Lazy Girl’s Round-up, From the Road

Good lord, I am lazy!

Well, that’s not entirely true. The truth is more like this: I spent the weekend on a little getaway with my husband and our newly adopted seven-year-old pug, and after one night at home to re-pack my suitcase I’m now off on business travel in Austin, Texas. I promise you I am trying to do my part to keep Austin weird.

Having discovered the 531 unread items in my blogreader, I thought I’d give you all a random sampling of what catches my eye as I work my way through it. Kinda random, but isn’t that just what you love about me anyway?

• Hochberg et al have posted lots of great information about Star Wars Weekends over at StudiosCentral.com, but what post do you think caught my eye first? Merch, of course! I’m kinda liking the shirt with the Stormtrooper eating a Mickey Bar.
• ThemePark Insider has a poll about beer in theme parks. I do believe those who enjoy “drinking around the world” at Epcot should get over there pronto.
• This new WALL-E video clip (Hat tip: Disney Blog) is almost as cute as my sweet little pug dog. Not quite, though.
  
• BoingBoing always has cool Star Wars stuff, which is why I wasn’t surprised to find a steampunk R2D2 shirt there. Damn. Oh, and this funny picture of Stormtroopers and London cops.
• While we’re talking Star Wars, the Main Street Gazette has great scans of The Star Wars Portfolio.
• Davelandblog has 1967 pictures of Twiggy at Disneyland. How absolutely mod! I wanna ride the Skyway with Twiggy!

Oh man, I still have 287 unread items . . . but I’m toast. Good night everybody!

International Wall-E Trailer

This trailer’s a little more spoilerish than the others, so be warned!

Love Pixar, love robots. Hellloooo???

Hat tip: Blue Sky Disney.

WALL-E Cardboard Lobby Model

Hey, look who I ran into on my way to the movies yesterday! He’s at the Fenway 13 in Boston.

WALL-E Builders Group

 

 

Yet again, the interweb has proven itself to be a glorious and heterogenous place. I just got email this morning from a guy named Jawa Lunk, who belongs to the Wall-E Builders Group (you have to join the group for access to the pages). These folks are working to build a fully functioning Wall-E at 1:1 scale. Based on their group pages they seem to have gotten started in October, and are in the early stages of developing schematics and parts.

Dude! I so totally want to see this project work.

New Wall-E Teaser on MySpace TV

Gotta watch it.

Hat tip: Blue Sky Disney, bien sur.

Is your calendar marked for 6/27/08? I know mine is.

[plus, Upcoming Pixar found a link to this in Hi-Res!]

French Trailer for WALL-E, Official Synopsis

The French site Allocine.com has a great new trailer for WALL-E. So so cute! Perhaps the English-language trailer set to debut October 2 might be essentially the same? (Hat tip: Blue Sky Disney.)

The Upcoming Pixar blog has posted an official WALL-E synopsis . . . but I’m trying to stay reasonably spoiler-free, so I haven’t read it (la la la la I can’t hear you!!!).

WALL-E Teaser Poster and Sneak Peek Trailer

From Upcoming Pixar, another blog that should absolutely be in your reader. (Not that I’m opinionated or anything, you know I’m not like that.)

They’ve also got info about the new WALL-E sneak peek trailer, due October 2.

Wall-E Postcards from Comic-Con

Kung-Fu Rodeo has posted scans of great Wall-E promotional postcards, which were distributed by Pixar at San Diego Comic-Con. Another visit to the future that we dreamed about yesterday! (Hat tip to Upcoming Pixar. . . if it’s not in your blogreader, it should be.)

Religious Skywriting over Walt Disney World

Every now and then someone will post to my favorite Disney message board, asking, “What’s up with the religious skywriting over Disney World?”

“Turn To Jesus – Home of Holy Smoke” explains it all for you.

God loves you so much that He is writing love letters to you in the sky. His love for you is so big that it could not be put on a piece of paper or on a TV screen. God doesn’t want you to miss his message, so He is writing it just for you on the sky that He created. His message is this: He Loves You! He wants to do great things for you, both in this life and in the next.

One page includes a piece of text I find particularly interesting: Click here to accept God’s Love. Such the interesting moment here in our digital age.

I’ll also mention, just for the benefit of those few unfortunate souls who read this blog regularly, that I’m heading out on vacation for about a week. See ya real soon!

Coming Summer 2008 from Pixar: Wall-E

A higher-definition version is available from Apple.com.