Free ‘Epic Mickey’ App for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch by Disney Publishing Worldwide Now Available
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Disney Publishing Worldwide has released the ‘Epic Mickey’ universal iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch app to support the release of the upcoming game. The free app includes the first of six DigiComics with the rest offered as an in-app purchase bundle for $2.99. The official description is as follows:
Welcome to Wasteland! Visit directly on your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad the world where long-forgotten Disney icons of animation can find new life inspired by the Disney Epic Mickey videogame.
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Select one of the six Disney Epic Mickey – Tales of Wasteland Digicomics and discover Disney Epic Mickey’s world in a prequel to the videogame storyline. Read it on autoplay or tap into the panels to move throughout the page. Downloading the Disney Epic Mickey app, costumers will in plus have the chance to take a look at the map of Wasteland, the trailer of the videogame and the character files.
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~ Includes the 6 Disney Epic Mickey – Tales of Wasteland digicomics: 1 digicomics for free and 5 digicomics bundle for just 2.99$
~ Read your digicomics, bookmark them and share them with your friends
~ Discover the characters section and read about Disney Epic Mickey’s main icons
~ Offers also the map of Wasteland, the character files and the videogame trailer
~ To be updated with additional amazing contents
To download Epic Mickey or for more information, click here. For the largest assembled and searchable directory of official Disney and Disney Parks related apps, check out our iPhone/iPad app guide.
Categories: iPhone Apps, Publishing Tags: App, Epic Mickey, iPad, iPhone
Winnie the Pooh Receives His Own Storybook and Activity iPhone/iPad App from Disney Publishing Worldwide
Winnie the Pooh, the beloved Disney character, will star in his first ever book-based app with the release of the “Winnie the Pooh: What’s a Bear to Do?” Puzzle Book App on the App Store. The universal app, Disney Publishing’s first, delivers an immersive and interactive reading experience for preschoolers on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
On the heels of launching four critically acclaimed apps for iPad — “Toy Story,” “Toy Story 2,” “Toy Story 3” and “The Princess and the Frog,” — Disney Publishing has added new layers of interactivity to “Winnie the Pooh: What’s a Bear to Do?” and has optimized the app’s content to run on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
Pooh’s tummy is rumbly, but his yummy honey is hiding – children can read along and help their favorite stuffed bear find his missing honey pots, and complete fun and challenging puzzles along the way in this fully immersive and interactive reading experience packed with tap ‘n’ play surprises, silly sound effects, the ability for children to record their own narration and explore at their own pace.
“Winnie the Pooh is the perfect way to bring our digital book apps to the growing audience of preschoolers using their parents’ iPad, iPhone or iPod touch,” said Lyle Underkoffler, Vice President, Digital, Disney Publishing Worldwide. “We are thrilled to deliver our first universal app that brings to life so many cutting edge features across iOS devices.”
“Winnie the Pooh: What’s a Bear to Do?” Puzzle Book App highlights:
- Delightful illustrations, professional narration, sound effects, and beloved Winnie the Pooh background music.
- Parents can record their voice or their child’s voice reading the story and hear it played back as narration.
- Three reading modes to suit the child’s mood: Read to Me, Use My Recording, and Auto Turn Pages.
- Four interactive jigsaw puzzles combine a classic play pattern with a contemporary twist.
- Tap ‘n’ Play surprises throughout the story.
- Pooh’s Cupboard matching game ties in to the story and reinforces color recognition.
- Visual Index allows children to jump to their favorite page or puzzle.
For more information or to purchase the “Winnie the Pooh: What’s a Bear to Do?” Puzzle Book universal app for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad, click here.
Don’t forget to visit our fully searchable and sortable categorized listing of hundreds of Disney apps for the iPhone and iPad here.
