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January 15, 2010 By 4 Comments

Disney World wait times and more now available via text message – with limits

photoIn addition to Disney’s new mobile phone app for Verizon customers we previously told you about, and their m.disneyworld.com mobile formatted site for all phones with Web browsers, they’re now offering a way to get wait times, hours and more via a simple text message. Anyone with a U.S. mobile phone can join the free program.

You can sign up at disneyparksmobile.com/textmessaging. When you register, you can enter the specific dates of your visit to receive messages during your stay or just select the option of visiting multiple times per year. If you select multiple visits per year, you’re limited to getting the text information 12 days per year.

Here are all of the current text message options and their limits:

Wait Times
Text “Wait” followed by the name of the attraction.
Up to four times per day.

Park Hours
Get the park hours of any park.
Up to four times per day.

Character Locations
Text “Meet” followed by the name of the character.
One part of their site says there’s a limit of once per day, but their FAQ lists four times per day.

Resort Information
When you sign up and indicate which resort you’re staying at, you will receive information about your resort.

By signing up, you may also receive random exclusive offers. You also indicate your favorite character. You may just get a message from that character or information about them.

Filed Under: Disney, Disney's Animal Kingdom, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Epcot, Magic Kingdom Tagged With: cell phone, Disney, information, mobile, Parks, text message

September 11, 2009 By 3 Comments

D23 Expo: Video, photos, details about Cars Land and more from the Disney Parks and Resorts booth exhibit

D23 Parks and Resorts exhibit

The Walt Disney Park & Resorts exhibit at the D23 Expo is one of the must-see areas of the exhibition floor for any Disney theme park fan. Not only does it feature models, artwork, animatronics, and plenty more from upcoming new attractions but each of the areas is staffed by actual Walt Disney Imagineers who have worked on those projects, eager and ready to tell you all about them.

Here is a video tour of the exhibit followed by a photo walkthrough, revealing some new details about upcoming attractions:

D23 Parks and Resorts exhibit

Walt Disney Imagineer Kevin Rafferty was on hand yesterday to tell all about the Radiator Springs Racers attraction coming to Disney’s California Adventure. Whether you’re a fan of the Disney/Pixar film “Cars” or not, it sounds to me like you will love this ride.

The roughly 4.5 minute journey will take guests through every element of the film, including a slow drive through the mountains and past a stunning waterfall, a character-filled journey through the town, and culminating in a race against another vehicle over bridges and around tight turns.

D23 Parks and Resorts exhibit

Several models from Cars Land are at the Disney Parks & Resorts exhibit, showing the layout of the entire land as well as details from each of its attractions.

D23 Parks and Resorts exhibit

Here’s a close-up of two cars traveling through Radiator Springs Racers. The vehicles will be very similar to those found at Test Track in Epcot but with a modified chassis for a more “Cars”-like styling. The vehicles won’t travel as fast as on Test Track, but they will be paired side-by-side in a race. Until the race portion of the ride, the cars will travel individually through the first scenes of the ride. The track will then split off sending guests in opposite directions to prepare for their races.

D23 Parks and Resorts exhibit

The characters featured in Radiator Springs Racers are lovingly being referred to as “auto-animatronics.” They each feature animated eyes and a mouth that makes the cars really appear to be talking. One particularly fun moment during the ride will be when Mater, the tow truck, pulls out in front of the guests’ car. Since Mater drives always backwards, he will actually be facing guests and talking to them while driving backwards in front of them.

D23 Parks and Resorts exhibit

Audio-animatronics is prominently featured within the Disney Parks & Resorts exhibit. This decades’ old control panel features original sketches drawn directly onto its surface by one of Disney’s animators from the past.

D23 Parks and Resorts exhibit

Wall-E made his first public appearance in several months within the Disney Parks & Resorts exhibit. Guests can interact with Wall-E and also get their picture with him.

D23 Parks and Resorts exhibit

D23 Parks and Resorts exhibit

Lucky the Dinosaur also appears at the Disney Parks & Resorts exhibit when Wall-E isn’t around.

D23 Parks and Resorts exhibit

The final section of the Disney Parks & Resorts exhibit is a huge area devoted to the upcoming Hong Kong Disneyland expansion. Mystic Manor, pictured above, has a very large portion of the exhibit area, with many different models and concept art walking guests through the entire ride.

D23 Parks and Resorts exhibit

This full ride layout of Mystic Manor shows how Imagineers take their flat drawings and turn them into a 3-dimensional work to get a sense of how everything flows together.

D23 Parks and Resorts exhibit

The ride vehicles for Mystic Manor are rather unique and will “float” around the attraction on a trackless system.

We will be bringing much more video and photos from the D23 Expo later today so keep checking back! While there hasn’t been any Orlando-specific news or announcements yet, we certainly plan to hear a few at tomorrow’s Walt Disney Parks and Resorts talk.

Filed Under: Disney, Event, Exhibit, Movies, Resorts, Theme Parks, Travel, Video Tagged With: animatronic, Cars, D23, Disney, Disney's California Adventure, Expo, Hong Kong Disneyland, Imagineer, Lucky the Dinosaur, Mystic Manor, Parks, Resorts, Wall-E

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