New Year’s Eve at Epcot is always a blast! This year there were four DJ parties, two fireworks shows and one enormous park-wide party! Let’s start with a highlights video: [Read more…]
Top 10 most popular theme park and attraction stories for 2011
During 2011 we posted almost 500 stories to our blog. That’s in addition to the dozens of original articles in the four issues of our magazine published in 2011. Let’s take a look at the top 10 most popular blog posts of 2011. [Read more…]
Orlando Attractions Magazine – The Show, Episode 56 for December 29, 2011
This week’s hosts Regina Fernandez and Banks Lee look back at the exciting announcements, park openings and more from 2011. It’s our year-in-review! [Read more…]
A year at the Epcot entrance garden
The Epcot front entrance garden is always changing to match the season or featured event at the park. This photo shows the garden at its peak during the Flower and Garden Festival. [Read more…]
Walt Disney World offers many ways to celebrate the 2011 holidays
Walt Disney World will soon be adorned in holiday décor. Each theme park and resort will have a holiday glow. Here is a list of what to expect from Disney’s holiday events. [Read more…]
Character cavalcade, sing-along and fireworks planned for Walt Disney World’s 40th anniversary
Walt Disney World will be celebrating their 40th year on Oct. 1, 2011 at the Magic Kingdom with a character parade and sing-along in the morning, 40th branded merchandise and artist signings all day, and a special edition of the Wishes fireworks at night. [Read more…]
Halloween Horror Nights 21 icon reveals her true face as 8 new haunted houses and 6 new scare zones are detailed
All has been revealed with this year’s Halloween Horror Nights 21 at Universal Studios. Watch below (If you dare) as Lady luck forces Universal Show Director Patrick Braillard to spill the details on eight new haunted houses and six new scare zones. [Read more…]
‘The Thing’ movie to become basis for haunted house at Halloween Horror Nights 21
“The Thing” makes its return to the big screen this fall and to Halloween Horror Nights 21 in the form of one of the haunted houses. In 2007, Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights featured a house called “The Thing: Assimilation”. This year “The Thing” will be based on Universal Pictures’ upcoming thriller. [Read more…]
Zombies from the dark side will invade Busch Gardens for Howl-O-Scream 2011
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay has been teasing a zombie theme for a few months, and now it’s been made official. The theme for Howl-O-Scream 2011 will be The Dark Side of the Gardens: Zombies live here. [Read more…]
Movie Review: Old school Pooh fans will find much to love about Disney’s Winnie the Pooh
By Kevin Yee
Fans of the original Winnie the Pooh movie from 1977 will find much to love about the 2011 movie, which shares the same name but has all-new content. It channels its predecessor in ways both small (the hand-drawn, not quite perfect animation) and large (the individual tics and attitudes of each character). [Read more…]