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This Sunday, mark your calendars. He’ll be introducing the Hello Dolly portion.of the tribute to Jerry Herman.
The composer was really floored to see how prominently his work figured in the story, even though if you added up the time those two songs were played, it probably doesn’t exceed 5 minutes of the film. It must have been quite a treat to see his song start playing immediately after the Disney/Pixar logo’s were shown. Perhaps it will show up on youtube.com later on Sunday night.
Thanks for the link, wallefanatic. That JimHill fellow has some nice articles…
And here is one that is related to the animatronic Wall-E, which we saw at the British and L.A. premieres, also at the Tokyo premiere and possibly seen at some of the theme parks briefly:
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I’ve been wondering about this for a long, long time and been doing searches of Disney theme park material trying to find out info. This is as much as I’ve found anywhere. He seems too big and certainly weighs too much. I mean he isn’t really cubing, so he doesn’t have a motor for that in there, and he doesn’t need to have his cube that strong since the pounds per sq inch of a compactor isn’t relevant. 700 pounds? He needs to lose weight.
They desperately need a Wall-e exhibit or enclosure at the theme parks!!
There is an article floating around there somewhere that was published after Jim Hill’s piece on the subject, about the Ratatouille living character initiative stating that WALL-E would be there as part of the living character initiative eventually. So there’s still hope.
Well, turns out the Tony’s decided to once again screw over the film.
That was posted as an update to Jim Hill Media’s article. So The Oscars are crap with unrehearsed theatre performances and the Tony’s put the kabash on performances that were being rehearsed for weeks. It’s like Bizarro world.
awww, that’s too bad. I was gonna ask how that was. Yet somehow, I’m not surprised.
That sucks. I hate it when things are changed at the last minute, whether it be assignment deadlines, TV programming schedules (something which is a chronic affliction for Oz telly) or in this case, guest appearances! 
The event organisers should totally owe an apology to the guy who programmed Wall-E!
deskbanger Do people not LIKE WALL-E or something!? We got snubbed at the Oscars (okay, okay, WALL-E took home Best Anmated Feature! That`s a good award!) for Best Sound Editing/Mixing, Best Score, and Best Song!
I got a feeling Up is going to turn out the same way!
Well, seeing as Pixar movies still remain animated, and seeing how the Academy (alongside H-wood) still chooses to remain cynical, still defining ‘animation’ as a standalone genre, I’m afraid Pixar just won’t get that big break anytime soon.
Sure, Pixar movies are probably the only pieces of modern artwork of the movie world, but from their perspective, their point of view, they are just kiddie movies that won’t really reach out to the 13-20 year olds, whom they’re making a profit out of through movies with great eye-candies and poor quality stories.
Transformers, for example. Terminator: Salvation. X-Men Origins: Wolverine (yes, I am casting this one out, too, because Watchmen is the quality Pixar film of the Superhero genre - in a metaphorical sense, that is). But, I digress.
Hopefully, future Pixar movies would generate enough adrenaline to keep the tweenies happy (and thus, generate more money for Hollywood), whilst, at the same time, keeping their age old heart-filled storytelling methods that had our hearts melting and our brains thinking (instead of shutting off like the times when we see Optimus Prime performed his transformations). But until then, we’ll have to just settle for “Best Animated Feature,” for now.
sigh The Academy should have never added the Best Animated Feature category! Were they ashamed when Beauty and the beast was nominated for Best picture or something?!
These are different times we are living in. The moviepocalypse is almost upon us. Soon, people won’t even mind watching Shrek 709: His Final Adventure (Promised!!!), at all.
Tony awards? Is this something PV set up? 
I LOLed at that, Vekoma. 
And how annoying for them to change everything at the last minute! It was such a cool idea too, mixing the old with the new, having that juxtaposition. But yes, like others here, I am not completely surprised.
Apparently, the rise of Pixar and the second golden era of Disney animated features (1989-1999), and the rise of Dreamworks forced the category to be formed. That in addition to Jeff Katzenberg being furious that Chicken Run wasn’t nominated for Best Picture in 2001, it was the best picture of that year. At least this is what I’ve heard, not an industry insider.
Wow I’m annoyed. Wall-E is actually motivating me to see Hello Dolly. xD What a shame.
I’m disgusted at how people treat animated films. Granted, most of them aren’t top notch…but Pixar, as well as Japan’s Studio Ghibli have produced phenomenal films. (Disney too, but they’ve been kind of failing lately 
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I’ve enjoyed a lot of these animated films a lot more than many live action films. Up could very well be my all time favorite film. 
A lot of people don’t appreciate how long it takes to work on these films. Heck, even cartoon programs actually take a lot of work. Being an artist, I can learn to appreciate the art