A First Look at Disney Infinity 3.0 and the Inside Out Play Set! #InsideOutEvent #DisneyInfinity

A First Look at Disney Infinity 3.0 and the Inside Out Play Set!

By Erin

*As a part of the Inside Out Event I got a first look at Disney Infinity 3.0 and  the Inside Out Play Set. All thoughts and opinions are my own.*

Disney Infinity 3.0 will be blasting into homes everywhere coming this fall, and you won’t want to be left out. After getting to check it out for myself the other week, I am hooked and cannot wait to play. Disney Infinity 3.0 will be offering several play sets like some Star Wars themed play sets: Twilight of the Republic, Rise Against the Empire, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens as well as an Inside Out play set!

Disney Infinity 3.0 will be released for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Wii U, PC, iOS, and Android this fall.

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A few other details you may want to know about Disney Infinity 3.0?

1. Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition is joining forces with Star Wars!

Star Wars play sets: Twilight of the Republic includes these characters– Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, and Darth Maul.

Rise Against the Empire includes–Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Darth Vader.

Coming Winter 2015–Play set based on Star Wars: The Force Awakens

2. TRON Characters— Sam and Quorra will be available as physical figures at the release of Disney Infinity 3.0.

3. Disney Infinity 3.0 will include more Disney and Marvel content, like Inside Out! 🙂

4. All new Toy Box Expansion Games! Toy Box Takeover and Toy Box Speedway.

5. Lower Price Point.— Disney Infinity 3.0 Edition Starter Pack will now sell for a lower suggested retail price of $64.99

What about the Inside Out Play Set?

The Inside Out Play Set takes players on a platforming adventure through the mind, in what is a sort of sequel to Inside Out. After Riley falls asleep on the couch while watching a horror movie, her subconscious is sent into a state of chaos, and her memories go flying all around Imagination Land. Her emotions: Joy, Anger, Disgust, Sadness and Fear have the task to return all of these memories to headquarters as they fight their way through the chaos of Riley’s imagination, before she wakes up.
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Disney Infinity 3.0 Inside Out play sets have 5 playable characters, each with their own unique capabilities. To complete all 25 levels successfully, learning to switch between the characters is a must.

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Joy has the ability to glide across gaps.

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Anger can walk through beds of hot lava without getting any injuries. I think he’s Angry here since he still has to wait for Disney Infinity 3.0 to come out.

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Fear is the fastest in the group and he has the ability to run across bridges and other objects before they can collapse under his feet.

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Disgust can jump higher than anyone in the group. She’s also wondering if Disney Infinity is out yet!?

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Sadness has the ability to walk on clouds. She thinks it’s sad that Disney Infinity 3.0 isn’t already out for us to enjoy. I agree! 😉

The game can be played as a single-player, but  playing co-op is helpful. With the co-op options, emotions have the capability to help each other. If they have to make their way through the clouds, Sadness could carry Fear, or if they have to go through a collapsing bridge, Fear could pick up Sadness instead.

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Step inside Headquarters and help the crew of Emotions guide Riley back to a happy life in her new home in the Inside Out Play Set coming this Fall!

Until the Disney Infinity 3.0 fun comes out, be sure to go see Inside Out (again)! 😉

Kyle MacLachlan as Dad in Inside Out #InsideOutEvent

Kyle MacLachlan as Dad in Inside Out

By Erin

*I attended a special interview with Kyle MacLachlan as a guest of Disney as part of the #InsideOutEvent! All thoughts and opinions remain my own*

Kyle MacLachlan plays the voice of “Dad” in the new major emotion picture Inside Out. You might remember him from beloved shows such as Sex and the City , where he played Trey, Charlotte’s first husband or from How I Met Your Mother, where he played The Captain. The other week during all of the Inside Out festivities we were able to get inside his head and what he thinks of the film. Disney Pixar’s Inside Out was the perfect film to open this past Father’s Day weekend don’t you think? All of the frustrations and challenges a parent faces while their child grows up in front of their eyes is summed up pretty well. It is sure to be an emotional roller coaster for a lot of families as well as the perfect opportunity to bond and bring up some emotional topics about feelings.

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Onto our conversation with Kyle! We jumped right into the good stuff and asked him, What identities would control you?

Kyle replied with, “What would they be, controlling me?  It would be, Wino would be one.  He controls me after 6.  I don’t know if Pete Doctor and Jonas and those guys thought of that one, and it maybe not appropriate for Riley, for that maybe.  Coffee would be another one.They’re pretty much the same.  Don’t you think? I would put underneath that Silliness, just because that’s just kind of my nature. The rest of them would be secondary.”

Next he told us about being a Dad and how much of the character he was able to bring on-screen because this was kind of normal character departure from what he normally plays. “It was fun to do this guy, being a Dad myself, I was able to bring a little bit of my relationship with my son in and it was encouraged actually by Pete and Jonas and Ronnie, they wanted my personality so I was happy to try different things.  Some worked, most didn’t but it’s always good to throw them out there just as ideas. But the process is strange because you’re sitting with a Microphone and you don’t have anything visually to work off  of and Pete would feed me all the information of what was happening in the scene and I would read it and go into my head and play it out in my head so it was like I was shooting my own little Movie as I was saying the words; walking into the room, sitting down on the edge of the bed and saying things got a little hand, you start asking questions like, would I say that from the doorway or would I knock? You begin to put it together in your brain; let me try it this way and then let me try it starting it here.” He found the process rather fascinating.

“Most people I think would be bored to tears but I love just how to interpret those words, in the most interesting way, hopefully that’s the difference between doing it in front of the camera where you’re actually just walking through it and you can feel it yourself to just playing it out in your head as you go.”

