Twilight star Ashley Greene and Joe Jonas of the pop group Jonas Brothers stopped for a photo in front of Space Mountain during their visit to Magic Kingdom on Dec. 29, 2010. Photo by Kent Phillips.

Dec. 31, 2010 – This week’s show brings you 2010 in review. Join hosts Samantha and JD as they bring you all the Orlando theme park and attraction highlights of the past year, with some news thrown in. We’ll review all the big news at Disney World, Universal, Busch Gardens and SeaWorld. Then they’ll let [...]

“You’ve been rescued from being stuck in a mine. What are you gonna do next?” A Disney World visit probably wasn’t on the minds of the Chilean miners as they were pulled up from 2,300 feet inside the Earth, but they are certainly deserving of a vacation. And Disney is going to make it happen. [...]

The Winter 2011 issue of Orlando Attractions Magazine is now available to order. The magazine is at the printer and will be shipping out within the next week or two. Look for it in our iPad app soon, and in major bookstores nationwide sometime in January. Subscribers should receive their copy within the next four [...]

With Christmas almost here, Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party has ended. Held select evenings in November and December, the special ticket event brings a lot of holiday cheer to the Magic Kingdom. Here’s a look at this year’s event. Here’s a video featuring our kid reporters showing you the highlights of the night. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSrmW8VB6Io While [...]

To celebrate their first wedding anniversary, Kevin Jonas of the pop trio “Jonas Brothers” and his wife Danielle pose in front of Cinderella Castle with Cinderella and Prince Charming at the Magic Kingdom. The couple wed Dec. 19, 2009 at Oheka Castle in Long Island, N. Y., and celebrated their first anniversary by staying in [...]

Dec. 16, 2010 – Join hosts JD Trussell and Samantha Sanders for Episode Three of Orlando Attractions Magazine – The Show. They’ll bring you this week’s theme park and attraction news, viewer feedback, fan videos and more. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uozPnoghr0 This week’s topics include: • Celebration Concert and interview with Kicking Daisies and Allstar Weekend. • Clarion [...]

We recently had a chance to go high above the Magic Kingdom to bring you these aerial photos and video of the construction progress of the Fantasyland expansion. Click on any of the photos to view them larger. The Fantasyland expansion was first announced at Disney’s D23 Expo in California a little over a year [...]

Even though Toontown got an extra year beyond its rumored closing last January, it’s finally closing for good in February to make room for the Fantasyland expansion. The last day to visit Toontown and its many attractions will be Feb. 11, 2011. Once completed, The Barnstormer at Goofy’s Wiseacre Farm is expected to remain, but [...]

Four popular singers were recorded today at the Magic Kingdom, giving their performances on Cinderella Castle stage, then later posing with Disney characters. The segments are part of the Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade, which will air Christmas morning on ABC-TV. On hand were Jackie Evancho, Lee DeWyze, Sean Kingston and Darius Rucker. First up [...]

Day two of shooting the Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade brought out the biggest stars of the show as a couple of stage performances and the actual parade portion were filmed. Part of the show, which will air on ABC-TV on Christmas Day, was already filmed at Disneyland. Walt Disney World’s portion is being filmed [...]

Recording started today for the 2010 Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade at the Magic Kingdom. Singers and actresses Debby Ryan (The Suite Life on Deck), above, and Amber Riley (Glee), below, performed. The canine, Santa Paws, from the new Disney holiday movie “The Search for Santa Paws” also made an appearance. The tapings are to [...]

Actor Brian Austin Green and his wife, actress/model Megan Fox, snap a photo in front of Cinderella Castle at Disney’s Magic Kingdom. Green and Fox were married in June 2010 in Hawaii. Photo by Gene Duncan, Walt Disney World

Registration to attend the taping of the 2010 Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade television show on Friday, Dec. 3 and Saturday Dec. 4 is now open. There’s no cost or age limit to register and you can select to bring as many as seven people with you. Registration is being handled through Active.com, a sports-related [...]

It’s time for the Christmas decorations to start popping up all around Walt Disney World. You may be saying to yourself, “Wait a minute … Wasn’t it just Halloween?” Yes, but forget about all that scary stuff, Mickey’s first Christmas Party starts in less than a week. The current Fall 2010 issue of Orlando Attractions [...]

Walt Disney World helped honor some Hometown Heroes and kicked off Air Force Week with a series of events at the Magic Kingdom today. The highlight was the United States Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, The Thunderbirds, flying over the Magic Kingdom and seemingly down Main Street U.S.A during the Celebrate a Dream Come True [...]

Paul Delvecchio, aka “DJ Pauly D” from the hit MTV series “Jersey Shore,” left, takes a ride on the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at the Magic Kingdom with Celebration, Fla. High School senior Bryan Lopez and a host of Central Florida high school seniors behind him. Delvecchio was at the theme park to announce …

Article, photos and video by Don Gworek Disney introduced a new Halloween 5K race as part of the opening weekend events of the Epcot Food and Wine Festival. This is the first time the Magic Kingdom has been the site of a 5K race. The race started in the twilight of 7 a.m. Saturday at [...]

Beginning in 2011, Magic Kingdom guests will become the stars of a nightly spectacular when photos taken in the park that day become larger-than-life projections on Cinderella Castle. Disneyland in California will offer their guests’ photos projected on “it’s a small world”. Beginning this week, Disney guests will also star on television, as part of [...]

Some bloggers and members of the media were invited to check out this year’s Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party on Saturday. The parties began last week and run select dates through Nov. 1, 2010. Here’s our full photo and video report.