Editor's Note: Today is July 4th, United States Independence Day, and I have a great article for you in celebration of this memorable day. Don't miss it!

Disneyland's " America on Parade " original artwork and models

Today is July 4th, United States Independence Day, and to celebrate this memorable day this article is all about the 1975 Disneyland's and Magic Kingdom's "America on Parade", with rare artwork and pictures of the parade models, thanks to Richard Terpstra, Disney and more reader, who sent to me the artwork and model pictures you will see below. A big hat tip to Richard for his precious help in the making of this article!

America on Parade was a temporary replacement for Disneyland's and WDW Magic Kingdom's Main Street Electrical Parade during the United States Bicentennial. Like the Main Street Electrical Parade, America on Parade was also created under the direction of Disneyland's Director of Entertainment, Bob Yani. The first run was in the summer of 1975 and was originally designed to run through 1977, to commemorate the United States Bicentennial. Where the Main Street Electrical Parade ran nightly, America on Parade ran once during the afternoon and again just prior to the nightly fireworks display. It traveled the full length of Disneyland from "it's a small world" to Town Square at the beginning of Main Street, U.S.A.







The Sherman Brothers who had left Disney Studios to work for independent film companies were asked to write a specialty song for the American Bicentennial. The song was called "The Glorious Fourth" and was performed as a part of AOP.



The parade also featured synchronized music to which performers danced set routines created by Disneyland choreographers (Barnett Ricci and Marilyn Magness). Each of the parade performers sported costumes appropriate to the float around which they danced, as well as enormous heads fixed on a custom-built apparatus for support, with the performer looking through the neck, giving the parade a carnival appearance.





The parade's soundtrack was Don Dorsey's first project for Disney. He used synthesizers and antique carousel organs to create the soundtrack. [1] During the parade's run, Dorsey conceptualized a system which Disney would develop a computer controlled system called "Mickey Track" that controls the parade's music from 1980 and on.

And now, let's have a look to the parade renderings for all the different costumes and the floats model pictures! I've tried to put them in chronological historical order, hope i didn't do any mistake!





































































As i've said above the characters and the floats for "America on Parade" were designed and built by the Park's Entertainment Division. Some of the characters were later recostumed, also by WDW's Entertainment Division and used as walk-around characters in World Showcase when EPCOT first opened in 1982. I don't know if all World Showcase Pavillions had them, but some friend can remember characters in Japanese costumes, greeting guests in front of the Japan Pavillion. There were also characters appropriately costumed in front of the Mexico Pavillion. And in front of the American Adventure there were colonial costumed characters, maybe left over from the parade.



I hope you've enjoyed this America on Parade article and I wish to all my American readers a great Independence Day!

All pictures and artwork: copyright Disney

Part of the text: copyright Wikipedia


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Behind the Scenes: President Barack Obama recording his speech for his HOP Audio-Animatronic

The White House put on line on its Youtube channel this short interesting video showing President Barack Obama recording the audio for the speech of his life-size animatronic figure at WDW Hall of Presidents.

Have a look below at this great "behind the scenes" video, you won't see everyday a President of the United States recording for a Disney attraction!





I am reposting below the excellent video filmed by Inside the Magic of the new Obama Audio-animatronic in action so you can see the final result.





Rob Marciano from CNN.com also did a HOP special report today, and here is the video.





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Picture: copyright Disney

Videos: copyright White House and Inside the Magic

Michael Jackson last pictures and " This is it " tour rehearsal video

The whole world is talking about Michael Jackson and this is supposed to be a Disney fan web site, but i thought that these very last images and video shoot two days before his death could interest some of you. After all, Michael was a real Disneyland super-fan.

Michael Jackson appeared healthy in a video clip obtained by CNN of his rehearsal two nights before he died.

AEG, promoter of Jackson's planned London shows, released the short video of Jackson rehearsing on a stage in the Staples Center arena on June 239.

