Ack! It’s the next weekend and I still haven’t uploaded my last photo update from Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom. But better late than never, right? I knew I wasn’t going to be able to make it back to the park to close down Dumbo… Read More »Magic Kingdom Update – Jan 07, 2012
At Disney’s Animal Kingdom today we spotted this nice looking jacket. The price was a little out of our range, but it looked warm and comfy. Flipping it over, we noticed a nice embossed looking logo on the back: Who can tell me what’s wrong… Read More »Passport to Disney World’s Future
EPCOT’s popular Test Track attraction will be getting an updated theme to go with a new sponsor. Rather than General Motors sponsoring the ride, it will change to Chevrolet. Chevy is, of course, a GM brand, but the company wanted to focus the new experience on just one brand.
Plans call for closing the current GM Test Track in April 2012, with an anticipated opening of Test Track Presented by Chevrolet scheduled for fall 2012. A few months ago updated cars were spotted testing on the track, they’ve obviously been working on this for a while already.
With the credit crisis of 2007-08 sending GM into bankruptcy, there was a question if the 10 year #10 million sponsorship would continue. But Disney and GM worked out a series of arrangements that allowed them to keep their name on the ride until finances could be lined up to renew the arrangement.
The new theme reminds me a little of how the ‘Sum of all Thrills’ attraction works. But the execution will have to be different to keep the capacity of the attraction moving at a quick enough clip.
Eastman Kodak, longtime sponsor of Disney’s domestic theme parks, is reportedly considering bankruptcy any day now. It’s not clear what this means for the parks, Kodak is still the sponsor of the guidemaps that 1o’s of thousands of guests pick up and use every day… Read More »Polaroid Disney World
Walt Disney World says take that Disneyland. Where SoCal residents only get 2 days for $99, Floridians get 3. They can even add an affordable fourth day for just $30 more. For even more memory-making, Florida Residents can also add “Park Hopper” or the “Water… Read More »Walt Disney World offers Florida Residents “Wild for 3-Day Pass” for $99
I didn’t make it to Disney’s Hollywood Studios until late in the season. That was a shame because the park had some great holiday fare this year. The chief of which was the annual mega-christmas light show in the Streets of America. For 2011, the… Read More »Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Denise and Jeff from MouseSteps just posted some of the least scintillating video to ever get me excited about my next trip to the Magic Kingdom. The new Dumbo spinner entered the earliest phases of testing today (they only have four elephants mounted). The speeds… Read More »New Dumbo Spinner Testing in Storybook Circus
There are plenty of Disneyland events that longtime Disney theme parks fans remember fondly (no, the Light Magic ‘premier’ isn’t one of them). One of the most talked about events, even today, is the 60-hour event for the 1987 opening of Star Tours at Disneyland.… Read More »Leap Year Brings Return of Fan Favorite 24-hour Day to Disneyland and Magic Kingdom