Interesting news from the Hong Kong Disneyland Facebook today. They just posted this picture as an ad for trading at their park. They are calling this figure a Cast Trader. As far as we can tell it’s a cast trader, not a cast trader variant. The two variants to the Disneyland 6 figure set are … Read more
From Steven Miller of the Disney Parks Blog: I recently visited California, where I had one of the most amazing experiences of my Disney career. Imagineer Vanessa Hunt gave me a tour of the Walt Disney Imagineering Art Library vault in Glendale. This place houses the original art of the most iconic images from Disney Parks’ … Read more
From Erin Glover of the Disney Parks Blog: As we have done in the past, we wanted to give our loyal Disney Parks Blog readers a heads-up that ticket prices at the Disneyland Resort will be increasing, starting on May 20. This summer is one of the most anticipated times in the resort’s history, and a visit to … Read more
The Fantasmic 20th Anniversary Pass holder event features unique merchandise, park hours past midnight, an added 5 minute documentary before the show and some of the character cast gets together as the park closes at Main Street Station! No new changes to the show. It will still, as of Monday’s showing, be the same Fantasmic … Read more
Let’s have a grand welcome to Larry Delceg! Our newest member of the DLNT crew! He’s going to be helping get us all our photo reports. This photo report covers DCA, Downtown Disney, and Disneyland. Larry provides images of parades in both parks, updates on the progress in DCA, and colorful shots from our favorite … Read more
Cold, Rainy day at the resort today (April, Friday the 13th, 2012), which always makes for the best days in terms of crowds. We start in Downtown Disney. It’s pretty obvious what is being covered up at the lego store. Maybe it will be a Murphy V. Mickey if we are lucky. New Lightening McQueen/Tow … Read more
DLNT Reporter Tim Alcoser was at the Disneyland Resort last night and captured some great photos of Buena Vista Street. Trolley wire is set up down Buena Vista Street and Hollywoodland. Fountain up and running on Buena Vista Street! Beauty shots of Cars Land at night. Enjoying some World of Color Not the least bit … Read more
Take a look at Tim’s Photo Report on his recent trip to Disneyland & DCA Some painters along Main Street I decided to drop by because I realized I had never been to Disneyland during the opening rope drop, so I stopped by and waited with the crowds. There are a lot of baby ducks … Read more
Photo Report from Hayley’s recent trip to the Disneyland Resort Its a beautiful day Upper scaffolding is gone. Matterhorn is looking pretty. Love the new Cars themed Monorail Vinylmation Such cute little Disney Ducks Looking forward to Carnation Cafe reopening this summer LaBrea’s refurb Clever new Donald T-shirt Cinderella, Gus, & Jaq in Small World … Read more
There are plenty of chances throughout the park to cast your lot among the multi-millions for a chance to win a Honda CRV. Monorail Orange pulling into Tomorrowland Station. All smiles aboard Big Thunder Mountain Railroad! The Golden Horseshoe since it’s restoration work. After the big drop on Splash Mountain. I was just experimenting with … Read more
Update: 3/16/12 Disney’s Vinylmation Blog has cleared up the Cars Monorail news. The series will be a blind boxed set of Cars characters as Monorails! I love this idea and really hope more characters are used in the future. They will retail for $11.95. Each figure is 4.5″ with the artwork designed by Maria Clapsis … Read more
With the success of the recent Soundsational parties just for annual passholders, another party is being held soon and passholders should see invites hitting their inboxes any time now: The Holiday Fantasy party is being billed as “A special party to kick off the holiday season for a select group of Annual Passholders. Arrive early on the … Read more
Time to hit the road for the D23 Expo and an exciting, high-octane look at one of the largest projects ever created for the Disney Parks! In this presentation, John Lasseter and Roger Gould from Pixar and Kathy Mangum, Kevin Rafferty, & Jennifer Mok from Walt Disney Imagineering take us on a in-depth exploration of … Read more
While not related to Walt Disney World, one of the great panels presented by Disney Parks and Resorts at the D23 Expo was “A Good Look at Buena Vista Street”. In case you aren’t up on your Disneyland Resort news, Buena Vista Street is going to be the new entry area for Disney California Adventure … Read more
Ok, so I quoted Homer Simpson before Mr. Disney… but come on! That episode was hilarious. The Disneyland Monorail was the first transportation system of its kind in America. It was based on a system built by the Alweg company and discovered by Walt Disney while traveling in Germany. It first appeared in Disneyland Park … Read more
While not Disney World related, Disney California Adventure debuted the “4th of Color” pre-show for World of Color last night to celebrate the holiday weekend. We figured you might enjoy a look at the latest addition to the show, courtesy of Disneyland News Today & the WDWNTube:
