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Christmas Past: Aurora’s Christmas Wishes, Mickey’s Winter Wonderland, March of the Wooden Soldiers...Christmas Present: Dreams of Christmas, Cavalcade de Noël...Christmas Future: The Concept Art of FrozenWalt Disney and the story of the Nutcracker and much more....

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Disneygraphy Magazine Christmas Special - Dec 2013

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“rowing up isn’t simply growing old. rowing up is when you don’t

believe anymore.”

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All the articles in this special edition of Disneygraphy Magazine deal with Christ-mas in Disneyland Paris. We will explore the sources of many Disney related tra-ditions that find their origins with Walt Dis-ney and the things he loved. In his depiction of the holi-day it is ev-ident that Walt Disney loved the Yuletide sea-son, the nos-talgia and all things that are associat-ed with it.

Christmas is a time for family, a time of good food and lights during the darkest and coldest days of the year.The stories in which Diane Disney Mill-er reminisces of the days when her father would stage grand surprises for her and her sister Sharon at the Disney Family home are lovely to read about. Her mem-ories of those first special Christmases at Disneyland are beautiful. One can only wonder what it must have been like.

Walt Disney started many of the Christmas traditions in those early years in the park that are still part of the Holiday Season to this day.

Walt showed us what Christmas can mean to us through many Disney Productions and through the festivities he planned at Disneyland.

As a man of many tra-ditions, and like us, one foot in the past and one in the fu-ture, Walt started fes-tivities and shows in Disneyland that are still alive today. Some, like the Candle-light proces-sion are a pure Amer-

ican affair. Others, like the March of the Wooden Soldiers, which is featured in this issue of the magazine, crossed the ocean to our own beloved Disneyland Paris.

In a world that’s changing rapidly it’s good to hang on to these traditions. What better way to celebrate Christmas than watching a Christmas parade in Disneyland Paris, or any of the other parks, with the ones you love. Or stay at home, put an extra

log on the fire and watch a Disney Classic like Snow White or Bambi, while you wait for Santa to drop by...

We love to visit Disneyland Paris at any given time of the year, but the most special time to visit the park to us, is during the Holiday season. There is something special about the colder weather when you can’t wait to dine at Walt’s, the beautiful decorations in the park, the Christmas shows and the Christmas Music loop in Main Street. After a long day in the park it’s nice to stroll through Disney Village and buy some roasted chestnuts or perhaps a little Gluhwein to get warm again. Only to finish the day back at Sequoia Lodge to get really warm beside the large fireplace in the Hotel.

This love of the Park, Disney and the Holiday season tranfers to our home as early as possible when our home transforms in our own little piece of Main Street U.S.A. at Christmas time...

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andles in the window,

shadows painting the ceiling,

gazing at the f ire glow,

feeling that gingerbread feeling.

recious moments, special people,

happy faces, I can see.

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Disneygraphy Magazine is a fanzine focusing on the photographic beauty and detail of Disney-land Paris. We strive to bring you unique and personal visions of the park through our own photography. Articles done on the history of the park and Disney in general will contain im-ages and artwork of the Disney Company. This is done so with the utmost respect and only serves to tell our story. Care is taken to protect those images and all copyright remain with the Disney Company, Disneyland Paris and all other Disney Companies if applicable.Please note that most of the advertisements in this magazine are custom made by the editors to give the magazine the look and feel of Disneyland Paris and are therefor not real advertise-ments from the park.

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Walking down Main Street during the Christmas season, especially after night-fall is magical to me. It is so easy to transport yourself to the Victorian era and the Victorian ideas for Christmas. The yule feast has many, many ori-gins, but in the Victorian era our idea of Christmas as we know it today was formed. It’s also those aspects of Christ-mas that most resonate with me person-ally. Disney to me is more than cartoons and characters just for kids. Disneyland is an experience that I treasure after each and every visit. Through Disne-yland I have come to know the values and ideas of the person Walt Disney and so much resonates with my own values. What Disneyland is to me culminates during the Holiday season and it is this feeling that we really wanted to share with a Christmas Special of our maga- zine. I hope you will enjoy our efforts.

Disney and Christmas simply are the perfect match when you’re a dreamer and nostalgist. In every Disney park, the Christmas overlay adds even more mag-ic and these parks seem the only places where there is hope for peace on earth. The Christmas season really is the most magical time of the year and in Disne-yland Paris it seems to be getting better every year. Some elements have disa-peared, some have been fine-tuned and some are totally new. The true magic of Christmas will always be the most im-portant ingredient. It really is magical to see first timers discover the snow on Main Street and for just a while believe the snow is real. Once you’ve experi-enced a Disney Christmas there is a risk you keep coming back every next year, probably for the rest of your life. Well, at least that’s what happened to us. Luckily for us dreamers, the Christmas season starts early at Disneyland Paris.

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Walt Tribute p3

Editorial p7

Main Street Gazette p11

Travel Guide p23

Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983) p32

Walt Disney and The Nutcracker p54

Visions of Sugarplums p72

Emporium p98

The Concept art of Frozen p88

Decorations and Festivities p14

La Cavalcade de Noël p24

It’s a Small World Celebration p40

Meet Santa Claus p60

Disney Dreams of Christmas p102

Decorations and Festivities p46

Mickey’s Winter Wonderland p66

March of the Wooden Soldiers p76

Aurora’s Christmas Wishes p 82

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In Memoriam

Diane Disney Miller1933-2013

Daughter of Walt and Lilly Disney, Mother, Grandmother and Great Grand-

mother.

President of the Board of Directors of theWalt Disney Family Foundation

“She went through life with a determina-tion to inspire and entertain. She was her father’s daughter, a creative force with the perseverance to follow dreams and make

a difference,”Walt Disney Family Museum press release

Wish-list for Santa ClausIn Santa’s Village at the edge of Fron-tierland near the Train Station, children can meet Santa Claus during the day. In preparation of your visit to Santa you can write your own personal wish-list.At the Northwest Passage shop you can ask for a special Disney enveloppe. Write your adress on the enveloppe so Santa may answer you and put your wish-list in the enveloppe. You are now ready to go to the Santa Claus Village and meet Santa in his Cha-let. Before youtr visit you can deliver your letter to his post office in his village.

