Disney Buys Domain Names For Monsters Inc 2, The Tiger King and World War Robot

Posted on Thursday, July 30th, 2009 by Peter Sciretta

If you read the Friday morning edition of the Hollywood trade newspaper Variety, you will notice a story about Jerry Bruckheimer acquiring the big screen rights to IDW Publishing’s graphic novel World War Robot. But if you had looked at the recent domain records that Disney had purchased: WORLDWARROBOT-MOVIE.COM, WORLDWARROBOTMOVIE.COM, or WORLDWARROBOTTHEMOVIE.COM, you would have known about this announcement before it happened.

Jim Hill noticed that the mouse house went on a domain buying spree yesterday (July 29th), snapping up a bunch of Internet addresses for possible upcoming projects. So which projects were on the purchase list? Details after the jump.

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Cool Stuff: Pumba T-Shirt

Posted on Sunday, June 8th, 2008 by Peter Sciretta

Extreme! is selling a Puma parody t-shirt featuring everyone’s favorite Lion King character. At the time of this posting, 12.10 Euros equates to about $19 American, and who knows how much shipping.

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