Beauty and the Beast in 3D

I love two-hour delays!  You won't have to make it up, but you get to sleep in for two extra hours.  There's even still some snow on the ground outside, but it's not much.  I think it's supposed to snow again tomorrow, but I doubt we'll get much.

In current events today we finished playing our quiz show game thing for this week, and our team won again!  It actually seemed easier than last weeks.  The last question was who won the Iowa caucus, which we'd been talking about all week.

After school Haley, Jordan, Rachel and I went to go see Beauty and the Beast in 3D!  We went and ate at Taco Bell first, and then stopped by Walmart.  The movie was amazing!  I loved the Tangled Ever After short that was shown before it.  It was so cute!  (I still haven't seen Tangled all of the way through...)  Beauty and the Beast was amazing.  It's my absolute favorite Disney movie (as most reading this probably know), and there was no way I was going to pass up seeing it in theaters.

I'm not a 3D fan.  3D movies always give me headaches.  But I've been pleasantly surprised with the Disney re-releases in 3D.  Beauty and the Beast was just like The Lion King: the 3D was there, but it wasn't incredibly noticeable.  I don't know how to describe it very well.  It's like there are multiple layers to the movie, but nothing's flying out at you.  It was a completely different 3D than the previews and Tangled short that came before it (which did have some things flying out and such).  With both The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast I didn't get headaches like normal, and I loved getting to see both on a movie theater screen.  If you're a Beauty and the Beast fan, I definitely recommend going to check it out even if you don't usually like 3D.

Favorite Disney Non-Animal Sidekicks

About two months ago I wrote a blog post on my favorite Disney animal sidekicks.  This time I'm doing my favorite non-animal sidekicks.  (I've also realized that I didn't put Timon and Pumba on the animal sidekick llist.  How did that happen!?)  I didn't come up with many, so it's a rather short list.

The Genie from Aladdin.  It's true that he's not human, but he's also not an animal.  Never Had a Friend Like Me is probably my favorite song from Aladdin.

The various toys in Toy Story.  Again, not human, but also not animals (although some are animal toys).  I was never the biggest Toy Story fan until the third one.  (I think it was because it made me sentimental about how I grew up with the other Toy Story movies.

Christopher Robin in Winnie the Pooh.  I'll be honest, he was never my favorite character, but I feel like he needs to be on this list.

Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts, Chip, etc. from Beauty and the Beast.  It's no secret that this is my favorite Disney movie ever.  I love all of the various humans turned objects in the movie.

The Lost Boys in Peter Pan.  I think they're all cute, but they (and Peter) tend to get on my nerves a bit whenever I watch the movie.  I can't blame them, since it makes sense that they'd be immature, but it does annoy me a little.  Still, they act like cute little kids in certain parts of the movie.  (I've just realized it's been years since I've seen Peter Pan.  I should watch it.  I've been seeing things about this new mini-series that's supposed to be about Peter Pan discovering Neverland or something.  I want to look into that...)

Dopey and the other seven dwarves from Snow White.  Snow White has always been one of my least favorite Disney movies.  Still, I remember Dopey and the other dwarves being one of the only things I even remotely liked as a kid.  (And Dopey was always my favorite.)

I'm sure there are some other awesome non-animal sidekicks, but those were all I could think of.

Favorite Romantic Disney Moments

It's another Disney post!  This one is about my favorite romantic moments in Disney movies.

The end of Beauty and the Beast.  Of course I have to start this post with Beauty and the Beast.  Belle and the Beast are my favorite Disney couple, and I love the end of the movie so much.  Belle's also the only Disney princess on this list because I honestly don't like the romances with any of the other princesses.  I feel like out of all the Disney princess movies, Belle and the Beast are the only ones who really seem to fall in love with each other (except maybe Aladdin and Jasmine because I really like them too).

The ballroom dance scene in Beauty and the Beast.  This is a close tie with the other Beauty and the Beast scene.

The spaghetti scene in Lady and the Tramp.  This has pretty much become a classic scene that everyone recognizes.

EVE "kisses" WALL-E in WALL-E.  These two are so adorable for the whole movie.

Simba and Nala during Can You Feel the Love Tonight in The Lion King.  I love the two of them so much!

Jane deciding to stay with Tarzan in Tarzan.  I love the romance between them, and I love when she decides to stay.

Belle: My Favorite Disney Princess

I've mentioned in multiple Disney posts that my favorite Disney princess is Belle.  I think it's time that she finally has a post dedicated completely to her.

I've loved Beauty and the Beast since I was a little kid, and I think one of the reasons was that I found Belle more relatable than any of the other Disney princesses.  Why?  She loves to read.  I'm sure that wasn't the only reason I liked her, but I'm positive that it was a big factor.  I've basically been a bookworm since I was born, so I always love characters that enjoy reading.

In addition to that, I love that Belle isn't the typical damsel-in-distress.  She stands her ground with the Beast and Gaston.  Of course, I didn't think much about this when I was younger, but I do think I realized it in the back of my mind.

I've always loved romance books and movies as well, and the Beast and Belle are my favorite Disney couple.  I don't really have a definite reason for this.  I do know that I typically like couples that start out arguing and then fall in love with each other (I have no idea why), so the fact that they don't really like each other at first may have something to do with it.

As a side note, I've often wandered if my love for Beauty and the Beast had something to do with my obsession with werewolves later on.  The Beast himself isn't a werewolf, but he's kind of similar.  I just can't help but wonder.

Anyway, my two main reasons for loving Belle so much is that she loves reading and she stands up for herself.  There are several Disney princesses that could fit the second one, but I can't think of any that have shown a love for reading.  I've realized over the years that if there's a character that loves to read, they'll probably become my favorite character of the book, movie, TV show, etc.  I guess it provides something that allows me to relate to them.

Disney Icons

Yep, it's yet another Disney post.  I'm really starting to enjoy these.  I feel like I don't get to talk about Disney enough.  This post is about different Disney icons.  (I don't know if icon's the right word, but I can't think of another one).  There are certain images that you see that always remind you of Disney.  In this post, I'm talking about two of them.

The first is the Mickey head and ears.  It's essentially only three black circles, but I bet it would be hard to find someone who doesn't immediatley think of Disney when they see it.  One of my favorite things about it is that it's hidden in different locations around the Disney parks.  I haven't been to Disney World since I was twelve (at which time I wasn't looking for hidden Mickeys), but when I go back (hopefully kind of soon), I plan to keep an eye out for them.  Also, this isn't the exact same thing, but has anyone else got one of those hats with the Mickey ears from one of the parks?  I think mine from when I was about six or seven is still laying around somewhere.

The other icon I want to talk about is the castle.  You know which one I'm talking about.  Every Disney movie you watch shows a castle before the actual movie.  It's one of the things I think about first when I think of Disney movies.  I decided to look up more about it, mainly to find out which princess' castle it's supposed to be.  From what I read, it's a combination of Sleeping Beauty's castle at Disneyland (and the Hong Kong Disneyland) and Belle's castle at Disney World (and the Tokyo Disneyland).  I like the idea that they combined the two instead of just choosing one of them since everyone's going to have a favorite castle.  (Mine's Belle's since she's my favorite Disney princess, and I've only ever been to Disney World.)

I also love the new castle shown before movies. Even though I'll always be found of how it used to look when I was younger, the new one does look so much cooler. I remember being impressed with it when I saw it the first time.

This whole thing about the castles has made me wonder about something.  Why were Belle and Aurora's castles choosen for all of the parks instead of having a different princess' castle at each park?  I'm going to try and find some stuff about that.