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New Years Eve at Disneyland ParkIf you are planning to spend New Years Eve at Disneyland Park you’re in for a magical day at the happiest place in Eu-rope. Here’s a list of the entertainment planned for 31-12-2013:

* Fountains Animations: 6 times during the evening* Christmas Castle Moments: 3 times during the evening* Magical Christmas Wishes: 3 times during the evening* Disney Dreams®! of Christmas: 5:45pm (daily guests)* Countdown: 11:59 pm* Disney Dreams®! of Christmas: 00:00

New Years Eve at Walt Disney StudiosIf you are planning to spend New Years Eve at Walt Disney Studios if a Holly-woord Cinema party is more your thing,

the festivities are as follows:

* All day: Promotional features to be pro-jected on a huge screen (artists/fireworks/schedule/program). Stage located in Back-lot.* The Disney Channel screen will show a great clip of magical moments at Dis-neyland Paris as well as the screen on stage. The clip includes advertisings for each of the happenings of the evening.(Pa-rade-Concerts-Dance party-Fireworks)* New year’s Eve announcement : 4 times during the day* Pop-Rock BGM (Park Wide except Back-lot) - same as last year* Disney’s Stars ’n’ Cars… as never seen before!: 7:30 pm & 8:30 pm : Additional Characters, VIP Characters with Cinema overdressings, Dedicated music for the evening* The Lucky Video Dance Party: 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm* Let’s Groove: 11:00 to 11:59 pm* Countdown: 11:59 pm* The Happy –ever–after New Year’s Eve Spectacular! (Fireworks): 00:00* Let’s Groove: 00:05-01:00

New Years Eve at Disney VillageAt Disney Village there is even more en-tertainment during the day, so there’s more than enough to choose from:* Khriss Come & Dance: 7:00 pm, 8:00 pm & 9:00 pm

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* Les Gnomikys: 7:30 pm, 8:30 pm & 9:30 pm* Concert & Music Party: From 7:30 pm* Music Party: From 10:00 pm* Cherry Swing & Heart Live: From 7:30 pm at Billy Bob’s* New Year’s Eve Fireworks: 00:00

Disneyland® Hotel receives Best Hospitality AwardRecognition continues for the exceptional levels of quality enjoyed at Disneyland® Paris, with a new award following on from the 2012 Brass Ring Award (Best Live Pro-duction – Disney Dreams®!) and a 2013 World Travel Award (Europe’s Leading Themed Resort – Disneyland Paris).

Marne-la-Vallée, 5 December 2013 – The Disneyland Hotel, flagship establishment at Disneyland Paris, recently took top honours during the annual Trophées de la Clientèle des hôtels 4 à 5 étoiles [4- and 5-star hotel guest awards]. Now in its sev-enth year, the ceremony was presented by the Colloque National des Directeurs d’Hôtels [national meeting of hotel gener-al managers].

The prestigious Victorian-style hotel led the field of 850 competing establishments to win the Best Hospitality Award. One of five different awards presented by the or-ganisation, this distinction provides recog-nition for the company’s efforts to create

unique experiences for each guest and to uphold Disney’s hospitality legacy.

‘We’re really proud to receive this award because it recognises the quality of the welcome we offer guests. Ensuring guest satisfaction is extremely important for us because we aim to create a relationship with each visitor. We work hard every day to create new and innovative experi-ences to which only our Cast Members1 have the secret,’ explains Joe Schott, Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer.

Disneyland Paris has France’s fifth largest hotel capacity, with 5,800 rooms and an occupancy level higher than the industry average (79.3% occupancy for 2013). Over the last four years the company has un-dertaken an ambitious renovation plan to further improve guest comfort and ser-vices. More than 2,000 rooms and 500 bungalows have already been renovated and modernised. From 2014 onward the 1,100 rooms at Disney’s Newport Bay Club will also be progressively renovated and reimagined. Guest satisfaction at the rele-vant hotels has increased by an average of 10 points2 thanks to the significant invest-ments involved.

The Best Hospitality Award is only the most recent award presented to Disney-land Paris. In late 2012 the resort’s new Disney Dreams! show was recognised as Best Live Production during the Brass Ring Award ceremony hosted by the prestigious International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions. In 2013 the World Travel Awards also rec-ognised Disneyland Paris at Europe’s Leading Themed Resort.

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Christmas in Disneyland starts early November, you can plan your va-cation so that you can experience one or two `Mickey’s Magical Fire-works and Bonfire’ shows on Lake Disney and be there at the premiere of the Christmas Season! There is a risk of being in Christmas mode long before the rest of your friends neighbours or family and you might have to decorate your house earlier than expected. Be prepared there may not be any Christmas trees on sale!

Make reservations for restaurants, Christmas is magical but it can be crowded.Do not expect to be able to do ride every attraction you want, just enjoy the atmosphere,keep calm and use Fast Passes ! Do not forget, now is the time to get up early for the Extra Magic Hours when you’re staying at a Disney or Partner hotel or own a Dream Pass.

If you want to see ‘Magic on Parade’, the wonderful ‘Christmas Cavalcade’, ‘Disney Dreams of Christmas’ or any other show, get to your positions at least half an hour in advance. Don’t try to push other guests away when you’re too late; it’s not very Christ-

masy or polite and very anoying.

The atmosphere in the parks and hotels can be quite conta-gious, there’s nothing you can do against it so do not try to fight it. Just be extra jolly and have the most magical Christmas time !

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Mickey’s Christmas Carol is obviously based on Charles Dickens classic Christmas story “A Christmas Carol”. Disney’s cartoon adaption also found it’s genesis in a 1974 Disney-land record entitled “An Adaption of Dickens’s Christmas Carol”. Both Disney versions follow the classic story fairly faithfully with just a few goofs here and there and a slight-ly different ending.

Mickey’s Christmas Carol was produced by the Walt Disney Studios in 1983. The animated short was the first original Mickey Mouse theatrical cartoon pro-duced in over 30 years since the last short 1953 film “The Simple Things”.

CastingRounding up Mickey and his gang for the production was only the beginning. Af-ter 30 years a new team would have to be assembled to create a feature that would stand proudly next to the animated Mick-ey cartoons of the past. Burny Mattinson (producer/director) was responsible for co-ordinating the production. Bernie started working in the Disneyland mailroom the same year as his star Mickey made his last Big Screen appearance. He worked his way up in the Disney company through vari-ous jobs for many of the Disney classics.

One of Burny’s first tasks was matching the Disney personalities with the familiar names in Charles Dickens classic Christ-mas Tale. When your audience knows your actors almost as well you do you want to make sure everyone is cast in just

the right role.

This was necessary because the Disney Characters would play a part from the Dickens Story, and not themselves. The film would ultimately feature a similar cast of characters as the 1974 audio mu-sical with the exception of the first and the last of the Christmas Ghosts. In the audio musi- cal, the Ghost of Christmas Past was Merlin from The Sword in the Stone in-stead of Jiminy Cricket while the Ghost of

Christmas Yet to come was the Queen from Snow White and the Seven

Dwarfs in her hag guise.

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Miserable and greedy old miser, Ebenezer Scrooge

(Scrooge McDuck), gets a fright in this original

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In Victorian England, Ebenezer Scrooge is a bitter old moneylender who doesn’t like fun, joy and everything that embodies Christmas. He only likes to make money, a much as possible, not spending a pen-ny too many. In his office, everything is cold and nasty, and Scrooge won’t even pay the money to heat the place properly. He has one cleck, Bob Cratchit, who is un-derpaid and has to work in these horrible conditions. One evening, Scrooges neph-ew Fred walks in to ask his uncle over for Christmas dinner. After an unfriendly conversation with his uncle, Fred leaves Scrooge’s office after wich Bob asks for an early evenning off. After much hesitation Scrooge complies and leaves for home himself.

