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Wishing you all a Happy and wonderful Thanksgiving!!! I have been MIA for awhile now so I'm going to try and get this blog back on a schedule and post more often!
What's New Wednesday
I'm back! With that being said, I want to start a new series or theme for Wednesday and this new series will be called...What's New Wednesday!!
What's New Wednesday will be a weekly roundup that consists of all the new happenings coming and going at the Walt Disney World Resort. I will cover everything from attraction closings, refurbishments, character meet and greets, which characters we'll be saying so long to (whether it be for a short time or for good), restaurant's, events and all those other things we need to know about in order to have the best vacation ever at The Happiest Place on Earth!
Dream Along With Mickey
In the first instalment of What’s New Wednesday we will be saying goodbye to one of the most popular stage shows at the Walt Disney World Resort, Dream Along With Mickey. With an incredible run of practically 9 years (hands down making it the longest running Castle Forecourt Stage show in the history of the park) in September, the time for an update has come.
This summer, the all-new live stage show “Mickey’s Royal Friendship Faire” will grace the Castle Forecourt stage at the Magic Kingdom in the Walt Disney World Resort with magic, music and merriment! With the marvelous backdrop of Cinderella Castle, Mickey and his friends will welcome some beloved characters from a few of Disney’s newest classics: “The Princess and the Frog,” “Tangled” and “Frozen.”
In the new show called “Mickey’s Royal Friendship Faire,” Mickey and his troupe of Merry Makers have been prepping to host a joyous festival and have travelled far and wide to invite friends from other lands to join in on their celebration. From the Land of the Bewitching Bayous, Goofy has invited Tiana, Naveen and Louis to add a little spice of New Orleans jazz to the party. From the Land of the Enchanted Woods in the kingdom of Corona, Donald Duck brings some new friends he met at the Snuggly Duckling, and Daisy introduces us to her special guests, Rapunzel and Flynn Rider. Finally, Mickey shares a surprise with Minnie, as he has traveled to the Land of the Majestic Mountains of Arendelle to invite Olaf, Anna and Elsa, who contributes a blast of her icy powers. It all culminates in a grand dance, as the Merry Makers invite all their special guests to join in the fun on this special day!
Marking the first appearances by Tiana and Rapunzel in a show on the castle stage, “Mickey’s Royal Friendship Faire” brings to life beloved Disney stories both classic and contemporary in a tantalizing performance featuring an original song, memorable music, lively dancing and special effects of magic.
Watch for “Mickey’s Royal Friendship Faire” to make its debut in summer 2016! As for Dream Along With Mickey the final performance will be on April 2, 2016 so be sure to catch it before it’s gone for good.
(pictures via Disney)
Character Meet and Greets
Character meet and greets are one of the best things at Disney World! I love the interaction and getting to rub elbows with some of my favorite characters from the movies I absolutely adore so let’s chat about that next. This has some pretty great news and some news that some of you may not like depending on how much you love these people.
Good news first! There will be two new character greeting experiences debuting this spring at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, where you step into the scenes with some of your most beloved Disney characters, as they live out their Hollywood dreams. Premiering in spring 2016 in the Echo Lake district at Disney’s Hollywood Studios is the all-new Celebrity Spotlight, the perfect place for a dream encounter with one of Disney’s latest stars. Get ready WDW fans, because the warm hug loving snowman Olaf, from Disney’s hit film “Frozen.” Is finally coming to Disney World! Olaf will be living out his dream “In Summer,” chilling on the beach and ready with warm hugs for all his friends!
Opening this spring as well, is “Mickey and Minnie Starring in Red Carpet Dreams,” located just off Commissary Lane near the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant. Here you can join Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse, as they’re living the dream as A-list Hollywood stars. You’ll walk the red carpet, step into a scene with Minnie, where she appears as a Tinsel Town starlet in a ritzy setting straight out of a lush and colorful musical extravaganza. Nearby, you will find Mickey portraying his iconic role of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice from “Fantasia.” For Disney character fans, this spring at Disney’s Hollywood Studios promises to be a dream come true!
Now for the not so great news as some of you may or may not have known, Lady Tremaine (you know the evil stepmom from Cinderella?) well she and her daughters have always met in the Magic Kingdom at the new Fantasyland wall or at the side of Cinderella castle. It saddens me to say that Lady Tremaine will no longer be meeting guest in the Magic Kingdom, but I’m almost positive that the step sisters will continue to meet at both locations. However if you are an evil ne'er do-well loving individual and want to meet her along with her daughters then you can do so by booking a reservation at 1900 Park Fare at the Grand Floridian!! As an added bonus if you go to see here at 1900 you’ll also get to meet Cinderella and the ever so handsome Prince Charming *swoon*, plus they have delicious food!
