Earlier today, March 21, 2009, the 16th annual Epcot Flower and Garden Festival officially opened with a celebration outside the new topiary-filled Pixie Hollow Fairy Garden: You can also download this video in 720p high-definition on our Videos page. Disney Fairies Tinker Bell, Iridessa, Fawn, Silvermist, and Rosetta made an appearance, leading a group of [...]
T. Rowe Price, the global investment management organization, has signed a sponsorship agreement to create an innovative financial education and entertainment experience at Epcot. Designed in collaboration with Walt Disney Imagineering, The Great Piggy Bank Adventure is scheduled to open this spring at Innoventions. The interactive exhibit will bring basic saving and investing concepts to [...]
Today is the last day to enter the Mystery Photo contest in our current (Feb./March 2009) issue. The picture in the magazine must have been a bit too hard to figure out, so we’ve expanded the photo here. The clue is: To find this hanging decoration, you must travel halfway around the world, yet remain [...]
Volume 2, Issue 2 (February / March 2009) of Orlando Attractions Magazine is now available for pre-order! We’re expecting it back from the printer very soon, so orders should be mailed out this week. This new issue includes: • Solving Top Secret Missions with Kim Possible New adventure at Epcot turns guests into undercover agents. • Vehicular [...]
The Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure was listed on the times guide as starting Wednesday but it was fully running on Sunday. This is one of three places in Future World where you can sign up to play. The other two locations are in each Innoventions. Here’s the ticket I was given which told me [...]
Walt Disney World and Worlds of Discovery are offering free admission for members of the military to their parks. While Disney is offering five days free, SeaWorld and Busch Gardens are offering free admission to the military member’s family as well. Disney’s offer extends to retired members. Disney With the “Disney’s Armed Forces Salute” offer, [...]
Volume 2, Issue 1 of Orlando Attractions Magazine is now available for pre-order! You can flip through and preview the entire issue here before you buy it. Features included in this fun new issue are: • Chill out in Orlando with ICE! Holiday fun at the Gaylord Palms Resort. • 21st Century Christmas How Disney [...]
Here’s a sampling of what’s in store at the Walt Disney World Resort for the holidays. The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights – As “snow” falls overhead, the Streets of America backlot cityscape at Disney’s Hollywood Studios comes alive with millions of holiday lights that dance to music, animating sparkling displays to create twirling [...]
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts and Verizon are teaming up for a multi-year relationship designed to enhance the guest experience – before, during and after guests arrive at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. This alignment allows guests to have a “personal tour guide” right in their wireless phones along with new services at the parks. [...]
An elaborate “Cinderellabration” topiary and an environmentally friendly Green Garden will bring fresh springtime flair to the 16th annual Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival March 18 to May 31, 2009. Each year, Disney gardeners channel their creative energy into presenting an intricate topiary display against the backdrop of Spaceship Earth. This year, Cinderella and [...]
A kaleidoscope of colors and elaborate light displays will decorate the skies on the final night of 2008 at Walt Disney World. Dazzling fireworks showers, live entertainment and extended park hours on Dec. 31 make it a very popular spot to ring in the new year. Expect large crowds and arrive to your preferred park [...]
The 13th annual Epcot International Food & Wine Festival started on Friday and will run through Nov. 9. This year’s theme is Cities in Wonderland. I’m not sure how this fits in other than the fact that they have music and displays from Alice In Wonderland at the front of the park, and the food [...]
Wheel of Fortune’s Wheelmobile, the show’s promotional vehicle, will be at SeaWorld tomorrow and Sunday searching for contestants for the show’s Dec. 11 to 15 taping at SeaWorld’s Bayside Stadium. Anyone interested in being a contestant is invited to attend. Fans will have the opportunity to fill out an application, play a simulated version of [...]
World-renowned chefs Daniel Boulud (left) and Paul Bocuse with country-rat-turned-chef-extraordinaire Remy of the Disney Pixar hit film “Ratatouille” at the France pavilion in Epcot. Culinary greats will put their spatulas to the test in an elaborate cook off tomorrow and Saturday during the opening weekend of the 13th Epcot International Food & Wine Festival. Eight [...]
The Walt Disney Company held an event in New York City this afternoon to announce 2009′s follow-up to the Year of a Million Dreams which they’re calling, What will you celebrate? Everyone who visits a Walt Disney World Resort or Disneyland Resort theme park on their birthday in 2009 can get in free. Locals and [...]
WDWCelebrations is a fan-run organization dedicated to celebrating milestones in Disney history as well as putting on special events for fans to enjoy. Coming up from Friday, September 26 to Sunday, September 28, 2008, WDWCelebrations will be hosting what they’re calling the “World Wide Weekend”. As with their past Disney fan events, Celebration 25 and [...]
Later this fall, Epcot guests will get to experience a brand new interactive attraction inspired by Disney Channel’s animated series Kim Possible. The new experience is slated to premiere in late 2008. Using the latest technology, Disney’s Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure will invite guests of all ages to become secret agents, teaming up with [...]
Today marks the beginning of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, so in honor of that, here’s a photo update from around Epcot’s World Showcase, including several snapshots from the China Pavillion. These photos were actually taken yesterday, on 8/7/08, but I felt that it was more appropriate to post them today in honor …
A new exhibit has opened into a “test and adjust” phase at Innoventions in Disney’s Epcot theme park. This new attraction depicts what happens to a typical Florida neighborhood during a hurricane via a computer-generated 3D film. Following the film, guests have the opportunity to make choices on how to build and prepare …