That night, Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his former business partner, Jacob Mar-ley, who died 7 years earlier. After his death Jacob was forced to spend his af-terlife carrying heavy chains forged from his own greedy ways.. Scrooge looks out the window and sees many more ghosts suffering the same fate. Marley warns Scrooge that he will suffer an even worse fate if he doesn’t repent since Scrooge’s greed seems to have no limits. Jacob fore-tells that Scrooge will be haunted by three spirits that will help guide him.

The first spirit, the Ghost of Christ-mas past (a small ghost made of fire), shows Scrooge visions of his past that take place on or arround Christmas. The spirit shows all the joyeus things the old man has forgotten. The last vision shows a called off engagement with Scroog-es sweetheart Belle. An event that set Scrooge on his greedy path. This vision is unbearable to watch and Scrooge exin-guishes the flame of the Ghost.

The second spirit, the ghost of Christ-mas present, is a large joyeaous man that likes to indulge himself and have fun. He shows Scrooge how his fellow men spend Christmas, which is in much contrast as to how Scrooge spends his. Among them are his nephew Fred, and his cleck Bob Cratchit. At Cratchit’s, Scrooge learns that Bob doesn’t have enough means to sup-port his family. Bob’s sickly young son, Tiny Tim, whose commitment to the spir-it of Christmas touches Scrooge, who is dismayed to learn from the spirit that he may not have much longer to live.

The third and final spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, shows Scrooge the final consequences of his greed. Tiny Tim has died. Scrooge has also died, though there is more comfort than grief in the wake of his funeral. In addition, Fred finds benefit from inheriting his wealth, and Scrooge is even robbed by his former maid. Unwilling to let this grim future come to pass, Scrooge begs to be given a second chance as the spirit forces him into his deep and empty grave lead-ing all the way to Hell.

Scrooge awakens to find himself in his bed on Christmas morning, the three spir-its having guided him over the course of one night, and immediately sets out to atone for his sins, making donations to the poor, attending Fred’s dinner party, and giving Cratchit a raise to care for his family, allowing Tiny Tim to live. Scrooge spends the remainder of his life a new man embodying the spirit of Christmas itself.

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Burny stated that during the production of the Christmas tale, “Mickey and the Beanstalk” (1947) was sort of the guide-book for the production. They took the giant from that production and cast him as the ghost of Christmas present. Partly because of the contrast he would bring to the small Jiminy Cricket as Christmas past. And so, many familiar faces from the Disney library of characters would find a part in the classic tale. For this rea-son alone it is fun to watch the cartoon and see who you can spot here and there in the story of Ebenezer Scrooge.

AnimationThe next part of the production would be to match the characters to an individual animator. The director felt that anima-tors are like actors and they need to fit the part of the character. He also felt he should give parts to any animator would want to animate a certain character to

bring out the best possible performance.

Mickey Mouse was the perfect choice for the overworked, underpaid part of Bob Cratchit. Since his debut in “Steamboat Willy” in 1928, Mickey Mouse evolved into an unassuming loveable character. Walt Disney described Mickey as “Just a nice fellow, who never does anybody any harm”. These character traits made Mick-ey the perfect choice for the part.

Mark Henn animated Mickey and Jiminy Cricket. Mark wasn’t even born yet when Mickey made his Big Screen debut, but he soon proved to be a top class animator whose work can stand proudly next to the old animators like Fred Moore. Mark stat-ed that Fred Moore was pretty much re-sponsible for the look and feel of Mickey as we know him today.Mickey’s Christmas Carol saw another debut. Wayne Allwine was the third per-son to voice Mickey and master Mickey’s

Mickey’s Christmas Carol Production Cel Animation Art (Disney, 1983). Hand painted 12 field Walt Disney Studio production cel of Jiminy Cricket as the Ghost of Christmas Past.

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typical voice characteristics. The first 2 voice actors, being Walt Disney himself and Jimmy MacDonald. Jimmy had taken the part from Walt during the production of Mickey and the Beanstalk when Walt stated “He was too busy to do the voice of Mickey anymore”.Mickey’s Christmas Carol was hailed a Mickey Mouse’s big-screen comeback, despite the fact that Mickey only had a small part to play in the Dickens story.

The main part of Ebenezer Scrooge would, not surprisingly, go to Scrooge Mc-Duck. Alan Young would make his first screen debut as the voice of Scrooge Mc-Duck, as part he also played in the afore-mentioned album. Young would continue to play Scrooge in nearly every subse-quent production to feature the character, most notably in the animated television series DuckTales. Clarence Nash was the only original voice actor in the film as all the other voice actors had passed away. Mickey’s Christmas Carol also would be the last time Clarence Nash voiced Don-ald Duck.

ReceptionThe cartoon received mixed reviews. Film

Critic Leonard Maltin said that rather than being “a pale attempt to imitate the past”, the film is “cleverly written, well staged, and animated with real spirit and a sense of fun.” Robin Allan stated that the film calls to mind the similarities be-tween Walt Disney and Charles Dickens, in terms of both the work they produced and their work ethic. However, Gene Sis-kel and Roger Ebert of At the Movies gave it “two thumbs down”. Siskel felt there wasn’t enough emphasis on Mickey’s char-acter and that it didn’t rank with most of Disney’s full-length animated features. Ebert stated that it lacked the magic of visual animation that the “Disney people are famous for” and that it was a “forced march” through the Charles Dickens story without any ironic spin.

Mickey’s Christmas Carol was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1984, but lost to “Sundae in New York”.Despite the views of some critics, the car-toon would become a classic in the Dis-ney animated canon and a yearly viewing tradition for many Disney fans.

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Disney Characters as extras in the movie:Opening street scene

* The Big Bad Wolf, collecting for charity

* The Three Little Pigs, caroling

Party at Fezzywig’s

* Lady Kluck, dancing with Secretary Bird

* Rabbit children, clapping

* Uncle Waldo; clapping, later dancing

* Grandma Duck; clapping, later dancing

* Horace Horsecollar, dancing with Clarabelle Cow

* Gus Goose, dancing with Clara Cluck

* Angus MacBadger, dancing

* Chip and Dale, dancing

* Huey, Dewey, and Louie, decorating Christmas tree

Closing street scene

* Skippy Bunny and Toby Turtle, playing in the street

* Mother Rabbit and Grandma Owl, standing in the street

* The Practical Pig, chasing two of the Three Little Wolves

* Cyril Proudbottom, pulling Donald’s cart

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very morning during the holiday season of 2011, ickey would drive out to greet the first guests of the park during the agic ours.

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Apart perhaps from Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol”, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” is one of the most be-loved Christmas stories around. The orig-inal tale was written in 1816 by E. T. A. Hoffmann, and most famously adapted for ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

The Nutcracker BalletIn 1891, world renowned choreogra-pher, Marius Petipa commissioned Peter Tchaikovsky to compose the music for Al-exandre Dumas’s adaptation of Hoffman’s tale. Its first performance in 1892, was a complete failure – both the critics and the audience disliked it. Since then, The Nutcracker has been the most widely per-formed ballet in the world.

