If you’ve been holding your breath for more Disney magic to cross the border into the LEGO universe, you can finally breathe a squee of joy: LEGO and Disney have announced the newest collection of minifigures, featuring fan favorites from the rich history of Disney.
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Many of us geek parents have heard about and seen what parents Refe and Susan Tuma do every year for their kids–a “real” version of ‘Toy Story’ featuring what their plastic dinosaurs did in the night, usually involving quite a mess.
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Disney on Ice! is on tour celebrating ‘100 Years of Magic.’ Will you be attending?
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With the release of Inside Out giving Kleenex stock a boost, a discussion began to brew behind the scenes here at GeekDad HQ. What’s your favorite Pixar film? What’s your least favorite? What’s your thirteenth favorite?
Continue ReadingSeventeen GeekMoms rate Twelve Pixar movies on a one through twelve scale, the results are in!
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Get ready to snuggle up with this brand-new Disney/Pixar Blu-ray and a trio of Toy Story toys!
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The long-time Pixar animator talks about his role as the director of the latest Toy Story installment and how no one is asking him about the upcoming Finding Nemo sequel.
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The hunt is on! How many of these Easter eggs hidden in Pixar’s films did you know about?
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At this weekend’s D23 Expo, Disney animation head John Lasseter showed off an impressive slate of upcoming films.
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Who knew that Toy Story and The Walking Dead had so much in common? Imgur user jimmylegs50, that’s who. This side-by-side comparison of some of the characters (warning: spoilers!) shows some of the eerie similarities between the two. It reminds me of Matt Blum’s post about Reconsidering the Toy Story Movies as Horror.
Continue ReadingDisney/Pixar is out with a wonderful new short, set in the Toy Story universe, and starring everyone’s favorite insecure dinosaur toy (voiced by the ever-awesome Wallace Shawn). The short is being run in front of the Finding Nemo 3D …
Continue ReadingHappy Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week.
Continue ReadingThe Toy Story films are undoubtedly the greatest animated trilogy ever. Revealing the secret lives of Buzz, Woody, and the rest of Andy’s toys after the lights turn out or doors closed, the movies rekindled our own childhoods in remembrance …
Continue ReadingFrom letters to life lessons, and even learning Chinese from the Toy Story characters, these seven educational apps will enlighten and engage your kids.
Continue ReadingLast week, Andy brought us news about the new Pixar game coming to the XBox, Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure. The new game brings some family favorites to the XBox in a game where you can participate in the worlds of The …
Continue ReadingKinect Rush ($49.99 on Amazon) is the next big game for the Xbox 360′s Kinect controller. We had some hands-on time with the game and spoke to Jay Ward from Pixar about the development. As well as finding out about …
Continue ReadingIn the motion controller wars, the Move stands head and shoulders above the competition. Its controller, combined with the Eye camera, allows for accurate movement tracking and integrates well with Sony’s selection of movement games. Just in time for the …
Continue ReadingWe have finally finished clocking the results for the Cars 2 Giveaway race! Congratulations to our one lucky Grand Prize winner, John P. from Halethorpe, Maryland! He won a Cars Director’s Collection. This 11-Disc set contains Cars 2 on Blu-ray …
Continue ReadingDisney is releasing the #1 Animated Film of the Year, Cars 2, on Blu-ray and DVD today (Tuesday 11/1). This blockbuster sequel follows Lightning McQueen and Mater as they travel overseas to compete in an international race. During their travels, …
Continue ReadingThere can become a time when old toys become new again when the next generation discovers them. My daughter has been wanting to watch the Toy Story movies, especially Toy Story 3 where Andy goes to college, leaving the fate of his toys up in the air. It makes me think of my own lovey. […]
Continue ReadingAside from my score of vintage Star Wars action figures, the geeky gifts were lean this year at our Christmas, though there was one geek milestone that occurred. My daughter completed her first Lego set. She had those big Duplo blocks as a baby, but had never shown much interest then or later on. While […]
Continue ReadingIf a mainstream animated movie were made today without computer involvement, it would be a big story — but it wasn’t so very long ago that the reverse was true. In 1991, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast made waves by …
Continue ReadingIf you’re anything like most of us here at GeekDad, the Toy Story franchise is well, a Very Important Thing. And so is Lego. So when reader Will tipped us off about this awesome Toy Story Lego build of the …
Continue Reading[Note: This article contains no spoilers for Toy Story 3. It contains minor spoilers for the first two.] As a great ghost Jedi philosopher once said, “[M]any of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of …
Continue ReadingSometimes there just aren’t enough hours in the day and when a package arrived the other day containing review copies of Disney Interactive’s Toy Story 3 video game, it was a reminder that I had a small stack of games …
Continue ReadingI may never understand why LEGO didn’t make it into the first two Toy Story movies, but they will definitely have a part in the 3rd one. What appears to be a geeky match made in heaven, LEGO Set 7595 …
Continue ReadingOur postman braved the frozen wasteland that our sleepy suburb has become, trudging through this morning’s snow and ice to deliver us the January 2010 Lego catalog. Always a good day where bedtime stories are abandoned in favor of a …
Continue ReadingBased on the attraction of the same name at Disney theme parks, and featuring characters from the Disney/Pixar films, Toy Story Mania! is a multiplayer mini-game collection, available exclusively for the Wii. While many of the games are entertaining enough …
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