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Exploring the Walt Disney Family Museum at the #MonstersUEvent

Welcome to the Walt Disney Family Museum

While I was in San Francisco for the Monsters University Event I also got the opportunity to visit the Walt Disney Family Museum which is located in The Presidio. All 25 of the bloggers who attended Monsters University along with our awesome Disney Pr Rep, Marshall Weinbaum, took the tour. We split into two groups so that we’d be able to hear our tour guides better. If you go to the museum bring your camera because they allow non-flash photos to be taken which is great because there are so many fun pieces to see at the museum.

In the main lobby there are many awards that Walt Disney won. I think it was something like a 10th of the overall awards that he won in his lifetime or something like that. There were Academy Awards, humanitarian awards, foreign awards and many more. I was blown away by how many awards were in the lobby and found it hard to imagine how there could be more, there were so many. Before the tour got underway I poked around and looked at all the awards that were on the walls. So many of them were elaborate trophies for all sorts of things. One of the coolest ones was a trophy statue of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. It was huge! Continue reading Exploring the Walt Disney Family Museum at the #MonstersUEvent →

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What I Learned at Monsters University – #MonstersUEvent

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A couple of weeks ago I attended the prestigious Monsters University (Pixar Animation Studios). Monsters University’s haunted halls have been producing top rate scarers since it was founded in 1313. My nerves were on edge when I arrived, would I be scary enough?

would I be Scary Enough

There was so much to see and do on campus. We stayed close to our orientation leader, Marshall. He led us through the grounds and showed us where we needed to go.

Orientation Leader Marshall

When we arrived on campus we first went to get our photos for our student ID cards taken. I think mine came out pretty scary.

Monsters University ID Card

After our orientation photos were taken we saw a very special orientation film to get us acquainted with Monsters University. Here is the latest trailer for Monsters University. Our special film was actually the first forty minutes of the Monsters University movie, plus the short film The Blue Umbrella. In the orientation movie we were introduced to a couple of superstar freshmen, James P. Sullivan and Mike Wazowski. I was lucky enough to have a photo taken with the guys, too.

Drew with Mike and Sulley

After the orientation movie there was an opening reception where I was able to mingle with the other students as well as professors like Professor of Monsterous Animation Directing, Dan Scanlon (Director of Monsters University). I spoke with Dan at length about the orientation movie and how much I enjoyed it. He was very down to earth and excited to hear what people thought of it. I found it to be excellent and very enjoyable. I cannot wait to see the rest of it when the full movie arrives in theaters June 21. Until then there is a brand new trailer to watch.

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