Starting this fall, guests staying at two Walt Disney World resorts will have a new room option. Guests at Disney’s Port Orleans Resort may opt to be treated like royalty, while guests at Disney’s Contemporary Resort can feel relaxed – with their mind and body. Continuing the popular “storybook” room concept launched in 2009 at [...]

Last week Universal Orlando announced on their Facebook and Twitter pages that they’d be dropping weekly hints as to the name of their new attraction. Today, their first hint arrived and the obvious clue points to either King Kong or Despicable Me. Universal announced that Jimmy Neutron’s Nicktoon Blast ride at Universal Studios would be [...]

The fans’ excitement is growing as it’s just one month until the May 20 official opening of “Star Tours -The Adventures Continue” at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Disney has been helping to grow that excitement with a mall tour, new online presence and offering more details on the ride itself. Taking place between Star Wars movies [...]

Not only will fans get to hear from many of Orlando’s theme park designers, writers and artists this Friday during the Entertainment Designer Forum, they’ll also have a chance to take home many one-of-a-kind collectables. In addition to the two forum sessions (6:30 and 9 p.m.) at the Mad Cow Theatre in downtown Orlando, there [...]

Disney has started a four city Star Tours tour in Florida to promote their new Star Tours ride, which opens May 20 and kicks off this year’s Star Wars Weekends at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. The first tour stop was held yesterday at the Aventura Mall in Miami. The next stop on the tour is Saturday, [...]

April 2011 – There’s a lot of construction activity right now at Downtown Disney. Stores are moving as expansions are done, and to make way for Pleasure Island’s change into Hyperion Wharf.

Video by Jeff Lange Photo by Denise Preskitt Penelope Cruz may play Angelica in the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie, On Stranger Tides, but the real Angelica is now meeting guests daily at the Magic Kingdom. We were able to speak with her today and bring you this video. Angelica, daughter of the legendary [...]

Horror and zombie fans will want to be at the Wyndham Orlando Resort Memorial Day weekend, May 27 to 29. Spooky Empire, the organization behind the annual Ultimate Horror Weekend each fall, has added a second show, May-Hem. The event will feature a 30th Anniversary reunion of The Evil Dead cast, featuring Bruce Campbell, as [...]

Disney has big plans for their Pixar characters the weekend of May 13 to 15, 2011. That’s the last few days of the Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival and it’s dubbed Disney-Pixar Weekend. Although Disney hasn’t officially released much information about the event, an Attractions fan told us they’re planning on having multiple meet [...]

Shrek can now be seen on stage, in addition to his appearance in “Shrek 4D” at Universal Studios. Opening on Tuesday, May 17 and running through Sunday, May 22, Shrek the Musical will be playing at the Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre in downtown Orlando. “Shrek the Musical” is based on the Dreamworks Animation movie [...]

This weekend, March 25 to 27, the Orange County Convention Center will welcome back MegaCon, a science-fiction/fantasy and comic book convention, featuring celebrity appearances and photo-ops, panels and presentations, merchandise and collectibles and more. Most media and comic book guests are available for autograph signings (prices vary depending on the celebrity), and some are also [...]

Editor’s Note: Disney’s D23 fan club held a special screening event for “Bambi” at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago Ill. on Feb. 21, 2011. “Orlando Attractions Magazine” fan Blaine Cummings was in attendance and filed this report. When I was a kid I was completely amazed by hand drawn animation. My thoughts haven’t [...]

The Terminator is back, just like he said he would be, but this is no ordinary Arnold Schwarzenegger-looking Terminator. This Terminator is on display in the Orlando Ripley’s Believe It or Not, so you know there has to be something odd about it. This Terminator statue pays tribute to some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, fictional [...]

Actress/singer Vanessa Hudgens posed with the Beast on Feb. 13, 2011 at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Hudgens’ co-stars in the upcoming motion picture Beastly, which will be released in theaters March 4, 2011. Photo by Todd Anderson

The dates for the 2011 Star Wars Weekends at Disney’s Hollywood Studios have been announced, and they’ll kick off with a big event. C-3PO himself, Anthony Daniels, will be on hand to reopen Star Tours as a brand new 3D ride. Star Wars Weekends will be held four weekends – each Friday, Saturday and Sunday [...]

Column by Andy Guinigundo Well, after a bit of a hiatus, the Out of the Loop online edition has returned to bring you some attractions news from outside the Orlando area. As always, you can get a full dose of Out of the Loop in the Orlando Attractions Magazine print and iPad editions. 2011 is [...]

Jan. 6, 2011 – This week’s show comes to you from Ripley’s Believe It Or Not museum on International Drive. Join hosts Jessica Steele Allen and Greg Hutson as they bring you Orlando theme park and attraction news. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6PNSlVJ6aA This week’s show covers these topics and more: • Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! • Fire [...]

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.

It was a year dominated by The Wizarding World of Harry Potter opening and musical performances. So instead of only looking at the most viewed videos uploaded this year, we’re going to look at the top 2010 videos a couple of different ways. Yesterday we presented the Top 10 most read theme park stories for [...]

Actor Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter movies) visited with the Beauxbatons at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter during his return to Universal Orlando today. After enjoying Butterbeer with his friends and visiting Hogwarts Castle, Felton spent the rest of his day enjoying the attractions at both Islands of Adventure and Universal [...]