Almost every ballet company from Aus-tralia to Europe and Asia to America per-forms the The Nutcracker during the hol-iday season.

Although what is seen on the stage today is different in detail from the original sto-ry, the basic plot remains the same: The story of a young German girl who dreams of a Nutcracker Prince and a fierce battle against a Mouse King with seven heads begins. When Marius Petipa had the idea to choreograph the story into a ballet, it was actually based on a revision by Alex-ander Dumas. His version reflects more of what people have come to love as the Nutcracker Ballet.

FantasiaThere are many connections between Walt Disney, the story of The Nutcracker and composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Best known to audiences around the world is the use of The Nutcracker suite in the Disney Movie Fantasia. Fantasia was the third cartoon feature by the Walt Disney Studios in 1940. The film consists of eight animated segments set to pieces

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of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski; seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra. The proj-ect was started because Walt felt the pop-ularity of his star Mickey Mouse needed a boost. He decided to feature the mouse in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, a deluxe cartoon short based on the poem written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and set to the orchestral piece by Paul Dukas in-spired by the original tale.

Dance of the Sugar Plum FairyAfter composer Stokowski showed an en-thusiastic interest in the project and was even willing to work for free, Walt wrote that he felt “all steamed up over the idea of Stokowski working with us.... The union of Stokowski and his music, together with the best of our medium, would be the means of a success and should lead to a new style of motion picture presentation.”The project soon became much bigger

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The Party SceneIt is Christmas Eve at the Stahlbaum house -- A large and grand house with the most beautiful tree imaginable. The Stahlbaums are hosting their annual Christmas party, welcoming the arrival of their family and friends. The children, Clara and Fritz, are dancing and playing as they welcome their friends too.

The party grows festive with music and dance as godfather Drosselmeyer arrives. He is a skilled clock and toy maker and always full of surprises. Drosselmeyer draws everyone’s attention as he presents two life-size dolls. They are the delight of the party, each taking a turn to dance.

The children begin to open gifts when Drosselmeyer presents his to Clara and Fritz. Although his gift to Fritz is quite nice, he gives Clara a beautiful Nutcracker that becomes the hit of the party. Fritz becomes jealous and, having a bit more spunk than a boy should have, grabs the nutcracker from Clara and promptly breaks it. Clara is heartbroken looking on as Drosselmeyer quickly repairs the Nut-cracker with a handkerchief he magically draws from the air.

As the evening grows late, the guests de-part and the Stahlbaum family retires for the evening. Clara, worried about her be-loved Nutcracker, sneaks back to the tree to check on him, falling asleep with him in her arms.

The Fight SceneAs the clock strikes midnight strange things begin to happen. Clara begins shrinking as her beautiful Christmas tree

grows high above her. The toys around the tree come to life while the room fills with an army of mice, led by the fierce Mouse King. As the Nutcracker awakens, he leads his army of toy soldiers into bat-tle with the mice. The Mouse King cor-ners the Nutcracker and battles him one-on-one. The Nutcracker seems to be no match for the Mouse King.

The Nutcracker and his army can go on no longer and are captured by the mice and their King. Clara makes a final dar-ing charge throwing her slipper at the Mouse King, hitting him square on the head. The Mouse King drops to the floor and the mice run away, carrying off their leader’s lifeless body.

The Land of SnowThe Nutcracker turns into a Prince and takes Clara on a journey to the Land of Snow, an enchanted forest wonderland where they are welcomed by dancing snowflakes.

The Land of SweetsThe Prince escorts Clara to the Land of Sweets where they are greeted by the Sug-ar Plum Fairy. The Prince tells her about their daring battle with the army of mice and she rewards them with a celebration of dances.

As a finale, the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Cavalier dance a beautiful Pas De Deux.

The Dream EndsClara awakens from her dream and finds herself by her Christmas tree with her be-loved Nutcracker.

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than was originally intended and several ideas for additional pieces were proposed. Eventually The Nutcracker Suite was in-cluded in the movie.

The movie departed from the story on which the ballet was based, but supple-mented the music with effective ani-

mation which still stands up to this day. Selections from the ballet suite under-score scenes depicting the changing of the seasons from summer to autumn to winter. A variety of dances are present-ed with fairies, fish, flowers, mushrooms, and leaves, including “Dance of the Sug-ar Plum Fairy”, “Chinese Dance”, “Dance of the Flutes”, “Arabian Dance”, “Russian Dance” and “Waltz of the Flowers”.

ConnectionsThere are many more instances where the Disney Studios made use of either the sto-ry of The Nutcracker, or the Ballet music or references to its own movie Fantasia. The 1999 animated short simply called “The Nutcracker” is a direct adaptation of the story of the Nutcracker. The cartoon was produced by Walt Disney Television

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Elmer Plummer Fantasia Pastel Production Drawing Animation Art (Walt Disney, 1940). Alluring color

sketch featuring the mushrooms from the Nutcracker Suite sequence, rendered in pastel on black paper.

Elmer Plummer Fantasia Pastel Production Drawing Animation Art (Walt Disney, 1940). Delightful

color sketch featuring the colorful dancing thistles from the Nutcracker Suite, rendered in pastel on black

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Animation as part of an episode of Mick-ey Mouse Works. Later it was incorporat-ed in an episode of the House of Mouse called “Pete’s Christmas Caper“ The car-toon finds its roots in a live stage Mick-ey’s Nutcracker, which was performed at Disneyland’s Videopolis theatre in 1991.

Live Stage ShowThe show opens with Minnie Mouse hosting a Christmas party at her house, attended by fellow Disney characters Goofy, Chip ‘n’ Dale, Roger Rabbit and Tigger, along with human neighbours Conrad, Tina and Ethel. The story’s narra-tor then arrives to give Minnie her Christ-mas present - a nutcracker in the likeness of Mickey Mouse.

The show continues to follow the story of the Nutcracker fairly well, with some changes here and there. Obviously we can’t have Mickey playing the evil Mouse king, because that would be too much out of character for our friend. Instead in this version we have The Rat King, but with a twist. Here the Rat king used to be a handsome prince, but was put under an evil curse that can only be undone by the thing rat kings hate most - sugar. In the animated ver-sion the Rat King is played by a reluctant Donald Duck.

After visiting a few lands with Minnie where the rat king tries to take over the story, Mickey puts a stop to this by clouting him with a bag of sugar. The sugar

turns the Rat King back into the hand-some prince he used to be. No longer evil, the prince thanks the Nutcracker for changing him back in time for the end-ing. The Disney Channel later broadcast a televised version of the Stage Show. The stage show used rocked up version of the classical ballet.

