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Magic Kingdom Update: Changes in Storybook Circus, plus new T-shirts and a rainy parade

We grabbed our umbrellas and raincoats and headed out to Disney’s Magic Kingdom earlier this week. As you can see above, both of the Dumbo spinners are now running. With the construction walls gone, it looks a lot nicer, although the front door is still boarded up.

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Fantasyland Update: Casey Jr. Splash ‘N’ Soak open, second Dumbo spinner revealed, new Pooh meet

Yesterday the Casey Jr. Splash ‘N’ Soak water play area soft opened in the Storybook Circus area of New Fantasyland. The second spinner of the dueling Dumbos has been revealed as well but hasn’t soft opened yet.

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Inside the new Dumbo big top queue in Storybook Circus at Magic Kingdom’s new Fantasyland

Walt Disney Imagineering is giving guests a new way to wait by removing the line completely at one redone attraction. In the new dueling Dumbo ride in the Storybook Circus area of the new Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom, guests will enter a big top tent into an open “queue” area where they will wait their turn…

Photo Finds: Casey Jr. progress, new FastPass readers, and more Magic Kingdom and Epcot updates – April 30, 2012

By Kevin Yee There are incremental changes as always in the parks (more pylons for Seven Dwarfs Mine Coaster, a new play area for kids outside Innoventions’ Vision House, railings installed at Big Thunder along the track), but the big news this week will be the test of Fastpass Plus, the reserve-rides-from-home technology previously called…

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Fantasyland Photo Update: Seven Dwarfs Mine Train goes vertical, Casey Jr. coming soon and more

While part of Storybook Circus’ soft opened earlier this week, construction is in full swing on the second half of Storybook Circus as well as other parts of the new Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom. Above is a view of the Casey Jr. water play area and the smaller tent in Storbook Circus.

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A look inside Storybook Circus as first part of New Fantasyland opens – Photos – Video

This morning Walt Disney World opened the first phase of the New Fantasyland expansion in a soft opening of part of Storybook Circus at the Magic Kingdom park. The attractions that opened this morning for the first time include Barnstormer featuring The Great Goofini, one spinner of the dueling Dumbos and the Fantasyland Train Station.

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Aerial construction update of Magic Kingdom’s Fantasyland expansion – March 2012

We took to the skies today to bring you some theme park construction updates. In this update we’re taking a look at the Fantasyland expansion at the Magic Kingdom. The photo above gives you an overview of the huge area under construction. Scroll down for more photos and video.