Categories: iPhone Apps, Uncategorized Tags: App, iPad, iPhone, Winnie-the-Pooh, WTP
Save Big on Disney’s Read-Along Apps for iPad for a Limited Time Only
For a limited time only, iPad owners can purchase a copy of Disney Publishing’s Toy Story 2 and The Princess and the Frog Read-Along Apps for just $3.99 each, more than 50% off the original price. Plus each user that purchases one of the apps is entitled to one month free to Disney Digital Books, an online library of hundreds of Disney book classics and original titles featuring Disney’s most popular characters, a value alone of $8.95.
Each of the highly-rated Disney Read-Along apps for iPad give children a fully interactive reading experience packed with exciting games, sing-along tunes, multi-touch surprises, puzzles, and coloring pages. Children can hear the story read aloud, record their own narration or simply explore at their own pace.
Both read-along apps feature the following highlights:
- Cinematic, interactive storybook apps featuring characters from Toy Story 2 and Princess and the Frog.
- Two interactive reading modes allow kids to follow along as the story is read aloud, or explore at their own pace. Children can also select ‘Younger Reading Mode’ to simplify page turning.
- Children can play exciting games based on scenes from Toy Story 2 and Princess and the Frog. Kids can watch Woody soar above the town, help him to safety in “Hang Glider,” and have a blast with Buzz as they overcome thrilling obstacles in “Falling with Style.” Children can also discover their fortune with a mystifying interactive card game, or help Tiana and Naveen escape the bayou by catching fireflies in Princess and the Frog.
- Children can record their voice reading the story and hear it played back as narration.
- Children can tap characters and objects for sound effects and fun surprises.
- An interactive coloring feature that lets kids finger-paint and share their masterpieces with friends and family.
- Kids can sing along to songs from the movie.
- A visual page index allows kids the ability to jump to their favorite page.
- Children can turn pages manually and move back and forth through the story as they wish.
For more information or to purchase the apps, check out Toy Story 2 Read-Along or Princess and the Frog Read-Along for the iPad.
Categories: iPhone Apps Tags: App, Discount, iPad, PATF, Princess and the Frog, Tiana, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, TS, TS2
Report: Disney to Release Revolutionary iPad App That Synchronizes with Television Broadcasts
The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Disney is teaming up with Nielsen to produce an app for the iPad which will allow the app to provide content in real-time along with the broadcast of its new drama ‘My Generation.’
According to the article, the app will provide interactive opportunities for the viewer who will be able to participate in polls, trivia, twitter feeds and the like, all in relation to the specific program they are watching, whenever they are watching it. The app takes advantage of technology developed by Nielsen called audio watermarking in which the app’s content is triggered by audio cues from the television program through the iPad’s built-in microphone, which means the app will work even if the viewer is watching the show on a DVR.
The app is expected to be released tonight in anticipation of the series premiere of ‘My Generation’ on Thursday, September 23.
Categories: iPhone Apps, Television Tags: ABC, App, iPad, My Generation
‘Toy Story 3: Operation Camouflage’ Released for iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad
Title: Toy Story 3: Operation Camouflage (link)
Publisher: Disney
Released: August 26, 2010
Cost: $1.99
Device: iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad
Description:
Code Red Soldier! Operation Camouflage: Execute! Let’s Move, Move, Move!
Heads up recruit, it’s time for Recon Basic Training! Your mission is to find top secret items camouflaged throughout Andy’s Room, Bonnie’s Room and Sunnyside Daycare. Only the best of the best can find them all. Are you up for the task soldier?
Operation Camouflage has 20 missions throughout four locations: Andy’s Room, Bonnie’s Room, Caterpillar Room and Butterfly Room!
For more information or to purchase this app, click here. For our extensive searchable and sortable database of hundreds of official and unofficial Disney apps, click here.
Categories: iPhone Apps, Video Games Tags: App, iPad, iPhone, Toy Story, Toy Story 3, TS, TS3
Highly-Rated Undercover Tourist Walt Disney World iPhone App Now Free for a Limited Time
Recently featured in Travel + Leisure, recognized by Apple’s iTunes team and highly rated amongst its customers, everyone now has a rare opportunity to pick up the best-selling Disney World Wait Times, Dining and Maps by Undercover Tourist for free thanks to the FreeAppADay project.
