The Mandalorian Final Episode is Awesome, and Jon Favreau Announces that Season 2 Will Come on Disney + Fall 2020!

The Mandalorian final Episode is now released on Disney + and it is an awesome finale! Here is a short review about it, and a big Warning! as there IS storyline spoilers below!

The previous episode ended on a serious cliffhanger with scout troopers capturing baby Yoda and the death of Mando's friend. The Episode 8, and the last one, so, open with the same scout troopers on their speederbike for a short but memorable talking scene, the kind of scene that you usually see in Tarantino movies! But first, before i forget, a good news as this final episode last 49 minutes instead of 30 / 35 min for the previous episodes!

So, baby Yoda is in the hands of the enemies, but someone - or should i say something is coming to save him to bring him back to the Mandalorian - great scene, by the way. Unfortunately baby Yoda don't find himself in a better place as The Mandalorian and his friends are stuck inside a building with Moff Gideon - played by Giancarlo Esposito - and literally dozens of heavy armed storm troopers and death troopers outside waiting for them to surrender. This last episode also bring precious revelations about the Mandalorian heartbreaking backstory - he was orphaned after his parents were killed during a droid attack and saved/adopted by the Mandalorians, and his real name - Din Djarin - and yes, you'll see at last The Mandalorian face but don't count on me to post a screen capture of it here. All these were good answers to questions that have built over eight episodes and lighted the enigmatic character. But we still don't know baby Yoda's name...

The characters succeed to escape from the place they were besieged by the troopers and soon after we find them with the Armorer - a great piece of dialogue is happening with the Armorer telling Mando that The Child and him are now "a clan of two." The escape through a river of lava is memorable before one of the characters sacrificing himself to save others ( no, not the one you might think of ) and a great final exploding battle with Moff Gideon revealing that he possesses the Darksaber.

Taika Waititi is the one who directed this episode and he did a great job on this finale, with the help of a good script. And now a good news for you, Mandalorian fans as, as soon as this final episode was released on Disney +, Jon Favreau announced that The Mandalorian Season 2 will be available on Disney + Fall 2020! As for what will be the storyline and where the Mandalorian and baby Yoda will go in the season 2, you also have big hints about it in this great final episode of the season 1!

Avengers Campus Will Open at Disney California Adventure Summer 2020 !

Disney Parks just announced that the Avengers Campus - which will include the new Spiderman attraction - will open officially at Disney California Adventure Summer 2020!

"We're excited to officially announce that you will be able to team up with some of your favorite Avengers at Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure park beginning summer of 2020!
As we’ve previously shared, this campus is set up by the Avengers to recruit the next generation of Super Heroes.

Avengers Campus is home to the Worldwide Engineering Brigade – also known as “WEB” – which will house our new Spider-Man experience, the first Disney ride-through attraction to feature this iconic Super Hero.



During an open house at WEB, the aspiring inventors are excited to invite you for a test drive of their latest invention: the “Web Slinger” vehicle, which allows you to sling webs just like Spider-Man! The attraction gives you a taste of what it’s like to have actual super powers as you help Spider-Man collect Spider-Bots that have run amok.



Avengers Campus will also feature Pym Test Kitchen. Just as Ant-Man and The Wasp use “Pym Particles” to grow and shrink just about anything, Pym Technologies is using the latest innovations to grow and shrink food at this eatery.



You will also find heroic encounters throughout the campus, including Black Widow, Ant-Man and The Wasp, Doctor Strange, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Super Heroes from Wakanda and Asgard, and Iron Man.



As Super Heroes continue to assemble at the campus, one of its iconic buildings will be the Avengers Headquarters where you should be on the lookout for Avengers in action."



The big E-Ticket Avengers attraction will open later and won't be part of this phase one of the Avengers Campus.

