Posts Tagged ‘Magic Kingdom’

Get the royal treatment with ‘Princess and The Frog’ parties, giveaways

Disney Store locations nationwide are hosting parties Saturday in anticipation of the DVD release of 'The Princess and The Frog.' (Kristin Ford/Orlando Sentinel) Disney is celebrating this weekend the DVD release of The Princess and The Frog on Tuesday. Most Disney Stores nationwide — including...

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

Roll the dice and you could land at Disney’s Magic Kingdom

Disney Magic Kingdom game from Parker Brothers is available at Amazon.com. (photo by Kristin Ford/Orlando Sentinel) For our most recent family game night, we traveled to California by way of the Disney Magic Kingdom game. My kids were so excited, you would have thought we were actually getting on a plane...

March 3rd, 2010 | A Mom and The Mouse, Featured, Kristin Ford | Read More

Summer Nightastic set to begin June 6

We have the official dates for Disney World’s Summer Nightastic promotion, which includes the return of the Main Street Electrical Parade. Expect the parade and the new fireworks at the Magic Kingdom beginning June 6. The current end date is set for Aug. 14, but it’s possible that MSEP...

March 2nd, 2010 | Dewayne Bevil, News | 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

I hope Disney’s summer fireworks have plenty of mayhem

Buzz all over the Internet is that Disney’s summer fireworks show at the Magic Kingdom — part of the Disney World Nightastic! promotion — will be the “Magic, Music and Mayhem” fireworks show from the old Pirate & Princess Parties. Officially, Disney tells us the Nightastic!...

February 28th, 2010 | Featured, Matt Palm, Things to do | 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

I’m charged over the return of the Main Street Electrical Parade

I am thrilled that Disney’s Main Street Electrical Parade is returning to the Magic Kingdom for Nightastic, a special summer season this June. Although I have fond memories of SpectroMagic, the current nighttime parade, there’s something about it that’s just a little … off. Why, for example,...

February 17th, 2010 | Matt Palm, Things to do | Read More

Disney World marks sister city status with Swindon, England, at Epcot, Magic Kingdom

Walt Disney World officially recognized its “sister city” status with Swindon, England, this week with a plaque that will reside in Epcot this year. Here with Mickey Mouse are Swindon’s Rebecca Warren, who submitted the winning video in a contest, and her family plus David Wren (right),...

February 17th, 2010 | Dewayne Bevil, News | Read More

Characters count: Disney World meet-and-greets make memories

We braved the crowds and the cold at the Magic Kingdom on Saturday — you know it’s crowded when there are lines for the Swiss Family Treehouse and the Tomorrowland Transit Authority — and ended up having several fun character experiences. Entering the park, we caught the new Muppets pre-parade...

February 15th, 2010 | A Mom and The Mouse, Featured, Kristin Ford | Read More

Chili rubbed salmon from the Magic Kingdom’s Crystal Palace

Ancho Chili Rubbed Salmon as served at the The Crystal Palace in the Magic Kingdom. Flavoring agents such as dry and wet spice rubs impart wonderful flavoring to meats, poultry and seafood. In 2002, the Magic Kingdom, the chefs gave salmon a punch of flavor with an ancho chili-brown sugar paste. Drying...

February 11th, 2010 | Disney Recipes, From the Archives, Heather McPherson | Read More