This is something I've had the urge to do for a while.

To the tune of Fantasmic!, I've edited together a little video featuring Disney themed photographs from the family album.

Then after I was done with that, I thought it only fair to put together a Universal-themed video (to the Back To The Future theme which is what I most associate Universal with when walking from the car park) as well.

The photos cover trips made in '98, '01, '04 and '08, hence why some rides, shows or parades pop up that no longer exist any more!

The Disney Video is here: [link]

The Universal Video is here: [link]

I'm finishing up the YouTube Videos with just some random favourites!

[link] -The whole of the legendary Back to the Future ride from Universal Studios!

[link] -A spot-on spoof of the interrogation scene from The Dark Knight. You know we're all thinking it...!

[link] -The trailer for The Dark Knight in LEGO!!

[link] -Ooh, the Daleks sound a bit different in German, don't they?!

[link] -BabelColour, Master of the Doctor Who Music Video! He has too many great videos to choose from!

[link] -Christmas Day at Doctor Who's. Jon Culshaw's 10th Doctor voice is still pretty poor nowadays but his 4th Doctor is still outstanding! Love Phil Cornwell's insight into the 9th's as well!

[link] -This is very speedily edited but is still a very clever idea displaying the recurring patterns in Doctor Who.

[link] -I love The Hellish Gnome's The Doctor is... series! This is my Dad's favourite, "The Doctor Is A Pervert."

[link] -a montage of clips based around Tim from the 70's program The Goodies.

[link] -Beware the chainsaw guy at Universal Studios!

[link] -The opening ceremony to Universal's 2007 Halloween Horror Nights. Delightfully wicked!!

[link] -The 2004 trailer featuring The White Room(s) Very well made!

[link] -The 2007 trailer featuring Jack the Clown.
"So what's my future?"
"You don't HAVE one!"

[link] -The 2008 trailer featuring Bloody Mary. Will make you jump! You would never get away with adverts like these in the UK!

[link] -A clip from the Halloween Bill and Ted show. My brother works for McDonald's and this cracked him up!

[link] -The first part of the 2006 version of the Bill and Ted show at Universal. This one is my favourite of the shows I've seen here if only because Bill and Ted are turned into "X-Men" and Jack Sparrow makes an appearance!

[link] -A Heroes music video set to the song "High School Never Ends". Makes me laugh every time!

[link] -A House music video featuring the Weird Al song "Close But No Cigar". Very funny!

[link] -Hugh Laurie and Zach Braff at the Emmys.

[link] -Very clever. Here we have a hundred movies, quoting a hundred numbers even if the creator missed out on the obvious choice of 42 and 69 for which he apoligises!

[link] -One of The Fine Brothers hilarious Lost parodies. I love the crazy voice they put on for Sawyer and later Jack. Plus, Jin can literally only speak Korean!

[link] -Lost and Bohemian Rhapsody. Has to be seen to be believed.

[link] -If Lost was made by Joss Whedon...

[link] -A front row POV from the new Manta coaster at Sea World.

[link] -Maurice LaMarche demonstrates his voice acting skill at Comic Con.

[link] -The best fan tribute I've seen! A spoof of the pirate song from The Curse of Monkey Island! Also is anyone else getting a Jason Lee vibe from the guy who walks through the door?

[link] -I highly recommend Andiana's Pirates of the Caribbean spoof but here's an alternative take from Part One. I didn't know it was possible for a guy to scream that high!

[link] -Here's Johnny Depp riding the redesigned POTC at Disneyland.

[link] -A very cool music video for the very cool series The Prisoner.

[link] -SimplyPaul's first toy spoof of The Prisoner -The Prisonbear.

[link] -Blending Scrubs with Metal Gear Solid 4.

[link] -A couple of clips from SM TV: Live. Check out Ant laughing in the background when Dec's in the bin!

[link] -A group of college guys film their experience of the Spider-Man ride at IOA. Honestly, the results are like Cloverfield!

[link] -The Superbowl ad for Bridgestone. That lady has HUGE eyes!

[link] -A celebration of everything female-related on TGWTG.com

[link] -A stunningly well-made spoof trailer mainly using footage from the epic 1st anniversary brawl. It makes me laugh every time!

[link] -A BTTF-inspired music video featuring the reviewers of the past on TGWTG.com as well as the Angry Video Game Nerd.

[link] -This serves as quite a good advertisement for why people need to go on TGWTG.com. It's a clip show featuring the best the site has to offer. ("A BAT credit card...?")