Other ConnectionsThere are other outings, including refer-ences in the Disney/Square Enix cross-over game Kingdom Hearts and one of the many transformations of Genie from Aladdin into The Nutcracker. One can only guess how Walt Disney must have loved Tchaikovsky’s music. His music con-tinued to pop up in Disney productions through the years. Apart from Fantasia the most apparent connection is the use of Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Sleeping Beau-ty in Disney’s 1959 movie Sleeping Beauty. This music from this ballet can obviously be heard in the background loop at Dis-neyland Paris “Le Chateau de Belle a Bois Dormant.“

The most recent addition of the Nut-cracker was Pixar’s amazing sequence “Toy Story Nutcracker” in the new Dreams of Christmas show at Disneyland Paris, and World of Co- lour “Winter Dreams” in Disney- land. A fun sequence with the most orig-inal use of Tjaicho-

vky’s mu- sic ever in country and west-ern style among

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isions of ugarplums“The children were nestled all snug in their beds,

While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.”

These lines are from the beginning of one of Amer-ica’s most beloved poems, Clement Clark Moore’s “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” (1823). But what, exactly, is a sugar plum?

Despite the name a Sugar Plum has nothing to do with Plums. The first sugar plums were likely named by asso-ciation with the similar size and shape of nature’s plums. But as sugar plum passed into general usage in the 1600s, it came to have its own associated meanings quite apart from fruit. If your mouth was full of sugar plums, it meant that you spoke sweet words. In the 18th century, plum was British slang for 100 pounds, or more gener-ally, a big pile of money. And someone who was rich

could also be called a plum. By the nineteenth cen-tury, plum has come to mean an especially de-

sirable thing.

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This might explain something about the political dynamics of the Land

of the Sweets in Act Two of Tchaikovsky’s Nut-cracker Ballet. With Marzipan and Chocolate and

Candy Cane in the house, why would Sugar Plum be the one to rule the kingdom in the absence of the

Prince? But in Tchaikovsky’s day, sugar plum was both the name of a particular candy and the universal signifier everything sweet and delectable and lovely.

Even today, when the original referent for sugar plum has faded into the historical mists, we still recognize its mean-ing: the excitement, the pleasure, the childlike wonder of Christmas, all in the shape of a little sugar plum.

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Yield: About 50 teaspoon-sized sug-ar plums

Ingredients2 cups toasted walnuts, chopped

1/4 cup honey 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander 1 teaspoon orange zest 1 cup pitted prunes, finely chopped 1/2 cup dried apricots, finely chopped 1/2 cut pitted dates, finely chopped powdered sugar for rolling coating the balls plum purple disco dust (I got mine from Layer Cake Shop)

InstructionsMix all ingredients except the sugar and disco dust to-gether in a large bowl. Optionally, place the whole mixture in the food processor and process for a few seconds - this will help everything to stick together, especially if you ar-en’t the best at finely chopping. (I’m raising my hand high on this one.) Form the mixture into teaspoon-sized balls. Roll the balls in powdered sugar and then roll in disco dust. Note: If you let the balls sit overnight, the pow-

dered sugar will absorb into the balls and will be less visible.

source: cupcakeproject.com

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The Parade of the wooden Soldiers is part of a long-time holiday tradition in The Magic Kingdom and Walt Disney World. Until the premiere of the Cavalcade de Noël, the march of the soldiers was an integral part of the Christmas Parade at Disneyland Paris. Each year the soldiers would march in front of Santa’s Sleigh, and the parade has lodged itself in our fondest memories of the holiday Seasons spend at the park. The tradition of the March of the Wooden soldiers finds it root in the Disney production “Babes in Toyland”, and this movie and its story has even older roots than that.

Babes in ToylandThe Disney live-action musical Babes in Toyland was released to theatres De-cember 14, 1961. It was showcased as the Christmas attraction at Radio City Music Hall and, over the decades, has been close-ly associated with the yuletide season. The

story of the movie is loosely based on a famous1903 operetta by Victor Herbert.

The operetta wove various characters from Mother Goose nursery rhymes into a Christmas-themed musical extravagan-za. After the success of the stage musical “The Wizard of Oz”, the creators wanted to cash in on its success. “Babes in Toy-land”, would feature some of Herbert’s most famous songs - among them “Toy-land”, “March of the Toys”, “Go to Sleep, Slumber Deep”, and “I Can’t Do the Sum”. The theme song “Toyland”, and the most famous instrumental piece from the op-eretta, “March of the Toys”, can be heard in the background loop for Main Street U.S.A. during the Christmas season.

OriginsAfter a three-month tryout beginning on June 17, 1903 at the Grand Opera House in Chicago, followed by a tour to East

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Everything started the day Tom Tom the Piper’s Son and Mary Mary Quite Con-trary decided that they would get mar-ried. They told everyone in Mother Goose Village about their plans. There was a big celebration. Everyone was happy except Barnaby, a mean crooked man who lived in a crook-ed house. Barnaby wanted to marry Mary himself ! He told his two helpers, Gonzor-go and Roderige, that he wanted them to kidnap Tom and throw him into the sea!After the party, Tom took Mary home. Gonzorgo and Roderigo hid just outside the garden of her house. As soon as Mary said goodnight to Tom and went inside, they kidnapped him.But they didn’t throw him in the sea - they sold him to a band of gypsies instead! The day of the wedding they came to Mary and told her Tom had drowned.Mary believed them and wept bitterly. Barnaby tried to get her to marry him. He even promised her a castle in Spain.Then Little Bo-Peep lost all of Mary’s sheep! Now Mary had no way of earning money and decided she would have to ac-cpets Barnaby’s offer.Barnaby was so happy that he gave a party and invited a band of gypsies to entertain. One of the gypsies was Tom, dressed as a fortuneteller! While Mary and Tom were having a hap-py reunion, the kids decided to go looking for Bo-Peep’s sheep. They got lost in the forest of No Return!Tom and Mary found the kids among the big scraggly trees that walked and talked. The trees kept nudging us toward Toyland.When we reached Toyland, the first per-son we saw was the nice old Toymaker. The toymaker was very unhappy. A ma-chine his hepler, Grumio had invented, just blew up. Without the machine, he did

not think he could have the toys ready for Christmas. Grumio made a new invention - the Poof gun. It turned real things into toy things.Tom asked him where he was going to get big things to make into little toys. The toymaker was so annoyed he threw the Poof Gun out the window.Barnaby, Gonzorgo and Roderigo had fol-lowed us to Toyland. When the Toymaker threw the Poof Gun away, Barnaby got it. While everybody was asleep that night. he slipped into the Toymaker’s house and poofed him!The Toymaker shrank to toy size. He was still alive, but he was only six inches tall. Gonzorgo and Roderigo didn’t like this and told Barnaby they were quitting. With two quick poofs, Barnaby reduced them to toy size and put them in a bird-cage. Then he poofed Tom, too!“Now,” said Barnaby to Mary, “you and I are going to be married.” As mayor of Toyland, the tiny toymaker was to per-form the ceremony. Tom slipped into the workshop and started up all the toys. Before the Toymaker had time to per-form the wedding ceremony, Tom leading the toys, burst into the room and yelled, “Stop!”, but Tom and the toys were too small to hurt him.Barnaby grabbed the Poof Gun. At the same time, Mary fired the toy cannon at him. It hit the Poof Gun, and Barnaby was reduced to toy size. Now that the fight was even, Tom was able to capture Barn-aby. At this point Grumio arrived with a new gadget - a Poof Poof Gun! With one shot he restored everyone to full size. But not Barnaby!Tom put him in the birdcage, to be guard-ed for life by Sylvester, the Goose. Then Tom and Mary got married and everyone lived happily ever after!