(all pictures via Disney)
Share Your Ears
Hello Friends! Disney announced a marvelous campaign earlier today. Disney's new campaign is called "Share Your Ears", so what exactly is Share Your Ears? Well what this is, is that Disney wants us to help them unlock more magic. So in celebration of the Disneyland Resort Diamond Celebration, Disney Parks will donate $5 to Make-A-Wish for every 'ear photo' (Mickey Ear Hats, headbands, ect.) you share on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #ShareYourEars! What are you waiting for get creative and start sharing those ear photos!! Also if you'd like to learn more, be sure to check out the link below.
http://shareyourears.org/
Character Interactions
One of my favorite things to do at Walt Disney World, is to meet the characters!! Yes it may seem a bit childish to those who don’t “get it” aka the magic of Disney that brings out the kid in all of us, BUT you’re at Disney and NOTHING there is “just for kids” by any means. While you do have a few special things for the kiddos that are kid only, Disney is for kids and kids at heart which I know I’ll always be because honestly no one wants to grow up completely! Today I will be sharing some of my most memorable character interactions and which characters I think have the best meet and greet!
Baloo & King Louis
This is totally going to seem like an odd pick, but these two have one of the best meet and greets EVER!! I kid you not, I had the best interaction and experience with them. This happened in December of 2014 it was our first day on property, because we had flown in that day and decided to go to Animal Kingdom because for us that is a half day park. Well we get there and in all the years we have been going to WDW we hadn’t meet King Louis and it had been ages since we had seen Baloo so my mom and I hopped in line (dad sat this one out) mostly because it was sort and we had some time to kill before our fastpass. Anyway it was finally our turn and Baloo and King Louis were hysterical! They were dancing around so I thought “ya know what I’m gonna have fun and dance with them!” see I’m not one who puts myself out there or likes having the attention on me so this was a bit of a big step for me. Any who we were having a blast just dancing around and at one I was dancing with King Louis and Baloo interrupted by coming between us and Louis got “upset”. After we got done dancing I said hello to Baloo and then I turned to Louis and said “Hello King Louis.” and did a little curtsy as well and he loved it!! I can honestly say that those two were absolutely fantastic and that was one of the best character interactions I’ve had to date and that’s saying something. Definitely looking forward to making another trip to Animal Kingdom to see those two again!
Minnie Mouse
Okay so now we are throwing it all the way back to the year 2000 which just so happened to be the year my parents and I took our first WDW trip. The place Liberty Tree Tavern, the character the leading lady herself Minnie Mouse. Now obviously this was back when dinner at Liberty Tree was a character meal and sadly it no longer is, bummer. We have the setting and the character so let’s get to the story, so my parents and I we eating and like most five year old, I was not a fan of the nasty cooked carrots! I was NOT going to eat them at least that’s what I thought and boy oh boy was I sadly mistaken. Now Chip, Dale and Goofy had already stopped by our table and here came Minnie and she was amazing!! We were having a grand time and then she noticed the one thing left on my plate........yup the cooked carrots asked why I hadn’t eaten any of them and I told her I didn’t like them and she wasn’t having any of that, so what did she do? She grabbed my fork put a few carrots on it, did the little choo choo train motion and I ate those suckers because when Minnie feeds you a food you don’t like you just agree and eat them!! That experience happened over fifteen years ago and I will never forget it as long as I live.
Buzz Lightyear
Buzz usually has a somewhat long line, so when I seen that it was fairly short I jumped at the chance to meet him! The last time I seen him I was five so I was dying to see and talk to him again. This happened this past December as well and now that I think about it, this past trip gave us some of the best character interactions we’ve had in a long time! Okay so what happened was it was my turn to meet him and I got up there and this trip I wanted to actually talk with the character, not just get a picture and leave, so I asked him which “button” on his space suite put him into Spanish mode and he pointed to so I then asked him if I could press it and he let me!! I was so thrilled, because I read where people have done this and they had a blast. So I pressed the button and he went into his Spanish mode, stared by doing a little salsa dance and had me grab his had so he could spin and twirl me around and it was seriously so much fun!! So if you have a buzz fan or want to meet him I highly recommend that you ask him about his Spanish mode button!!!
29 years ago today, Walt Disney World clocked in its 200 millionth guest.
Happiest 45th Anniversary to the Magic Kingdom! Opening day was October 1st in 1971.
I think the problem I have most with Tiana's Bayou Adventure on a conceptual level is this idea that Tiana is running an employee owned cooperative in the wake of the actors and writers strikes, Bob Iger's reaction to said strikes, various horror stories from VFX Artists, the increasing awareness of how cast members at the parks have been mistreated, and being set in a resort named after and dedicated to the famously anti-union Walt Disney. I hate to use the term "virtue signalling" but that's honestly how it feels.
Besides, Disney knows their fan base by this point and is likely well aware that this part of the optics of this story's decision will be ignored in favour of discourse surrounding whether Splash Mountain was racist or theories that Disney are too #woke to include Dr Facilier.
Disney magic Kingdom pictures I took when I went there. my feet were fucking killing me