Some interesting figures in the Orlando Sentinel about how the price of air travel to Orlando is actually dropping while rising for most other destinations. This may do something to keep seats filled with leisure travelers, but I think it’s the number of seats that… Read More »Cost of Air Travel to Orlando dropping, good news for Disney World?
Are you tired, listless? Do you scan your iPod looking for something new? Does your playlist need a shot in the arm? Well, HAVE YOU HEARD THIS? This week let’s talk about the best Walt Disney World planning podcast around, WDWToday. The WDWToday podcast is… Read More »WDWToday – Have You Heard This – Disney Fan Podcast Review
The UCF Student paper reports on the closing of all the clubs at Pleasure Island and the effect that will have on the larger percentage of the student body that works at Disney. “My friends, co-workers and my boyfriend, who also works in Animal Kingdom,… Read More »After Adventurer’s Club what next?
Thanks to Blue Sky Disney for pointing out this photo album of the newest Disney Hotel in the world. It’s the Toyko Disneyland Hotel and it opens on Tuesday. It’s an absolutely beautiful hotel full of the sort of amazing detail that will make your… Read More »Best. Disney. Hotel. Ever.
Despite Florida becoming the winter headquarters for much of the north’s population and the migratory destination for countless others, it still remains firmly planted in the traditions of the south. One of those traditions is a strong protectionist argument for the right to bear arms.… Read More »Disney World claims exemption to Florida’s Right to Self Defense At Work Law, Guns Still Banned
If you do make it to Orlando for one of the 2008 Star Wars Weekends at Disney’s Hollywood Studios make sure you stick around until the end of the day for the spoof-tastic Dance Off show. (Check below the cut for the embedded video of this year’s “Dancing With The Star Wars Stars” show.)
If you aren’t able to make it to Orlando you can check in on each weekend’s action with the new Official Star Wars Weekend Podcast. This last weekends guests were the two Boba Fetts.
Toy Story Midway Mania is a new 4-D video game opening soon at Disneyland and Walt Disney World resorts. Guests ride through a series of Midway games, each with a different concept related to a Toy Story character, and use a unique ‘pull-string cannon’ to launch various projectiles at various targets and easter eggs in order to score points and be awarded a virtual prize.
What puts the Disney touch on this game is the great design of the queue and loading area and the amazing integration of 3-D and 4-D (real world) effects to raise the experience above something you could otherwise find at home in your living room. That and the addition of the characters from Pixar’s popular Toy Story series.
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I have a long review for Toy Story Midway Mania going up later today. But first I thought you might like to see some of the fun facts behind Disney’s newest attraction. Each ride vehicle weighs as much as 8,580 Woody dolls. It would take… Read More »Toy Story Midway Mania Fun Facts