How's everybody doing this week? I hope you are well. Here are some of the semi-latest #new cereals.

• Fruity Pebbles Crunch'd
• Cocoa Pebbles Crunch'd

"With Snackable Crunchy Shapes" makes me wonder if customers complained they couldn't eat handfuls of Fruity Pebbles? More #new cereals:

• Disney 100: Mickey Mouse Club
• Disney 100

"Average cereals in nice boxes." —Cabel

A quick thread about something I find interesting:

A specific visual aesthetic that is 100% lost to time.

It's just gone. Nobody cares about it. Nobody is replicating it for nostalgia. Most people don't even know how it was done.

Let's start with this video (via @stevesi)… …and now, please watch a bit of this incredible classic.

Let's compare the three — three!!! — totally separate ways to save PNG files in Photoshop.

① "Save for Web (Legacy)" is the classic interface we grew up on, and the only one that supports animated gif. (How legacy? They save as "Adobe ImageReady" files, discontinued in 2005 😅) ② "Export As…" is the new, "modern" interface for saving files in Photoshop. "Modern" in this case means kind of a weird UI, and missing a lot of options and features. But it's pretty zippy and doesn't block your other windows like (Legacy) does.

I am glad Ferrari is partnering up with Jony Ive and Marc Newson, because FINALLY someone will design a car for multi-millionaires (Actually, Marc Newson's Ford 021C concept was my dream car right around 2000. It's the perfect encapsulation of the style of that time, a Deee-Lite/CD-ROM/Dreamcast/iMac/Virgin Megastore car. I still want one today!!! But the Fun Design Train now only stops at Luxury Station ☹️)

ALERT. This amazing Donkey Kong coaster with the "hidden" track seems to be officially happening!!! Press Release: nintendo.co.jp/corporate/rele…

https://twitter.com/cabel/status/1147954532371931136

FYI, today's rendering seems to match 2019's leaked model! And the coaster looks to have a massive show building for indoor show scenes? Keep it up, Universal!!!

Here's a quick story about design.

When I was a kid there was a funky, late-70's mall in downtown PDX called "The Galleria", in a converted department store.

The Galleria had an equally funky logo that I always liked as a kid — but also always made me feel a little weird. The logo reminded me of other visuals surrounding my childhood, like the 7-Up signs at the corner store, or the "Pinball Number Count" sequence on Sesame Street (one-two-three four five!)

Eventually The Galleria closed, and later it became a Target, and the logo was history.

The snacks have piled up! The Frito-Lay strike has ended! So, forgive me: I'm gonna destroy your feed this Sunday with all #new products I've found this year. Go!

• Pillsbury Soft Baked Cookies 🤨*
• KitKat Thins 😀
• Hawaiian Kettle Way Out Wasabi 🙂

*they're kinda gritty • Pop Chips Grain-Free Cajun Heat 😁
• Pop Chips Corn Chips Perfectly Salted 😕
• Tim's Cascade Special Batch Cajun 🙂
• Poppables Southwest Ranch 🙂
#new

🌠 Notes on a trip to Disneyland

• First, COVID. Masks weren't needed if vaccinated. Three of us are very lucky to be, but Violet is too young so she kept her mask on and we masked indoors with her. Seeing nearly zero masks freaked me out big time! Soon, it felt 100% normal? 😵‍💫 • It's an AMAZING time to go with very little waiting. Why?

✅ Reservations only. No walk-ups.
✅ No FastPass. Just smooth-flowing standby lines. 😍
✅ Virtual queues for the biggest rides. Easily got "in line" at 7AM.
✅ No APs, limited capacity.

I hope some of this stays.

A moment of appreciation for some peak 90’s industrial design.

First, the LJN VideoArt. The angled, dockable controller is so good. The plastic slider to select your color is so good. The blue cord is so good. The system itself not so good. But great work, designers. Second, and this is maybe as good as it gets: the View-Master Interactive Vision, which overlaid on your VCR and even downloaded rudimentary games from VHS tapes.

