@DisneyStory Adds Premium Animated Disney Themes, Music and More to Disney’s Story App! @DisneyInteract

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New Update Brings Premium Animated Disney Themes, Music and More to Disney’s Story App
Awesome News! Have you tried the Disney Story App yet? If you have not, please check it out. You will love it, I promise! I cannot wait to add more stories to my app. I have so much to tell #yourstotell. You can check out how to get started right here! Now it’s even BETTER!!! Through an app update, Disney Interactive today introduced new premium animated Disney themes, music functionalities, an improved viewing experience and more robust sharing features  to Story, a free digital storytelling platform for iPhone and iPod touch that turns photography and video into compelling personal narratives.
Using intuitive technology to access the photo and video library on your device and automatically organizes them into rich digital experiences which can be personalized, saved and shared.  This empowers users to focus on the customization and personalization of their narratives rather than aggregation and organization of their content, which truly sets Story apart from other multi-media sharing apps. Disney has been telling stories for generations, and now Story can help you tell yours.
Story Feature Updates:
·         Premium Animated Disney Themes: Exclusive to the Story app, now you can customize your stories with collectable animated Disney Themes available for in-app purchase ($1.99). These new Disney Themes include Disneyland Resort, “Cars,” “The Little Mermaid,” Mickey Paris (Free), and ESPN’s SportsCenter. The new Mickey Paris theme is complementary and can be downloaded for free.
·         Music: Add a soundtrack to your Story with pre-installed songs from our Story music library, including Disney music classics from Toy Story, Up, Finding Nemo and more.
·         More Immersive Viewing Experience: Our new video slideshow brings your storytelling to life with updated transitions dynamically tailored to your moments. And now, shared stories can be viewed directly in the Story app.
·         Enhanced Sharing: Share your storytelling with our simple in-app tools that support today’s popular social networks like Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter… as well as our streamlined e-mail service for sharing directly with friends and family.
·         Better Facebook Compatibility: Our new Facebook integration lets you to tag photos, allow comments (web view) and invite others to download Story to join in the fun.

To celebrate this magical update, Disney Interactive will be giving away iTunes gift cards on the Disney Interactive Twitter account (@DisneyInteract) so a few lucky winners can download all the new premium Disney themes! Visit the Disney Interactive blog (tumblr.disneyinteractive.com) for more info about how to enter.


13 Fun Facts About Six Flags Great Adventure’s Fright Fest 2013

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13 Fun Facts 
About Six Flags Great Adventure’s 
Fright Fest 2013

 Six Flags Great Adventure’s Fright Fest features four more weeks of “thrills by day, fright by night.” The world’s largest scream park operates Friday nights, Saturdays and Sundays plus Columbus Day through October 27.  Twenty-five Halloween-themed shows and attractions, including four new additions, enhance the park’s world-class lineup of thrill rides for all ages, but did you know…

1.      It’s all about the zombies. 200 zombies terrorize the park after 6 p.m., and can be found angrily wandering the midways or stalking guests in terror trails and haunted houses.

2.      There are seven master makeup artists who use 1,500 ounces of airbrush makeup and fake blood to transform 200 actors, students, parents and business professionals into flesh-hungry zombies each night.

3.      Things that go bump in the night: Fright Fest zombies use shovels, chainsaws, clown horns and metal cans filled with marbles to amp up the startle factor on the midways.

4.      Special effects supervisor Tony Mandile creates 600 latex foam facial prosthetics from scratch, and each is used only once.  At the end of the night, they are discarded and new ones are created every week.

5.      Team members travel from as far as Maryland and Connecticut each weekend to perform as a Fright Fest zombie.

6.      Not to be corny, but Fright Fest requires 1,500 bunches of corn stalks to complete the corn mazes and festive park décor.

7.      The Bloody Fountain is colored by eight pounds of food-grade, red vegetable dye.

8.      Six Flags Great Adventure’s landscape department uses eight tons (16,000 lbs.) of pumpkins and gourds, 2,300 mums and 700 bales of hay to create beautiful fall scenes for “thrills by day.”

9.      Spiders galore! It takes 1,200 pounds of beef tube webbing to transform the theme park into a scream park.

10.    The creepy, hazy ambience of Fright Fest is thanks to 1,210 gallons of “fog juice” to create the mysterious, rising fog, plus 24,500 lbs. of CO2 and 4,480 liters of liquid CO2 to create the “dry ice” effect of low-level fog during “fright by night.”

11.    35,200 lbs. of propane are required to illuminate the spooky flame columns in the heart of the park.

