Talk to the Snail

You know, I had been waiting for last Thursday for the longest time to do this very post… but then it rolled around and I forgot. The TAG blog, though, reminded me.

That picture up top is the location of the first Disney Brothers Studio. Walt and Roy rented two different spaces on this site in Los Feliz beginning on October 8, 1923. They were first at 4651 Kingswell Avenue, then moved next door at 4949 a few months later. The Disneys moved into their new studio at 2719 Hyperion in January 1926, changing the name to Walt Disney Studio.

Below is a shot of the former home of Walt Disney’s uncle, Robert Disney, with whom Walt stayed when he first moved from Kansas City to Los Angeles in July 1923. It’s at 4406 Kingswell, a couple blocks down the street from the first studio. Walt moved out later that November. It’s also [Read more…]

Who’s the lucky guy? Fred is, as Alex Kirwan and Rob Renzetti present him with a very exclusive maquette of Jenny, model XJ-9, from Rob’s My Life as a Teenage Robot. It seems like yesterday Teenage Robot premiered on Nick, but it was really back in the summer of 2003. Meanwhile, you can see never-before-aired episodes of the series, Saturdays on Nicktoons Network.

As a “Where-Are-They-Now” note, these days, Alex is busy designing characters for Nick’s The Mighty B, while Rob is co-running a big shorts program with Craig McCracken over at Cartoon Network.

– Eric

For no other reason than folks love leaving comments on the Frederator blogs for Thurop Van Orman’s non-Frederator Flapjack show over on Cartoon Network…

– Eric

This, year five, is the first season Frederator’s had nothing to do with the Nicktoons Network Animation Festival (other than Fred’s creator credit, course). I’m not sure, but maybe that could be why no one showed up for tonight’s live event at the Nick studio in Burbank (see above).

Ha ha ha. Actually, the event was more crowded than in that misleading picture - that shot was taken after the other six people went home.

Ha ha ha, again. Really, the event was fine and well-attended. Nick’s Brown Johnson interviewed Stan Lee, the highlight of highlights for an audience full of animators. Food, drinks, host Chris Hardwick, a live band, and - oh!- cartoons made for an all-around fun night. Thanks for the invitation.

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