Meeting Flik!

by Gaylin

I love character meet and greets, I realize I like the non-verbal characters a bit more as making conversation with a princess or two, is not my forte.

While I was wandering around later in the day at the Animal Kingdom (January 2017), I noticed that there was only one family in line to meet Flik. I immediately got in the line and waited maybe 3 minutes to meet him.

I was greeted with a fist bump, the PhotoPass Cast Member made a joke and had the few people around us laughing - it was a great meet up and I got 2 good photos out of it, on my own camera!

I would definitely recommend paying attention to character meet ups, later in the day, often people are going to ADRs or just too tired to get another photo taken. Glad I stopped!

Pixar's A Bugs Life Heimlich

By Nick


Stuffed Heimlich. Is that a redundant statement?
(See, Heimlich eats a lot, until he’s, you know, stuffed!) Tap-tap, is this thing on?

Today, I share a couple of Heimlich’s from the Pixar film, “A Bug’s Life’, from my wife’s collection. The 1st one is a fairly large stuffed figure.



Obviously it’s from the Disney Store, but I have no other info, as my wife cut the tags off.



This next stuffed Heimlich is much smaller, and has a plastic face.

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Like the bigger figure, the tags have been removed, and there is no indication as to where it came from.

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What, you may ask, is a squishy Heimlich?

This is a squishy Heimlich:

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Heimlich is from Pixar’s “A Bug’s Life” released in 1998. While it isn’t my favorite Pixar movie by far, it has a special place in my heart as it was the first movie my wife and I saw in a theater together.
Having this special place made me collect Bug’s Life everything. Heimlich, however, is from my wife’s collection.



What drew my wife to Heimlich the caterpillar? His accent, for one. And his love of food for the other. In fact here he is going in for the kill now!

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He is rubber, and filled with some sort of, well, squishy, material. Sadly, 14 years on, the squishy material has hardened into a ball inside of Heimlich’s belly, and he is not nearly as much fun to squeeze anymore.

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Made by 4 Kidz Inc. for Disney/Pixar.



Here is another squishy Heimlich. This is a keychain. I think. A REALLY big keychain. I have no idea who would need such a large key chain, but, as I don’t know what else the hook would be used for, I’m calling it a keychain.

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Alas, he suffers from the same fate as the larger figure, as he has lost his squishiness.



Also made by 4 Kidz.