Welcome to another Disney Flashback Friday!
With the excitement of D23 Expo next weekend, I thought I would flashback two years ago to the first D23 Expo.
My son was 5 months old at the time, and I tried to see as much as I could with him. I made it into a few panels including the famous one that Johnny Depp made an appearance at to announce the fourth Pirates of Caribbean movie, which by the way I screamed like a teenager when he appeared. I also remember telling my 5 month old that he didn't know what was going on, but one day I could tell him he was in the same room as the real Jack Sparrow. There was something there for everyone at any age, and the whole experience was a lot of fun for me.
My pictures today aren't the best quality, but they are small sampling of the stuff I saw just walking around in between panel discussions.
Props from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland were on display, as well as a tea party for anyone to join in with the Mad Hatter, Queen of Hearts, and Alice entertaining the D23 guests.
The Main Street Electrical Parade turtle and ship you fly around in on Peter Pan's Flight at Disneyland were on display for photos. There was a Buzz Lightyear cutout in one of the booths that sold toys.
We also got our photo taken with Luigi and Guido from the movie Cars, where they had a display with models of Cars Land.
I took this video of a talking Lightning McQueen. He didn't have any sound, but his eyes and mouth move.
In the same area they had Wall-e come out for meet and greets. The line to have your picture with him was really long and my son was asleep that I didn't want to wake him, but now looking back I wish I would have done it. Here is a video I took of Wall-e waving hi to us.
And of course there were lots of movie props all over including Prince of Persia, Tron, A Christmas Carol, and from the TV show Lost.
I can hardly wait to see what is in store next week at the D23 Expo... you know the stuff they don't announce. I'll be Tweeting, Facebooking, and blogging the whole time I'm there.
On a separate note: Tonight the giveaway for the Phineas and Ferb: Across the 1st and 2nd Dimensions soundtrack ends! I have a couple copies to giveaway, so don't miss out on your chance to win one of them! You have 5 chances to win.
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6 comments:
I'm jealous you're a D23 member! If I lived closer, I would be too.
What cool pictures - Can't wait to see your pics of this years Expo!
I love all the behind the scenes picture from last year's D23. Yes I'm so excited to see the new stuff, I will not be able to go this year and are counting on everyone else to keep me informed.. LOL and thanks..
Terrific pics from behind the scenes!! Looking forward to what you see at the next D23!
I have to make it out to this one year! I am a movie geek and I think my head my explode from excitement but it would be fun! I'm looking forward to seeing your pics from this year. :)
Fun pics! Wish I could've been there! Hope you get some really cool pics at this year's D23!
D23 looks like so much fun!
DS heard me watching the Wall-e video and came running over to see. He and DD would LOVE to see all the attraction vehicles! What fun!
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