Michael Todd's Production of "Around the World in 80 Days" is One of the Best Movie Adaptation of Jules Verne's Novels

The best movie adaptations of Jules Verne's novels are without a doubt Disney's 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Michael Todd's production of Around the World in 80 Days, and Journey to the Center of the Earth. The three are perfect, no one will ever do better, and there is many reasons for that. First, the perfection of the cast - just try to play Captain Nemo better than James Mason or Phileas Fogg better than David Niven! Then, there is the era when these films were shot, the stories in Jules Verne novels were supposed to happen less than a century from the 1950's, so the 19th century was not that far and you could still find people who lived it. Also, although you could surely shoot adaptations technically superior if they were filmed today, both movies have something that all the best visual effects of our 21st Century can't reproduce: the innocence of the era. No one does anymore films like these as what makes their essence has disappeared, very unfortunately.

Around the World in 80 Days is a 1956 epic adventure-comedy starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine and Robert Newton, and was directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Mike Todd - who was Elizabeth Taylor husband at that time - with Kevin McClory and William Cameron Menzies as associate producers. The fantastic music score was composed by Victor Young, and the Todd-AO 70 mm cinematography (shot in Technicolor) was by Lionel Lindon. The film's six-minute-long animated title sequence, shown at the end of the film, was created by legendary title sequence designer Saul Bass - don't miss it! The film won 5 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and you better open your eyes as dozens of famous actors appear in cameos all along the movie!



Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow presents an onscreen prologue, featuring footage from A Trip to the Moon (1902) by Georges Méliès, explaining that it is based loosely on the book From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne. Also included is the launching of an unmanned rocket and footage of the earth receding.

Around the World in 80 Days tells the story of an English gentleman Phileas Fogg ( wonderfully played by David Niven ) who, in 1872, claims he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days. He makes a £20,000 wager ( £1.8 million in 2019 ) with four sceptical fellow members of the Reform Club ( each contributing £5,000 to the bet ) that he can arrive back eighty days from exactly 8:45 pm that evening. Together with his resourceful valet, Passepartout ( played by Cantinflas, who was immensely famous at that time and considered as Mexico's Charlie Chaplin ), Fogg goes hopscotching around the globe generously spending money to encourage others to help him get to his destinations faster so he can accommodate tight steamship schedules.

And now a good news as you can watch the FULL movie right now, right HERE, just push the sound volume at the maximum, and it's a perfect movie for a Christmas day !

Enjoy the show and, below, some still pictures and lobby cards of Around the World in 80 Days.

The French poster for Around the World in 80 Days.


Around the World in 80 Days also had many theatrical adaptations all along the years, below a poster for a theatrical version at Paris famous theatre, the Chatelet.



Hope you'll enjoy the movie as much as i did, it's truly a perfect adaptation of Jules Verne classic novel!

Galaxy's Edge Rise Of The Resistance Kylo Ren Ending Scene B Mode

I've got  a last minute surprise for you for Christmas! And it's about Galaxy's Edge Rise Of The Resistance "B mode"! This "B Mode" version  occurs when the final scene with the Kylo Ren Audio-Animatronic is down for technical reasons.

In this case Galaxy's Edge Imagineers have planned a "B Mode" and it shows a different encounter with Kylo Ren which now appears in his fighter in the middle of the space battle with the Resistance that guests can see happening outside of the Star Destroyer!

D&M contributor in Orlando has filmed for D&M this B Mode scene showing a different finale of Rise of the Resistance at Disney's Hollywood Studios, and you can watch it below!

Amazing 16mm Color Footage of Guy Williams as Zorro and All the Cast of Disney's TV series at Disneyland in 1958 !

Here is some rare and amazing color 16mm footage of Guy Williams as Zorro and all the characters of Disney's TV series at Disneyland in 1958! Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015, this 16mm home movie features the cast of Disney’s “Zorro” television series (1957-1959) as they reenact their roles for a live audience at the Disneyland theme park. As Disney’s “Zorro” was a black-and-white program, this film contains rare behind-the-scenes footage of the show’s characters in color. The film was shot by George Wilbern, who worked as a film editor and was part of the motion picture unit during World War II. The movie is silent but it doesn't make it less amazing.


