Now for the semi-ugly. Mind Games, starring Christian Slater, is Inception, meets Fox’s Touch. It takes us into the Edwards brothers’ firm, who specialize in changing fate. By that, I mean they use the power of influence to change people’s opinions and decisions on different… Read More »ABC Mid-Season Preview: “Mind Games”
Update: Welcome to NY Times readers. Please find the latest news on MyMagic+ and Fastpass+ here. See all of our coverage here.
I went to the Magic Kingdom on Sunday to test how the FastPass+ (FP+) experience would work for someone who has time for a mid-day 4 hour visit. I’m still building back up to theme park conditioning, so anything more than that exhausts me. I’m a local and haven’t yet booked a night at at Disney resort, so I don’t own a MagicBand. Even though FP+ has been running in place of the paper (aka legacy) Fastpass system at Disney’s Animal Kingdom since before Christmas, this was my first experience with FP+.
Given that the FP+ system had been live for a few days already, I made sure to read various discussion boards about other people’s experiences and tried to determine an optimal strategy for myself and my son. Unfortunately, almost nothing turned out the way I thought it would.
My first attempt at accessing FP+ was a strikeout. I had read a few accounts of how guests were able to make FP+ reservations at the TTC via Guest Relations cast members armed with tablets. When we arrived at the TTC via the parking lot tram around 10:45AM there were no Guest Relations cast members to be found. Disney might have just been experimenting with that service earlier in the week. In theory, almost everyone arriving at the TTC is on the way to the Magic Kingdom, but you don’t really know until they’ve actually swiped their cards at the front gate. So I can see why they pulled that option.
After a quick ride on the monorail to the main gate, we immediately headed to the Main Street Opera House to score our FP+ reservations. I entered and went right to the MyMagic+ terminals, which would let me make a FP+ reservation if I was a Disney resort guest, but apparently not if I was a day-guest. There was a separate queue for that. A queue with a long-line as it turns out.Read More »FastPass+ and MagicBands Takeover Walt Disney World – Part I: My Magic Kingdom Experience
The 2nd major trailer for Maleficent – Disney’s retailing of Sleeping Beauty from the evil fairy’s point of view – aired on The Disney Channel over the weekend and is slowly leeching it’s way across the internet. I like how the trailer ties the new… Read More »Maleficent Trailer #2 – A closer tie to the classic
With a new year comes new TV, or phase 2 of the TV season for the major four networks. As the ABC obsessed person that I am, I had the opportunity to check these new shows out early to give you my thoughts on what… Read More »ABC Mid-Season Preview: “Mixology”
After a couple more serious episodes, it’s time for something light. (Frankly, I’m a little surprised we didn’t get a light episode in the middle since that is the usual pattern.) And light is what we are in for with this week’s Castle. The mystery… Read More »Castle Episode Preview: 6-13 – Limelight
Previews for the Disney Aladdin Broadway musical start February 26th, but tickets are on sale now. To help get the world out the marquee has been updated on the New Amsterdam theater complete with the genie in a bottle. Here’s a time-lapse video of the transformation:
Missing The Newsies already? Don’t worry. The show starts is US Tour in October of 2014.
Follow us below the jump for videos highlighting two artists from the show — Director and Choreographer Casey Nicholaw and writer Chad Beguelin.
As we know, Disney now owns Lucasfilm and has committed to finishing the trilogy of movie trilogies, plus a spin-off or two. Fans of Star Wars may debate whether episodes 1-2-3 were any good or not, but we’ve almost all grumpily accepted that they are… Read More »How will Disney and Lucasfilm Adapt the Star Wars Canon for New Films?
Plate from Charles Perrault, one of the first to write down the Cinderella fairy tale.
Disney author Kevin Yee is about to make you an offer you can’t refuse. He’s offering a free online course that will look at fairy tales, their history and Disney’s adaptions.
Among the topics to be covered in the class are:
The class is what is called a Massive Open Online Courses – or MOOC for short – that allows for free college-level content provided to the masses. All you have to do is register and then be available Feb. 10-Mar. 10 to do some light course work and absorb Yee’s expertly provided material.
The full course description is below the jump:
Read More »Free Online Course on Meaning of Disney’s Fairytales