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Published October 16, 2021

New Frozen shorts Olaf Presents retells classic Disney movies

Disney+ Day is set to kick off in mid-November, showcasing the present and future of your favourite Disney franchises in some pretty major ways. The programming will occur on Friday, November 12th, offering a lot of recent or completely new content — including an all-new original series of Frozen shorts. The shorts, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, will be called Olaf Presents, and will see Frozen’s beloved snowman retelling several classic Disney tales.

Additionally, there will be fan favourite shorts from Walt Disney Animation Studios, including Frozen Fever, Feast and Paperman, Mickey Mouse short Get A Horse!, and more.


Life-sized bust of Tom Holland as Spider-Man

If you really want to have Tom Holland stare at you at all times of the day then Queen Studios Collectibles have the perfect thing for you. Creators of premium collectibles, Queen Studios have debuted the Avengers Infinity War — Iron Spider life-sized bust, a 28 inch tall “hyper-realistic” model of Tom Holland as Peter Parker from the 2018 feature film. The collectible in question will cost you a pretty penny, $3,680 in total.

Holland is set to reprise his Spider-Man role once again with Spider-Man: No Way Home later this year, marking his sixth feature film appearance in the MCU.


Largest Lego Formula 1 car assembled

Organisers of the upcoming Saudi Arabian Formula 1 Grand Prix promoted the event by assembling the world’s largest Lego Formula 1 car from 500,000 bricks.

The Saudi Automobile & Motorcycle Federation employed a group of professional Lego builders to assemble the green Formula 1 car at Jeddah’s Red Sea Mall.

The finished product, composed of 500,000 Lego bricks, took the Guinness World Record from Ferrari, which previously assembled a Formula 1 car from 350,000 bricks.

The Saudi Arabian Formula 1 Grand Prix is scheduled to take place in Jeddah in December.

Published in Dawn, Young World, September 16th, 2021

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