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Happy 2008 and hello Disney's Hollywood Studios. Renamed from Disney-MGM Studios, the new moniker better reflects not only the Golden Age of Tinseltown but all that today's Hollywood has to offer -- in movies, music, theater and television.
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At 135 acres, the Disney-MGM Studios is just slightly smaller than the Magic Kingdom's 142 acres. At 305 acres, Epcot is second-largest, while Disney's Animal Kingdom takes the top prize at 403 acres. (Kilimanjaro Safaris is 110 acres by itself!)
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Disney's Hollywood Studios celebrates New Year's Eve not only with multiple presentations of Fantasmic!, a spectacular of Disney movies and music, but ... with a special Lights! Camera! Happy New Year! fireworks spectacular.
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Lasseter and Catmull's oversight of both the Disney and Pixar studios did not mean that the two studios were merging.... In fact, additional conditions were laid out as part of the deal to ensure that Pixar remains a separate entity, a concern that many analysts had about the Disney deal.[4]
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[A]t the Disney studios, things were different. Walt encouraged his artists to share their work with each other, leading to an open atmosphere of learning from each other, which in turn led to innovation after innovation.
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Kimball first came to the Disney Studios in 1934, when his interest in Mickey Mouse shorts led him to apply for a job there. Following a stint as an animator on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," he developed the character of Jiminy Cricket for "Pinocchio," and was then promoted to animation supervisor on "Dumbo," "Fantasia," "Saludos Amigos," "The Three Caballeros," "Alice in Wonderland," "Cinderella" and "Peter Pan."
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