  My stepdaughter got to see some of her favorite stars from her favorite shows up close and personal.  The standing home only with adults in the mix and no big screens to see what was on stage could have been better...but it was a great event all in all.   And the big annoucement that a Descendants 2 is currently in the works was a special treat for the fans.  All in all it was a fun event.

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Disney Studios Pictures of the Week: Muppets

While at Disney Studios in the spring--we ended up finding ourselves catching the Muppetvision.  Sure we have the same exact Muppet 3-D movie in California...but in DCA it is usually being used for movie Sneak Peeks and more recently Frozen sing-a-longs.  The kids wanted to see the Muppets--so see the Muppets we did.

Here are a few Muppety pics from that day.

If Muppetvision isn't enough to satisfy your Muppet Love...Check out the new TV show on ABC.  I'm loving the new Muppet Show.

Here were my thoughts on their first episode.

http://braddisneylandblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-muppets-return-to-tv-premiere.html

Here is promo for Episode 4

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Mulch, Sweat and Shears final performance will be Oct 10th: Here are some photos we took for them this spring

I read over on Inside the Magic that Mulch, Sweat and Shears will be having their last performance soon over at Disney Studios this month.

See the news here.
http://www.insidethemagic.net/2015/09/walt-disney-world-band-mulch-sweat-and-shears-to-perform-no-more-last-performance-oct-10th/


Rather than just repeat the news I figured I'd post a few pictures from when we saw them in the spring.  

I personally loved the energy of this band rocking out in the backlot.

Here is a taste of them from Youtube......

and here is their facebook page
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Have an Apple Deary! : Poisoned Apple-Tini's at the Carthay Circle Theater

We stopped out at the park the other day just to pick up a couple of cool Glowing Poison Apple Glow Cubes and have some Apple-tinis at the Carthay Circle.

I'm not a huge Apple drink lover---usually I like my Martini's a little bit more desserty.  But the Poisoned Apple-Tini at the Carthay Circle was an absolutely perfect Halloween Treat. 
Stop by and escape the hustle and bustle of the parks in this classy joint and have a great Martini and leave with a cool Halloween decoration.  

The drink consists of:

• Poison Apple-Tini – Crown Royal Apple, Dekuyper Pucker Sour Apple Schnapps and cranberry juice

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Star Wars Droid Tales: A TV Show review

(Chewie in Vacation Wear)

I wasn’t the biggest fan of The Lego Movie which most everyone else loved,  but I’m in love with Star Wars Droid Tales.   I’m a big Star Wars fan and I enjoyed both the edgy Robot Chicken parody and the raunchier Family Guy parodies of the franchise. The Lego Mini-Series is a more family friendly version of those parodies.  
It is innocent and yet still funny.  I find myself especially enjoying Yoda in the series (Impatient he is).  The series was originally a mini-series on the Cartoon Network titled the Yoda Chronicles.   Impatient he is in this series.   When Disney bought Star Wars the show produced by Lego—moved over to Disney/ Disney XD with a slight name change and now continues as  Star Wars Droid Tales.   The show features some original material that parodies the characters as well as parodies of the actual films with a Lego style interpretations of the stories. In the most recent episode there was a joke about the Cantina in Mos Eisley losing all it's business to Watto's new night club.  If you have any younger Star Wars fans –they will definitely enjoy it.  It is just a fun little kid friendly Star Wars diversion ---well we wait for Rebels to return and the movies to hit the big screen.

The current mini-series of Droid Tales has featured 3 episodes so far with the next episode airing in October of this year with Flight of the Falcon on 10/05/15.

Here is a trailer for the series.

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