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Disney announces Disney Plus Day is returning on September 8th, ahead of D23

Disney confirms that the now annualized Disney Plus Day celebration is returning on September 8th, 2022. Focusing on the company’s streaming service, it’s likely we’ll see new announcements and footage across projects from Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars, and National Geographic.

Last year, Disney held its Disney Plus Day festivities on November 12th. It was here that the company showcased a large assortment of projects to hit the streaming service over the next calendar year and beyond. Quick highlights included Marvel’s Moon Knight, She-Hulk, and Star Wars’ Obi-Wan Kenobi. Disney hasn’t confirmed what fans can expect to see from Disney Plus Day this year.

Given what we’ve seen from Disney Plus Day in the past, we have a rough idea of what the company has in store. With expectations set from the year prior, it’s safe to say we’ll see new announcements and footage across, films, shows and specials. The streaming service holds a ton of content so expect to see a broad range shown. The company confirms it will “host special experiences for fans and subscribers.”

The other major unknown is the format. Last year, the majority of announcements were made to the public via a Twitter thread. While this method gave way to a long list of trailers, interviews, etc. it was hard to keep up with as the “event” unfolded in real-time. It will be interesting to see if Disney maintains that format or moves to a live-streamed event.

On top of announcing Disney Plus Day, the company released a teaser trailer for the live-action Pinocchio film starring Tom Hanks. The film premieres on Disney+ on September 8th.

Finally, all of the festivities lead right into D23 Expo: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event in Anaheim, California. Slated for September 9th through September 11th, D23 Expo aims to host panels, events and more for fans around the world.

Image credit: Disney

Source: @disneyplus

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Vietnam tour of a lifetime

Vietnam has been added to the list of Traveler magazine’s top 50 tours of a lifetime in the regional listings for Asia.

The May-June 2011 issue describes the tour’s itinerary of beautiful landscapes of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, a trek through the bio-diverse Hoang Lien National Park, a voyage aboard the Dragon’s Pearl to view the limestone peaks of Halong Bay, and a stop at rural Black Hmong villages to meet members of the Zay hill tribes.

Selected from thousands of tours around the world, Traveler tours “are an antidote to the average.” Offered by outfitters with solid reputations in the industry, they offer a brief but deep immersion into far-flung cultures and transformative experiences.

The magazine searched for tours (including volunteer, adventure, family, and small-ship trips) designed for experience, immersion, sustainability, and cultural connection. There’s bound to be at least one that is right for you. 

 

 

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Tutankhamun returns to New York

In 1979, when the Pharaoh Tutankhamun exhibition came to American soil in New York, the whole country experienced an unusual excitement.

31 years later, restoration and expansion in Egypt allows Tutankhamun to return to the same city that hosted the exhibition more than three decades ago. Until January, 2011, the most famous Egyptian king in the world will be the main attraction of an exhibition showing many of the treasures discovered by British archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922.

The exhibition website offers details about the exhibition: "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs explores the figures who guided ancient Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.  The exhibition focuses on the 18th Dynasty, a 100-year period when Egypt was at the height of its power and the "golden age" of Egyptian artistry. This was the era when Tutankhamun and his ancestors reigned. The extensive array of more than 130 extraordinary artifacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun and other ancient Egyptian sites features 50 of Tutankhamun’s burial objects, including his royal diadem and one of the four gold and precious stone inlaid canopic coffinettes that contained his mummified internal organs."

The exhibition Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs runs until January 2, 2011.

A parallel exhibition called Tutankhamun the Golden King and the Great Pharaohs will open in Denver on July 1, 2010.

The exhibition website comments: "The exhibition features 50 objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun including the gold sandals that adorned the mummy’s feet and a beautifully adorned canopic jar that mummified his internal organs."