The Internet has been buzzing over the past couple of days with the possibility of the discovery of a few names of various rides, shops, restaurants, and other elements to be included in Universal Orlando’s upcoming Wizarding World of Harry Potter addition to their Islands of Adventure theme park. A search on the Web site…
The sad news of legendary newsman Walter Cronkite’s recent death at 92 years old has Disney fans remembering his contributions to Walt Disney World theme parks. While many remember Cronkite as the narrator of Epcot’s Spaceship Earth attraction from 1986 to 1994, he was also featured in a 9-minute film entitled Back To Neverland at what…
Universal Orlando has updated its Halloween Horror Nights site to reflect the movie-based theme of this year’s event. Apparently the fictional “Universal Palace Theater” will be the host to many “unexplained happenings” and “strange events”. The Web site appears to be slowly emerging, piece by piece: If you want to be a part of Halloween…
Since the new iPhone 3GS came out, with the ability to record video and upload it right away, we’ve been experimenting. Our mobile videos won’t be up to par with our usual quality and they’ll be shorter than usual, so we’re marking them with the “Mobile:” tag. Sometimes we’ll just have the mobile video and…
Today’s Orlando Sentinel front page story is on the future Wizarding World of Harry Potter land at Universal’s Islands of Adventure. After some digging and talking with people “in and around the project”, they’re reporting some details on the main ride that will be housed in Hogwart’s Castle: From orlandosentinel.com: The castle will also house…
This new Wizarding World of Harry Potter artwork has been released by Universal. It doesn’t give a lot of new information, but it confirms the new land, or at least some of it, will be based on the movie versions of the Harry Potter series and not just the books. Daniel Radcliffe and other actors…
The Pirates League is the newest buccaneer adventure in the Magic Kingdom, featuring makeovers that turn theme park guests into savvy swashbucklers. Depending on the pirate package, a trained Pirate Master can transform boys, girls (ages 3 and up) and grownups into pirates, buccaneers and maidens using facial effects, fake scars, removable teeth, hats, bandanas…
Just minutes after the press release regarding the addition of Saw to this year’s Halloween Horror Nights line-up, Universal Orlando has announced two additional icons for the year: Chucky (from the Child’s Play film series) and The Wolfman (a new movie headed to theaters in November): Find these images and more information at the official…
While the graphic above is an official promo for this year’s Halloween Horror Nights in California’s Universal Studios theme park, it has been confirmed that the Saw film series will indeed be featured at the popular Halloween event in Orlando’s Universal Studios park as well. In a press release, details for the California version were released: Saw…
Star Wars Weekends has come and gone for another year. I didn’t get to go as much as I would have liked this year. We visited on the first day and showed you some pictures and videos of the Celebrity Motorcade and the Star Wars dance-off known as Hyperspace Hoopla. Here we present some pictures…
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