The exhibition includes 250 magical artifacts, 14 interactive installations and a hundred years of history through Walt Disney’s imagined legacy.
“Disney 100: The Exhibition” is the title of the itinerant exhibition with which Disney celebrates the centenary of his birth, which will be held next October, which stops in the cities of London, Munich and Philadelphia: an itinerary through ten themed rooms, with life-size characters of the sisters Elsa and Ana from Frozen, costumes and costumes from “The Lion King”, fragments of the most famous films and the unforgettable scene of fireworks that explode just behind the world-famous Cinderella castle, a nod that the magic begins.
What will the show for the 100 years of Disney be like?
The exhibition -as its website indicates- includes 250 magical artifacts, 14 interactive installations and a hundred years of history through the imagined legacy of Walt Disneythe creator of Mickey Mouse, a traveling exhibition that opened in Philadelphia in February, arrived in Munich in April and will arrive at the Excel in London next October, with a ticket price of 36 dollars.
You can see helmets from the Marvel movies, an Olaf figure from the Frozen movies, a sleigh from Disney World, Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber, Christopher Robin’s (2018) Winnie the Pooh live-action stuntman, and characters. from various Disney movies, such as Pocahontas, throughout the mega shows.
“Celebrate the iconic characters and stories that have captivated the hearts of audiences around the world, and enter the minds of Disney’s skilled storytellers who made the dream Walt Disney forged so long ago come true,” invite the organizers of the centennial exhibition. which also receives the visitor with a hologram of the very founder of the film studio, accompanied by real historical audios and immersed in a cloud of fairy dust.
Disney 100: The Exhibition consists of 10 galleries, organized not chronologically, but thematically: in one you can learn about music and in another about theme parks.
Visitors can see hundreds of objects and costumes, as well as play with interactive installations: push a button to hear Moana sing in Hebrew, pull a lever to see a different Disney underwater scene.
The 100 years of Disney come in a complicated context
Despite the festivities and the mega-show, some media outlets have described this celebration as “a bumpy birthday” and as “aggressively apolitical”, words used, for example, by the English newspaper The Guardian to recall that in February, Bob Iger, executive director of Walt Disney Company, announced 7,000 layoffs after a net loss of 2.4 million subscribers to the streaming platform Disney+.
Also, in May, Disney halted production of several shows due to writers’ strikes. And last Thursday, on the eve of the actors’ strike, Iger called the move “disturbing.” Later, the actress Fran Drescher, president of the Sag-Aftra actors union, exploded against the Disney executive and described her statements as “disgusting and deaf.”
Source: Ambito
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