Jackson sang "They Don't Care About Us," a song from his "HIStory" album, as he danced along with eight male dancers.



If you live in Los Angeles, the Staples Center will also be next week the site of Jackson's memorial service. The service is scheduled for Tuesday at the 20,000-seat Los Angeles arena, according to a person briefed by a family representative. The memorial is set to begin Tuesday at 10 a.m. Jackson memorial will be limited to 11,000 fans. Fans wishing to attend Michael's memorial service will have to register for the 11,000 free tickets.

Michael Jackson répétition 23 juin 2009
envoyé par dorian - Regardez plus de clips, en HD !

Also, Michael's last home in Holmby Hills will be bought by stylist Christian Audigier - to whom Michael asked to design clothes and collectibles which were supposed to be sold during the "This is it" tour - and will be transformed in a memorial place open for visit.



Pictures and video: copyright AEG, Image.net and and Cnn.com

Hong Kong Disneyland Expansion Plan: What happened to "Glacier Bay" ?

Last Tuesday the WDC announced officially the awaited expansion plan for Hong Kong Disneyland. The least i can say is that the announcement provoked mixed reactions. Most of you think that Grizzly Trail and Mystic Manor looks "interesting" but it seems that almost everybody - including me - think that Toy Story Playland doesn't have its place in a Magic Kingdom.

Now, let's think about all this objectively. As Honor Hunter of Blue Sky Disney explained it wisely yesterday we should not make our opinion only from the TSP rendering. I can admit that if we look at the rendering it may look not-that-great but i also trust WDI imagineers ability to create a good theming.

For me, and even if i think that Toy Story Playland will fit well at Paris WDS but that it's a mistake for HK Magic KIngdom, the problem was also somewhere else. When i looked at the expansion map, i could not stop thinking: "How the hell are they going to do the transition between the Toy Story Playland theme and Mystic point, the next land?". Imagineers can do miracles, okay, but in this case, frankly, i don't know how they will achieve a smooth, logical transition... And the more i was thinking about this, the more i had the feeling that something went wrong somewhere .

And it's at that point that i've received the email below from a HKDL super fan and Disney and more reader:

"Dear Alain,

it's never too late to save the HKDL's expansion project.

From today's HK newspaper, it tells that during the negotiation process, WDC required the HK Government to share all the costs of designing and planning, which includes the WDI's brainstorming for the rides and attractions. And HK Government refused to pay for that cost until finalized. From the same source, the abandon plan Glacier Bay was mentioned. The Government met Jay Rasulo in April, 2009, a month after HKDL fired WDI (if you remember those news), which means there is no one worked for the expansion plan at that time.

EDIT 7/3: In fact Disney NEVER intended to reduce production cost, they just wanted that the HKG could share the design cost! But HKG refused, and it seems that at that time Disney had already proposed 8 or 10 ideas to HKG. So Disney proposed the existing TSL plan after HKG banned Glacier Bay for the last time.

"Because the HK government did not willing to pay the designing cost and WDC needed to save those costs, WDS’s finished plan, the Toy Story Playland was given to the government when they asked WDC to give more ideas other than Glacier Bay.

More than that, according to the document of the plan, point 25 at page 5 (http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr08-09/engl...1-2090-1-e.pdf) it says that WDC will finalize the designing work for the expansion project after the agreement is approved by Legislative Council of Hong Kong at 8:30am 10th July 2009. (You may find that no timeline was given, because the deal has not made at this moment.) This means the designing work hasn't been finished yet. Everything still can be changed. Well, Even they won't cancel that Toy Story Land, at least, they can put more rides or a Toy Story Mania in that land.

So, buddy! Hong Kong Disneyland needs your help now! You can pass your idea to the following e-mail. That person below is responsible for the expansion project. More opinions they get, the higher possibility they will alter their plan. Please....HKDL needs your help! Toy Story land cannot locate in Magic Kingdom Style Park!! And we don’t want any more clones here!

