Your Welcome I’m sure McD employees get the toys before anyone else does but I got the impression from reading the blog that those toys came with the happy meals they purchased.

I don’t know but suspect that some small town McD’s aren’t sticklers for releasing the toys on exact dates.

Here are some pictures of the toys you can get at McD's.

haniyumari88.livejournal.com/4499.html

I agree Meg. It's too bad the audio wasn't working on the video.

Also, according to the following link (May 30th post) it says James Baxter team ("Enchanted" ++ fame) worked on the opening sequence of the movie.

www.animationnation.com/ubb/ultimatebb. ... 1;t=013076

Check out this amazing "Behind the Scenes of Kung Fu Panda" video.

www.movieweb.com/video/V08EknqrBGKTXY

I love the clip on the front page but why are so many clip/trailers of the movie being shown. If you see all them I get the distinct feeling you've seen a lot of the movie already.

I think DreamWorks marketing department does this kind of thing way to much in my opinion.

I know this is about Madagascar (the original) but it's related so I thought to put the Blu-ray announcement here. I think I'll include it on my list after I buy the PlayStation 3 towards the end of the year.

www.themanroom.com/news/Dreamworks_Mada ... u-ray/2808

Meg, Yes, I’m familiar with the Rudolph special and I see now that I was aware of some of Rankin/Bass works Thanks for the education.

Ben, I'm not familiar with Rankin/Bass works but if it looks anything like Presto then I’m sure it’s really good.

The next Pixar short which will be shown in front of "Wall-E" is called "Presto is Magic". The short sounds hilarious and I believe Pixar has another classic on its hands. I don’t know if it’s just me but does anybody think the characters look similar to Aardman's characters? Here is the link to the...

Here is a really awesome and I mean really awesome clip of the movie.

teamhere.tistory.com/522

Yeah Dusterian it sure does look real cute and all. I'd love to be able to buy one of these (but smaller) for my nieces and nephews.

Here is a video of an actual full functioning version of Wall-E.

www.vimeo.com/1014358

Here are some additional stills from the movie.

Note: I know we've seen some of these before but there are some new ones that have never been shown before (I think). I especially like the ones where you see Po exercising.

www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/new-kung ... -kapow.php

The scene in the 2nd trailer where Panda sits on Tai-Lung’s face is hilarious.