Showing posts with label Disney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Disney. Show all posts

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Disney Baby Music and Lights Walker, New Ambrosia

Disney Baby Music and Lights Walker, New AmbrosiaDisney Music and Lights Walker Appropriated for children age 4 Months and up and up to 30 lbs. The Disney Music and Lights Walker offers maximum play value without compromising tray space. Help baby learn to walk with this walker, which also functions as an activity table and baby entertainer. Teaches shape and color recognition, develops walking skills, physical skills, hand-eye coordination and reflexes. Colorful and entertaining Pooh-themed toys offer a variety of interactive play options, while baby can spin, rattle and shake as the peek-a-boo Hunny Pot lights up. Engages baby with sounds, music, lights, activity panel, spinner, electronic activity center, attached toys, hands-on activity station and snack tray. There is an interactive music-making function; child's lap tray, portable, open area on tray for drinks and snacks. Folds easily for storage and is fully padded to keep baby safe. It is lightweight for easy mobility is sturdy in construction; has a comfy padded seat and nonskid safety friction strips, gripping handles, and safe-grip strips.

Price: $55.99


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Saturday, September 11, 2010

The Fox and the Hound (A Walt Disney Classic) [VHS]

The Fox and the Hound (A Walt Disney Classic)  [VHS]The Fox and the Hound marked the last collaboration between Disney's older artists, including three of the "Nine Old Men" (Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, and Woolie Reitherman), and the young animators who would make the record-breaking films of the '90s. Based on a book by Daniel P. Mannix, the film tells the story of a bloodhound puppy and a fox kit who begin as friends but are forced to become enemies. Tod and Copper barely establish their friendship before Copper begins his training as hunting dog. Unfortunately, neither character develops much of a personality, which makes it difficult to care about them. The screen comes alive near end of the film, when Tod and Copper have to join forces to fight off an enormous bear. It had been years since Disney produced a sequence with this kind of feral power--and years would pass before they surpassed it. The Fox and the Hound ranks as one of the studio's lesser efforts, but it suggests that better films were soon to follow. (Ages 5 and older) --Charles Solomon

Price: $24.99


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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The Aristocats (A Walt Disney Masterpiece) [VHS]

The Aristocats (A Walt Disney Masterpiece) [VHS]Duchess and her three kittens are enjoying the high life with their devoted human mistress until the wicked butler Edgar, with his eyes on a big inheritance, decides to dope them and get them out of the picture. How can these fragile creatures cope in the unfamiliar countryside and the meaner streets of Paris? Only by meeting the irrepressible alley cat O'Malley, a rough diamond with romance in his heart. After they get a taste of the wide dangerous world, he guides them home, and Edgar gets his just desserts at the wrong end of a horse. As always, it's really the voices rather than the animation that are the heart of the Disney magic: Phil Harris is brilliant as O'Malley, Eva Gabor as Duchess is... well... Eva Gabor; but perhaps the most memorable turns are by Pat Buttram and George Lindsay, who turn the old hounds Napoleon and Lafayette into a couple of bumbling Southern-fried rednecks. Their scenes with Edgar, and the musical numbers with Scat Cat and his cool-dude band, are classic. Most striking about seeing The Aristocats now is how deeply Disney's style of animation has changed since this was at the cutting edge in 1970. Perhaps the nostalgic, dated feel are just a result of being plonked down in Belle Epoque Paris, but the illustrations are fussier (a pity) and the animation and overall pace much less frenetic (sometimes a relief) than in more recent efforts such as Aladdin. --Richard Farr

Price: $22.99


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