BC Lo
Hong Kong Disneyland
B.C.Lo@disney.com

Tasia Filippatos
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts
Tasia.Filippatos@disney.com

Thanks!"

At first i thought: "Damn, the resistance is getting organized over there!" And then i saw these words: "Glacier Bay".

Glacier Bay? What is this? Was it this "snow-covered mountain" that rumors were talking about before the official announcement? So i asked this dear reader if he could send to me this HK newspaper article, just to try to understand what happened.

May be i'm not right in what will follow, so don't take my words for the truth, but here is my vision of this incredibly complicated HKDL case: The first thing we must keep in mind is that the Shanghaî Disneyland project is without any doubt the top priority project for the WDC. Alas, there is already a Disney theme park in China, and one which is not doing very well. Hong Kong do have a special status in China, but even if HK have its own government, it's part of China anyway and controlled by Beijing Central Government. The same Central Government who must give its final approval for Shanghaî Disneyland.

Also, there is no doubt that the opening of a huge Shanghaî Disneyland would be a problem for HKDL if nothing was done to improve the park. Everybody is aware of that, including the WDC and may be they had the feeling that the two cases were linked, in two words that they had to resolve the HKDL problem to help the SDL project to get its final approval. May be. Not sure, but i wouldn't be surprised if it happened like this, Chinese officials can be pretty good chess players...

Then, two years ago, the negotiation began, each camp trying to get the best deal. As i've said previously, Chinese can be incredibly tough negotiators and, although many different projects were proposed to them by the WDC, what happened finally is that the Chinese never give up. May be because they thought that HKDL problem was not their fault and they didn't have to pay for mistakes originally created by the WDC when Michael Eisner was still CEO...or more simply because they didn't want to put any more money.

Then in March, Jay Rasulo played what was probably his last card: the clash. The WDC announced that all imagineers working on HKDL expansion were removed and asked to come back to the U.S. Of course the Chinese officials didn't like it, and it was time for the WDC to calm down the situation and to do a proposal which will give to the Chinese the feeling that they won the game and even more important in China, that they save the face.

After all, the WDC is okay to create unique attractions for HKDL, to pay for them, and as they say in the very interesting PDF file: "To advance and protect the interest of HKD, Government has sought and secured TWDC’s assurance that “Grizzly Trail” and “Mystic Point” will be exclusive to HKD amongst Disney theme parks worldwide and “Toy Story Land” will be exclusive amongst Disney theme parks within the Asian region at the time of their respective opening."

Unique attractions? Let's have a closer look at that: Big Grizzly Mountain Coaster is a mix of the Expedition Everest track with a shape inspired by the one of Grizzly River Rapids mountain, all this with a Frontierland theme. And Mystic Manor have a DLP Phantom Manor re-designed look mixed apparently with a theme coming from the TDS TOT. But Mystic Manor will also have "a trackless ride system which enables vehicles to move “freely” about the attraction as the story unfolds", and i agree that the use of this technology instead of the usual omni-mover is really exciting. Always at Mystic point, the Adventurer's Club Restaurant where i wouldn't be surprised if we found there many artifacts coming from the beloved and now closed Adventurer's Club in Downtown Disney - a possibility which already infuriates WDW fans...

So, yes, objectively, Big Grizzly Mountain Coaster and Mystic Manor will really be HKDL exclusive attractions, but i can't stop thinking that the WDC has been smart and really well played its game with these two "exclusive" attractions.

And then there is Toy Story Playland. If the HK article is right, it seems that this third land was not part of the expansion project three months ago. Instead, another land called "Glacier Bay" was envisioned. According to the HK newspaper article Glacier Bay was replaced almost at the last minute by TSP when Chinese refused to pay the designing cost, and apparently didn't like too the Glacier Bay concept - the HKG thought it wasn't suitable for Hong Kong or Asia market. So, the WDC introduced Toy Story Playland as a replacement of Glacier Bay - after all TSP cost is around 30M $, a not-too-expensive cost for a new land with three attractions and the release of the three Toy Story movies next year will make a great publicity for the land and the Toy Story characters. Also, they can build TSP very quickly and have it ready for probably next year.

