By Kevin Yee Disney’s Magic Kingdom has begun testing (not every day, and not all day) a new interactive game much like the Agent P adventure in Epcot, but using paper maps and a paper RFID playing card. We review the Pirate’s Adventure maps in detail and show some of the physical effects. But there’s [...]

By Kevin Yee We sample the entertainment and decorations at last week’s Star Wars themed Limited Time Magic, as well as look at the Wishes Dessert Party menu. We also take a closer look at the Monsters University monorail wrapping. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yexCNjNxjzg

By Kevin Yee We bounce around the Magic Kingdom, spotting small updates (closed fort escape tunnel, for one) and then head to Disney’s Animal Kingdom to look at its 15th anniversary merchandise. We also explore the Great American Pie Festival in Celebration and a new chain restaurant in town, Chuy’s. httpv://youtu.be/NIzswHf8azU

By Kevin Yee We look around Adventureland this week to catalog the various props and set pieces for the upcoming “A Pirate’s Adventure: Treasures of the Seven Seas” interactive game (not yet opened). We’ll also tour both Magic Kingdom and Disney’s Animal Kingdom for some recent changes and construction updates. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xysDvrtf9qA

By Kevin Yee More structures are going up in the upcoming Springfield section at Universal Studios Florida, near the Simpsons ride, and some are sporting familiar facades (Moe’s Tavern, Krusty Burger). We tour the new King’s Bowling on International Drive. We also look at still more track for Seven Dwarfs Mine Coaster and glance at [...]

By Kevin Yee This week in Photo Finds we investigate new cone sandwiches at Downtown Disney and cone drinks near Test Track, plus snoop around the Epcot Flower and Garden Festival Center for the first time this season. In Disney’s Animal Kingdom, walls in Africa hint that Festival of the Lion King may soon have [...]

By: Kevin Yee This week we take a detailed look at the permanent carnival and minor theme park, heavy on go-karts, named Fun Spot USA. It’s along US-192 near the entrance to Walt Disney World. This facility also has a twin (not covered in today’s report) near International Drive. It’s one of the many action-packed [...]

By Kevin Yee From the newest changes to the Seven Dwarfs Mine Coaster to the new stage at Morocco, not to mention the Iron Man 3 monorail, we scour the parks to find the smallest changes this week. We also report on Disney’s Limited Time Magic event of last week, the Vinylmation Easter Egg hunt, [...]

By Kevin Yee An upscale bowling alley in the middle of International Drive is due to open in mid-April. We take a hardhat tour. We also bring you a review of MegaCon at the Orange County Convention Center. Disney Jr. has added Sophia the First and Doc McStuffins, so we peek at the revised puppet [...]

By Kevin Yee It’s a crazy week of new additions at the Magic Kingdom, with new highly themed Tangled bathrooms opening near the Haunted Mansion and new elements added to the Big Thunder Mountain queue to make it interactive. Epcot joins the action with the Kinsey art collection in the American Adventure and the re-booted [...]

By Kevin Yee You may have heard about DisneyQuest, and some of you may have been there. It’s more than Disney’s arcade, though it has that too. This week we look closer at DisneyQuest — more closely than you’ve ever looked, odds are. Let’s just say that you’ll know everything about everything inside the facility [...]

By Kevin Yee This week we jog around Typhoon Lagoon to see the minor improvements from the annual refurbishment, view the ongoing prep for Epcot’s Flower and Garden Festival, and look at an experiment Test Track did with moving the FastPass line. We also tour Disney’s Park Event Operations, an off-site warehouse of props and [...]

By Kevin Yee We head to Epcot to see preparations for the Flower and Garden Festival, as well as take a closer look at the playground themed to the upcoming Oz movie. We also tour the photo locations for True Love Week at the Magic Kingdom, a part of Limited Time Magic. We also take [...]

By Kevin Yee This week we examine the two promotions of late winter: SeaWorld’s Bands, Brew, and BBQ and Universal’s Mardi Gras. Both feature name-brand bands included with park admission, as well as numerous extras that are not part of the regular experience, such as special menus and decorations. Universal also has the parade, with [...]

By Kevin Yee For this week’s Photo Finds, we take a trip through one of the boutique museums along International Drive. Ripley’s Believe it or Not is a franchise, with the Orlando location duplicating the types of exhibits that made it famous: human oddities, tricks of perception, mock torture chambers and real implements, and a [...]

By Kevin Yee Join us for a look a the Limited Time Magic offering last week, meet and greets with Long Lost Friends at the Magic Kingdom. We also examine the new ending to it’s a small world and several new additions to the queue at Big Thunder Mountain Railroad – though they aren’t active/interactive [...]

By Kevin Yee This week we return to Habit Heroes, recently re-opened after an 11-month retooling, to sample the new show. We also swing by the other three parks to see minor construction (Tangled bathrooms), ongoing refurbs (Kali River Rapids), and subtle changes (ending to Indy Stunt Spectacular). httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duF2tC2PQ5g

By Kevin Yee We are all over the map this week, as we bring you IBM Think (which replaced IBM Runtime in Innoventions at Epcot), the new bakery in France at Epcot (which replaced the older, smaller bakery), and Splitsville (which replaced the empty warehouse once home to RideMakerz). We also glance at the curiously [...]

By Kevin Yee From the construction wall artwork on Seven Dwarfs Mine coaster to the recently closed Splash Mountain, there’s a lot of activity around the parks this week. We tour the changes, which also include some minor additions to the animal walkthroughs in Disney’s Animal Kingdom and the no-longer-new (but kind of new) relocated [...]

By Kevin Yee Although they’ve been around since early November, we haven’t had a chance to visit the revised castle projection show until recently. The new show, Celebrate the Magic, continues many themes from the previous show but no longer features guests snapped by PhotoPass. There is a holiday tag at the end with themed [...]