In addition to featuring the stars of the popular “Zorro” series, this footage provides a glimpse of operations at Disneyland when the park was still young. Walt Disney began developing ideas for a theme park as early as the 1930s but struggled for decades to get the appropriate budget to move forward. In 1954, he secured funding from the ABC network, under the condition that his Walt Disney Studio would produce a weekly anthology series, entitled “Walt Disney’s Disneyland.” The park opened to the public in 1955, though by 1957, Disney felt it was an unsuccessful venture and sought additional funding from ABC. In exchange, ABC requested even more programming, and after sitting on the “Zorro” rights for several years, Disney put the new series into production and premiered it in October of 1957. To advertise “Zorro,” the cast made many public appearances at Disneyland. The performance in the home movie features key cast members, including Zorro (Guy Williams), Sergeant Garcia (Henry Calvin), Bernardo (Gene Sheldon) and Anna María Verdugo (Jolene Brand), as well as Disneyland staples, such as the Mark Twain Riverboat and the Golden Horseshoe Revue. It documents one of the cast’s last appearances at the park, which took place over Thanksgiving weekend in 1958. These live events were representative of Disney’s elaborate cross-promotional strategy at the time, which sought to drive television audiences to visit Disneyland and park attendees to watch the “Zorro” show.

LIVE From Disneyland Paris : Inside Ears Christmas Special Evening

A new special evening is happening currently tonight at Disneyland Paris for Inside Ears members - i.e webmasters and DLP fans Facebook pages - and D&M do a LIVE with the pictures i will receive all along the evening.

The Inside Ears special Christmas evening is starting now and here is how it look for the guests, including the buffets which look delicious.

No announcements have been done so far but the model of the Frozen float coming to the Frozen Cavalcade / parade that will happen during the Frozen celebration starting January 11, is on display with a changing lighting.












Concept-arts of the costumes for the Frozen characters during the Frozen Celebration starting next month at DLP.







Pictures of the special food for the Frozen Celebration season starting on January 11!








The new Star Tours movie is now playing at Star Tours : The Adventure Continues at Disneyland Paris Discoveryland!



Concept-art and characters costumes for Studio D, the new Disney Junior show starting at DLP Walt Disney Studios in 2020!





The Tram Tour at DLP Walt Disney Studios will close on January 5 and its original version will be changed for a new one themed on Cars. Below, the new logo for Cars Route 66 Road Trip, a new experience which will open Summer 2020. In this family adventure, visitors of all ages will buckle up for an entertaining road trip on the legendary Route 66 with the heroes of Cars, discovering natural and mechanical wonders!


THose of you who would like to see the WDS Tram Tour one last time in its original version and can't go to DLP before January 5 can watch Max excellent video below.




Also announced at the Inside Ears event: A new signature experience will be introduced at DLP and will cost 99€. For this price you will have privileged viewing area for Disney Stars on Parade, a private meeting with Mickey, a Festive lunch or Dinner in the restaurant of your choice with a "special celebration dessert and cocktail", the DLP Photopass and a 15€ gift card!

New merchandise coming soon in the parks! Let's start by the Frozen merchandise available when the Frozen Celebration will start on January 5.








Then, a very cool nostalgia merch with the items below, a limited release of DLP April 1992 opening merchandise!











A new series of keys will also be released in 2020. February: Ratatouille, March: Visionarium, April: Nautilus, June: Space Mountain



Very cool Grim Grinning Ghosts designed by Kevin Kidney and Jody Daily.
EDITING: Kevin, just let me know that in fact him and Jody did NOT designed these Grim Grinning Ghosts busts. The fact that they were placed near the Mary Poppins items ( that Kevin and Jody DID designed ) made me doing the mistake, apologies for that.



DJ Rex, now the awesome droid from Galaxy's Edge Cantina will also be available soon as well as another great sculpture of Alice's Cheshire Cat.

A last great piece designed by Kevin and Jody in tribute to Mary Poppins.





One last picture to keep memories of this Inside Ears special Christmas evening!

Pictures: copyright DLP Welcome or Robert Stallard, whom i thanks a lot!