Haha, that bit at the end is hilarious! Such perfect comedic timing, too.
The Up site has had a huge Up-date. They have a bit of music from the score, too. I can’t seem to navigate a lot of the site for some reason, but Mitch tells me that the ‘Characters’ section is cool. And from I can see of the ‘Games’ section, it has “Kevin’s Chocogobble”, but it won’t let me play it because I’m not from the US.
You know, when I first saw that title, I thought it read Chocobo! Now I haven’t played the FF games, but I can’t help but notice the uncanny resemblance…
Think it was intentional?
Feels like the “meet the characters” gives away a lot, but I’m a big one for spoilers so…
This especially seems to hold with the one on Dug.
I love the new website. The sets in this movie look dazzling. I especially like the bits of character animation throughout the website.
Yeah the bits of character animation is awesome! very funny!
Wow! Now that’s a total rehaul! I love the site intro with the epic shots and the rousing music (Is this from Mr Giachinno and will be on the soundtrack? Or is it trailer music from an independent production house?). Kinda reminded me of The Raider’s March.
I didn’t even realise the menu had appeared until I scrolled over Kevin’s head and saw the ‘Meet the Characters’ link icon!
The little bits of animation with each character’s profile is amazing! I’m refraining from reading Dug, Alpha, Beta and Gamma cos’ I caught a glimpse of ‘spoilerish-looking’ stuff, so I stopped reading immediately! I wonder when they are gonna introduce Muntz?
I like the floating balloons covering the screen during the section transitions.
I also can’t play Kevin’s Chocogobble! This ‘country-specific’ system is so annoying!
Overall, a pretty good redesign! Got me excited, so it seems to be working.
I’m pretty sure the music is from an independent music source. It was similar to the music from the teaser trailer, and that’s definitely not Mr. Giachinno.
I do really like it though.
The Up website has been updated! It’s a small addition, but you can now access the “Downloads” section of the site. The screensaver is so… cute, I swear…
Go check it out!
Edit: Copied from Upcoming Pixar:
“I forgot to mention that if (on the main “Up” website) you go to “About the Film” and click on “Film-makers”, you can now read biographies on Pete Docter (Director/Screenwriter), Bob Peterson (Co-Director/Screenwriter), and Jonas Rivera (Producer).”
– Mitch
The Australian version of the website is now online: disney.com.au/disneyfilms/up/
As far as I can tell it’s a different version of the website that the US got. Most, if not all, of the sections are open, including ‘characters’, ‘about’, ‘downloads’, ‘games’. This means it’s not long till it opens here, hooray!
Oh, wow, I love the picture maker, I’m making a new sig and avvy with it! That heroic pose of Carl is new, I’ve not seen it before, and it’s the 2nd best pic I’ve seen of him! (the other one being my ideal sig)
Thanks for the link rachel!
Nice new sig & avatar, FF dude!
I can’t get into the site. When I click the link, the intro page doesn’t come up right. I can see the TV playing the trailer, but it cuts off at the bottom edge of the TV screen (so I’m not getting any sort of “Enter Site” link or similar). I can also see the bottom edge of something that looks like maybe a WE Ribbon? in the upper left area, but there’s not enough showing to click on if that would help.
Can someone please post a direct link to the next page that comes up after the intro page linked above? (And is anyone else having this problem?)
EDIT: I got in! I called my sister, and gave her the site address, and she was able to get in, and gave me the link to one of the internal pages, which let me get back to the main page and navigate. I still don’t know why my intro page won’t come up right.
I’m going to play with the image maker after dinner. Maybe I’ll finally get myself an avatar!
EDIT: Hey, look! Alpha! Oh, and I added a sig (just a line) to my profile, but maybe that doesn’t show up until I make a new post. ?
I had a fun time playing the Jungle Snapper game with Kevin. Thanks rachel for the link too.
UP or we say in Japan カールじいさんの空飛ぶ家Grandfather or Grandpa Carl’s Flying House website is up too. yUP, the UP title has been changed for the Japanese market. There hasn’t been any information on the Japanese voices at this site, Google nor Yahoo yet.
disney.co.jp/movies/carl-gsan/index.html
The GCFH website was put up early June I think. Sorry, I didn’t find this site earlier, but I spoiled myself when I watched UP in the states this year.
Here is the first poster for Grandpa Carl’s Flying House. What do you think?
getnews.jp/wp-content/themes/red … ges/up.jpg
Apologies for tacking onto this thread; I’m trying to see if my sig works (thanks to the Image Maker on the Australian site!).
This is from the UP website in Japan July 31st. 村 克也 ノムラ カツヤTatsuya Nomura will voice Carl Fredricksen.
disney.co.jp/movies/carl-gsa … ws003.html
Mr. Nomura, which is the baseball manager of the Tohoku Rakuten Eagles based in Sendai, is on TV almost once a week because he still has wit for a seventy-four year old. The sports reporters quote him a lot. He loves talking to children behind a fence and in person. In spring training this year in Okinawa, Japan, Mr. Nomura chatted to a lot of kids. Here’s one I remember. Go to 7:17. youtube.com/watch?v=IsOwGWHD … re=related
Haha, that’s cool Rey, nice find. It’s strange to see Carl talking in Japanese, but kinda neat. His voice does seem a bit too friendly though, but I’m sure his acting will be great.
Well, it’s Japanese!