So, what happened to "Glacier Bay"? What would have been its theming and attractions? From what one of my HK correspondent have heard about it, "Glacier Bay theme had something like a scientists base... You would have take a train to go the laboratory, which goes from the outdoor area to an indoor air-controlled area to simulate the north pole. There will even be real snow flake in some scenes when the train pass by. The "U-shape" TSP half-pipe coaster was still there, but with a theming as skiing... The base of the mountain was very huge and it would have been the very first indoor land that Disney has ever built in a Disney theme park. It seems that one of the other reasons why the HK government banned this theme is that Ocean Park - Hong Kong first theme park - will use a similar theme with roller coaster, which was announced a year ago."



Mind you, there is also another HKDL project that HK government supposedly didn't like the theme, and it's the famous Pirates of Caribbean land. There, it's really a pity, as it would have been great. The Pirates of Caribbean attraction would have been more themed on the Jack Sparrow movies, with a kind of "Splash Mountain" fall at the end, simulating the "At World's end" scene when they search Jack Sparrow to the end of the world and drop from the huge waterfall. Also included in that land was a pirate-themed Haunted Mansion, and may be even a Fantasmic! show. No need to say that the cost of this land was of course very high.

Will this POTC land come later at HKDL? I wouldn't count on it. Or may be at Shanghaî Disneyland? When i will have the answer to these questions, i will let you know.

EDIT 7/2: Talking about Shanghaî Disneyland, Laughing Place.com reports that Bob Weis, executive vice president, creative, Walt Disney Imagineering, will be the creative lead for the in-development Shanghai Disneyland Resort, Weis will lead all creative and master planning activities for the Shanghai park, including hotels, retail, dining and entertainment development. Bob Weis is brilliant, so this is an excellent news for SDL.

Picture and Artwork: copyright Disney

Michael Crawford of Progress City USA wrote another interesting article about HKDL, you can read it HERE

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The Princess and the Frog Top Secret Tour

Last Sunday night the Disney Channel aired this series of Princess and the Frog featurettes. Called "The Princess and the Frog Top Secret Tour" it's a great behind the scenes tour with the directors John Musker and Ron Clements and artists involved in this awaited animated movie. A good soul - daytimesky2000 - had the good idea to upload them on Youtube, so here are the five featurettes. And yes, they include new clips from the movie never seen before!





















Pictures and Videos: copyright Disney - Many thanks to daytimesky2000

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Hong Kong Disneyland new lands announced officially with Artwork

This is it, the Hong Kong Disneyland expansion plan is unveiled, three "lands" were announced today and you will see great artwork for each of them! Basically, the three new lands are located on the left side of the park , stick to the west of Adventureland as you can see on the expansion map above. No giant Pirates of Caribbean land, no snow-covered mountain, but a small Frontierland with a mine ride, a Haunted Mansion with a different theme, and a Toy Story Playland exactly like the one we will have at the WDS next year.

Also, you will notice that they still have a big space available for a future expansion on the left of the new Frontierland/Grizzly Trail.

Here are all the details with the official press release and click on each picture to see them in full size.

With the addition of more than 30 new attractions, play and entertainment experiences, Hong Kong Disneyland’s total number of rides and attractions will increase by almost 50 percent and top one hundred. When completed, the expansion will increase HKDL’s physical footprint by approximately 23 percent; broaden the park’s appeal by adding more experiences for young adults; and place increased focus on universally-understood stories. Using Guest feedback as a guide, these three new themed areas will create memorable guest experiences, drive strong word of mouth and repeat visitation, and offer many unique only-available-in-Hong-Kong attractions that feature Disney’s immersive storytelling and innovative technology.



