Posts Tagged ‘Princess and the Frog’

Princess Tiana makes new appearances

Princess Tiana is boosting her presence in Anaheim’s Disneyland park this week, reports our sister newspaper the Los Angeles Times. As in Orlando’s Magic Kingdom, “Tiana’s Showboat Jubilee” ended in early January. Beginning today, though, Tiana will be available for meet-and-greets...

January 31st, 2010 | Featured, Matt Palm, News | Read More

Movie Review: The Princess and the Frog

By Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel Movie Critic Disney’s The Princess and the Frog is an instant classic and one of the year’s best films. An enchanting story told with a healthy helping of heart, it marks a return to the style of animation that made Walt Disney’s studio famous. And it’s a return...

December 11th, 2009 | Featured, News | Read More

Tiana’s Showboat Jubilee builds ‘Princess and the Frog’ excitement

I don’t know about y’all but I can’t wait to get down the bayou with “The Princess and the Frog.” To be honest, the television spots aren’t what has me hopping with excitement: It’s the fun-filled “Tiana’s Showboat Jubilee” at the Magic Kingdom...

December 7th, 2009 | Featured, Matt Palm, Park Tips | Read More

‘Frog’ soundtrack reveals more plot than Tiana’s show at Magic Kingdom

"The Princess and the Frog" opens nationally Dec. 11.Our music critic loaned me the soundtrack to “The Princess and the Frog,” Disney’s upcoming animated feature. I was drawn to it, and surely this was the company’s plan all along, because of the music in the related...

December 1st, 2009 | Dewayne Bevil, Featured, News | Read More

Princess and the Frog opens in New York, Los Angeles — read the review

The Princess and the Frog “The Princess and the Frog,” Disney’s first hand-drawn animated feature in five years, isn’t only a throwback in style. When it opened today, it also will be the first Disney animated film since 2003’s “Brother Bear” to start in limited...

November 25th, 2009 | Featured, News | Read More

Tyra Banks brings girls to Disney World to meet Princess Tiana

Talk show host Tyra Banks visits Walt Disney World to meet Princess Tiana in a segement for "The Tyra Banks Show." Talk show host Tyra Banks gives some love to Disney’s newest princess, Tiana, on her show today. According to Entertainment Tonight, Banks surprised three girls (and their...

November 25th, 2009 | Celebrities, News | Read More

Disney says Tiana is a retail hit — so far

A Princess Tiana doll/AP The Walt Disney Co. says its newest princess is already flexing some retail muscle. Disney’s consumer-products division said this week that merchandise featuring Princess Tiana and other characters from The Princess and the Frog are outselling other Disney princess merchandise...

November 19th, 2009 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Disney uses its theme parks as it tries to make its newest princess a star

Princess Tiana talks with guests during a meet-and-greet at the Magic Kingdom. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel) The Walt Disney Co.’s newest princess doesn’t arrive in movie theaters for another month, but she is already easy to find at Walt Disney World. Theme-park guests can meet Princess...

November 11th, 2009 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Magic Kingdom: Pictures from a Sunday stroll

Poinsettias are front and center at Magic Kingdom entrance. Sunday we walked through Magic Kingdom park, admiring the first round of holiday decorations, but we also got an eyefull of (still-closed) Space Mountain, Princess Tiana in action, perhaps a pinch of tomorrow’s Fantasyland and a couple...

November 9th, 2009 | Dewayne Bevil, Pictures | Read More

Princess Tiana debuts at Magic Kingdom

Click above to see more Princess Tiana photos (Joe Burbank, Orlando Sentinel) Disney’s first new African-American princess – and its first official royal since Mulan hit the scene in 1997 — was officially welcomed to the Magic Kingdom Monday morning. Princess Tiana, the lead character of...

October 26th, 2009 | Dewayne Bevil, Featured, News | Read More