12.    While summer is known for theme parks and thrills, Fright Fest is actually the most popular time of the year at Six Flags Great Adventure.

13.    In addition to zombies, thrill rides are a main attraction during Fright Fest.  Guests can’t resist a spin on their favorite world-class coaster in the dark like El Toro, Nitro and Kingda Ka.

Giveaway: Fathom Events: Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure! October 10th 7:30 You Choose The Cinema!

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Giveaway: Fathom Events: Vermeer and Music: 
The Art of Love and Leisure! 
October 10th 7:30 You Choose The Cinema!
Who Loves Vermeer?
Something you may not know about me is that I have a deep love of the arts. After getting a degree in a local college for art, I continued on to be trained at the NYC Arts Students League with many hours of painting everything and anything. Along the way I totally fell in many artists including Vermeer. It was wonderful to visit the Louvre, Paris and see a variety of paintings first hand. But that was years ago. For me, Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure is a dream come true. If you fancy the arts as I do, just fill out the form below and join us! The lucky winners will be chosen on Monday and contacted by mail with hard copy tickets. See you there!

Fathom Events and BY Experience are coming together again to celebrate some of the greatest artists of all time in a series of special one night events. For the first time ever, celebrate the art and life of Johannes Vermeer’s subjects as he captured the 17th century in Vermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure on screen only on Thursday, October 10th at 7:30 PM in select cinemas nationwide.  To enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets, click on this link and select your preferred theater location in the Tri-State area http://tinyurl.com/VermeerNYC.  Winners will be notified by Monday.  For more information or to purchase tickets to this special one time only event, go tohttp://www.fathomevents.com/#!exhibition-great-art-on-screen


Giveaway: Just enter on this link! Choose 3decades3kids and choose the location you would like to see the movie at! It’s SO easy! Good Luck! Winner chosen on Monday. Winner will be notified by mail with hard copy tickets to the event chosen! http://tinyurl.com/VermeerNYC.

Disclosure: Tickets provided by Fathom Events. All opinions are that of Diane Sullivan.
Contact me at ELGeorgia@aol.com or on twitter .@3decades3kids.


Giveaway: The Great Pumpkin Train Starts This Weekend We Have A Family 4 Pack of Tix Just For You! #NJ

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Giveaway: The Great Pumpkin Train
Starts This Weekend
We Have A Family 4 Pack of Tix Just For You!

The Great Pumpkin Train runs from October 5th  to the end of October, weekends.
Ride our steam train through the beautiful fall landscape of Western New Jersey. Take the train to the pumpkin patch located in a little glade in front of the historic Carpentersville Lime Kilns dating from the 1700’s.
Once we arrive at the Pumpkin Patch everyone is welcome to get off the train and EVERY CHILD can pick their own pumpkin forFREE.
For more family fun add
the CORN MAZE & OLE’ SUSQUEHANNA MINING COMPANY (for an additional charge) experience to your Pumpkin Train ride!
trains leave 11 AM, 12:30, 2 ,OR 3:30 Saturdays or Sundays.

Giveaway: The Croods on DVD/blu-ray/digital HD (4 Winners) @TheCroodsfilm #TheCroods

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Giveaway: The Croods
on DVD/Blu-ray/Digital HD
4 Winners!!
Our family has been waiting for The Croods to be released on DVD/Blu-ray ever since we
first had the chance to attend the red carpet NYC premiere. The movie was awesome and definitely something we want to add to part of our family movie collection. The Croods is a prehistoric comedy adventure that follows the world’s first family as they embark on a journey of a lifetime when the cave that has always shielded them from danger is destroyed.  Traveling across a spectacular landscape, the Croods discover an incredible new world filled with fantastic creatures — and their outlook is changed forever. Cast: Nicolas Cage, Ryan Reynolds, Emma Stone, Catherine Keener, Clark Duke, Cloris Leachman.
Red Carpet NYC Premiere of The Croods.
Meeting up with Emma Stone from The Croods.

GIVEAWAY

We have FOUR copies on The Croods DVD/blu-ray/Digital HD to give away to some lucky

3decades3kids readers. Enter below on Rafflecopter.

Winners chosen October 10th at 11:59pm and contacted by email.

Winners will have 24 hours to respond and claim prize before new winners are chosen.

18+/USA. Thank you and good luck. Disclosure: Review/Giveaway copies provided by The 

 Croods/DreamworksAnimation. Enter below on Rafflecopter. Contact Diane Sullivan at ElGeorgia@aol.com

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