Woody's News Roundup (01/11/06)

Disney have created a Cars DVD website. It uses the same template as the main movie website it seems.

Some of the new features include…

• All the wallpapers have been branded with a picture of the Cars DVD.
• An ‘About the DVD’ section with descriptions of some of the special features
• New games to come including, ‘Ramone’s House of Body Art’, ‘Tractor Tippin’‘ and ‘Desert Dash’
• Branding of animated signatures with Cars DVD release date

Be sure to check it out here.

Thanks to James for the heads up!

The next piece of news is cover art for the 2 disc Walmart exclusive Cars DVD.

Thanks to Cory and Tashina for that piece of news.

And finally, The Tech Chronicles at SFGate.com reports that

Pixar hosted a group of journalists Monday at its Emeryville headquarters, offering a peek into the making of its latest film “Cars,” which will be released on DVD next week.

You can listen to the 8:45 min podcast of their interview here (Warning: 7.39mb).

UPDATE: One last thing. Victor Navone posts over at this blog, this image…

The image is courtesy of Tom Nixon according to Navone. Happy Halloween to everyone in the US!