Grizzly Trail
Grizzly Gulch, Frontier Gold-Mining Town

The path along Grizzly Trail offers high-spirited frontier fun in an abandoned mining town called Grizzly Gulch, set amidst mountains and woods. The town was founded August 8, 1888 – the luckiest day of the luckiest month of the luckiest year – by prospectors looking to discover gold. Bears have now started causing havoc at the Big Grizzly Mountain Mining Company.

Key Technology and Creative Elements
• Guests visiting Grizzly Gulch are part of the action, experiencing hands-on water features, massive geysers and various leaking structures in the abandoned town.
• Life-size Audio-Animatronic® bears set the story in motion on Big Grizzly Mountain Coaster, an adventure aboard a runaway mine train through town. Guests careen backward down an incline that propels them through twists and turns, before a launch sequence “blasts” the mine train out of the mountain.
• A Wild West stagecoach, an old time Jail House, and the world’s largest nugget of gold provide fun photo opportunities.
• Guests can relax with a Wild West refreshment at the old Saloon or shop for mining supplies and souvenirs at the Bear Necessities merchandise stand.



Mystic Point

Mystic Point is the site of mysterious forces and supernatural events in the heart of a dense, uncharted rain forest.

In Mystic Manor, home to an eccentric world traveler and adventurer and his collection of exotic international artifacts, strange things are afoot as an enchanted music box releases its magical powers, thanks to a mischievous monkey.

Key Technology and Creative Elements
• Inside Mystic Manor, a trackless ride system enables vehicles to move “freely” about the attraction as the story unfolds. Audio-Animatronic® figures and special visual and audio effects help tell the story of mystical phenomena.
• Within Mystic Point lies a beautiful garden full of relics and mythological figures, where guests discover a hidden world of illusions and mysteries that trick the eye.
• Guests can dine at the Adventurer’s Club amid a vast collection of unusual artifacts from around the world or purchase exclusive curiosities and collectibles at the Archive Shop.



Toy Story Land
Disney·Pixar-themed Play Area for Kids of All Ages

Andy, the young boy from the Disney·Pixar Toy Story films, has left his toys unattended in this immersive and highly themed environment, based on one of Disney·Pixar’s most popular film series. While Andy is away, the toys come to life and play...and Guests are invited to join!

Key Technology and Creative Elements
• Oversized outdoor rides and photo opportunities allow Guests to experience the different perceptions of scale, and shrink to the size of a toy.
• One attraction includes a shuttle coaster which propels Guests along a U-shaped style track.
• A drop-style parachute attraction lets Guests join a “training mission,” plunging from a 25m tall tower.
• Guests will enjoy fun, immersive and interactive environments with life-size toys.
• A themed food kiosk provides a barrel of fun snacks and refreshments and Guests can shop for Toy Story inspired collectibles at the merchandise location.

(end of press release)

Now, to all DLRP and WDS fans : Have a look again to the Toy Story Playland rendering above as the Toy Story Playland at the WDS will look exactly - or almost - identical when it will open in July 2010!

As for HKDL this expansion is not only welcome and necessary but also will bring new attractions unique to the park - Big Grizzly Mountain Coaster, with audio-animatronic Bears and a track that seems to be inspired by the one of Expedition Everest - or also new versions of grand classic ride - Mystic Manor - a Haunted Mansion mixed with the world traveler and adventurer theme of TDS Tower of Terror. It will be very interesting to discover all this when it will open in 2011-12!

And now, more news about the financial part of this expansion with this Reuters.com article. Note that the author says that there will be 30 "new" attractions but it's probably a mistake, what he means is that HKDL will have in all 30 attractions including the new one:

Disney to pump $452 mln new funds into HK theme park
Reuters - Wednesday, July 1

By James Pomfret

HONG KONG, June 30 - Hong Kong said on Tuesday the Walt Disney Co will invest $452 million to expand its Hong Kong theme park, seen as necessary to bolster the park's long-term prospects against a planned rival park in Shanghai.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang said Hong Kong would not invest more capital in the joint venture but would convert a substantial part of its loan to the project into equity. He added Disney's capital investment would be about HK$3.5 billion.