Features of the app include:
- Detailed Maps and GPS Locator – Enjoy accurate wait times, integrated in real-time, with park maps for Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney’s Animal Kingdom. All of these locations can be found in just one App!
- Real-Time Data Points – Save time with over 2,000,000 wait time data points, all enhanced by real-time user submissions.
- Rides – Pre-plan with detailed information, including photos, descriptions, ratings and height / age requirements. The App filters the rides by age, family and Fast Pass. It also allows for rides to be added to your touring plan and marked as one of your favorites.
- Disney Dining – Cruise through menus for Disney World and Downtown Disney restaurants with new Disney World Resort restaurants added weekly to the App. Restaurant ratings, cuisine, cost and photos are also at your fingertips and can be added to your Favorites list or inserted into your Activities Scheduler.
- Export and Import Scheduling Information – You can plan your entire day at the Walt Disney World Theme Parks. The Schedule can also be e-mailed to your
family and friends. - Planner – You can see opening hours, parade times, recommended parks and other special events up to 10 days in advance.
- Traffic Light System – You can choose the best parks and rides with the lowest crowds for each day of your trip.
- GPS Tools – After a long day at the parks, you can locate your vehicle, yourself or members of your group … fast.
- Ticket Purchase – You will have the exclusive ability on mobile to purchase discount attraction tickets through Undercover Tourist, the most trusted name in discount attraction tickets.
- Ticket Copy – You can take pictures of all your theme park tickets to keep track of everyone’s tickets in your group. Note: This feature is not a guarantee for having your tickets reissued. Officially, theme parks do not have to reissue lost tickets; it remains at their sole discretion, so be sure to be careful!
- Play a Game – You can pass time while waiting with a fun tile match memory game for kids of all ages.
- Functionality – Full functional with any iPhone having network coverage, including offline capabilities for iPod Touches, including full maps and ride information.
To get your copy of the app (normally $3.99) click here or visit the Stitch Kingdom iPhone App guide.
In addition to the app being free for a limited time, Undercover Tourist, which is an authorized ticket broker for Walt Disney World and Universal Studios Orlando, still has limited tickets available at the pre-August price. Click here for more information.
Categories: iPhone Apps, Walt Disney World Tags: App, Discount
StarGreetz: Want a Custom, Personalized Message from Your Favorite Disney Character? There’s an App for That.
StarGreetz, Inc., a company specializing in personalized phone messages from celebrities (fictional and not), launched their iPhone App today, aptly titled StarGreetz.
As of the time of this writing, NFL Philadelphia Eagles player Brandon Graham stands alone as the only actual human lending his voice to the message service, the rest of the contributors are some of the most popular Disney characters of all time. Disney/Pixar characters such as Sheriff Woody and Doc Hudson and Nightmare Before Christmas’ Jack Skellington join classic Disney favorites such as Cinderella, Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Donald Duck and even Minnie Mouse (with more on the way).
Between the lot is a virtually endless number of configurable greetings, ringtones and alerts, all of which feature the character addressing the recipient by name. The list of names is pretty extensive, but in the event your (or the recipient’s) name isn’t available, there doesn’t appear to be any generic way to address the individual or skip it altogether. Once you manage to configure your desired message, you can preview the full message at no cost to you before you decide to purchase. If you decide to purchase through the app, once iTunes authorizes the charge, you are provided the opportunity to email the purchase to yourself (or whomever you wish). Although this is the most convenient method of purchasing, it also reveals the biggest shortcoming with the process in that the email simply contains a direct link to an .MP3 file. While the intent is to use iTunes (or whichever method your mobile phone uses to receive music files) to sync the message to your iPhone, in most cases, the message will simply start playing in your browser with no apparent way to save it. Thus it will require some technical know-how to get around this issue. I couldn’t figure out how to save the message even when opening the email directly on my iPhone. That said, it should be a relatively simple fix on StarGreetz’s end to make it easier to use the program, but there’s no question it can be a potential showstopper for many. I also managed to quickly spot a typo in the app which is simple aesthetic as the message itself was fine.