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William Norris as a “toy soldier”, 1903

Coast cities, the original New York pro-duction opened on October 13, 1903 at the Majestic Theatre at Columbus Circle in Manhattan (where The Wizard of Oz had played) and closed after 192 performanc-es on March 19, 1904. This was followed by many successful tours and revivals and the operetta would remain a popular yule-tide favourite over the decades to come. The story would change somewhat over time and become more sentimental than the original. In essence the piece remained a search for children to discover the true meaning of Christmas in the end.

The Disney VersionThe Disney production would bear little resemblance to the original operetta, the plot, and in some cases the music were rewritten and some of the songs drasti-cally changed. The movie would end up

Joe Hale Walt Disney’s Treasury of Classic Tales Sunday Comic Strip Original Art dated 12-3-61 (King Fea-tures Syndicate, 1961). Veteran Disney artist Joe Hale adapts Disney’s Babes in Toyland (1961).

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being more of a comedy, than a search for the meaning of Christmas. It features the comic antics of Barnaby’s bumbling henchmen (Henry Calvin and Gene Shel-don), the befuddlement of the eccentric toymaker of Toyland (Ed Wynn). Walt Disney was unhappy with the final prod-uct and sought out all of his resources (which were many), to promote the film. He had done the same with another film that had disappointed him, Alice in Won-derland.

Walt’s brother Roy described this kind of promotion as “cross-pollination”. With this promotion of the movie, Disney com-ic books, records, television, the park and all other resources supported each oth-er. We all know Walt used his television show to promote Disneyland and his fea-ture films, and “Babes in Toyland” was no exception.

MerchandisingA read-along record was produced for the movie, as well as oth-er memora-bilia. Over 200 Babes in Toyland items were produced including hats, umbrellas, board games, handkerchiefs, cookie jars, tray tables, dolls, puzzles, records, books and even a “magic gun”.

In Disneyland Walt opened a Babes in Toyland exhibit in the Opera House on Main Street on December 17, 1961, con-taining some of the sets and props from the film, hoping it would generate interest in the just released movie. Also, on De-cember 17, the weekly Disney television show aired an episode titled “Backstage Party” using the premise of a Hollywood

film wrap party to showcase some scenes from the film.

The start of a TraditionThe biggest of these promotional stunts would become one of Disney’s most be-loved and enduring of Holiday traditions: The Christmas Parade with the giant wooden toy soldiers and reindeer. At the time of the movie, Disneyland did have a Holiday parade, but it was not much more than a parade of characters than anything else. Walt’s philosophy was that Disney-land was “dedicated to all the people of all the nations of the world” and it was not unusual to invite clubs, historical societies, and other such groups to participate in Disneyland events. The parade was really a salute to “Christmas around the World.”

Together with Ward Kimball, who built all the toys and everything for the film, Walt and a few imagineers started work on a new parade for Disneyland. Walt said, ‘Why don’t…since we need to get control of the parade anyway….why don’t we make a giant toy parade?’ Walt had very specific ideas about how the parade should look. For one thing he didn’t want the floats to be too big, so little kids would have to lean backwards to see anything.

The Toy Soldiers had to be designed as a costume for somebody to wear, and they had to look exactly like the toy soldiers in the film. Apart from the occasional re-built, these costumes have remained the same to this day.

The toy parade came out the same time as the movie, but despite all of Walt’s efforts, the film did not do well at the box-office. The parade however would in-fluence designs for Disney character cos-tumes and helped to standardize how Dis-ney did parades. It sparked the beginning of the classic Disney parade and with it some of the nicest Disney traditions.

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We have been thinking very hard what we could do as a Christmas Future feature. Since we can’t look into the future, and we don’t have knowledge of future Christmas plans

at DLP, the only thing we could come up with was Frozen. The movie has already been released and has been shattering a few records (Go Disney). Many film critics consider Frozen to be Disney’s best animated musical since the studio’s renaissance era of The Lion King. We can only hope that this will serve as a prelude of things to come. So in

this feature of Christmas Future we show some of the amazing concept art for the mov-ie Frozen which might serve as inspiration for the next Christmas season at

Disneyland Paris....

“Many a winter’s night she flies through the streets of the town, and

peeps in at the windows; and they then freeze in so wondrous a man-

ner that they look like flowers.”

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Trapped in Ice: a 70-year journeyPerhaps many people don’t realize this, but Disney has been trying to make a movie out of Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of the Snow Queen since 1943. Development has been on and off for over 70 years with many failed attempts to translate the sto-ry for the big screen. The story has seen many incarnations and some of Disney’s greatest artist have worked on the various projects (included in this gallery is a great concept piece of the Snow Queen by Dis-ney Legend Marc Davis). The biggest obsta-cle was the character of the Snow Queen herself. Since the movie would have the Snow Queen as the lead character Disney felt the Queen would have to be relatable.

1943The desire to use the story of the Snow Queen as or within a movie feature started with Walt Disney himself in 1943. Togeth-er with Samuel Goldwyn, Walt had con-sidered the possibility of a collaboration to produce a biography of Hans Christian Andersen. Disney had discussed the proj-ect with Goldwyn throughout the war years, during which the two had developed a particularly close friendship. Goldwyn would provide the live-action sequences of the movie, and Walt would of course pro-duce the animation. These animated se-quences would include the stories of Hans Christian Andersen. The stories considered were The Little Mermaid, The Little Match Girl, Thumbelina, The Ugly Duckling, The Red Shoes and The Emperor’s New Clothes and of course The Snow Queen. Of the animated sequences Disney was to provide, one stood out: An adaptation of “The Snow Queen,” an ethereal 1845 fairy tale about an evil witch who encases a kingdom in a never-ending winter.

Disney’s animation department saw great cinematic possibilities with the source ma-terial of The Snow Queen, but the charac-ter of The Snow Queen herself was prob-lematic. They were unable to find a way

to make the character relatable to modern audiences.

Eventually the troubles led to a cancella-tion of the Disney-Goldwyn project and Goldwyn went on to produce his own ver-sion of the story in 1952. Starring Danny Kaye as Andersen, the fairy tales were told in song and ballet in a live-action feature. The “Snow Queen” section, which had originally sparked Walt’s interest, was ulti-mately not included. The movie received 6 Academy Award nominations the follow-ing year and Disney’s own projects involv-ing Anderson’s stories (including The Little Mermaid) were shelved.

A Slew of failed attemptsThe Snow Queen never stayed at the bot-tom of Disney’s shelved projects and had a habit of kicking back into focus. Almost everyone at Disney loved the concept of the Snow Queen, but it proved difficult to translate the dark story into something Disney worthy. Over the decades that fol-lowed after Walt shelved the idea The Snow Queen was brought back on more than one occasion.

