Posts Tagged ‘Fantasyland’

A few more words about Fantasyland…

Today’s paper carries a story in which new Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Chairman Tom Staggs confirmed that Disney is redrawing the Fantasyland expansion plans it announced last year. The story arose out of an interview Staggs did with the Orlando Sentinel earlier this week. Obviously, space constraints...

August 13th, 2010 | Fantasyland, Fantasyland construction, Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Disney says Fantasyland expansion plans are changing

Disney is redrawing the sweeping Fantasyland expansion plans it laid out last year, even as bulldozers clear land for the project inside the Magic Kingdom. With the revisions, begun under new Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Chairman Tom Staggs, designers are attempting to rebalance the plans, which initially...

August 12th, 2010 | Fantasyland, Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Last visit to Ariel’s Grotto was memorable for my daughter

Kids, including my daughter, love to make water spray in Ariel's Grotto while their parents wait in line to see the Little Mermaid. (Kristin Ford/Orlando Sentinel) We took a short walk down memory lane yesterday at the Magic Kingdom to visit Ariel’s Grotto and Pooh’s Playful Spot...

April 12th, 2010 | A Mom and The Mouse, Featured, Kristin Ford | Read More

Disney picks general contractors to run Fantasyland expansion

Walt Disney World has picked a pair of construction firms to lead an overhaul of the Magic Kingdom’s Fantasyland section, the biggest-yet expansion of the Orlando resort’s oldest and busiest theme park. Disney has hired Barton Malow Co. of Southfield, Mich., and Birmingham, Ala.-based Hoar...

February 26th, 2010 | Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Will Mickey and Minnie be homeless at Disney World?

Mickey's Country House in Disney World's Magic Kingdom will be demolished when Fantasyland is redeveloped. (Photo from wikipedia.org.) Construction on the new Mickey and Minnie meet-and-greet at Town Square Expo Hall is set to begin soon, our friends at wdwmagic.com report. At this stage,...

February 1st, 2010 | A Mom and The Mouse, Featured, Kristin Ford | Read More

Another look at Fantasyland expansion at Magic Kingdom

Dueling Dumbos has a certain Hidden Mickey look going in the model. Our friends at Stitch Kingdom have posted a picture of a 3-D model of the upcoming Fantasyland expansion at Magic Kingdom. Click here for the SK observations. Below are the pics of the model and previously released (by Disney) rendering....

January 21st, 2010 | Dewayne Bevil, News, Pictures | Read More

Disney begins signing up contractors for Fantasyland redo

Walt Disney World is starting to hand out contracts for the Fantasyland expansion it has planned in the Magic Kingdom. The resort recently signed up Birmingham, Ala.-based Hoar Construction to do site development work for the project. The Fantasyland overhaul is expected to take about four years to complete. Hoar,...

December 8th, 2009 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Magic Kingdom: An unexpected birthplace of bubbles

Would you be surprised if the trash at Disney World were squeaky-clean? Of course, this photo is a bit of that Disney magic: a bubble-making trash can that cranks up early to greet incoming guests to Fantasyland at the Magic Kingdom theme park. I’m told that any sighting of Hidden Mickeys...

November 18th, 2009 | Dewayne Bevil, Pictures | Read More

Disney uses its theme parks as it tries to make its newest princess a star

Princess Tiana talks with guests during a meet-and-greet at the Magic Kingdom. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel) The Walt Disney Co.’s newest princess doesn’t arrive in movie theaters for another month, but she is already easy to find at Walt Disney World. Theme-park guests can meet Princess...

November 11th, 2009 | Featured, Jason Garcia, News | Read More

Magic Kingdom: Pictures from a Sunday stroll

Poinsettias are front and center at Magic Kingdom entrance. Sunday we walked through Magic Kingdom park, admiring the first round of holiday decorations, but we also got an eyefull of (still-closed) Space Mountain, Princess Tiana in action, perhaps a pinch of tomorrow’s Fantasyland and a couple...

November 9th, 2009 | Dewayne Bevil, Pictures | Read More