Arts & Entertainment Two Napa Brothers Build Mini Version of Disney's Matterhorn Rollercoaster In Their Backyard A pair of brothers up in Napa have constructed a rollercoaster in their backyard, which one person can ride at a time, styled like Disneyland's Matterhorn, complete with abominable snow monster.
Arts & Entertainment 'Moana' Isn't Your Standard Disney Princess Movie, And That's A Good Thing Towards the middle of Moana, Disney's latest non-Pixar animated release, the demi-god Maui calls the heroine "princess." Moana corrects him, telling him she's not a princess, she's the daughter of the chief. "You're
SF News Disney And Salesforce Dropped Twitter Bids Because Of Trolls At least in the case of two high-profile suitors that briefly explored the possibility of acquiring Twitter, it was the platform's infamous culture of bullying, trolls, and generally aggressive idiocy that turned them
Arts & Entertainment Now Disney's Talking About Buying Netflix, Which Would Be Good For Both Of Them The latest merger rumor, first floated Friday and continuing into Monday, is that Disney is in discussions to possibly buy Netflix outright, in a deal that would provide the media giant with its
SF News Microsoft And Disney Floated As Suitors In Twitter Sale, Which Could Be Imminent #Twitter #Disney pic.twitter.com/SjUSPHyzHq— Wissem (@Wissem_Rassas) September 26, 2016 Late last week we heard that Twitter was starting to receive buyout bids from several tech companies, including Salesforce and Google,
SF News Lucasfilm Lawsuit Forces Name Change for 'Lightsaber Battles' There will be no more "Lightsaber Battles" in San Francisco or anywhere else for that matter, and no, not because the last time the unpermitted event came to San Fransisco in December it
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrowland: A Cold And Bloated Mess Imagine a world filled with only geniuses, inventors, dreamers, and thinkers, who are allowed to be awesome and fulfill their potential without the constraints of societal laws or expectations. That is the world
Arts & Entertainment Felicity Jones To Star In <i>Rogue One</i>, The First <i>Star Wars</i> Spinoff At a shareholders meeting in SF this morning, Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger made a few big announcements with regard to the Star Wars franchise, and fans across the internet are already
Arts & Entertainment Here's How San Francisco Would Look If It Merged With Tokyo (Maybe) There's been a lot of talk, maybe too much talk about the changing face of San Francisco. But in an upcoming Disney flick, San Francisco's face changes more drastically than any of us
SF News Disney-Lucasfilm To Release New 'Star Wars' Films Every Summer Starting In 2015 After Disney bought out Lucasfilm and acquired the rights to Star Wars, anticipation for the next installment of George Lucas' money-printing space epic shot way up among fanboys, fangirls, and merchandising opportunists. At
SF News Disney Shutters LucasArts, Lays Off Everyone Just months after Disney acquired Presidio-based Lucasfilm for $4 billion, the entertainment behemoth has reportedly closed down LucasArts and laid off its entire staff from its offices in San Francisco and Singapore, with
Arts & Entertainment Video: Darth Vader Goes To Disneyland On the heels of buying Lucasfilm for a whopping $4 billion, the folks at Disney Parks released this video (last year!) showing Darth Vader and his stormtrooper entourage spending a day at the
SF News Disney Buys Lucasfilm for $4 Billion; George Lucas Passes 'Star Wars' on 'To a New Generation of Filmmakers' George Lucas has just sold out to Disney, ladies and gentlemen, for the tidy sum of $4.05 billion in stock and cash. The deal, announced just minutes ago, represents Lucas' desire to
Arts & Entertainment What's Going On Here, Disney's California Adventure? What's Disney commercialization of a beloved local landmark and why does it -- what's that word again? Suck. Yeah, anyway, we're a bit late getting around to this Anaheim-based copycat of local treasure
SF News Pixar Characters Grace U.S. Postage Stamps In 2011 Patton Oswalt, the comedian who lent his voice to Remy in Ratatouille (to us, though, he will always be Spence Olchin), sent out the following Twitter update: "On August 19th of next year,
Arts & Entertainment Presidio's Disney Family Museum to Open October 1 SF Citizen has word that the (controversial) Walt Disney Family Museum will open to the public on October 1. Some highlights you might find at museum? Glad you asked. The earliest known drawings
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Morton's Takes Over Disney Store Space Fantastic news: Morton's -- the steakhouse that eschews infusions, Amy Winehouse-looking hostesses, cramped seating, and square and small plates -- is officially taking over the now-closed Disney store on Post and Powell. Eater
misc Disneyland In Germany On Howard Street It's debatable whether Walt Disney ever really did meet with Adolf Hilter in 1935 -- but what if they did? What if he met with Leni Riefenstahl and Joseph Goebbels and they talked
SF News Tiger Attack Update: Aw Due to the "unusual and extraordinary" Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo -- which resulted in the mauling death of 17-year-old Carlos Sousa Jr. and wounding of Paul and Kulbir
SF News Behold the MacBook Air! OMG! It's the Nicole Ritchie of laptops! (Ritchie before she got fat and pregnant, that is.) It seems that the new MacBook Air, just unveiled a few hours ago, features multi-touch ability on
SF News Muni's Guide to the Weekend: Fervent Believers Everyone's behaving a little bit funny this weekend, and it's throwing the city's transit into a tizzy. An absolute tizzy! We haven't been this tizzied in MONTHS. First, there's Critical Mass. Lots of
Arts & Entertainment Great Scott: Novato Goes Hollywood! Disney & Co. will be setting up shop at Hamilton Landing, where they will convert two aircraft hangars leftover from its Air Force base days. According to the Chron, next year ImageMovers Digital
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Asian Americans vs. ABC Disney It all has to do with what lovely local Teri Hatcher said on a recent edition of ABC's . The offending line of dialogue from the show: “Okay, before we go any further, can
Arts & Entertainment Local Animation House Claims to be Making a Movie About a "Ro-Bot" Anyway, all of our questions will surely be answered tomorrow at 4pm. According Upcoming Pixar, Wall-E's new teaser trailer goes live tomorrow afternoon. The bad news: it's on this popup-laden website that looks