During the mid-seventies the concept sprang briefly to live when legendary Dis-ney Artist Marc Davis proposed a frigid-ly air-conditioned Disneyland attraction entitled The Enchanted Snow Palace, de-signed along the lines of the classic Disn-eyland rides like Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride or the Haunted Mansion. This version never made it past the conceptual phase.

During the renaissance of Disney anima-tion following the success of The Little Mermaid in 1989, the project was given another go. With veteran animator Glen Keane at the helm, this version would com-bine traditional 2D animation with 3D computer graphics. Keane was responsi-ble for many of the most famous Disney characters of the Disney Renaissance, in-cluding Ariel from The Little Mermaid

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and the Beast from Beauty and the Beast. Keane left the project after his treatment of the material didn’t meet Michael Eis-ners specifications for the project, and fo-cussed his attention on Rapunzel.The Snow Queen was briefly considered as the first “princess” feature for Pixar animation after a suggestion by Michael Eisner who loved the concept of the Snow Queen, but ultimately the project was shelved again in 2002.

A press-release in March 2006 mentioned the Snow Queen as part of a non-exclu-sive, multi-year deal with composer Alan Menken. The composer was set to devel-op a stage musical of the Snow Queen for Tokyo Disney Sea. By the end of au-gust this project however, was back in the freezer.

The project was revived again around 2008 when Chris Buck pitched Disney his version of the adaptation. At the time, the project went under name of Anna and the Snow Queen, and was planned to be tradi-tionally-animated. By early 2010, the proj-ect entered development hell once again, when the studio failed to find a way to make the story and the Snow Queen Character work.

Following the success of Tangled in 2010 the studio would try once more. Less than a month after Tangled’s release, Disney announced that The Snow Queen would be re-titled Frozen and would be released on November 27, 2013 with the direc-tors from Beauty and the Beast, an army of artists and John Lasseter as executive producer. Again the story did not work. The new crew would have the same diffi-culties with the source material that had plagued the production over the past 70 years.

The Snow QueenThough beautifully described by Hans Christian Andersen, the character of the Snow Queen lacks dimension, has un-known motivations and is completely ab-sent from the climax of the story. How do you make a movie with a lead Character that is so 2 dimensional in personality? Hans Christian Andersen’s original ver-sion of The Snow Queen is a pretty dark tale and it doesn’t translate easily into a film.

The original tale starts when an evil troll (called the devil) makes a magic mirror that has the power to distort things re-flected in it. The mirror fails to reflect all the good and beautiful aspects of people

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while it magnifies all the bad and ugly as-pects. While trying to bring the mirror up to heaven to make fools of God and his angels the mirror slips from the troll’s fin-gers and falls to earth. On the ground the mirror breaks into a million pieces that are blown through the lands by the winds. They find their way into people’s hearts and eyes, making their hearts frozen like blocks of ice, unable to see the good in the world around them.

The story involves a little boy named Kai and his childhood friend Gerda. As chil-dren Kai and Gerda were told the tales of The Snow Queen to warn the children of the hazards of winter. One summer a splinter from the mirror gets into Kai’s eyes and his personality changes. The following winter the Snow Queen is at-tracted to Kai’s coldness and she kidnaps him. The queen kisses him twice, one kiss to numb him from the cold, the other to make him forget his friends and fami-ly. The Queen then takes him to her Ice Palace near the North Pole, where Kai’s is content to live because of the coldness already in his heart. To story continues when Gerda, heartbroken by Kai’s disap-pearance, set’s out on a journey to rescue him from the Snow Queen. At the core of the story are the values of friendship and family, and most of all loyalty.

Winter changes into summerA meeting was held where the storyboards of the new project were presented to John Lasseter to hear Lasseter’s thoughts on the work-in-progress. Production designer Michael Giaimo, recalled; “That was the game changer...I remember John saying that the latest version of The Snow Queen story that Chris Buck and his team had come up with was fun, very light-hearted. But the characters didn’t resonate. They aren’t multi-faceted. Which why John felt that audiences wouldn’t really be able to connect with them.” The production team then addressed the film’s problems,

drafting several different variations on the Snow Queen story until the charac-ters and story felt relevant. Finally, the team decided to rewrite the film’s protag-onist, Anna (who was based on the Gerda character from The Snow Queen), as the younger sibling of Elsa, effectively estab-lishing a family dynamic between the characters. With Elsa as the Snow Queen, the team tried to give really human qual-ities to the character, but the production really took of when one small suggestion changed everything: “What if Anna and Elsa were sisters?” When the decision was made to make the Snow Queen Elsa and our protagonist Anna sisters, that gave a way to relate to the characters in a way that conveyed what each was going through and that would relate for today’s audiences. This film has a lot of compli-cated characters and complicated rela-tionships in it. There are times when Elsa does villainous things but because you un-derstand where it comes from, from this desire to defend herself, you can always relate to her. “Inspired by” means exactly that. There is snow and there is ice and there is a Queen, but other than that, the production departed from the original tale quite a bit.

The scope and the scale, and most impor-tantly the heart of Andersen’s story are very much present in Disney’s Frozen, but with the new treatment the curse of the Snow Queen had been lifted. From an animated section of a live-action film overseen by Walt himself through count-less animated feature attempts, a possible Pixar movie, a possible Disneyland attrac-tion and Tokyo DisneySea production and back again to a feature project, Frozen—a beautifully animated, delicately told tale of sisterhood and chatty snowmen—is fi-nally here. The Snow Queen’s journey to the big screen may have been tortuous, but, as audiences all around the world are about to discover, it was more than worth it. Frozen is downright magical.

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“The coloring styling of Eyvind Earle (Sleeping Beauty, 1959) provided great inspiration for Frozen, particularly with the costume palette. Deep, rich analogous hues and subtle temperature shifts balanced with black helped create a distinctive, shape-based look.”

source: the art of Frozen

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Mickey’s Christmas Carol 30th Anniversary - Special Edition (Blu-ray/DVD + Digital Copy)Ring in the holidays with a new 30th Anniversary Special Edition of Mickey’s Christmas Carol. Disney’s timeless tale sparkles like never before on Blu-ray and Digital Copy, with fully-restored classic holiday shorts, plus all-new bonus fea-tures.

Make the season merry as Mickey, Goofy, Donald and all their pals star in a heart-warming retelling of Dickens’ unfor-gettable holiday tale. Ebenezer Scrooge (Scrooge McDuck) is far too greedy to understand that Christmas is a time for kindness and generosity. But with the guidance of some wise ghosts (Goofy and Jiminy Cricket) and a bunch of newfound friends, Scrooge learns to embrace the spirit of the season. Share this wonderful holiday treat with the whole family.

* Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)* Digital copy (as download)* DVD copy* Slipcover in original pressing

EXTRAS* Yodelberg (2013) (3:33) This short is advertised as “all-new” and it’s a head-scratcher, until you learn that it is actual-ly the second episode of Disney Channel’s Em-my-winning current “Mickey Mouse” series of 3½ minute shorts. This oddly-styled, Flash-animated toon sees Mickey to try to climb the Swiss Alps to get to Minnie while staying quiet to avoid an av-alanche. In this company, at least, this short is de-cidedly not good, but at least it’s mercifully short.

