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Hello & welcome back to Pride Rock and we continue my birthday celebration by reviewing one of the biggest animated hits that Disney has ever produced . With that out of the way, it is time to take a look at The Lion King.

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Hello & welcome back to Pride Rock. and back to the first Music Fridays since the Princess Christmas one during the first week of December. It’s been a while but stuff came up. Anyways with that out of the way, today we are taking a look at Can You Feel The Love Tonight. Which has slowly become my favorite song from The Lion King. We will look at the film version, the Broadway version, and a couple of covers. With that out of the way, let’s begin.

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Hello & welcome back to Pride Rock and today, we are taking a look at the various ways that Lion King is represented in the theme parks. Now, there are some changes to this article because they’ve been so long in the past, from now on, I am not including special occasions such as Unleash The Villains, which Scar and the Hyenas were a part of.

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Hello & welcome back to Pride Rock. Today, we are heading to the bookshelves to take a look at the tale, A Tale of Two Brothers is a prequel story about Mufasa and Scar in their youth. Now technically, this story is non-canon when it comes to The Lion King but I had been interested in it enough to review for this year’s event.

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Hello & welcome back to Pride Rock and today, we are introducing a new segment, Heroes of Disney. Heroes of Disney is the counterpart to Villains Profile, where we will look at heroes of Disney films and see what make them heroes. The categories for this segment will include Voice Actor, Personality, Song, Sidekicks, Heroic Moment, Climatic Battle, and What Makes Simba A Hero. Most of these are pretty self explanatory and I will explain them in more detail as we go along. With that out of the way, let’s begin.

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Hello & welcome back to A Look at Disney. It’s been a while but today, we are returning and with of the biggest Disney films of the ’90s. If you have followed this blog for quite some time, you know that every year for my birthday, I do a theme event. This year, we are expanding it to two weeks as we celebrate The Lion King. We are starting today by bringing back what was one of my favorite segments from Halloween, Villains Profile is back and we are starting this year’s big birthday bash by looking at the villain of The Lion King. For a fresh reminder, the categories in this segment include Voice Actor, Entrance, Personality, Grand Desire, Lackeys, Villain Song, Most Evil Deed, Demise, & finally, Is Scar A Good Villain? With that out of the way, let’s get to pouncing and start our look at The Lion King.

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Hello & welcome back to Pride Rock and today, we are introducing a new segment, Heroes of Disney. Heroes of Disney is the counterpart to Villains Profile, where we will look at heroes of Disney films and see what make them heroes. The categories for this segment will include Voice Actor, Personality, Song, Sidekicks, Heroic Moment, Climatic Battle, and What Makes Simba A Hero. Most of these are pretty self explanatory and I will explain them in more detail as we go along. With that out of the way, let’s begin.

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Starting next week, is my annual Birthday Theme. Every year for my Birthday, I do a theme Week but this year, we are starting a week early because I can’t contain my excitement for this theme to one week. Join me as from January 25th – February 6th, we will be celebrating one of the most influential Disney movies of all time. As we look at and celebrate The Lion King.

1/26/15 – Villains Profile: Scar, we start off by bringing back, the Villains Profile by looking at Scar.

1/27/15 – Heroes of Disney: Simba, The next day, we will be introducing Villains Profile’s new counterpart segment, Heroes of Disney by looking at the journey that Simba goes through and what exactly makes him a hero.

1/28/15 – The Lion King In The Parks, bringing back the In The Parks segment, we will be looking at how this film is represented in he various Disney Parks.

1/29/15 – A Tale of Two Brothers, a story book exploring the past of Scar and Mufasa.

1/30/15 – Music Fridays: Lion King Covers, pretty self explanatory.

2/2/15 – Top 6 Simba Moments, what it says it is.

2/3/15 – The Lion King Movie. Finally, on the 3rd, we will review the movie itself.

2/4/15 – Timon & Pumbaa episode review – a review of the TV spin off series.

2/5/15 – My Thoughts on The Lion Guard, my thoughts on the upcoming new Lion King TV show.

2/6/15 – Music Fridays: The Lion King Broadway songs – We will end the event by looking at my favorite songs from the Broadway adaption of The Lion King.

Hello & welcome back to A Look at Disney. Previously, I started my countdown of my favorite & least favorite Disney things from 2014. And today, I am continuing the list with numbers 4 – 1. But first, I have a few Honorable Mentions that almost made it onto the Favorites List. With that out of the way, let’s begin.

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Hello & welcome back to A Look at Disney. It’s been a while since I’ve done a countdown and Disney has had some good stuff and some not so good stuff. For the first time, this year I’m doing a Favorite & Least Favorite List of things from from 2014. I’m not calling this Best/Worst because not everything on this list is technically bad. Some are more personal and some may not disagree with me. I’ll be doing this list in two parts starting with 10 – 5. With that out of the way, let’s begin.

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Calling all musical lovers, I’m looking for your input in a massive list counting down Manic Expression’s favorite songs from musicals. This will be broken down into multiple categories. I have some stipulations. First off, the song can have been featured in a stage production first. If there was a movie adaption of the musical, I may allow the film version. Now, these are the categories that this will be broken down into. And these are some examples.

Inspirational/Uplifting: “Defying Gravity” from Wicked

Sad: Will I? from RENT

Villain: Feed Me from Little Shop of Horrors

Comedic: Agony from Into The Woods

Romantic: “Suddenly Seymour” from Little Shop of Horrors

If you are interested, send me a private message and let mew know which categories, you’d like to submit a song for and if you can, send me a YouTube link and a description of why you like this song.