Today is the last day fans can enter to win the ultimate Grand Prize for the, “My Princess Moment-—The Story Begins With You” online video contest. The Grand Prize is a trip to Kensington Palace in London on Oct. 2 to welcome Rapunzel into the… Read More »Win a Trip to London to see Rapunzel’s induction as a Disney Princess
Steampunk Belle
I love Steampunk and I really love Disney, so when Karen Hallion combined the two into a series of portraits she had my full attention. Hallion plan’s on doing a series of 12 Steampunk Disney girls, then move on to a series of Steampunk Villians. She tells me that next up is Steampunk Tinkerbell.
Steampunk Jessica Rabbit
Two more great steampunk princesses below the jump:
Disney World has been experimenting with lightly themed rooms at its resorts for the last few years. You may have stayed in a Pirates or Little Mermaid themed room at the Caribbean Beach Resort. They’re even building a whole new resort (Art of Animation) with… Read More »Disney World reveals plans for Princess themed rooms
Disney animators often take full advantage of that thing called ‘artistic license’ when they’re creating the animated characters we know and love. This appears to have really bugged one artist who took to Deviant Art to show how four Disney Princesses would look if their… Read More »Historically Accurate Disney Princesses
If you haven’t yet seen it, start at part one of our exploration of Mickey’s new Town Square digs. We’ll going into more detail down below. For those who already saw it, welcome back and away we go.
Starting in the lobby, there is a great new ‘mosaic’ on the floor. The 1901 is a hidden reference to the year of Walt Disney’s birth. Thankfully Disney has resisted the urge to use every square foot of the lobby for selling things. The lobby, as it stands now, has a good balance between the waiting area for Tony’s restaurant, the photo shop, and the entrance to the meet and greet queues. The flow worked nicely.
If you look in the door of the queue to see how long the wait is, you’ll get a pretty good feel for the Mickey Mouse queue. As I mentioned, it never grew over 10 minutes the Saturday we were there. But if you look to the back and see no queue for the princesses, keep in mind that there is an extra hidden room that hides a wait of up to 35 minutes (depending on Fastpass volume). I know the princesses are only in this location temporarily, but this blue room is worse than soulless, it’s mind numbing. Can they at least bring in one or two monitors and some wall art like they had in the old location? Better yet, have a play area for the kids and a queue for the adults like at Pooh.
Once you get through this area, you may have an even longer wait in the single room for the Princesses. Which brings me to my other chief complaint about the Princess Meet and Greet. Because there is only one room for the Princesses (as far as I could tell), they only way to speed up the queue is to reduce the interaction time with each Princess. The day I went the queue was pretty small (never longer than 30 minutes) so the the Princesses were generous with their time. But I can see pressure turning this into a photo factory.
Alright follow me below the jump back to Mickey, where the magic is happening:
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There appears to be an uncanny valley effect with Princess cakes. Decorations can be so close to good and yet so far. Freehand hand-piped chocolate decorations featuring Cinderella, “The Princess & The Frog,” & Belle from “Beauty & The Beast” from Tony Albanese. While the… Read More »Disney Princess Cakes
If you’re one of those people who isn’t afraid to trust their iPad to their children, then Disney Publishing has a new app for you. They’ve just launched the original Princess Dress-Up: My Sticker Book App on the App Store. Children will enter the magical… Read More »Disney adds Princess Dress-Up App to Apple iPad App Store
I present for you tonight two ideas for attraction updates that I humbly submit would fit perfectly with the needs of Walt Disney World at this very moment. One idea is more serious than the other, I leave that for you to determine which is… Read More »Two New Attraction Ideas, Humbly Submitted