Jason Garcia at the Orlando Sentinel talks with the folks at runDisney and looks at how it’s become a real profit generator for the mouse house. All of them are ultimately designed to feed into one another. Disney says nearly 120,000 runners signed up for… Read More »The Business of runDisney
This is going to be an exciting year for Disney films. For October I’m looking forward to Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie. Burton is revisiting the short film he made in 1984 and expanding it to feature length. I’m liking this new poster that was released too.… Read More »Frankenweenie from Tim Burton gets new Poster
With Part three, we’ve reached the end of this week’s Magic Kingdom update. See part one and part two if you missed them. But there was some breaking news today about New Fantasyland that will help fill up our calendar over the coming months.
First Disney World announced the closing date for Snow White’s Scary Adventures in Fantasyland. May 31st is the final day to ride this 1971 original attraction. It will be replaced later this year with “The Princess Fairy Tale Hall.” Snow White will still have a presence in the park when the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train opens in late 2013 or early 2014. I’m very sad to see the dark ride go, particularly to make way for a meet and greet, but I am excited about the new roller coaster.
Another major timeline update was released today. The plan has always been to open New Fantasyland in stages, even Storybook Circus will open in stages. But now we know that late in March 2012 Storybook Circus will open with one of the two new spinners at Dumbo, the Great Goofini (formerly Goofy’s Barnstormer) and the Fantasyland Train Station. This should help with the flow around Fantasyland and add some much needed kid friendly attractions back into the mix at the Magic Kingdom as summer approaches.
Notice the trees. These new skinny trees replaced the more round ones that have been there for at last 8 years. It’s definitely a different aesthetic, doesn’t look as ‘home town’ as I would hope.
Facade work is still going on here and on the Main Street Bakery.
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Here is a pretty interesting concept to promote the Disney’s Princess Half Marathon. runDisney TV’s Dennis Marsico receives a make over from the Fairy Godmother before he meets Cinderella ahead of Disney’s Princess Half Marathon Weekend. What did you think? Disney’s Princess Half Marathon Weekend… Read More »Cute runDisney Princess Half Marathon Video
Hello! A new poster last night and then a brand new trailer this morning. I told you things were starting to pickup for Pixar’s Brave. This trailer contains about 2 minutes of footage from one scene in the movie. What did you think? Can June… Read More »Brave Trailer Shows Two Minutes of Film
Update: A new trailer with two minutes of footage from the film has been released. Watch it here. It’s been a long time since we’ve heard anything about Pixar’s Brave. But a new Poster was just released and I’m getting excited again. Here is the… Read More »New Brave Poster
We’ve started our tour of the Magic Kingdom in part one of this photo update, but today we get to see even more. Let’s get right to it.
Yeah, so this still happens. When is WDW going to do something with all these bricks? They’re starting to age poorly. Might be time to gear up for a 50th anniversary effort to replace the bricks with new ones… with RFID chips in them so you can find your brick by pointing your phone at it.
Click to embiggen. Not too much more demolished here, except for one unfortunate change.
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With Disney’s Newsies the Musical heading to Broadway, the show has had a few more tweaks to it since its run at the Papermill Playhouse. Some of that is evident in the new Song List: Santa Fe (Prologue)……………..Jack and Crutchie Carrying The Banner ……………Company The… Read More »Newsies The Musical Releases new Song List