The longtime manager of Reedy Creek Water District, the governmental body Disney had the state set up to make Walt Disney World possible (this is the book to read), has announced that he will be stepping down. Thomas DeWolf is 84 and suffering from diabetes,… Read More »Disney’s Private Government Loses its Manager
Little Monsters prepare, the worlds of Lady Gaga and Walt Disney World collided after the Mistress of Magical Performances took time to visit the Magic Kingdom following a tour stop in Orlando. Above, Grammy Award-winning singer Lady Gaga poses April 16, 2011 with the Evil… Read More »Lady Gaga meets the Evil Queen at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom
According to the Disney Parks Blog, the Easter Bunny and his wife, Mrs. Bunny, will visit the Walt Disney World Resort for to meet with guests in the days leading up to Easter’s annual holiday basket delivery. The Bunnies will do their meeting and greeting… Read More »Visit The Easter Bunny and Mrs. Bunny at the Magic Kingdom
Disney has provided this video highlighting the process of creating and recording a soundtrack for the next attraction to arrive at California Adventure – The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Undersea Adventure. The same attraction will open as part of Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom’s Fantasyland Expansion… Read More »Scoring the new Little Mermaid Attraction
Had a few hours at the Magic Kingdom on Saturday and found quite a bit of change. So much, in fact, that I can’t fit it into one post.
First, they’ve finished the sign over the bridge to Adventureland. Looks really good.
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Time to close some open tabs: The Walt Disney Family Museum’s blog has a story about Tony Walton who worked on sets and costumes on Mary Poppins. It was a good read and I learned a couple new things. The Save Pleasure Island blog has… Read More »Morning Report – Wednesday Wishes Come True
As you may have heard Mickey and Minnie are moving to a new meet and greet location in Town Square at the recently renamed, but not yet open, Town Square Theater. We posted recently about how this will be the first character meet and greet to feature a Fastpass option. There is still quite a bit of construction going on around the area, but rumors of exactly how the Fastpass system will work are beginning to circulate.
A big rumor and some thoughts below the jump:
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We’ve known for some time that an interactive queue is coming to the Haunted Mansion, we even knew that Imagineers were playing around with replacing the Hitchhiking Ghosts with digital projections, but now we have video evidence of what those changes may look like. One… Read More »Big Changes coming to Disney World’s Haunted Mansion