Strolling off Ebay I came across this rare Aladdin spinoff radio play in German. It’s callled JAGOS RÜCKKEHR and seems to be starring Iago. Although I’m not able to translate the title my gut tells me it’s like Return of Jafar, Iago switches sides from evil henchman to good sidekick.
It’s released on a music casssete or MC which was what MP3 is today a way to have portable music back in the 80′s. The walkman is like the Ipod of the 80′s.

Animation Backgrounds has some more background artwork from Aladdin. A shot from inside the Cave of Wonders, Outside view of Jasmine’s balcony, the Cave after it died out and 2 shots from the oasis where Aladdin and Genie land on Carpet after leaving the cave.

I found this one sitting unfinshed on my harddrive doing nothing so here it is. Simply click on the thumbnail to load the big picture then click right and choose ‘set as background’

Just a couple of fan arts I found at DeviantArt lately that I liked.

I love Queen Hipposedeth and her second in command Scara posing for an official Galafeme portrait. Check out the other Enemies of Agrabah@Da

I like this really young looking Aladdin by rhi-mix it could be Al’s teenage son dressed in his fathers old costume.

jesse52 obiviusly based this one on a coloring page featuring Jas during the magic carpet ride. I love the colors! Though her face is a bit off model then again coloring pages aren’t always on model either.

Last is a coloring page ‘painterised’ by oondustdreams. Cute but her face freaks me out.

Genius Aladdin/Rocky Horror Picture Show. The comments by abacab987 are unrelated and should/could be ignored.

Aladdin’s expression is cute as to say “So is it good?” refering to Belle’s book.

Michele pointed me to an auction of a very cute pin. Yes Disney didn’t forget, boys are fans too. From the same series come Peter Pan, Pinocchio, Dopey, Eric and Hercules plus Genie and Aladdin. It reminds of that boys oriantaed Disney Adventures line that wasn’t a success. The Disney Princess toddler pin collection for girls has Cinderella, Mulan, Snow White, Ariel, Belle and Aurora plus Jasmine.

I replaced my old 19″ computer monitor width a much bigger 22″ widescreen LCD screen capeble of very hight resolutions up to 1920 X 1080 pixels. That meant I needed a bigger wallpaper the ones I had are for 1024 x 768 or slightly bigger screens.

The wallpaper is from the scene where Aladdin is saying his goodbyes to Jasmine after his saved Agrabah. It’s one of the most touching and tearjerking moments in the film. I left some empty page at the bottom for icon storage. In 2007 I made a classic 1024 x 768 and and 1280 by 1024 pixel wallpapers from this same scene.

Click on the picture to load the full 1680 x 1050 wallpaper then click right on it and select set as background. The text might not be exact the same on your system.

Aladdin says goodbye 1680 1050 wallpaper

This weeks issue of Donald Duck, nr 51 -2009, had a 4 page Aladdin comic where Genie’s being being hit by lighting splitting him into two. One of his halfs comes under the power of Jafar who, as usual, want to rule Agrabah. It’s up to Aladdin, Abu and Carpet and rejoin the two halfs.

The Princess and Frog Ross Blocher (Assistant Technical Director) and T. Daniel Hofstedt (character animator) did hilarious parody on Prince Naveen set on Alan Menken’s Prince Ali from the one and only Aladdin. Probably not mend for ears outside the production team though.

Fact is that T. Daniel Hofstedt worked on Aladdin as animator for Gazeem and Prince Achmed. He continued his Disney career by animating on most feature films up till Home on the Range.

Trident did a few tributes to the badguys and girls from the Aladdinverse.
Set under Billy Joel’s You May Be Right, great artist by the way, clips from Chaos from the tribute to this crazy all-power cat.

The hilarious Looney Tunes tribute Abis Mal, Aladdin most annoying and funny opponent with his turban obsession.

The to me unknown rockband Trooper hails most of Agrabah’s Enemies using screens capped by myself I have/had stored online somewhere for years.

I found a couple of photos from Disney on Ice Celebrations, the latest Disney On Ice show featuring the Princesses including Tiana. Lucky for us they kept a spot open for Jasmine, the last ‘real’ princess. I myself am planning to see Al and Jassy on ice in February 2010 when I see them in action in Princess Wishes.

My Aladdin themed room got allot more Aladdin-ish yesterday when I hung up two 160 cm high frames each containing 8 lithos/posters A4/letter size. They reprisent 15 random moments from the film and 1 poster. Like I wrote a few weeks go I want to make a couple of nice wallpapers to add to Streetrat’s wallpaper gallery

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The Musical Sing A Long is the annual closing event of the Uitmarkt, many culture shows and stuff are previewed throughout Amsterdam in the last weekend of August. It marks the start of a cultural season that lasts until June the next year. On the Musical Sing A Long big and small musical productions are previewed that will open soon and often a sample of an running musical is also preformed.

In Disney Sing A Long 4 major Dutch musical artists from 3 generations will sing the hits from Disney musicals like The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin.

Last nights preview included a short sample of Stanley Burleson and Casey Francisco singing A Whole New World.

The young dutch musical production company FanWork had it’s fall 2009 production premiere. A cast of young students ages between 6 and 21 play a in-house adaption of Pocahontas. Last year FanWork did their own redition of Aladdin but borrowing elements from the famous Disney film. According to a Musicalworld.nl review the story of a boy dreaming of wealth, a trapped princess, a powerhungry vizir and a silly sultan are inspired by the Disney animated film. In this version Abu is replaced by a mute boy Sami and Jafar’s henceman is not a parrot by a female named Kadeem