Good at Fighting Dragon Ballz

In this episode we discuss The Simpsons honoring Miyazaki, Michel Gagne's new movie, a couple new trailers, another "trick" competition to scheme animators to work for free and Meryl Streep's character attack of someone long since dead at an award show for someone completely different sitting right there in the audience. It's been a weird week. We also find out that PAT IS A RAPPER. Learn something new every day.[audio:http://traffic.libsyn.com/rubberonion/the_rubber_onion-ep11-good_at_fighting_dragon_ballz.mp3|titles=The Rubber Onion - #11: "Good at Fighting Dragon Ballz"]   

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(15:31)   Michel Gagne's "Saga of Rex" becoming a movie

(22:37)   "Frozen" win Golden Globe for best Animated Feature

(27:14)   Disney to turn "Frozen"into a stage musical

(31:01)   "Monsters University" short to show before "Muppets Most Wanted"

(33:19)   "Muppets Most Wanted" trailer

(36:03)   "How to Train Your Dragon 2" trailer

(40:51)   Virtual studio Animation Libation creates "competition"... seems shady in the process

(50:45)   Dreamworks is partnering with YouTube to create a daily webseries

(53:56)   Meryl Streep rants on Disney while honoring Emma Thomson...

(57:30)   ... and the response from 1st Black animator at Disney, Floyd Norman

(1:08:10)   The Simpsons honor Miyazaki

Pat is in the orange man-thong (3rd one from the right in the thumbnail. BLOOPERS: Pat's cold at 6:23

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