Disney will also convert the entire balance of its outstanding HK$2.76 billion loan to the theme park to equity.

"In total this means that the Walt Disney Company will invest about HK$6.2 billion new capital in demonstration of the company's confidence in Hong Kong Disneyland," said Rita Lau, Hong Kong's Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development.

After Disney's new investment and the government's debt to equity swap, Hong Kong will see its stake in the underperforming park fall to 52 percent from 57 percent in the theme park's first major expansion since its opening to great fanfare in 2005.

Since then however, the park's performance has been sluggish, with attendance figures falling short of initial targets.

The government's outstanding loan to the theme park is about HK$6.89 billion. After the conversion, this balance will not drop below HK$1 billion, the government said in a statement.

It said the expansion, with a mix of thrill rides, would "broaden the park's appeal" and act as a "catalyst" in improving the park's operating and financial performance.

"If there is no expansion, the attraction of the theme park will fall over time," government economist Helen Chan said at a briefing to announce details of the long-awaited expansion.

SHANGHAI RIVAL

The Hong Kong government desperately needs the expansion to boost flagging attendance, with a much larger rival Disneyland expected to be built in Shanghai in 2014 that could draw much visitor traffic from the burgeoning mainland China market.

"We're only increasing it by some 20 percent but the Shanghai Disneyland is going to be ten times the size of Hong Kong Disneyland, how are we going to compete with them," said lawmaker Emily Lau during a briefing on the plan.

But officials, who must still lobby lawmakers to green-light the deal in a legislative session on July 10, stressed the park's unique attractions would bolster the park's current reported attendance of about 4.5 million annually, to between 5.2-8.4 million visitors by 2015 when the expansion is done.

"We often talk about uniqueness and exclusiveness and therefore it's not just about the size," said Hong Kong official Lau.

"We're not competing on the basis of size, we are competing on the basis of these attractions," Lau added.

The park is currently the smallest 'Magic Kingdom' globally.

The expansion, which will cost HK$3.63 billion, will include 30 new attractions and three new theme areas -- two unique to any Disneyland -- and will see the total area of Hong Kong Disneyland increase by 23 percent over five years.

The total net economic benefit of the expanded theme park over 40 years would range from HK$64.7 billion to HK$117.3 billion, the government said, with the theme park having already added 0.2 percent to the city's annual GDP since opening.

Hong Kong's Financial Secretary John Tsang travelled to Los Angeles in May, where he met senior Disney executives. The trip is seen to have paved the way for the breakthrough after Disney earlier said it would stall any expansion amid the credit crunch.

As part of the deal, Disney promised to boost transparency by disclosing its annual visitor figures and financial performance.

All pictures: copyright Disney - Hong Kong Disneyland

James Pomfret Reuters article: copyright Reuters.com

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Editor's Note: Below, the first videos of the new Hall of Presidents show!
Also, Disney and more have now a new design, and this is only the beginning to many other changes as I explain in yesterday's text. And today I introduce the Disney and More "Personas", a GREAT idea to customize your web browser! You will love it!

New Hall of Presidents show with Barack Obama Audio-Animatronic Videos !

The show won't open before July 4 but here is the first Youtube videos of the brand new Hall of Presidents show filmed yesterday on a special preview for Annual Passholders . The show features a new narration by Morgan Freeman and of course the new Barack Obama Audio-animatronic.

The three first video filmed by Blixzit will show you the opening movie as well as the Presidents AA part, but the fourth video below filmed by Inside the Magic will show you the new Obama Audio-animatronic - as well as the Georges Washington AA - filmed close to the stage.













