"Disney Insider 2005 Yearbook" is great!

[prberk]

I just got the "Disney Insider 2005 Yearbook" in the mail, and WOW! Lots of great stuff, especially for fans like us.

I wasn't sure about buying it at first, especially the pricey hardback edition ($49), but I am certainly glad I did. It is 179 pages of awesome stuff -- much from the Vault -- and it includes a DVD with stuff from DL's celebration and other stuff.

I had worried at first that it was just a collection of the "Disney Insider" e-mails; but it is NOT.

All divisions of the company are represented, including WDW parks, but I have to say that the picture of Hong Kong DL's castle, against a real mountain in the background was stunning. Also nice is so much of the historical DL pictures and stories, many I had not seen before.

This book is very much like Disney magazine was, back when it was really good. There are some things that preview new things coming for 2006 ("Pirates" and "Cars"), but this book is back to the kind of writing and truly nice "Insider" stuff for real fans that I used to like, without such a heavy dose of crass commercialism for whatever promotion is coming.

The Disneyland celebration memorial stuff includes the often "lost" but fondly-remembered "Adventure thru Inner Space" (1967-1985) which really reminds me of the 1964 World's Fair and the original visions that shaped EPCOT. You can see the threads of thinking.

There is also a long "Ask Dave" section, like the magazine used to have.

And it ends on a very, very nice touch: whole pages on voices and background people that were silenced this year, including Thurl Ravenscroft and Paul Winchell (Tigger) and John Fielder (Piglet). Others were Imagineer Fred Joerger (The Matterhorn, Main Street USA, Jungle Cruise), makeup artist Bob Schiffer (The Wizard of Oz (!), Tron, The gy D.A.), Buena Vista Pictures developer and president (1959-1980) Irving Ludwig, and former CEO (1976-1983) Card Walker.

So, I HIGHLY recommend it. And if you cannot afford the hard-back, there is a paperback edition available, without the DVD, for $24.95.

You can find it here: http://disney.go.com/inside/yearbook/

Paul

 

[Buford]

ditto! :sohappy:

Bruce and Jeff and the entire staff did a great job!

It covers 2005, films, parks, events, consumer products, very well --- and I truly hope we get a yearbook for each new year to come to chronicle the Disney happenings.

 

[SewIn2Disney]

I got mine last night as a gift for my graduation!
I flipped through it, but haven't gotten to read it, good to hear a great review!
BTW, mine didn't come with the free lithograph, and my mom's been calling with no luck. Did anyone have the same problem?

 

[Buford]

I got mine last night as a gift for my graduation!
I flipped through it, but haven't gotten to read it, good to hear a great review!
BTW, mine didn't come with the free lithograph, and my mom's been calling with no luck. Did anyone have the same problem?

is yours hardback??? Does it have a DVD?? The lithograph is included in the book....it's of Sleeping Beauty Castle and at the very end...

 

[snowwhite658]

Disney Insider Yearbook

:sohappy: I just got my Yearbook the otherday,and it's great. I love the articles and the pictures are great!! The litograph is really cool. Looking forward to watching the dvd.

 

[joanna71985]

I love the yearbook! It is really good, and I enjoyed reading it.

 

[DisneyDellsDude]

I may sound dumb, but what is a litograph?:veryconfu

 

[Computer Magic]

I was suppose to get the DVD but didn't. You think they screwed up or did I not do something right?

 

[SewIn2Disney]

is yours hardback??? Does it have a DVD?? The lithograph is included in the book....it's of Sleeping Beauty Castle and at the very end...

Yeah, I have the hard cover.
The lithograph is that piece of cardstock that I have to pull out of the back of the book? A lithograph should be a nice print, on a piece of glossy paper, preferably with a white border around it, suitable for framing.
That is not.

 

[Buford]

Yeah, I have the hard cover.
The lithograph is that piece of cardstock that I have to pull out of the back of the book? A lithograph should be a nice print, on a piece of glossy paper, preferably with a white border around it, suitable for framing.
That is not.

yes, that's true. Perhaps in a frame, the cutout will look nicer :lookaroun

 

[BigNormsMom]

Yeah, I have the hard cover.
The lithograph is that piece of cardstock that I have to pull out of the back of the book? A lithograph should be a nice print, on a piece of glossy paper, preferably with a white border around it, suitable for framing.
That is not.

I am soooooo disappointed in this yearbook:brick: . The lithograph is a joke compared to what we spent for the book:veryconfu I have been a disney freak for over 50 years and this is my biggest disappointment yet I have books that I have bought at WDW and DTD that have all this info in it and they did not cost half as much. Really disappointed Sorry, I guess I have said that enough, but it is just not the book I expected that's all:zipit:

 

[ConstanceIrene]

I am soooooo disappointed in this yearbook:brick: . The lithograph is a joke compared to what we spent for the book:veryconfu I have been a disney freak for over 50 years and this is my biggest disappointment yet I have books that I have bought at WDW and DTD that have all this info in it and they did not cost half as much. Really disappointed Sorry, I guess I have said that enough, but it is just not the book I expected that's all:zipit:

I'm with you. I was hoping this yearbook would take the place of the wonderful Disney Magazine which no longer shows up in the mail. It didn't. I'd rather spend $50 for a magazine subscription that I'd truly enjoy. If I purchase the yearbook again next year, I think I'll go for the soft cover and save a few bucks; then it won't matter as much.