What can I say. It’s a work of art that belongs in a 90’s museum. The controller alone. My god.

I got my second vaccine JUST as they were putting out bags of Lay’s Wavy Limited Time Jerk Chicken??? My god. A day for the history books Cc @thatbilloakley (Walgreens)

Friends… have we solved a theme park mystery? Do we now know What Happened To Rosita?

Ok, let me back up.

In Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, José drops this infamous line, and it has haunted me, and many others, forever. Let's be honest. This "joke" makes no sense. After naming a bunch of fancy birds, José blurts out "I wonder what happened to Rosita?"

I often wondered if learning the meaning of the joke would make me cringe (a bit like José's accent). It didn't add up. It was clearly SOMETHING.

And with that, the ghost of Incredible Universe will be finally laid to rest

https://twitter.com/bill0004/status/1364407906192424964

Here's a thread where we visited a Fry's specifically because we knew it wouldn't be around much longer.

https://twitter.com/cabel/status/1137768516617007104?s=20

Speaking of Firewatch's 5th anniversary!

Here's a secret that almost nobody knows about.

• In the Nintendo Switch — only! — version of Firewatch, when in Free Roam mode, you may come across this post-it note. Look at it…

[captures via Super Nintendad on YouTube] • And you will notice a new location on your map…

Very very glad that Apple Music is hiring amazing artists and making these wonderful, rich, beautiful animations And they're not afraid to try different styles, like this stop motion-y one

Short Saturday thread of some SEGA music on your favorite streaming service!

First, I love the Fantasy Zone theme… and I love this funky messed up hand-played earth synth demo of it!

“Opa-Opa! (Demo Ver.)" by SEGA songwhip.com/sega/opaopa-de… The long-forgotten Billy Hatcher had really cool and listenable music. I think someone was on a Go! Team kick. It’s good stuff.

"Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg Original Soundtrack ‘Music Popped Out of The Egg’” by SEGA SOUND TEAM songwhip.com/sega-sound-tea…

My lord. Disney+ is getting all the Disney Dollars. A good reminder for park fans that the parks are likely going into new attraction hibernation for at LEAST five years. Current projects will be finished, but I doubt we'll see anything new for a very, very long time. 😔

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1337214084811546626

WITH THE NTOABLE EXCEPTIION OF JAPAN< SAVE US TOKYO DISNEYLAND

This house is for sale in Portland just in case you've dreamed of living in an AT-AT walker with headphones Turns out this architect is 1000% awesome

I tweeted this once, then felt bad and deleted it, but I can't stop thinking about it, so:

Marketers, I beg of you. It's 0% necessary to overcook a blurred circle. It's a design element. Do not Pepsi yourself

IMPACT HERO ORBS oh no. smucker’s pepsi’d themselves

https://twitter.com/sivasiann/status/1309680087122554880

In a desperate attempt to extract some joy from 2020, we went to uncharted extremes: we bought a used Japanese minivan. Introducing our 1991 Toyota Town Ace. It makes me very happy. This is the "Super Extra" trim with the incredible "Skylite Roof". It's a diesel, just like my first car. 4WD but you gotta turn a thing on the wheels to activate it and I probably never will. The engine is under the passenger seat. The happy design of it just feels fun.

It's Friday, please post your favorite old or obscure or long-gone Disney Parks photos!!

Here's some I took during a California Adventure preview event!! There was this wild-ass parade (Eureka!) that celebrated California culture — yes, that man is wearing a Hollywood Bowl on his head, puppeteering a conductor

Always consider the overworked and underpaid people at the end of the line who don’t have time to deal with your clever packaging idea. (The ice cream is supposed to be displayed and stacked “upside down” but, when inevitably it isn’t, it’s extremely difficult to read the flavor or anything else on the package because it’s, uh, upside down)