The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar will make its debut tonight on the Disney Channel. The Lion Guard is a spin-off television series of the 1994 film, The Lion King. The series will launch tonight as an hour long television film titled, The Lion… Read More »The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar Premiers Tonight!
Every day there’s a performance Nia Holloway arrives early to the theater to warm up for her role as Nala in the touring production of Disney’s The Lion King. Here she shares with us some of her rituals and a look at the makeup process… Read More »Transforming into Nala from Disney’s The Lion King Musical
Fortuna Major is a group of six friends who connect via the internet to make beautiful music together. Their latest song is “I Just Can’t Wait to be King” from Disney’s The Lion King and it translates rather well into a cappella — beat box… Read More »Videopolis: “I Just Can’t Wait to be King” from The Lion King – A Cappella.
In its 18th year, Disney’s The Lion King remains king of the pride as one of the most popular stage musicals in the world. Since its Broadway premiere on November 13, 1997, 22 global productions have been seen by more than 80 million people and,… Read More »Disney’s The Lion King musical celebrates major milestone
Thanks to some very kind individuals I knew, I was able to hangout with the “Pocahontas” crew at Walt Disney Feature Animation a couple times and was invited to the wrap party for the movie. I got a close look at some of the politics… Read More »How internal rivalry at Disney animation impacted The Lion King and Pocahontas
When the casts of Disney on Broadway’s Aladdin and The Lion King musicals were experiencing a flight delay on a trip to Orlando, what else could they do but put on a little bit of a show. The two casts held a sing-off right in… Read More »The casts of two Disney Broadway musicals get stuck in an airport and we’re the winners
Today we complete our tour of Disney’s Art of Animation Resort. We had our first glimpse at the Finding Nemo section when the resort first opened. Recently we returned for a walking tour of the three other sections, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid and today we’ll visit Cars.
The Cars section is by far my favorite at the resort. It feels the most like you’re in the movie with life-size sets right out of Radiator Springs and nearly life-size cars right out of the movie. That probably explains why I took a ton of photos. There are just so many details, it takes a lot of photos to capture them all:
When Disney’s Art of Animation resort opened in 2012, it was the first new hotel to be opened on property in seven years. The resort took over what was the “Legendary Years” of Pop Century Resort, that had been sitting undeveloped for nearly 10 years. Some of the sections that had already started construction were left to rot becoming known as Disney’s “Ghost Hotel.”
The good news is that Disney took extra care to make Art of Animation a terrific resort. I’m particularly impressed with the resorts themed sections, which consist of Finding Nemo, Cars, The Lion King, and The Little Mermaid.
It had been a few years since I’d been back to the resort, but we stopped in for lunch and took a tour of the resort last week. Turns out the place still looks very good.
Head below a look at The Lion King section to get this tour started:
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