Tom Corless

Tom has been regularly visiting the Walt Disney World® Resort from the time he was 4 months old. While he has made countless visits in the last 28 years, he did not become a truly active member in the Disney fan community until the summer of 2007, when he decided to launch the WDW News Today website and podcast. Tom has since become an Orlando-local and is a published author on Walt Disney World. Contact Tom at [email protected].

New Pool About to Spring Up in Saratoga

From the Disney Parks Blog: Hi everyone…a cool new zero-entry feature pool will be ready for summer fun at Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort and Spa — in 2011. It’ll take the place of one of the resort’s “quiet pools” at the Walt Disney World resort and will be nearly three times as big. I think it will … Read more

Disney Legend Fess Parker Passes Away

From E! Online: The King of the Wild Frontier is gone. Fess Parker, the strapping star who played Davy Crockett in the hugely popular Disney television show of the 1950s, died today of natural causes at age 85, his family announced. The actor, whose classic roles also included the son-consoling dad in Old Yeller and … Read more

The NEW DLNT Podcast Episode 10 (3/15/10) – Enhanced Edition

An enhanced podcast is a podcast with added features that standard podcasts do not have. Enhanced podcasts include advancements such as Chapter listings, this allows you to skip through segments or see all of the contents of this show. Enhanced podcasts also contain images allowing you to differ the chapters by or actually see a … Read more

The NEW DLNT Podcast Episode 10 (3/15/10) – Normal Edition

Join me, Sean Dickey, and a cast including Brian Martsolf, Jamie Nakagiri, Stephen Katherman, and Homan Hashemzadeh for a variety show dedicated to the Disneyland Resort and its many fans. Plenty of Disneyland information and fun awaits you on this edition of the Disneyland News Today Podcast!!! On this week’s show, we’ll have the return … Read more

Disney Legend Fess Parker Passes Away

From E! Online: The King of the Wild Frontier is gone. Fess Parker, the strapping star who played Davy Crockett in the hugely popular Disney television show of the 1950s, died today of natural causes at age 85, his family announced. The actor, whose classic roles also included the son-consoling dad in Old Yeller and … Read more

Jose Castillo’s 3/5-3/6/10 WDW Photo Report

WDWNT Network’s Jose Castillo recently visited the Walt Disney World Resort and has a few newsworthy photos to share with us from his trip:

Some of the WDWNT staff attended the D23 First Anniversary on March 5th at the Magic Kingdom

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Cantina de San Angel Update

From the Disney Parks Blog: Another construction wall at Epcot, this time it’s at the Mexico Pavilion along the World Showcase Lagoon waterfront. The popular Cantina de San Angel restaurant is expanding, and when the wall comes down there will be 400 seats – both al fresco and air-conditioned seating for lunch and a coveted … Read more

First Look at the “Tronorail”

WDWNT Reporter Jose Eber was able to take a few photos of Monorail Coral being “wrapped” into a Tron Legacy light cycle, as was announced earlier today:

Light Cycles to Illuminate “Highway in the Sky”

From the Disney Parks Blog: Nope, your eyes are not deceiving you…that’s a light cycle from the Tron universe on our “highway in the sky.” And today, we’re sharing a first look at the attention-grabbing art coming to the Walt Disney World Resort. The transformed trains will be visible on the Epcot monorail line as early as … Read more

Disney Announces “Premier Passport” for U.S. Parks

From the Disney Parks Blog: Breaking news…we just announced during Disney’s annual shareholders meeting that a new premium annual pass for admission to the parks at both Disneyland Resort and the Walt Disney World Resort will be offered beginning Thursday. It’s called “Disney Premier Passport” and it’ll feature the same benefits you get with the “premium” annual … Read more

D23 Announces Destination D 2010 & D23 Expo 2011

BURBANK, Calif. – March 10, 2010 – It’s a milestone year for the Disneyland® Resort, and D23: The Official Community for Disney Fans is celebrating with the premiere of DESTINATION D, a brand-new, two-day event exclusively for D23 Members that illuminates Disney’s fascinating history. D23 announced its latest members-only event on its first anniversary – … Read more

Disney Announces “Premier Passport” for U.S. Parks

From the Disney Parks Blog: Breaking news…we just announced during Disney’s annual shareholders meeting that a new premium annual pass for admission to the parks at both Disneyland Resort and the Walt Disney World Resort will be offered beginning Thursday. It’s called “Disney Premier Passport” and it’ll feature the same benefits you get with the … Read more

D23 Announces Destination D 2010 & D23 Expo 2011

BURBANK, Calif. – March 10, 2010 – It’s a milestone year for the Disneyland® Resort, and D23: The Official Community for Disney Fans is celebrating with the premiere of DESTINATION D, a brand-new, two-day event exclusively for D23 Members that illuminates Disney’s fascinating history. D23 announced its latest members-only event on its first anniversary – … Read more

A Closer Look at the 2010 Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival

Instead of posting one enormous photo report from our latest trip to Walt Disney World, we decided to break it up a little bit. The 2010 Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival began at Epcot on March 3rd despite an incredibly cold winter in Central Florida. Don’t be deceived by the photos below, these pictures are from this year’s festival, Disney just recycled a number of the topiaries and such from 2009. We hope you enjoy these photos taken by Jose Castillo and Tom Corless:

The theme for this year is “The Great Outdoors”, even though this is the only area that showcases that theme

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New Concept Art of the Fantasyland Forest Expansion

While the presentation about the Fantasyland Expansion during the D23 First Anniversary party did not allow photography of any kind, there were ten pieces of artwork on display at Ariel’s Grotto during the party, some new, some you may have seen before: The overall view, nothing new here Old concept art of Dumbo’s Circus area … Read more

Video of Updated Frontierland Hoedown

Although it is not listed on any Magic Kingdom times guides yet, Disney is testing a new version of the long-running Frontierland Hoedown daily at 9:40, 10:40, & 11:40AM daily. Here is a video of the updated show taken by WDWNT Reporter Banks Lee:

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