One of the most anticipated events at Disney’s Hollywood Studios’ Star Wars Weekends is the Hyperspace Hoopla, with its Dance-Off with the Star Wars Stars. Many are saying this year’s show is one of the best, and you can see it for yourself below. The Hyperspace Hoopla has been taken over by Emperor Palpatine this [...]

It was a busy, fun day at Disney’s Hollywood Studios on Saturday as Disney’s Limited Time Magic celebrated Star Wars “May The 4th Be With You”. Let’s take a look back in photos and videos. Throughout the day there were many Star Wars characters (and Disney characters dressed as Star Wars characters) roaming the park. [...]

May 4 is a date that Star Wars fans worldwide have proclaimed “Star Wars Day” and turned into a celebratory pun, “May the Fourth Be With You!” This year Walt Disney World will be celebrating that day with a special Limited Time Magic event at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. This one-day-only celebration features special Star Wars [...]

To celebrate the June 21 release of ‘Monsters University,’ Mike and Sulley are dropping in from MU to bring monstrous fun to guests all summer long. At Disney’s Hollywood Studios, guests will be able to meet their favorite monsters in an all-new collegiate setting, the Monsters University Student Union. Over at Magic Kingdom, the gang [...]

Disney recently announced that “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Legend of Captain Jack Sparrow” will officially open on Dec. 6, 2012 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. It will share the opening date with the updated Test Track and New Fantantasyland. The Disney Parks Blog and Walt Disney Imagineering shared these first renderings of what you can [...]

Ralph and Vanellope, two of the main characters from the upcoming Wreck-It Ralph movie, are now meeting guests daily inside The Magic of Disney Animation at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Guests enter the queue through “Game Central Station” as seen in the movie. Video game fans will enjoy their time in here listening to all of [...]

Disney’s Hollywood Studios was the site of a new runDisney race this past weekend – Twilight Zone Tower of Terror 10-Miler race. It debuted with 10,000 participants. It was a night race, starting well after the park had closed to guests. Ten thousand people is a big number for an inaugural race. For comparison, the [...]

By Kevin Yee At a Star Tours-focused panel during the recent Star Wars Celebration VI convention in Orlando, panelists Pablo Hildalgo (LucasFilm), Steve Spiegel (Walt Disney Imagineering), and Bill George (ILM) revealed a number of inside secrets, jokes, and tributes in the attraction. Several were never previously disclosed and are not well known, so this [...]

Walt Disney World is bring the Christmas cheer early this year as their annual holiday events will start earlier than ever on Nov. 9, 2012. At the Magic Kingdom, there is an extra night of Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party with 20 nights, at Epcot, singer/actress Olivia Newton John makes her debut as a celebrity [...]

A new display for the upcoming Wreck-It Ralph movie has been added to the Production Gallery in The Magic of Disney Animation building at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. The gallery was last a showcase for the Disney•Pixar movie Brave. Wreck-It Ralph is an arcade-game-hopping journey in which Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) – tired of [...]

The newest American Idol, Phillip Phillips, surprised a theater-full of park guests Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012 when host Greg Hutson introduced him at The American Idol Experience at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Phillips, who hit the top 10 on the charts with his single Home, was in Central Florida for a performance the American Idol Live! [...]

If you’re a fan of broadway style shows and you’ll be in the Orlando area this week, you won’t want to miss the great acting, singing and dancing in the Disney cast member production of Finding Wonderland. Plus it’s all for a good cause. Encore Cast Performing Arts started 10 years ago and now consists [...]

Central Florida’s many theme parks will light the night skies July 4, 2012 with special pyrotechnic shows, including a patriotic display at Magic Kingdom, a rock’n’roll spectacular at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Red, Brick and Boom at Legoland Florida and more. Check out this year’s Fourth of July line up: At the Magic Kingdom, “Disney’s Celebrate [...]

D23 is adding a Halloween twist to their annual Sip & Stroll event. This year the theme is Sip & Scream, and on Oct. 2 and 3, 2012. D23 members are in for a real treat. The evening begins Tuesday, Oct. 2, for those guests who purchase the “Super Scream” package. Attendees are encouraged to [...]

One of the most anticipated events at Disney’s Hollywood Studios’ Star Wars Weekends is Hyperspace Hoopla, with its Dance-Off with the Star Wars Stars. After seeing the opening night performance, many are calling it the best one yet. See for yourself in our front-row video below. The Hyperspace Hoopla portion of the show usually features [...]

Star Wars Weekends has returned once again to Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Here is the entire motorcade including Star Wars celebrities Dee Bradley Baker (voice of clone troopers on Clone Wars), Ray Park (Darth Maul), Ashley Eckstein (voice of Ahsoka Tano on Clone Wars), James Arnold Taylor (voice of Obi-Wan and Plo Koon on Clone Wars), [...]

It’s a good time to be a fangirl of the Star Wars saga as Her Universe, the female sci-fi line of fashionable apparel and accessories, is debuting its new spring and summer line at Star Wars Weekends 2012 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Created by actress Ashley Eckstein, the voice of Ahsoka Tano on Star Wars: [...]

This weekend, Star Wars Weekends 2012 will kick off at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. As they do each year, Disney released some promotional images that combine both Walt Disney World and Star Wars elements, plus some very funny videos taking a look “behind the scenes”. Above and below are this year’s promotional images. The images were [...]

Debuting at this years Star Wars Weekends at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, guests will have the opportunity to relive the famous carbon freezing scene from The Empire Strikes Back with “Carbon-Freeze Me”. This new retail experience was created especially for Disney Parks. Using imaging technology, this experience casts your likeness as a three-dimensional, eight-inch figurine inside [...]

According to the online version of Disney’s passholder newsletter, Mickey Monitor, a new Pirates of the Caribbean experience called ‘The Legend of Captain Jack Sparrow’ will debut this summer at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. The article says the new walk-through attraction will have guests “enveloped by the world of the Pirates of the Caribbean as seen in [...]