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Kyle’s son will be 7 next month, has he seen the movie yet?

He’s seen the trailers on it like the Dinner scene. “He loved the Dinner Scene.  He says, the foot is down, the foot.  He loves that part. He’s seen a couple moments but, I’ll take him to see it at some point this summer.” This was followed by asking if he feels like he can see the emotions in his son’s head?  

“I totally see it in him. He’s coming up on 7 so they’re still trying to figure out how they all work together.  Joy is the dominant one for him as well but he can bring in some disgust with attitude, which I’m sure he’s picked up at school.  He definitely, has this silly gene from me. That comes from my Grandmother in fact. You begin to see and recognize, not only in him but in other people as well. I was doing an interview earlier where the Writer said, why don’t you take your hand off the Anger button to his son. I was like OK, so maybe this will enter our consciousness in a whole different way.”

WHAT ARE THEY THINKING? -- Pixar Animation Studios takes audiences inside the mind of 11-year-old Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Guided by her five Emotions - Joy (voice of Amy Poehler), Sadness (voice of Phyllis Smith), Fear (voice of Bill Hader), Disgust (voice of Mindy Kaling) and Anger (voice of Lewis Black) - Riley struggles to adjust, and when Fear, Disgust and Anger are left in control, even a simple family dinner takes an unexpected turn. Also featuring the voices of Diane Lane as Mom, Kaitlyn Dias as Riley and Kyle MacLachlan as Dad, Disney•Pixar's "Inside Out" opens in theaters nationwide June 19, 2015. ©2014 Disney•Pixar. All Rights Reserved.

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We a were all very curious to find out what the difference between Voice Acting and Standard Acting was like?  Could you relax in Voice Acting?

He told us, “Going to work as an Actor, they sort of tell you what time, they pick you up sometimes, they feed you, they tell you what to wear.  They tell you what to say.  They tell you where to stand.  They tell you when to stop, they tell you when to go.  They tell you where to sit and you’re waiting.  They tell you where to eat lunch.  So it’s pretty nice not to have to do a whole lot. Voice Acting is nice because, there’s not a Camera that you have to be aware of necessarily. Although they did film all of the stuff that I was doing just to capture the physical gestures and mannerisms and a little bit to incorporate I think in the role or in the drawings. But it’s different, challenging, because as I said earlier, I run the scene in my head so I’m recreating, cause I don’t see all the stuff.  It’s sort of described, he’s at the door, he’s at the bed.  I’m like, when does he get there?  How does that work and when is his line when you reach out and touch your hair, would you like pat our hand?  All that is running in my head as I’m doing it, trying to recreate it up here.  And that takes–  You get exhausted doing that actually.  But there’s only 2 hour sessions so that was OK, yeah.”

INSIDE OUT - Pictured (L-R): Riley's Mom, Riley Andersen, Riley's Dad. ©2015 Disney•Pixar. All Rights Reserved.

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An Insiders Look Into Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out! #InsideOutEvent

An Insiders Look Into Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out!

By Erin

The big day has finally arrived! Inside Out is here to enter the minds and hearts of all who see it. I just cannot say enough good things about this film; it’s the feel good movie of the summer, and it’s still technically a couple of days until summer is officially here. But it’s just that good, so I’m going to pretend it’s summertime already. Adorably inventive, gorgeously animated, and powerfully moving, Inside Out is another  jewel to add to the Pixar library.

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Centered around 11-year-old Riley, the movie follows this spirited and goofy young girl, as her dad’s new job in San Francisco uproots the family from the Midwest (Minnesota). To help her navigate through this change are her emotions: Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling), and Sadness (Phyllis Smith).

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The control center inside 11-year-old Riley’s mind, is called Headquarters and it is where five Emotions are hard at work, led by lighthearted optimist Joy, whose mission is to make sure Riley stays happy. Fear heads up safety, Anger ensures all is fair and Disgust prevents Riley from getting poisoned, both physically and socially. Sadness isn’t sure really what her role is, and frankly, neither is anyone else. “The Emotions are kind of like the voices in our heads,” says director Pete Docter. “Everybody has a default temperament. We all go through periods of being happy or sad, but certain people are just happy or angry or what have you. Riley is one of those happy kids. So Joy had to be the first Emotion to show up, and she has a very special bond with Riley.” But when Joy and Sadness are accidentally swept into the far reaches of Riley’s mind, taking some of her core memories with them; Fear, Anger and Disgust are left in charge, and all sorts of crazy things start happening.

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Joy and Sadness venture along through Long Term Memory, Imagination Land, Abstract Thought and Dream Productions all in a dire effort to get back to Headquarters before it’s too late. On this adventure you will meet many colorful characters, including the Forgetters, who are Mind Workers in charge of sorting Riley’s memories, to Riley’s forgotten imaginary friend named Bing Bong, (whom I just adored, and I am sure you will too! Bing-Bong! Bing-Bong! Bing-Bong!) is part cat, part elephant, but mostly cotton candy. He’s desperately trying to find a way to make Riley remember him. Filled with lovable and memorable characters, making it a fun movie for all.

You will learn a lot about Riley’s Islands of Personality in the film. They are powered by core memories, which are all of the really important and significant times in Riley’s life. Core Memories are those things that you’ll think about or remember until your last days. It’s those big moments that have led us to be who we are. Each Island defines a different aspect of Riley’s personality: Hockey Island, Friendship Island, Family Island, Goofball Island, and Honesty Island.

Of course I don’t want to ruin it for you and give away the ending or all of the little details that make this such a wonderful and enjoyable film, so I will leave you with a few fun facts about Inside Out.

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