[link] -Random audio clips fitted to scenes from Tin Man. I love Glitch hitting the tree! "I am invincible!"

[link] -The first part of a Ghostbusters/Beetlejuice show that used to play in the New York section of Universal Studios.

[link] -On Whose Line is it Anyway?, Colin tries to guess what's going on on the green screen behind him.

I have a very long animation playlist on YouTube but I'll do my best to break it down to the good stuff that I would like to share with other cartoon freaks!

[link] -TonyWDA's videos are always cleverly put together but this one is my favourite. A re-edit of the climax to Aladdin. At first it feels like you're just watching the film that you've always seen for years and then the cameos from a whole cast of animated characters start popping up, making the finale even more exciting and then heartwarming than the original cut! Look out for his Lion King and Hunchback ones as well!

[link] -Again from TonyWDA. Shere Khan really needs to look behind himself...

[link] -My personal favourite of GanXingba's Avatar Abridged Series. "I hate my life!!!" (He Really Does)

[link] -The only clip I could find of the Back to Neverland film that used to run at Disney's MGM Studios featuring Robin Williams and the late Walter Cronkite.

[link] -You'll need to turn up your speakers for this one as the sound's a little low but it's worth it as Batman finds himself in a "The Graduate" situation with DA Corchrin.

[link] -Batman would just like to stress that they haven't ONE moment to lose!

[link] -A beautiful edited music video that covers the true art of the animated Batman franchise. Good song too.

[link] -A very well put together music video featuring Beetlejuice and "A Friend Like Me".

[link] -TheITinFIT also has a lot of editing fun at Disney's expense. Love Basil repeatedly prank-calling Ratigan!

[link] -One of my favourite sketches from Drew Carey's Green Screen Show with the cast performing a sword-and-sorcery type show featuring Mermabeasts and Jeff riding a giant bunny.

[link] -The world of anime is here to show you the troubles that come with playing Dungeons and Dragons.

[link] -Jinnai from El Hazard is what Draco Malfoy would be in danger of becoming if he truly let Harry get to him. Great use of The Beatles' "Help".

[link] -A compliation of this really interesting tic of Crocker's from the Fairly Odd Parents.

[link] -A nicely edited video using panels from the graphic novels Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Squee, all to the song "Pet" by A Perfect Circle.

[link] -There are a LOT of Ultimate Destiny video's using clips from Kingdom Hearts but this one's my favourite.

[link] -The pilot to 's cartoon Moobeard the Cow Pirate.

[link] -A very classy showreel from Spanish animator, Mario Serrano Hervas.

[link] -Jennifer Hager's CalArts showreel makes me weep with joy. Now THIS is how you do 2d! The girl and the griffin deserves to be a film and I want to see more of the elderly dog running in his dreams!

[link] -Doc Browns' cameo in The Simpsons Ride.

[link] -And here's the actual ride! I'll always miss the Back To The Future ride but this was a surprisingly good successor.

[link] -Mickey, Donald and Goofy slowed down and sped up. Donald has to be heard to be believed. It's like he recieved a blow to the head and is having trouble getting his thoughts together! The "Donald, I can't understand a word ya say." is even more funny in this context!

[link] -Ukino Joe's description of what happened in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. (JESUS CHRIST THIS ISN'T HAPPY TOWN!!!)
and here's his version of events in Iron Man:
[link] (I. AM. Iron Man!)

[link] -If Watchman was a Saturday Morning cartoon....

[link] - and 's animatic for their upcoming Weird Eddie cartoon. Boy, is this thing hilarious! "ENRIQUE'S DONE NOTHING TO YOOOOOUUUUU!!!!!"

[link] -The coloured animatic version of 's video for "When You're Evil", an actual, completely original cartoon for Voltaire's song and it is beauuuuuuutiful.....

[link] -Some adverts just stick with you forever and you'll never forget them. Here's a 1997 advert for Woolworths featuring Keith the Alien.

I'm such a YouTube addict and I'm in the mood for sharing!
I'll cover my other playlists later but for now here's a selection of all things melody related from my Musicals Playlist. Feel free to just look at the ones that peak your interest as there are rather a lot here:

[link] -Now this is quite sweet, funny and clever. Using "There's a Fine, Fine Line" from Avenue Q, Tony Outterside has created a video using a series of random still images matched up to the song lyrics. I almost choked upon what he used for the word "but"!

[link] -Alan Cumming and Joel Grey perform "Willkommen" from Cabaret. It's like a dream come true!

