‘Pictures’

Now in bloom: Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival opens

One of the new topiaries this year represents Vidia, the fastest flyer of the Disney Fairies. I wish I could say spring was in the air this morning for the official opening day of the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival, but all I can really say is brrrrr. At least it LOOKS like spring,...
March 3rd, 2010 | Dewayne Bevil, Featured, Park Tips, Pictures | Read More

New construction photos of Disney Dream released

The new Disney Dream slated to come to Port Canaveral in 2011 is making progress under construction in Papenburg, Germany. The Disney Parks blog shows us two new images from the construction, noting the funnel with the Disney Cruise Line logo on the site, while currently white, will indeed become iconic...
March 2nd, 2010 | Disney Cruise Line, Featured, News, Pictures | Read More

Disney’s Animal Kingdom welcomes baby gorilla

This may be the smallest gorilla you’re ever going to see. The newborn, arriving Feb. 19, 2010, is the latest addition to Disney’s Animal Kingdom. The baby was born to first-time mother Kashata and remains naturally clingy. So much so that Disney officials aren’t sure of the baby’s...
March 1st, 2010 | Dewayne Bevil, Featured, News, Pictures | Read More

Star sightings: Eva La Rue, Shawn Johnson

Minnie Mouse has been busy posing with stars lately. Here she is with Eva La Rue  of CSI: Miami and formerly of All My Children at Magic Kingdom with her daughter Kaya on Monday. (Photo by Gene Duncan/Walt Disney Co.) And here she is with Olympic gymnast/gold medalist Shawn Johnson during an appearance...
March 1st, 2010 | Celebrities, Dewayne Bevil, Pictures | Read More

> Photos: More star sightings at ESPN The Weekend

After Thursday night’s gala rebranding ceremony at the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex, athletes and broadcast stars were on hand during the first day of the 2010 edition of ESPN The Weekend, at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Friday. Star sightings at the park included Cincinatti Bengals wide...
February 27th, 2010 | ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, Featured, Pictures | Read More

Baby white-cheeked gibbon joins the crew at Disney’s Animal Kingdom

Another baby has arrived at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. A male, white-cheeked gibbon arrived Feb. 2, to mother Melaka. Theme park guests can see the newborn (name TBA), mother and two sisters in their habitat near the Kali River Rapids attraction. Here’s a miracle-of-nature gibbon factoid from...
February 15th, 2010 | Dewayne Bevil, News, Pictures | Read More

Picture it: Joe Jonas, Demi Lovato, Mary J. Blige, more at Disney World events

Star sightings aglore over the past few days at Walt Disney World. Singers Joe Jonas and Demi Lovato helped plant seedlings during Disney Parks’ “Celebrating Family Volunteers” event at Epcot on Thursday. The duo sang a couple of songs during the evening portion of the event. (Photo...
February 15th, 2010 | Celebrities, Dewayne Bevil, Pictures | Read More

Picture it: Scenes from Epcot eatery construction

The purpose of my walk around Epcot today was to look at the construction going on for eateries in World Showcase. It was more lovely than I imagined, despite the impending-doom-style clouds ahead. These are not your father’s construction walls. On the back side of the Italy pavilion is construction...
February 5th, 2010 | Dewayne Bevil, Dining, Pictures | Read More

Picture it: Mike & Mike coach the Globetrotters

ESPN personalities Mike Greenberg (left) and Mike Golic pose in honorary Harlem Globetrotters jerseys. The duo, who host Mike & Mike in the Morning on ESPN Radio, will coach the Globetrotters during an appearance this month at Disney World as part of the rebranding of its sports complex into the...
February 1st, 2010 | Celebrities, Dewayne Bevil, ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, Pictures | Read More

Picture it: ESPN branding now in place at Wide World entrance

Signs of change are in the air at Walt Disney World. Workers added the ESPN logo to the signage for Disney’s sports complex at the intersection of Victory Way and Osceola Parkway on Thursday. The official renaming to ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex kicks in with a grand reopening on Feb. 25....
January 28th, 2010 | Dewayne Bevil, ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex, News, Pictures | Read More
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