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  • Google Home Brings Disney Interactive Hands-Free Family Fun

    Google Home Brings Disney Interactive Hands-Free Family Fun

    Oh, boy! Gather up your pals for a Mickey Mouse Adventure on Google Home. Now you can invite Mickey Mouse right into your home!

    Help Mickey make all the choices as he navigates across a busy city to get to his magic show performance on time. Should he take a taxi or the subway? Ride a moped or surf the tunnels? Go left or right? If he makes it on time, you may even get to assist him in the magic show! The fun never stops with Mickey Mouse Adventure.

    To play with Mickey Mouse on Google Home, just say “Hey Google, play Mickey Mouse Adventure”. Check out the video below.

    Google Home is a Wi-Fi speaker that also works as a smarthome control centre and an assistant for the whole family. You can use it to playback entertainment throughout your entire home, effortlessly manage everyday tasks, and ask Google things you want to know.

    You can also play along with a “Cars Adventure,” feature with favorites Mater and Lightning McQueen.

    In Cars Adventure, players can play “drive-and-seek” through Radiator Springs with Lightning and Mater. The story can take you to either Flo’s V8 Cafe or Sarge’s Surplus Hut. Choices in this game are made through voice commands as with Mickey Mouse Adventure, and can lead to possibilities like racing with Cruz Ramirez, driving through Carburetor Canyon, or even tractor tipping!

    Yes it can set appointments for you and turn on your lights, but its got plenty of Disney Magic integrated into it perfect for the ultimate Disney Dork.  The speaker is great story teller too and it can now be asked to retell classic fairy tales, including “Snow White” and “Cinderella”.

    Children under 13 can also have their own personalized Google Assistant experience when they log in with their own account, powered by Family Link.

  • Disney’s ‘Made with Magic’ Ear Hat 3.0 can now “Glow at Home”

    Disney’s ‘Made with Magic’ Ear Hat 3.0 can now “Glow at Home”

    Made with Magic 3.0 Ear Hats are now available from shopDisney.com . This new version of the Made with Magic hat allows users to control the hat from their phone as well as “Glow at Home” during select performances throughout the ABC holiday specials.

    Made with Magic Ears

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    Here’s how they work. First, you’ll need to purchase the special 3.0 ears. Next, you’ll need to download the Shop Disney Parks app. When you turn on your TV to watch select performances, you will be able to“Glow at Home” along with the show courtesy of Bluetooth technology that then allows viewers at home to interact with their TV. The app lets users sync with the audio from the special interactive Made with Magic events.

    You must order your new ear hat by November 20 in order to have it arrive at your home in time for the Nov. 30 television special.

    To demonstrate this new home use, the app will sync with ABC’s The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration on November 30th at 9PM EST to “complete the event experience with a glowing, synchronized display.” The same synchronization will be available during the broadcast of the Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade on December 25th.

  • Star Wars: Han Solo Grew a Beard After ‘Return of the Jedi’

    Star Wars: Han Solo Grew a Beard After ‘Return of the Jedi’

    This Friday when Star Wars Battlefront II is released fans will get their first chance to find out what happened to their favorite characters after Return of the Jedi.  This time the game comes with a campaign mode which will offer fans the chance to explore these storylines first hand.

    One of the missions features the Star Wars galaxy’s most infamous smuggler Han Solo, and his grooming habits have notably changed. That’s right, Han Solo has a new beard in the game.

    Warning: Minor spoilers for Battlefront II below.

    While we already know Luke Skywalker also plays a major role in the campaign, which tees off the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in a major way, Han Solo’s mission ties into an issue that stems from the prequel trilogy.

    After destroying the second Death Star’s shield generator on Endor, Han decided to help out his best friend and co-pilot Chewbacca in his attempts to rid the Imperial presence on the wookie’s home planet of Kashyyyk. But he needs information first.

    Han travels to Takodana and meets Maz Kanata in her castle, where she’s serving drinks to some of the best and brightest scum in the galaxy. So when Han says he goes way back with Maz in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, he means it.

    Maz chastises Han for not bringing Chewbacca around, and Han admits it’s because Chewie is afraid of her. He admits that they’re on Takodana to get some intel from a defecting Imperial analyst who can give them data on the Empire’s forces on Kashyyyk and Maz gets angry, warning him not to bring the Empire to her front door.

    Han meets with the analyst and, of course, things don’t go as planned, forcing the two to mount an escape while evading Stormtroopers and TIE Fighters.

    Maz, of course, doesn’t appreciate that Han did the one thing she asked him not to do, but he promises to repay her. After destroying the TIEs with the help of Rebel forces, he and Chewie embark on a quest to liberate Kashyyyk. The game jumps elsewhere at that point, treating Han’s journey as a nice diversion.

    Spoiler alert: he doesn’t keep the beard in the future.

    Star Wars Battlefront II releases on November 17.