[link] -From the end of season one of Eli Stone. Eli awakens from his coma with the aid of his "spirit guide", family, friends and the song "Feeling Good". It's a huge shame that the musically inclined show, Eli Stone, was cancelled after only two seasons. It was real quality television!

[link] -The first part of the Finding Nemo musical at Epcot. This is the cast that I saw! Yay! Honestly, you'll be singing "In The Big, Blue World" all day after you hear it!

[link] -There are many awesome songs in A Very Potter Musical but in case there are any Harry Potter fans out there who still haven't seen this, then the first part containing the first half of "Back To Hogwarts" is a good place to immediately get just how hilarious and catchy this show is! My personal favourites are this song, "Harry", "Granger Danger" and "Not Alone". There are too many brilliant gags to write down here though!

[link] -Bri-chan's friend Sam, aka Psycho Hatter, performs "Go The Distance" from Hercules. "I want you so bad!!!"

[link] -Aracind performed the title role for his college's production of Jekyll and Hyde. Here's his rendition of "First Transformation" and wow, just wow. I love this guy's voice! He was only 18 at the time!

[link] -I can't get enough of this song! "I Want More" from Lestat performed by Allison Fischer, a girl who deserves to go far on Broadway!

[link] -"The Cat and the Moon" (or at least half of it) from The Lord of the Rings musical. Boy, I'm gettng exhausted just watching this dance piece!

[link] -draub2 presents The Muppet Show theme tune.....over clips of Sweeney Todd. And it strangely works...

[link] -The Korean cast of Sweeney Todd have gone for a far more symbolic representation of the play's ending. Talk about dementedly creepy! Granted this is Sweeney Todd we're talking about but still....damn!

[link] -"Somebody To Love" from the musical We Will Rock You. Hannah Jane Fox FTW!

[link] -WonderRobbie's "rendition" of "Popular" from Wicked. Just....brilliant. He does a pretty good Poor Unfortunate Souls as well and has quite the range of interesting t-shirts!

Enjoy!

Ahhhhh!!!! It wasn't that long ago that I had no internet at all due to thieves stealing the phone lines in my area, now I've just spent a couple of weeks without the use of the computer at all as the screen went completely blank right in the middle of a Photoshop/After Effects project!!
I am SO glad that I had casually saved the project five minutes ago so nothing was lost. There was no need to throw my head back and scream, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

The actual computer was okay, quietly humming to itself, it was just the monitor that could no longer show any images. My brother tried using all his computer powers and sent e-mails to Dell to fix it but nothing happened. (In case you're wondering, no, I couldn't use my brothers computer to continue my work as he doesn't have Photoshop, After Effects, Adobe Premiere or indeed, a scanner! It's just for games and stuff)

But now I'm back with a brand new widescreen monitor which gives certain things a bit of a stretched look but I expect I'll get used to it.

Anyway, apart from computer trouble, my family went to London to see "Oliver!" recently.
Now Oliver isn't my favourite musical as there is no real song that makes me cry out, "Wow!!", although there are some throughly catchy ones. "Be Back Soon" springs to mind. (I unfortunately have bad memories of my music class in senior school being made to repeatedly sing Oom-Pah-Pah as a rhythm exercise which has forever left me with an uneasy feeling whenever I hear that song. There are some musical songs that you can hear too many times to ever like them again)But my Mum and Dad were avid watchers of that Nancy/Oliver talent program and so were eager to see the finished show. I had seen just enough of that program to get a good feeling about Jodie Prenger and I don't pass up an opportunity to go to the theatre so I said, "Why not?"

We just managed to get tickets on Rowan Atkinson's last night as Fagin. Actually, I was a little doubtful that he could pull off any of the songs but I did squee a bit at his first appearence. Dodger and Oliver arrive at the hideout.
Dodger: "Fagin! Fagin!!!" (He emerges from behind a curtain and says in a very Blackadder style of voice:
Fagin: "What?" (Audience cheer)

I guess I've gotten so used to hearing Jonathan Price's voice from the CD (despite seeing Russ Abbot when I first saw the show live) that I forgot that all Fagin's singing parts can easily be spoke-sung which is what Rowan did so none of it was cringe-worthy. The rest of the cast were brilliant as well with Jodie Prenger being partically enthusiastic in her role as Nancy throughout her singing and speaking parts.
All-in-all, a most entertaining evening and the ending is still pretty powerful stuff with Fagin walking off alone into the London fog.
Ps, Julian Bleach aka. Davros from Doctor Who and the Ghostmaker from Torchwood played Mister Sowerberry. Squee!!