Photo Finds: Fantasyland construction update at Magic Kingdom – Feb. 20, 2012
By Kevin Yee Vertical construction continues at New Fantasyland, where Dumbo’s structures are now painted, and the queue building circus tent is fully in place.
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Photo Update: More and more details appearing in the Fantasyland expansion at Magic Kingdom
Many rooftop details have been added, as well as new paint and a few trees in the area that can be seen by the public in the Fantasyland expansion at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. Above is the view of the new Dumbo attraction that can be seen while walking near the teacup…
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D23 to celebrate their third anniversary with a 23-day Twitter contest
Starting on Feb. 17, 2012, Disney’s D23 official fan club will be celebrating its third anniversary with a “23 Days of Celebration” Twitter sweepstakes. Each day at approximately 1 p.m. eastern time, D23 will provide a different challenge for the day and the first person to submit a valid photo that matches the challenge will…
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Spring is in the air at the 19th annual Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival
The 19th Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival will begin March 7 and end on May 20. This year’s floral icon will be an eight-foot-tall floral Sorcerer Mickey topiary. Above the park’s front-entrance topiary bed, the commanding Sorcerer Mickey will direct the manicured shapes of dancing broomsticks, buckets, mushrooms, hippos, alligators and elephants straight from…
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Photo Finds: Disney DVC, Big Thunder Mountain and Fantasyland updates – Feb. 13, 2012
By Kevin Yee This week we bring you some photos of the ground clearing happening near the Grand Floridian for a new Disney Vacation Club (DVC) resort; work is progressing on both sides of the monorail beams. We’ve also got some shots of the extensive scaffolding at Big Thunder Mountain, and some new decorations popping…
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First lady visits Disney World and does the Platypus Walk as part of ‘Let’s Move’
First Lady Michelle Obama and a few Disney Channel stars visited Walt Disney World yesterday to speak to hundreds of local children and parents about the importance of exercise and eating right. But they not only talked about it, they got some exercise themselves as they did the The Platypus Walk and played some sports.
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New theme park time lapse video series
Two months ago we debuted a first for “Orlando Attractions Magazine”, a time lapse video. The video, a Jaws ride tribute, was well received by viewers and we will be doing a monthly video series of time lapse videos.
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Changes coming to the Kilimanjaro Safaris ride at Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Say your last goodbye to Little Red. Today the Disney Parks Blog announced some changes are coming to the Kilimanjaro Safaris attraction at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Starting this spring, Disney Imagineers will begin the removal of some of the end show elements, including the Audio-Animatronic elephant known as Little Red, to make room for more…
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Walt Disney World theme parks to start enforcing Fastpass return times
Disney’s Fastpass attraction return time tickets have always had a time window for guests to come back to ride the attraction. While cast members have always kept guests from entering the attractions before their Fastpass return time, it was a great tip for those in the know that they could return to the attraction anytime…
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Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning visits Disney World’s Magic Kingdom – Photos/Video
After leading his team to a come-from-behind 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots at Super Bowl XLVI, what did New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning do next? He went to Disney World of course.