Besides the communities at Livejournal.com I haven’t found a blog that has decent Aladdin content. It’s all garbage often expensive garbage, sites that fake a blog to sell products. Half the time not even Disney related.

Tonight I dug up something that’s worth my time, Lady Heartilly blog at at ourmedia.org. I downloaded two Little Mermaid videos from her last year. Found them on a Mermaid site via Little Ariel. “Not Pretty Enough” with music from Casy Chambers and the spine shivering vocals of Celine Dion in “I’ll Be Waiting For You.” The second video is about the love between Ariel and Eric the vid makes me so want to watch Mermaid.

Other amv’s from Lady Heartilly productions I (think) I’ve seen are Break Away, The Rose and Uptown Girl

Lady is restored beautifully, she now looks better then Cinderella and even Bambi. Notice the breathtaking backgrounds that now stand out even better.

Good, on to the reason of this post besides plugging Lady SE. -:) The second disc includes great bonus features such as Disneyland TV shows and a complete storyboard scene from 1943. For a full review I direct your attention to Ultimate Disney.

Andreas Deja, notice the Jafar figure behind him while being interviewed in front of a desk. Is a regular Disney expert often seen on their DVDs, here he speaks with the last of the remaining Nine Old Man Ollie Johnston.

Besides Andreas two (former) Disney animators speak about creating Lady and the Tramp. Both played major parts in the development of Aladdin. First is Carpet animator Randy Cartwright he’s briefly seen on Lady and other Disney dvd’s. But it’s Eric Goldberg, head Genie animator and responsible for the design of Aladdin the movie, who is promotly appearing on Lady and the Tramp. He walks the viewer through the old storyboards from 1943 and hosts the introductions of the deleted scenes included on the disc.

Oh and watch out for TLM trailer, Ariel swims to platinum DVD this fall. I think about 80% of the creators of Aladdin worked on Mermaid including Ron Clements and John Musker, directors. Glen Keane, Andreas Deja and Mark Henn, animators. And don’t forget Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. I have been waiting to own Mermaid on disc since Aladdin’s dvd release one-and-a-half years ago.

While searching for the intro movie of the 80′s action series “The A-Team”, you with Mr. T as BA. “If you have problem and no one else can help. And if you can find them maybe you can hire the A-Team” tadada, tada. Those guys. I wanted to do a AMV on the theme with Aladdin clips but my stone-age video editing software can’t pull the heavy load of video editing.

Anyway, I came on a retro site, in their forum, a thread had a link to the VGP site. Being a fan of Mario and Zelda games and curious I listed and watched some clips. To my pleasant surprise there’s also a good piano version of him doing A Whole New World.

If that isn’t remarkable enough he learned the music by ear listing to the game music. Then wrote down the notes and learned them.

At Animated News I read the other day that Donald was up for president in Finland. It remined me of the local county elections of 2002 in Amsterdam. I really don’t care about politics, they’re all talk and little action. So 4 years ago I walked by an ellection poster that said something in the likes of “I vote {insert party}” in a window.

The poster did remind me a story. At the height of the AML an Aladdin fan, can’t remember the name had a bumper sticker on her/his car that said “Aladdin for president.” Walking by the poster I thought, two can play that game. With the lack of a car I put together a series of election posters for “Lijst 1001″ with Aladdin, Jasmine and the rest. Now, 4 years later it’s kinda corny but I was death serious then.

My favorite poster, Aladdin and Jasmine on Carpet during A Whole New World was replaced a few years ago. I got the original poster somewhere in the mid-90′s.

It was always intended to frame the second poster, Aladdin and Jasmine on the rooftop after AWNW. But due to financial difficulties it laid rolled up on top of my dresser several years until I decided to just hang it on bare. One day my cat sneaked in my room and made two big rips on it with his claws.

Anyway I bought the replacements from a webshop last week then went Monday the store I got Disney posters and figures in the past, I knew they had an art gallery that also framed art. I discussed options with the man and came to the conclusion it was best to glue the posters on a cardboard for stability then put the golden frame around it.

Now I only have to buy the right hooks at the do-it-yourself store tomorrow.

Picked up another Disney Princess Jasmine puzzle. From the same manufacter as the last one, King International, shows Jasmine being whooed by Aladdin on her balcony. Carpet and money Abu are shown as well.

With only 50 pieces “Aladdin and Jasmine on balcony” is the the third 50 piece puzzle and third King puzzle I own.

The last Aladdin themed set for The Sims 2. Made for the baby girl in pink/purple colors I used scans from Disney Princess Magazine instead of the standard boring cliparts found on the Web. By request the set also included Jasmine bedding.
From now on I’ll only post paintings, rugs and clothing.

Disney’s Aladdin nursery girl for The Sims 2.

Included:

Cradle
Changetable
Babychair
Sidetable
Lamp
Potty
Bedding

Recolored using simpe recolor wizard and Paint Shop Pro 10
Tested in The Sims 2 with Nightlife
Unzip in x:\Documents and Settings\username\My documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads

Recolored by Merkal
Downloaded from streetrat.net

Feel free to re-distrubute this zip as along as readme is included.

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The voice of Wendy, Daisy, Ariel and Jasmine, Laura Vlasblom promote the theatrical release of Bambi 2 in Holland. I watched an interview with Laura saw it at glossy tv magazine RTL Boulevard on RTL 4 tonight. Laura talks about her Disney voice work and gives a demo of Daisy and Ariel while clips of Wendy, Ariel and Jasmine(!) play in the background.

In the movie she doesn’t voice any characters instead she sings two songs in the movie “Nu het weer lente wordt” (Little April Showers, Bambi 2 version) and a new song written from Bambi 2 “Een Nieuw Begin” note that the line “A Whole New World” was translated as “Een Nieuw Begin” for Aladdin in 1993. I guess I have go to a nearby theater next week.

Ultimate Disney has the review of the latest DVD in Disney Princess series. The third DVD in the Sing-A-Long-Series features one Aladdin song. In Out of Thin Air from Aladdin and The King of Thieves Aladdin is worried he might not be a good husband because of his urchin past. Preformed by Liz Callaway and Brad Kane “Out Of Thin Air” doesn’t hold ground against “A Whole New World still it’s the best song of the movie and The Return of Jafar.

Worth noting is that Disney is releasing a original animated Disney Princess DVD in the fall. Called Disney Princess – Fairy Tales it contains a Belle and Aurora story. Six screenshots can be found here. I hope that, if successful the next DP DVD includes a Jasmine story. It would be the first traditional animated Jasmine animation since Aladdin and the King of Thieves.