WDWNT Reporter Brandon Struve visited Disney’s Animal Kingdom and Disney’s Hollywood Studios on Sunday and has some newsworthy photos to share with us from his trip:
Some new Kiliminjaro Safaris shirts
Tom Corless
Coral Rivera’s 4/30/11 WDW Mini-Photo Report
Disney Updates Star Tours Webpage with New Images and Story Hints
The Star Tours page on the official Walt Disney World website was updated recently with a new flash-based preview (Sorry iPhone) of the destinations we’ll be traveling to when Star Tours: The Adventures Continue opens on May 20th at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. For those of you without a flash-capable device, here’s a look at the … Read more
Adam Roth’s 4/29/11 WDW Photo Report
Adam Roth visited both Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Downtown Disney on Friday and has plenty of newsworthy photos to share with us:
Welcome to Hollywood
Shanghai Disneyland Announcement and Concept Art
SHANGHAI (April 8, 2011) – The Walt Disney Company and Shanghai Shendi Group, its joint venture partner in China, have broken ground on the Shanghai Disney Resort following approval from the Chinese central government in Beijing. Both companies marked the start of construction on the first Disney resort in mainland China at a groundbreaking ceremony … Read more
Cast Suits-Up for Star Tours: The Adventures Continue
While this isn’t huge news, the orange suits that have been a staple of Star Tours cast members for many years are history. Instead, Disney has developed some new costumes to better fit “Star Tours: The Adventures Continue”: Blue and gold is most certainly the new colors of the Star Tours company, but not terribly … Read more
Haunted Mansion Debuts New, Cutting-Edge Hitchhiking Ghost Scene
After months of speculation as to what was changing in the famous Hitchhiking Ghost scene at the Magic Kingdom’s Haunted Mansion, we don’t have to wonder any longer. Phineas, Ezra, and Gus are now executing some ghostly gags through the use of new infrared technology that was installed while the temporary curtains and projection ghosts … Read more
Phineas & Ferb, Pirates, Pooh, and Cars Characters Around the World
Here are a few character updates for Walt Disney World in the next few weeks: -From the Disney Parks Blog: Heads up pirate fans – we’re happy to break the news that a new scalawag will land at Magic Kingdom Park in time for the May 20 opening of “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.” The … Read more
First Look at Ariel “Under The Sea”
Again, while we have to wait another year for Under The Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid to open at the Magic Kingdom, the California Adventure attraction is opening June 3rd and the Disney Parks Blog is offering another look at some cutting-edge audio-animatronic technology: We are just a couple of months away from the … Read more
Adam Roth’s 4/1/11 WDW Photo Report
WDWNT Reporter Adam Roth spent the day in the Walt Disney World theme parks yesterday and has plenty of newsworthy photos to share with us (mostly of Town Square Theater with a hint of Tiki Room):
Sign pointing guests inside
Destinations Officially Announced for Star Tours: The Adventures Continue
From Imagineer Tom Fitzgerald on the Disney Parks Blog: It won’t be long now before Star Tours re-launches and “The Adventures Continue” at both Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and Disneyland Resort in California! But where in the galaxy are we going? We know a lot of you have been wondering and asking, and today we are happy … Read more
Robert Ashburn’s 3/30/11 Magic Kingdom Photo Report
WDWNT Reporter Robert Ashburn visited the Magic Kingdom yesterday to attend the soft-opening of Town Square Theater, but believe it or not, there is other stuff going on at the park! Who would have though? Anyway, here are some other newsworthy photos from the Magic Kingdom
The covers for “The Magic, The Memories, and You!” projectors still look out of place…
Video Walkthrough of Town Square Theater
WDWNT Reporter Banks Lee visited Town Square Theater at the Magic Kingdom during it’s soft opening on March 30th and has a video walkthrough of the experience in both the Mickey and Princess meet and greets:
Town Square Theater Soft-Opens to Guests!
Town Square Theater on Main Street U.S.A. at the Magic Kingdom held some soft openings yesterday to welcome the very first guests to the new homes of Mickey Mouse and the Disney Princesses. We have a ton of photos from WDWNT Reporters Robert Ashburn and Taylor Martina to share with you. Keep in mind that they both made several trips through the lines at the new location, so these photos are presented in the order they were taken. Basically, you will see that we go in circles from entrance, to meet and greet, to entrance over and over again. We would have attempted to sort all of these photos together in order, but we really wanted to get this information out to you as soon as possible. Without any further ado, here is an in-depth look at Town Square Theater:
Wait times sign for Mickey inside. Don’t expect to see this wait very often…
Now Departing: More Star Tours Destination Hinting
From Imagineer Tom Fitzgerald on the Disney Parks Blog: Recently, we talked about the characters you’ll meet in Star Tours – The Adventures Continue. Since then, there’s been a lot of speculation about where we’ll meet those characters. Well, stay tuned. While the Star Tours Company does fly to many destinations (as you can see in the … Read more
Delving into the D.O.R.K. Project Florida: A Whole New Disney World
This is a reprint from the first print issue of WDWNT: The Magazine Delving into the D.O.R.K. Project Florida: A Whole New Disney World Discovering the world of Disney books, documents, and ephemera By Jackie Steele Most Disney fans are very familiar with Walt Disney’s “EPCOT Film,” in which he outlines plans for the Experimental … Read more