The positives, however, greatly outweigh the negatives. This is a quick, easy and fun way to have your favorite characters (if they’re included) create a very customizable, personal greeting or ringtone for you or your loved ones. You obviously won’t be getting Tom Hanks as Woody, but the voices are all pretty darn good, using talent approved by Disney. And the bottom line is it won’t cost you anything to download the app and try it out.
While the app itself is free, as is sampling the selected message choices (as well as online), there is an in-app charge of $2.99 per message charged through iTunes, so it can get very addictive and expensive fast. Consider yourself warned. The website also charges $2.99 per message and delivers them through SMS (with the regular restrictions, details available on their website) — the app is definitely a much easier method of exploring, testing and purchasing the messages.
Although StarGreetz is currently available only online and on the iPhone, the company has plans to release native apps for the Android, Blackberry and other devices soon.
To download the StarGreetz app, click here.
Categories: iPhone Apps, Pixar Tags: App, StarGreetz
Disney Publishing Worldwide Launches International Editions of ‘Toy Story’ iPad App
On the heels of the success and industry recognition in the U.S. for its innovative format with the recently launched “Toy Story 3” app as well as with its “Toy Story,” “Toy Story 2,” and “The Princess and the Frog” read-along apps, Disney Publishing Worldwide has created its first ever international versions of the “Toy Story” read-along app for iPad.
Launching on July 20th in France, Germany, Italy and Spain, the “Toy Story” apps will each feature songs and movie clips in French, German, Italian and Spanish. The app will have special promotional pricing for a limited time at €2.99 through August 31st; pricing will then shift to €6.99. The Disney-Pixar feature film Toy Story 3 will launch in Europe throughout late July.
“Disney Publishing’s Storybook apps have seen tremendous consumer success and have been critically lauded for their amazing graphics and wide array of interactive features,” said Russell Hampton, president, Disney Publishing Worldwide. “We are pleased to deliver original Toy Story content for iPad to kids and families across Europe and look forward to similar success in these countries.”
Toy Story iPad App Highlights:
- This cinematic, interactive storybook app features Buzz, Woody, and the gang from Toy Story.
- Two interactive reading modes allow kids to follow along as the story is read aloud, or explore at their own pace. Children can also select ‘Younger Reading Mode’ to simplify page turning.
- Children can record their voice reading the story and hear it played back as narration.
- Children can tap characters and objects for sound effects and fun surprises.
- An interactive coloring feature that lets kids finger-paint and share their masterpieces with friends and family.
- Kids can sing along in French, German, Italian and Spanish to songs from the movie.
- A visual page index allows kids the ability to jump to their favorite page.
- Children can turn pages manually and move back and forth through the story as they wish.
Categories: iPhone Apps, Pixar, Publishing Tags: App, DPW, iPad, Toy Story, TS
ABC News Releases Innovative Application for iPad
ABC News today announced the release of a new application for the Apple iPad, available in the Apple App Store. The new application takes full advantage of the form and functionality of the iPad, using as the principal navigation tool a unique interactive three dimensional globe on which news stories appear. The launch of the ABC News iPad app marks the second time in recent months that the Disney/ABC Television Group has created an innovative video offering for the new platform. In April, DATG became the first to bring ad-supported video to the iPad via the acclaimed ABC Player app which has proven to be tremendously successful, with more than 928,000 downloads and 5.9 million episodes started in just over three months.
