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Hello everyone, and Happy New Year!
I hope you all had a fun and restful break, and are all looking forward to the fun and challenges that 2013 is sure to bring.
This coming year will be yet another incredible year for us, as we start the year with grand plans for visiting Disney Parks across the world as often as possible, as we have done in recent years.
We actually saw the New Year in over at the Disneyland Resort in California, and next month will be visiting our "home", Disneyland Paris, particularly for their Valentine's offerings.
More importantly right now for us though, Happy 3rd Birthday Character Central!
It was 3 years ago yesterday that, after designing and creating the site, we went live for the first time! (We were travelling all day yesterday, so I didn't get chance to post).
Since that day three years ago, our lives have got more incredible with every passing month. Our experiences have surpassed anything I could have imagined, and it is all because of the support and love we get for this site.
Character Central started out as being a website solely dedicated to the Disney Characters at the Disney Parks and Resorts.
We have both always loved Disney Characters, and have always enjoyed seeing them and meeting them at the Parks.
Character Central was born from that enthusiasm.
We had this vision that we wanted to be able to provide pictures and information about every Disney Character that has ever existed at the Parks, and bring them to life through our love of photography, and our love of Disney.
Over time, the site has grown, and we have grown with it. We have had some extraordinary experiences, and met some wonderful people.
The website has now exploded into this vast database of information about, and photos of, the Parks and Resorts - and of course characters.
We literally have somewhere around 100,000 pictures (at least), on the website.
We photograph everything from the stores, restaurants, food, attractions... You name it, we have seen it, done it and photographed it!
We have not abandoned our original idea, and we still focus heavily on characters, but now we also provide information and guides to everything Disney. We have a blog, and a forum with a growing number of very friendly Disney fans. We use Twitter and Facebook frequently too, and everyday more people are liking our page or following us.
We are constantly updating every page on the site, and some day soon hope to have a complete guide book of every Disney Park, down to the last detail. I can assure you, it's been hard work, but it's getting there, and even now we currently have a more-or-less complete guide to ALL of Disneyland Paris, and a complete guide to ALL of Hong Kong Disneyland.
The Asian parks are our particular project right now. There is so little information out there about them, that we are aiming to have the single largest and most comprehensive guide to those parks on the Internet - and I think I can safely say we are nearly there!
We hope that people will find the website useful when planning to visit these destinations, and hope that we are an invaluable resource to Disney fans across the world.
We thank you all for your continued support for the work we do, and we promise that there are some really neat things coming in the new year!
We have some very grand plans for the website, and we look forward to sharing our work with everyone.
Dan and Jon
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| disneydan
Tuesday, December 25, 2012 8:37:02 AM |
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Merry Christmas Everyone!
Have a truly wonderful day!
From Dan and Jon
Character Central
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Today marks the 75th anniversary of the premier of Walt Disney's - and indeed the world's - first animated feature film, hi masterpiece, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Snow White marked a new era in film making, and propelled Walt Disney's career into even bigger things than he could even have imagined. Walt pioneered the animated film industry, and we have the last 75 years of animated history to thank him for.
Thank you Mr Disney for providing the world with a fantastic era of entertainment, and most of all, happy birthday to Snow White, The Prince, the Seven Dwarfs and the sinister Queen Grimhilde!
As per normal, we have a picture cavalcade to celebrate the occasion!
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| DisneyDan
Thursday, December 20, 2012 8:45:50 PM |
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Today is the 20th of December, which means it is time to open the 20th door of our special Character Central Advent Calendar!
Here we go!...
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| DisneyDan
Thursday, December 20, 2012 3:07:44 PM |
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Well, here it is. The most anticipated day in modern history. The End of the World.
Let's take a look at the planet's destruction, but with a Disney twist! And who knows, there may be a happy ending after all!.... (be sure to read to the end to find out what happens!)
One year, right before Christmas, Mickey and his friends decided to go on an expedition to discover the lost civilizations of Central and South America. Mickey had heard that the Mayans had made some strange predictions, and he wanted to find out more!
One day while they were at their dig site, there was an almighty crash of thunder, and the most sinister Disney Villain of them all appeared... Maleficent!
With her wicked sorcery she summoned all the forces of evil, and the other Disney Villains. They planned to take over the world, for ever!
Everyone was scared and worried! What were they to do?! The poor Disney Characters ran and hid! The Disney Villains planned to destroy everything!
The Disney Villains set to work, casting their powerful, evil spells to conquer the world. The Disney Castles around the world were shrouded in darkness, and fire burst to life around them!
Maleficent then turned into her monstrous, dangerous dragon form! What would everyone do now?!
But, nothing can overcome the powers of dreams and love. Together with a good pure soul they are unstoppable, and there is one little mouse who knows all about the power of all things good...
With a powerful flash, Sorcerer Mickey appeared, casting the most powerful spells he could conjure!
The forces of evil began to retreat, and with a magical wave of peace and love like none ever seen, all things good were restored to the world once again.
All the Disney Characters celebrated, and Christmas was saved! Mickey Mouse had proved that the powers of dreams, love and all things good can overcome even the most darkest forces. Mickey and his friends were able to have a wonderful Christmas, and as for the Villains, well they were not seen again for a very long time.
Dan. |
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