Just caught a summer vacation Disneyland Paris ad banner at a Dutch website featuring Genie. Captured it and strung it together in one image.

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.

As you might know in an earlier script the peddler would reveal himself to be genie. A demo of Arabian Nights Reprise ended up on Music Behind the Magic, a four cd box with music and songs from The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. This set included Proud of Your Boy and various other songs that didn’t make it to final film like Humiliate the Boy and Count on Me all three where on the special edition DVD. A missed opportunity was to include this song with storyboards.

The creators of Aladdin and the King of Thieves, the third and last Aladdin film in where Aladdin meets his long last father Cassim and finally marries Jasmine, liked the song so much they used at the end of the film. This and the marriage scene made me often feel a bit down when I thought that there would be no more Aladdin after this. Al and co made a few cameo appearances and Jasmine got her own little film but it’s not the same.

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.

I found this cute pic in the Flickr Disney’s Aladdin group I just joined to show off my sand sculpture photo’s.

Graham Norton, a BCC host, had Robin in his show recently talking about his voice work on animation feature films Aladdin and Happy Feet.

Aladdin: Who are you?
Genie: I’m an Olympic speedwalker!

Genie: No more wish for more wishes. Trust me I spend all my magic on Being’s opening ceremony!

Doesn’t that guy just kill you? Hilarious!

Robin Williams Charicture by ~NebulaInferno on deviantART

Heather reminded me that the Disney trivia console game “Disney Think Fast” came out today. I recall mentioning this game sometime ago but had forgotten about it complely until today. IGN has the press release. “Disney Think Fast” is out on the Wii and PS2 and is hosted by an odd looking CG Genie.

Hosted by the Genie from Aladdin, the game will feature 15 rounds packed with Disney trivia and peppered with competitive mini-games (ranging in locations from films including The Little Mermaid, 101 Dalmatians and Lilo and Stitch). Swapping text for visual answers, Th!nk will be packed with some 5,000 questions.

Disney Th!nk Fast will be released later on this year.

The game is 3D and there’s no word as of yet on the voices, if any but it’s not expected that Robin would reprise his role for a simple video game. My hunch is that Dan Castellana will reprise his Genie from the series and Return of Jafar.

Disney's Th!nk fast hosted by Aladdin's genie

Wanna-be animators, comic book readers, fans of animator Eric Goldberg who live near San Diego should attend the San Diego Comic-Con on Friday July 25th from 2 – 4pm.

That’s when Aladdin’s Genie designer holds a signing session for his upcoming book Character Animation Crash Course!.
“Character Animation Crash Course! is a veritable Genie’s lamp stuffed with everything the aspiring animator could wish for! Renowned animator Eric Goldberg’s detailed text and drawings illuminate how to conceive characters “from the inside out” to create strong personalities. Classic animation techniques are analyzed and brought to life through this unique book and its accompanying CD that offers readers animated movie examples that show, in real time or frame-by-frame, the author’s principles at work. Add to this Goldberg’s discussions of classic cartoons and his witty, informative observations based on the wealth of knowledge he’s gained during his 30-plus years in professional animation, and you have a tour-de-force guide to character animation with the classic touch. ”

Lego vignette displaying Aladdin and the magic lamp That genie looks creepy with his body made of Ice Cream Scoops.

Sims are talking about magic lamps since the Sims 2 came out three years ago and thanks to some creative fans Sims could dress up as genies, street urchin and Arabian princesses but their searches for the mythical Cave of Wonders always ended up at death ends. Sure some Sims made it their job to hunt for ancient relics in the Adventurer career that was added trough an expansion pack but the magic lamp seemed lost forever.

However from February 26, 2008 on genie’s lamp is within their reach. That’s when The Sims 2 FreeTime hits the streets it contains a magic lamp that summons a purple Genie Sims ready to grant wishes. The Genie can grant just one wish at the time it’s up to the Sim to choose.

Wealth, Beauty, Cheat Death, Longer Life and unlike Aladdin’s genie this being can bring people back from the death.

How to get a Magic Lamp with the genie?

Some sources say that the household needs a total 16 hobby points for the gypsy woman to drop you a lamp while others say there’s a 2% chance every day your household receives a lamp and that chance can be increased when Sims have many hobby points prefer a full hobby bar or 2.
My families in the Seasons neighborhood, descents of a pre-made household, are big Nature lovers with greenhouses and all… plus one teenage girl is in Platinum mood ever since she filled her music and arts hobby bar fully but still no gypsy with magic lamp.

Cheating seems the only other way to get the lamp, typ boolprop testingcheatsenabled true call the gypsy and spawn the lamp by shift+click and select spawn->genie lamp. If you thought that you can sell the lamp from the Aspir family in Desiderata Valley by opening a public store on a community lot, forget it! The lamp can’t be priced.

Credits: SnootySims

I realized there isn’t that much interaction between Jasmine and Genie and all the animated instances in the Aladdinverse. There is no interaction to speak of in the first movie, big blue and Jas don’t exchange dialogue at all. You remember the fun Genie had cheering up Jasmine in King but that’s only scenes in the movie between the two. I don’t think they talked much in Return of Jafar either. That pattern continued in the series where it seems Genie and Iago exchange more words then he and the princess.

Flipping through my comic book collection I came across the touching picture below. It’s from the Return of Jafar alternative version comic book, as I call it. Like in the movie Jafar and Iago escape the Cave but unlike the animated version Iago don’t dump Jafar instead they blend in the crowds strolling around the city in search for a way to get into palace unseen. They meet up with magician Farja, uncanny resembling the evil genie but wears green instead of red clothes.

Anyway, this picture comes from a part in the story where Genie just returned from vacation and shares, and shows, his stories with his friends. The Scheherazade line is made by me
Click the thumbnail for the full version then click right and choose Print Picture. You might want to blow up the picture by selecting stretch to page or center on page.