School’s out, summer is here, and Disneyland is handing the magic over to its youngest guests with the “Kids Rule the Summer” celebration, a season of family-friendly experiences, favorite attractions, and memory-making moments across the resort.
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The Disneyland Resort has officially welcomed Bluey to its theme park universe. The debut of Bluey’s Best Day Ever drew in massive crowds of fans who flocked to Walt Disney’s original theme park during the spring break opening weekend of the experience. As vacation season gets in full swing, expect lines from rope drop at park open, a constantly packed pit of kids on the immersive dance floor, and full houses for performances on peak days.
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For a show built on imagination, play, and the emotional intelligence of everyday family life, Bluey has always felt bigger than its seven-minute runtime. Now, it’s getting a stage big enough to match because “Bluey’s Best Day Ever!” at the Fantasyland Theatre will be making its debut at Disneyland this weekend.
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The latest expansion at Legoland California is out-of-this-world fun for families seeking theme park thrills.
Just in time for spring break and summer vacation, LEGO Galaxy unleashes a new space adventure for LEGO fans of all ages.
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James Eason-Garcia has been dreaming about working with Marvel for years. The co-executive producer and story editor for Marvel’s Iron Man and His Awesome Friends is a self-proclaimed “big nerd,” reading comic books since he was 8 or 9 years old. He also knew he wanted to work in animation, so combining the two is a dream for him.
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The series premiere of Disney Jr’s Iron Man and His Awesome Friends is just days away on August 11 at 8:30 am PT/ET. Because we are huge fans of the beloved Spidey and His Amazing Friends, Disney Jr. sent The Nerds of Color an exclusive clip of the upcoming series surrounding Iron Man and his iron-clad friends!
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Nickelodeon is set to release a new live-action Dora film — Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado — tonight on Paramount+. It stars Samantha Lorraine as Dora and Jacob Rodriguez as Diego, who take over the live action roles from Isabela Merced and Jeff Wahlberg, respectively.
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Nickelodeon’s live-action Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado, starring Samantha Lorraine as Dora and Jacob Rodriguez as Diego, will simultaneously debut on Nickelodeon and Paramount+ on July 2. We had the opportunity to speak to Lorraine and Rodriguez about this new story set in the Dora universe, as well as co-stars Mariana Garzón Toro and Acston Luca Porto.
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Lucasfilm has released the newest trailer for season 2 of Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. Coming to Disney+ and Disney Jr. this August, the new season follows the continuing adventures of Jedi younglings Kai Brightstar, Lys Solay, and Nubs as they study the ways of the Force, explore the galaxy, help citizens and creatures in need, and learn valuable Jedi skills.
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Baby Shark is a cultural phenomenon all over the world. For many parents, it’s a staple for those who are child-rearing to hear the famous song: “Baby Shark.” Like many songs, the beat is infectious, staying in your head long after the music ends. To know that there will be a movie, Paramount+’s Baby Shark’s Big Movie, centering this character, many fear that it would become an endless droning of the beat “do do do do do.”
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There is a lot to be said about a show that is entertaining but also packs a punch when it comes to relatability. Disney Channel’s The Ghost and Molly McGee (and Disney’s Amphibia) has always been the show for me, growing up in a Thai American household.
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Star Wars parents rejoice!!! We finally have a Star Wars series for our little ones!
Disney+ and Disney Junior will finally have a series meant for your Jedi younglings who are of preschool age called Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures. The new original animated series will premiere on Star Wars Day aka May the Fourth.
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Based on the popular children’s books by David Horvath, Bossy Bear is now a television series on Nickelodeon. It is produced by Horvath and Sun-Min Kim, the creative team behind the popular plush toys UglyDolls, and gives a deeper backstory for extrovert Bossy Bear (Jayden Ham) and his best friend and introvert Turtle (Jaba Keh) as they go through some fun adventures, including some Korean American-inspired situations like show-and-tell Korean food and making kimchi.
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This weekend, we welcome the Year of the Rabbit as half the globe celebrates Lunar New Year. Fittingly, Bugs Bunny and friends are ready for the spotlight with a stacked slate featuring a Lunar New Year celebration short on Cartoonito, new episodes of Bugs Bunny Builders and HBO Max’s Looney Tunes Cartoons, plus the launch of Tiny Toons Looniversity later this year.
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Next week, Warner Bros. Animation is bringing their iconic Looney Tunes characters to a preschool audience with Cartoonito’s Bugs Bunny Builders. We were fortunate enough to speak with the talented voices behind the iconic Bunnys — Bugs and Lola — as they discuss their new show.
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Just when I think The Ghost and Molly McGee couldn’t get any more adorable, they keep coming up with more stories filled with hilarious dialogue and entertaining situations, but also never forgetting to include Molly’s cultural upbringing into the mix.
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Ashly Burch is proud of her Thai heritage.
Being of Thai descent, Burch has never really gotten the opportunity to play a Thai character, let alone showcase her mixed heritage onscreen until now with Disney Channel’s new animated series, The Ghost and Molly McGee. After Burch was cast as the title character, the creators — Bob Roth and Bill Motz — decided to base Molly and her family on Burch’s own cultural background.
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Director Aphton Corbin is excited and surprised to see her Disney-Pixar SparksShort Twenty Something come to life on Disney+.
“My inspiration was my own 20s journey through life where I just feel like a new director — the panic and stress of ‘oh my gosh, did they pick the wrong person?’ I’m just barely figuring out how to be a functional adult in life,” said Corbin during a Zoom interview with The Nerds of Color. It was a fun insecurity to dig into of what was making me feel this way.”
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Ahead of its premiere this October on the Disney Channel, the animated buddy-comedy The Ghost and Molly McGree has been renewed for a second season! Executive produced by Bill Motz, Bob Roth, and Steve Loter, the series follows Thai American tween Molly McGee (Ashly Burch), who lives to make the world a better place, and grumpy ghost Scratch (Dana Snyder), who is always miserable, as they go through life together and build this unexpected friendship.
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Netflix is single-handedly reviving the Masters of the Universe brand for a new generation! After debuting Kevin Smith’s revelatory continuation of the classic series from the 1980s, Netflix is giving another creative team carte blanche to completely reinterpret Eternia for 21st century kids.
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Netflix’s newest animated series, Archibald’s Next Big Thing Is Here, premieres February 18 and I had the opportunity to sit down with Hamilton star and quadruple Hollywood threat, Jordan Fisher (Dancing with the Stars), to talk his experience working on the show as well as his many other goings on.
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This was supposed to be a different kind of article.
Two weeks ago, The Nerds of Color youth correspondents and their parental units were invited to attend the premiere screening party for Disney Jr.’s landmark new animated series, Mira Royal Detective (premiering on Disney Jr. today in the United States and India) and interview the cast of voice actors from the South Asian diaspora on the red (or rather blue) carpet at Disney’s Burbank studios. It was a celebration of diversity and community, of difference and commonality, full of music and laughter, of children of all colors and artists and craftspeople from all parts of Hollywood joining together to marvel that this milestone of representation was finally on-screen.
It’s extremely hard to look directly into the eyes of Freida Pinto without blushing.
When I first entered the press room where Pinto was prepping for the premiere of Disney Junior’s latest animated series, Mira, Royal Detective, I couldn’t help but compliment her on her beauty, successful career, and her work for empowering women. Named by Vanity Fair as one of the most beautiful women in the world, Pinto humbly laughed off the compliments aimed at her and got serious when we began talking about her role as Disney royalty in the new series.
“I keep forgetting it’s a Disney Queen,” laughs Pinto. “It’s not just a Disney character.”
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