And now here is the video filmed by Inside the Magic, a great web site by the way, where you will find regular news and videos about WDW.




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Youtube videos: copyright Inside the Magic (4th video) or Blixzit (videos 1, 2, 3). Many thanks to them!

Picture: copyright Disney

Exclusive ! Disney and more " Personas " to customize your web browser tool bar !

As promised yesterday, i have a surprise for you today. And i think you're going to love it. It's brand new, it's an idea that NO other Disney fan web site ever had before, and we will call it the "Disney and more Personas". In less than 10 minutes you'll have the coolest customized web browser!

What are the "Disney and more Personas"? Well, first, this will work only with Firefox. If you don't use Firefox as web browser you can download and install the latest version HERE. Firefox is MUCH better and faster than Internet Explorer - although the latest version of Safari is incredibly fast. And don't worry about your bookmarks as, when you will install Firefox it will ask you if you want to import your bookmarks from your previous browser, so you will NOT have to put all your bookmarks again.

Now, at the top of any web browser we all have the tool bar, the one where you type the url adress of any web site. Normally this tool bar looks like this - see picture below.



Now, would you like it to look like THIS with a Disneyland theme?...



Or like this, with a Space Mountain theme ?



Yes? So, let me tell you how to do it, it's very easy, it will take you ten minutes only, and it's free! I've designed specially for you what Firefox call "Personas images". What ever the one you will choose below there will be a "header" and a "footer" image. Always download both header and footer as you will need both of them.

Let's begin: First go at this page: http://www.getpersonas.com/ and download and install "personas for firefox ". This little plug-in is done by Firefox, so it's totally SAFE, don't worry about that.

Once it's done it will ask you to restart firefox, which is okay.

Now, choose any header/footer couple images below, the one you prefer, as you will need them in one minute.

Have a look now at the very bottom left of your firefox page, you will see a tiny fox head in the corner. Here is how it look (see image below, the little fox head is on the bottom left , on the left of the word "done")



Then, have a look at this page : http://www.getpersonas.com/demo_create and go down the page to the section: "Option 1: Using the Custom Persona setting within Firefox" and follow what they say. Just in case you would need to be registered to access the page, here is a screen capture below, it will be easier. Follow the instructions.

As you probably have understood by now you have to click on the tiny fox head to access the Personas menu to custom the header image.



When you arrive at part 4 "custom persona", it's here where you will use the two header/footer files you've choosen below. One of the file is the one you must select for the "header". The other file is the one you must select for the "footer". When it's done, click on okay, and that's it!

Here are the different "Personas" themes i did for you. Double click on each picture as you MUST download them in full size. Once again, for each theme you must download the header and the footer image.

The first one is a Disneyland theme:

Header image:



Footer image:




Next is a WDW Space Mountain theme.

Header image:



Footer image:




Next one is a Jungle Cruise - Adventureland theme.

Header image 1st choice:



Header image 2nd choice:



Footer image:




Next theme is a Epcot theme.

Header image:



Footer image:




The two last one have animation movies theme, and the first one is a UP! theme.

Header image:



Footer image:




And this very last one is a Princess and the frog theme, i did it with a panoramic rendering of New Orleans and the Bayou.

Header image:



Footer image:



I'm also planning to do one with a Toy Story theme very soon.

I'm not a photoshop genius, but some of you are! So here is what i suggest: create your own Disney themed "Personas" and send me the one you like, i will post them in the new "Personas" section and every one will be able to enjoy it as well as new one i will do in the future!

One last thing: Just in case you would like to comeback to the previous normal "grey" header, click again on the little fox head on the bottom left and choose "default theme".

Hope you succeed to do everything, i've tried to be as clear as possible in my "tutorial". One last thing, as i've said, it works only with Firefox , of course.

So, what do you think of these Disney and more Personas? Just let me know!

All pictures: copyright Disney or Pixar

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