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It’s Tough To Be A Bug!
''It's Tough to Be a Bug!'' was a 3D film based on Pixar's 1998 film ''A Bug's Life''. The attraction first opened with Disney's Animal Kingdom on April 22, 1998, seven months before ''A Bug's Life'' debuted in theaters, and was housed within the theme park's icon, the Tree of Life. A second version of the attraction opened with Disney California Adventure on February 8, 2001, as part of the Bountiful Valley Farm area of the park, until A Bug's Land was built around it, and was housed inside the Bug's Life Theater. The attraction was Pixar's first presence in a Disney park. The film utilized theater lighting, 3D filming techniques, Audio-Animatronics and various special effects and was hosted by Flik, an ant and the protagonist of ''A Bug's Life'', who lead an educational presentation on why insects should be considered an important part of the lives of humans. History Production About a year before the 1998 opening of Disney's Animal Kingdom, Disney Imagineers had decided to pl ...
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Discovery Island (Disney)
Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park is a Animal theme park, zoological theme park at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando, Florida, Orlando. Owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company through its Disney Experiences, Experiences division, it is the largest theme park in the world, covering . The park opened on Earth Day, April 22, 1998, and was the fourth theme park built at the resort. The park is dedicated and themed around natural environment and conservation movement, animal conservation, a philosophy once pioneered by Walt Disney. Disney's Animal Kingdom distinguishes itself from other Walt Disney World theme parks by featuring hundreds of live animal exhibits alongside traditional theme park elements. Special designs and provisions were incorporated throughout the park to protect the animals' welfare. The park is located on the western edge of the resort and is isolated from the other theme parks and properties to minimize external disruptions to the anim ...
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Dave Foley
David Foley (born January 4, 1963) is a Canadian actor, stand-up comedian, director, producer, and writer. He is known as a co-founder of the comedy group The Kids in the Hall, who have appeared together in a number of television, stage and film productions, most notably the 1988–1995 TV sketch comedy show of the same name, as well as the 1996 film '' Brain Candy''. Foley is also known for his roles as Dave Nelson in the sitcom ''NewsRadio'', Flik in ''A Bug's Life'', Troy in '' Blast from the Past'', Dr. Fulton in '' The Middle'', Bob in ''Hot in Cleveland'', Gary O'Brien in ''Young Sheldon'', and Danish Graves in '' Fargo''. Foley also hosted '' Celebrity Poker Showdown''. Early life Foley was born in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, on January 4, 1963. He is the son of Mary and Michael, a steamfitter. His mother is from Stafford, England. Career Acting and stand-up comedy After dropping out of high school, Foley pursued standup comedy for about a year in the Toront ...
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Marvel Cinematic Universe
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is an American media franchise and shared universe centered on List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films, a series of superhero films produced by Marvel Studios. The films are based on characters that appear in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The franchise also includes List of Marvel Cinematic Universe television series, several television series, short films, digital series, and literature. The shared universe, much like the original Marvel Universe in comic books, was established by Crossover (fiction), crossing over common plot elements, settings, cast, and characters. Marvel Studios releases its films in groups called "Phases", with the first three phases collectively known as "The Infinity Saga" and the following three phases as "The Multiverse Saga". The first MCU film, ''Iron Man (2008 film), Iron Man'' (2008), began Marvel Cinematic Universe: Phase One, Phase One, which culminated in the 2012 crossover film ''The A ...
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Avengers Campus
Avengers Campus is a Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)–themed area located at Disney California Adventure and Walt Disney Studios Park in Disneyland Paris, and being developed for Hong Kong Disneyland under the name Stark Expo. The Marvel-themed areas or "lands" are being developed simultaneously at the three parks and inspired by the MCU. However, they instead take place in the "Marvel Theme Park Universe", an alternate universe parallel to it within the MCU multiverse, in which the Blip, introduced in '' Avengers: Infinity War'' (2018), and subsequent events did not occur. They are designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, in collaboration with Marvel Studios and Marvel Themed Entertainment. All three parks had hosted Marvel-themed seasonal events in the past. Based on three different continents, the Marvel-themed areas will be defined as the "Super Hero campus" of their specific region, that will help guests to become heroes. Each area will feature mostly different sets of ...
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Peter Parker (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Peter Benjamin Parker is a superhero portrayed by Tom Holland in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name—also known by his alias, Spider-Man. Parker is initially depicted as a student at the Midtown School of Science and Technology who received spider-like and superhuman abilities after being bitten by a radioactive spider. Parker initially uses his powers to fight crime as a vigilante in Queens, where he lives with his Aunt May. Parker is approached by Tony Stark, who mentors him and eventually recruits him into the Avengers Civil War, which brought him into brief conflict with Steve Rogers. In order to join the Avengers, Parker began investigating the illicit criminal activities of Adrian Toomes/Vulture, who was attempting to sell his Chitauri-based weapons on the black market, with only the help of his best friend Ned Leeds. Parker finally joins the Avengers and together with the Guardians of t ...
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Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor. Known for Kevin Spacey on screen and stage, his work on stage and screen, he List of awards and nominations received by Kevin Spacey, has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, and two Laurence Olivier Awards as well as nominations for 12 Emmy Awards. Spacey was named an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2015. Spacey began his film career with small roles in Mike Nichols's comedy-drama films ''Heartburn (film), Heartburn'' (1986) and ''Working Girl'' (1988). He won two Academy Awards: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actor for playing a con man in ''The Usual Suspects'' (1995) and Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actor for playing a suburban husband and father going through a midlife crisis in ''American Beauty (1999 film), American Beauty'' (1999). His other films include ''Glengarry Glen Ro ...