With the unique three dimensional interface, users can spin the ABC News globe by touching the face of the iPad and then can choose the stories of most interest to them (ABC News iPad Demo Video). Users are able to define the sorts of stories that populate their ABC News globe on the iPad, from politics, health, entertainment and more. ABC News’ library of archival footage is available as an option for users to explore “This Month in History.” Users can set up their globe to include stories from “Good Morning America, “World News with Diane Sawyer,” “Nightline,” “20/20″ and “This Week,” can select stories to be bookmarked and viewed later, and can share the stories they select with friends through Facebook, Twitter or email.
The ABCNEWS.com site is also now optimized in HTML5 and is available on the iPad with full functionality for all features, including video. At launch, the ABC News application is sponsored by the Jeep(r) Brand and Truvia(tm) natural sweetener.
“ABC News continues to leverage technology to tell the stories no one else can, and this innovative new app is the next step in our effort to redefine broadcast journalism for today’s consumer,” said Anne Sweeney, co-chair Disney Media Networks and president, Disney/ABC Television Group. “Paired with ABC’s hugely successful entertainment app, our newest addition gives consumers the best in news and primetime programming on a very powerful and popular platform.”
“We’re excited to provide Apple iPad users with a unique news application that features the best of ABC News reporting and takes full advantage of what the iPad has to offer to news consumers in an exciting and imaginative way,” said David Westin, president, ABC News.
ABC News App for iPad is available now from the App Store or at www.itunes.com/appstore. For more details and to see a demo of the ABC News app on the iPad, go to www.abcnews.com/ipad.
Categories: iPhone Apps, Television Tags: ABC, ABC News, App, iPad
Disney Interactive Media Group Acquires iPhone Veteran Developer Tapulous
The Walt Disney Company today announced the acquisition of Palo Alto-based Tapulous, Inc., a leading developer of music games for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. Through a merger agreement, Tapulous is now a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company reporting into Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG).
Tapulous is a leading mobile games developer whose flagship title Tap Tap Revenge has been installed by more than 30% of iPhone/iPod touch users and remains one of the most successful gaming franchises on the iPhone platform. The company’s other popular games include the wildly innovative Riddim Ribbon and Tap Tap Radiation, the #1 game on the iPad at launch.
“Tapulous has been on the leading-edge of mobile gaming. By joining Disney, we will be able to continue to excel in this evolving industry and more quickly realize our vision to lead the mobile, social entertainment revolution”
As a part of DIMG’s mobile games group, Tapulous strengthens the company’s portfolio of games and entertainment offerings in the fast-growing mobile arena. Through this deal, Tapulous founders, Bart Decrem and Andrew Lacy, as well as their development team in Palo Alto, CA will be joining DIMG’s mobile content group. Decrem and Lacy, previously CEO and COO of Tapulous, will now take on the leadership roles for the DIMG mobile group with Decrem reporting to DIMG President Steve Wadsworth.
“Mobile gaming is seeing unprecedented growth and this is the right time to invest to strengthen our position in the mobile business,” said Wadsworth. “In a short time, Bart and Andrew have built Tapulous into a successful and accomplished mobile games developer that’s emerged as one of the most successful companies in the industry. We welcome the Tapulous team to the Disney family and look forward to integrating their popular games into Disney’s offerings.”
In the last year, DIMG has enjoyed many successes in its mobile business counting several “platinum” performing apps with more than 1 million downloads including Disney’s Alice in Wonderland Lite, Fairies Fly Lite and JellyCar 2, which is Disney’s most successful premium game in the app store to date. In addition, DIMG creates and delivers unique mobile content and manages a Disney-branded mobile phone service in Japan in association with Softbank.
“Tapulous has been on the leading-edge of mobile gaming. By joining Disney, we will be able to continue to excel in this evolving industry and more quickly realize our vision to lead the mobile, social entertainment revolution,” said Decrem. “With Disney’s powerful breadth of content and heritage in technological innovation, they are the perfect partner for Tapulous. It is a true honor to join the Disney team.”
Categories: Business, iPhone Apps, Video Games Tags: App, iPhone, Tap Tap Revenge, Tapulous
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