* The Hockey Champ (1939) (7:28) Donald Duck plays ice hockey on a frozen lake with his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and at-tempts to outsmart them.

* Pluto’s Christmas Tree (1952) (6:46) One of the last and best shorts in Mickey’s origi-nal run, this fun cartoon brings Chip ‘n Dale in-side Mickey’s home, to Pluto’s irritation, via the Christmas tree that Mickey chops down.

* The Art of Skiing (1941) (7:54) One of Goofy’s narrated how-to shorts, this aims to teach you the art of skiing (pronounced “shee-ing”) with a series of gags putting Goofy in the midst of mishaps.

* Corn Chips (1951) (6:57) Chip ‘n Dale crash Donald’s house when he’s mak-ing popcorn. Inevitably, war ensues. * short: The Hockey Champ (1939)* * songs from the movie* one note however. Absent from the eaxtrs is the making of Mickey’s Christmas Carol that acompa-nied the cartoon on it’s release.

HOLIDAY BABY TEESWrap your little gift up for bedtime with several Holiday fun designs for Babies. Mickey and his gang on this festive sleep-wear make sure that every night is a holi-day.

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Minnie and Duffy are playing together in the snow in this fun tee. Your little one can have wonderful dreams of a White Christmas.

Mickey and Minnie under the mistletoe in a Yuletide spirit in this tee for little girls.

Thumber is tmuping anxiously to unwrap his present on Christmas morning.

All these tees and more are available at Disney Clothiers in Main Street U.S.A. at Disneyland Par-is.

Pure Butter Shortbread RoundsAuthentic DisneyParks Shortbread Rounds. Featuring Mickey Mouse on ev-ery Shortbread Cookie. 18 Mickey Face Cookies Made With Pure Butter. Product of Scotland - Walkers Brand - Established 1898.

•Net Wt. 8.8 oz (250g), total pkg wt. 1lb.•Contains Milk, Wheat and Gluten. Manufactured in a factory that processes tree nuts•These awesome treats are made for & sold only in the Disney Theme Parks (With Mickey’s Face on them).

Available at the Boardwalk Candy Palace, Main Street U.S.A., Disneyland Paris

Disneyland Paris Christmas OrnamentsDecorate your Christmas Tree Disney style with these Disney Christmas figures.Donald, MIckey., Minnie and Stitch avail-able in Santa outfits.

* Available throughout the park in various shops, or at La Boutique du Chateau, the Christmas store in the Castle.

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Main Street U.S.A. Christmas Tree OrnamentsLove the new Christmas Tree on Main Street U.S.A. as much as we do? Take a good look at all the ornaments in the tree. Various Ornaments are available in smaller versions for your own Christmas Tree at home.

* Available throughout the park in various shops, or at La Boutique du Chateau, the Christmas store in the Castle.

Maleficent’s Fury - Tim RogersonFrom Disney artist Tim Rogerson comes this beautiful work of art. Featuring Ma-leficent in all her glory, this canvas gallery wrap is a limited edition piece. Signed by the artist, be sure to get yours before they are all sold out.

•Limited Edition Hand-Embellished Giclée on Canvas or Chiarograph on Paper

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•Signed by artist Tim Rogerson•Comes with Certificate of Authenticity•Size: Canvas - 24” x 18” | Chiarograph on Paper - 20” x 15”

* Available at Harrington’s Main Street U.S.A., Dis-neyland Paris

Walt Disney - His life in PicturesIf you are interested in the man Walt Dis-ney and want to learn more about his life Diane Disney Miller’s 1959 book The sto-ry of Walt Disney comes highly recom-mended. Sadly this book is out of print, but you can occasionally find second hand copies online.If not the book Walt Disney - His life in pictures is still available through online services like Amazon. Not written by Di-ane, but apporoved (and she wrote the in-troduction). You can learn about the man behind the mouse. You’ll learn that Walt

came from very humble beginnings, grow-ing up on a farm in Marceline, Missouri. The informative and approachable narra-tive details Walt’s service in World War I, his early ambitions to be an animator, and the creation of Mickey Mouse. From there, the story chronicles Walt’s major film developments, including Snow White and Bambi, and the genesis of Disney-land and Walt Disney World. The book is heavily illustrated throughout with char-acter art and photos of Walt. The text is also augmented by quotes from Walt him-self, which makes it seem as though he’s telling his own story. Aspiring animators, Disney fans, and dreamers of all kinds will be inspired by Walt’s ambitions and achievements.

•Hardcover: 64 pages•Publisher: Disney Press (September 29, 2009)•Language: English•ISBN-10: 1423121058•ISBN-13: 978-1423121053•Product Dimensions: 0.4 x 8.2 x 11.3 inches

Disneyland Paris Attraction Pins

Pins of various attractions (La Tanière du Dragon, Le Carrousel de Lancelot, It’s a Small World, Space Mountain, Nautilus, Thunder Mesa Riverboat Landing) are now available in Disneyland Paris to add to your collection.

* Available at Harrington’s Main Street U.S.A. and other shops at Disneyland Paris

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‘Disney Dreams of Christmas’ debuted on the tenth of last November Just a few days before ‘ World of Color: Winter Dreams’ in California Adventure opened.There are quite a lot similarities between these two shows but there is one thing you only find at Disneyland Paris; our Chateau de la Belle au Bois Dormant that serves as the center of this wondrous show.Just like Disney Dreams this show is made with fountains, projections, lasers, truly won-derful music, amazing fireworks and lots of Disney magic that leaves you with a smile in your heart, well, and one on your face that will only disapear after just a few hours. Before we start, put on your Light Ears and glow with this show!Disney Dreams of Christmas is hosted by Olaf the snowman, by now a well known character from Frozen.This show celebrates the Holiday Season with scenes from Frozen, Classic Disney Ani-mation a heartwarming ode to ‘It’s a Small World After All’, a hilarious Toy Story Ver-sion of the Nutcracker, a Sing-a-Long in different languages and ofcourse, a stunning finale. This show goes from beautiful to emotional and ends with the best Christmas party ever. To be honest, we’ve never experienced this much Christmas within the span of 20 minutes, and it’s amazing.As always, after you think the show’s over there’s more to come and for a while, Central Plaza , Main street and the Christmas Tree at Town Square become part of the show so don’t forget to look around you!

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wish... wish ... wish, there was some sort of lassical oliday take to capture the pirit of the eason as in-terpreted by sjaikovski and performed by oys....

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More images of Disney Dreams of Christmas on Disneygraphy in this gallery....

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Our very good friend Silvia was kind enough the create some original art for this issue of Disneygraphy Magazine. Tinkerbell on page 2 and the Gingerbreqad Mickey and Minnie on the back of the magazine are her work. You can fiind more art by Silvia on her Flick page.

Furthermore: the maleficent linedrawing we used on this page was created by Tim Rogerson. his final artwork is featured in Emporium.

several fonts used in the magazine: Aeronaut, nautilus, craftsmen ornaments are from david acchino. the fonts can be bought at his website.

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