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Chris Bailey (animator)
Chris Bailey (born March 26, 1962) is an American animator and film director. Early life and career Bailey was born in Portland, Oregon on March 26, 1962. He went to high school at Reynolds High School, and later attended California Institute of the Arts. He worked at Disney as an animator for ''The Great Mouse Detective'' (1986) ''Sport Goofy in Soccermania'' (1987), ''Oliver & Company'' (1988), ''The Little Mermaid'' (1989), ''The Rescuers Down Under'' (1990), ''The Lion King'' (1994), and ''Hercules'' (1997). He also animated the children for the World Chorus post-show area for It's a Small World at Disneyland Paris. Prior to Disney, Bailey worked with Don Bluth on the ''Space Ace'' and ''Dragon's Lair'' video games and also on '' Starchaser: The Legend of Orin''. He became one of the first traditional animators to adapt to computer graphics. He directed the animation for Paula Abdul's ''Opposites Attract'' music video, the 1995 Mickey Mouse cartoon, ''Runaway Brain'', whi ...
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Darla K
Darla is a female given name of English origin which is a variant of Darlene. Darla means “Darling” Darla may refer to: People * Darla K. Anderson (), American film producer * Darla Hood (1931–1979), American child actress, best known for her role in the ''Our Gang'' series * Darla Moore (born 1954), American businesswoman * Darla Pacheco (born 1989), Puerto Rican model * Darla Vandenbossche (born 1963), Canadian actress Fictional characters * Darla (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a vampire in ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' * Darla (''Finding Nemo''), character in the animated film ''Finding Nemo'' * Darla Aquista, also called the Warlock's Daughter, a DC Comics character * Darla Dudley, a DC Comics character from ''Shazam!'' comics and a member of the Shazam Family * Darla Forrester, in ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' * Darla Dimple, the main antagonist of the 1997 animated musical comedy film ''Cats Don't Dance'' Other uses * Darla (''Angel'' episode) * Darla (dog), an ...
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John Lasseter
John Alan Lasseter ( ; born January 12, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator. He was previously the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Disneytoon Studios, as well as the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering, and has served as the head of animation at Skydance Animation since 2019. Lasseter began his career as an animator with The Walt Disney Company. After being fired from Disney for promoting computer animation, he joined Lucasfilm, where he worked on then-ground breaking usage of Computer-generated imagery, CGI animation. The Graphics Group of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm was sold to Steve Jobs and became Pixar in 1986. Lasseter oversaw all of Pixar's films and associated projects. He personally directed ''Toy Story'' (1995), ''A Bug's Life'' (1998), ''Toy Story 2'' (1999), ''Cars (film), Cars'' (2006), and ''Cars 2'' (2011), and executive-produced all other Pixar f ...
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Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar (), doing business as Pixar Animation Studios, is an American animation studio based in Emeryville, California, known for its critically and commercially successful computer-animated feature films. Pixar is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, a segment of the Walt Disney Company. Pixar started in 1979 as part of the Lucasfilm computer division. It was known as the Graphics Group before its Corporate spin-off, spin-off as a corporation in 1986, with funding from Apple Inc., Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who became its majority shareholder. Disney announced its acquisition of Pixar in January 2006, and completed it in May 2006. Pixar is best known for its feature films, technologically powered by RenderMan (software), RenderMan, the company's own implementation of the industry-standard RenderMan Interface Specification Rendering (computer graphics), image-rendering API. The studio's mascot is Luxo Jr. (cha ...
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Jason Alexander
Jay Scott Greenspan (born September 23, 1959), known professionally as Jason Alexander, is an American actor and comedian. Over the course of his career he has received an Emmy Award and a Tony Award as well as nominations for four Golden Globe Awards. He gained stardom for his role as George Costanza in the NBC sitcom ''Seinfeld'' (1989–1998), for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series and was nominated for seven consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and four Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, Golden Globe Awards for Best Supporting Actor in Television. Alexander made his Broadway theatre, Broadway debut originating the role of Joe in Stephen Sondheim's ''Merrily We Roll Along (musical), Merrily We Roll Along'' in 1981. He remained active o ...
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French Stewart
Milton French-Stewart (born February 20, 1964), known professionally as French Stewart, is an American actor. He played Harry Solomon on the NBC sitcom ''3rd Rock from the Sun'', Inspector Gadget in the superhero comedy film '' Inspector Gadget 2'' and Chef Rudy on the CBS sitcom '' Mom''. Early life and education Stewart was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico on February 20, 1964. His mother was a homemaker, and his stepfather was a microfilm technician. He attended Del Norte High School and also studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Career Stewart toured in regional theatre for seven years before breaking into television with the role of Razor Dee, a spaced-out DJ on the final season of '' The New WKRP in Cincinnati'' in 1992. He earned his Screen Actors Guild card while working for Hanna-Barbera's Shakey Quakey tour, but was later released for removing the head of his costume in front of children. In 1996, he was cast on ''3rd Rock from the Sun'', which lasted fo ...
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