Well, if you didn’t get a chance to ride Space Mountain before midnight last night, be prepared to wait until this fall to get your next fix of intergalactic rollercoaster fun!
The details of what exactly is being done during this time still haven’t been revealed, so we’ll just have to see if this is simply [...]
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Here’s an interesting article from Thursday’s Orlando Sentinel that talks about a new technological advance recently introduced at Disney World to help visually-impaired guests enjoy the parks…
Called “audio description,” the service provides visually impaired vacationers with a narrative depiction of the scenes that unfold as they move through rides such as the Magic Kingdom’s Haunted [...]
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From AllEars.Net…
I’ve never eaten here before, but this seems like it could make for a pretty neat addition to an evening meal!
Continue reading about A new “Little Chef” joins the crew of Les Chefs de France
Now that I’ve read the press release, this just seems like such an obvious fit – combining the fun interactivity of the Wii with the great game design behind the latest addition to Disney’s parks both in Florida and California! The couple of screenshots that have been released thus far look pretty much identical to [...]
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From AllEars.Net:
By selecting the payment option, Guests will pay for the cost of a 1-Day, 1-Park ticket upon purchase and will pay the remaining amount over the next 12 months, with no finance charges applied. For example, a Guest purchasing a Southern California Select Annual Passport for $134 would pay $69 at the time of [...]
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Talk about a good idea executed poorly – I understand that an awful lot of Passholders are upset / frustrated / downright angry about the Mouse’s latest Passholder-only events. Earlier this week, many of us received e-mails announcing a couple of special tours coming up in December for Passholders only – a backstage tour [...]
I can only hope that my existing phone will support the new features…
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Teams Up with Verizon to Bring Mobile Magic to U.S. Parks
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Walt-Disney-Parks-Resorts-Teams/
I remember getting pretty excited about this kind of stuff a while back when the iPhone first came out – it just seemed like the perfect platform to [...]
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The first shovels hit the dirt on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 with 21 acres at Ko Olina Resort & Marina in West Oahu! I have no clue where that is, but I’ll bet it’s tropical…
http://losangeles.bizjournals.com/losangeles/stories/2008/11/10/daily16.html
As if we didn’t already have enough reasons to desperately want to buy into the Disney Vacation Club, here’s one [...]
There’s been a lot of good talk online about the new promotion that Disney announced yesterday to get folks into the parks over the first half of the new year. I first read about this deal over at MousePlanet, but since then WDW Today has done a show about it and Jim Hill also [...]
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This was kind of amusing, albeit it would’ve made for a much better article had they actually included a photo of the specially-decorated Tinker Bell 737 instead of merely a flight attendant wearing pixie wings…
Southwest Adds Pixie Dust in Deal with Disney
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/nov/01/010000/bz-southwest-adds-pixie-dust-in-deal-with-disney/
Last week some changes were also made to Mickey’s Toontown Fair at the Magic [...]
Continue reading about Tinker Bell One Takes to the Skies, and a little rant…