I love Mickey Mouse Club house but something about this toy seems scary.
Get your WDW Park Maps Here
Note, the Maps and Plans are in PDF format and require the Adobe Acrobat reader which can be downloaded from the Adobe web site.
- The Magic Kingdom (696 KB)
- EPCOT (581 KB)
- The Disney Studios (1464 KB)
- Disney’s Animal Kingdom (645 KB)
- Downtown Disney (365 KB)
- Blizzard Beach (746 KB)
- Typhoon Lagoon (770 KB)
- River Country (699 KB)
- Disney’s Boardwalk (389 KB)
- Disney’s Resort Map (778 KB)
New Disney Hawaii Vacation Club Resort
Four massive cranes now tower over the palm trees at the 21-acre West O‘ahu site of the new Disney Vacation Club Resort Hawaii.
Concrete’s been poured for the foundations. But building 350 hotel rooms and 480 multi-bedroom vacation “villasâ€â€”not to mention spas, pools, restaurants, banquet spaces and kids clubs—takes time. At the moment, there’s just a vast, dusty, busy construction site, surrounded by a green fence.
“We’re magic,†says Disney Vacation Club spokeswoman Diane Hancock. “But even pixie dust takes time to work.â€
The project, first unveiled last October, is on schedule to open in 2011 at Ko Olina Resort & Marina—but Disney is reluctant to say just when in 2011 the resort will start accepting reservations.
There were some worries about how Disney’s powerful corporate brand would collide with a Hawaiian sense of place. “We realize Hawaii is a unique place to enter with a business,†says Hancock. “But we’ve been surprised at how graciously we’ve been welcomed to Oahu.â€
Part of that welcome may stem from assorted good works: Disney has given $100,000 to local high schools and sponsored the free-movies-on-the-beach program in West Oahu communities.
But will the resort be Disneylike? Or purely Hawaiian? Or some hybrid of both? “That’s in the hands of our Imagineering Group,†says Hancock. “We’re doing a lot of listening and learning, so plans are still evolving.â€
Here are Disney’s preliminary artist renderings from that group. Take a look for yourself.
haw1
haw2
haw3
DisneyHawaiiResortPorteCochere
Disneyworld “Eat to the Beat” Concerts
Music pairs perfectly with tasty cuisine during nightly Eat to the Beat! Concerts — featuring a varied lineup of classic rock, soul, R&B, oldies, jazz and funk hit–makers. Concerts are performed 3 times each evening at America Gardens Theatre along the World Showcase lagoon. This year, 5 new acts will grace the stage, including Richard Marx, Vanessa Carlton and John Waite. Among the returning acts are Boyz II Men, Kool & The Gang, Los Lobos and many other world-class crowd-pleasers.
Location: World Showcase at Epcot America Gardens Theatre
Show Times: Daily — 5:15 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and 7:45 p.m.
Click Read Article below for Artists Dates and Times
Netflix adds ABC shows to streaming lineup
Online movie rental service Netflix Inc. on Monday announced an agreement with Disney-ABC Television Group that will make several new television series available for instant streaming.
Los Gatos, Calif. based Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) said members will be able to instantly watch the first five seasons of the ABC franchise “Lost,” seasons four and five of “Desperate Housewives,” season five of “Grey’s Anatomy,” and seasons one and two of “Legend of the Seeker.”
Overall, the agreement extends the online relationship between Netflix and Disney-ABC Television Group, which announced their first digital licensing deal last September. That agreement centered on original series from Disney Channel, including “Hannah Montana,” “Wizards of Waverly Place,” “The Suite Life on Deck,” and Disney Channel’s two newest original series, “JONAS” and “Sonny with a Chance.”
That deal, which will continue, makes episodes available the day after broadcast.
New Disney Rapunzel Photos
In Disney’s
new telling of the classic fairy tale, Rapunzel, audiences will be transported to a stunning CG fantasy world complete with the iconic tower, an evil witch, a gallant her and, of course, the mysterious girl with the long golden hair. Expect adventure, heart, humor, and hair… lots of hair, when Rapunzel unleashes her locks in theaters for the 2010 holiday. A small batch of new concept art photos (that are not representative of the final CGI look of the film) have popped up over on the official Walt Disney Animation Studios website (via SlashFilm) recently. We’ve included all of the photos below for your viewing pleasure.
Rapunzel has been in development for a long time at Disney. Rapunzel is being voiced by Broadway actress Kristin Chenoweth. The animated film is being co-directed by story artist Nathan Greno and Bolt director Byron Howard. The voice cast is also rumored to include David Schwimmer, Matthew Gray Gubler, Dan Fogler, and Peter Sallis. I’m not sure if this is still the case, but originally Rapunzel was supposed to look and feel like a traditional hand-drawn animated Disney film, but in full 3D.
rap5
rap1
rap2
rap3
rap4
Disney Confirms Sequel to Monsters, Inc
Disney went on a domain buying spree yesterday (July 29th), snapping up a bunch of Internet addresses for possible upcoming projects. So which projects were on the purchase list? Details after the jump.
Among the new domains purchased was MONSTERS2.com, the possible future location for the highly rumored sequel to Pixar’s Monsters Inc. At a recent licensing fair, Disney officials supposedly told attendees behind closed doors that Pete Doctor would be following Up with Monsters, Inc 2. We asked Disney head John Lasseter about the rumors last weekend at Comic-Con, but as expected, he wouldn’t comment. The domain purchase seems to be an admission by Disney that they are developing a sequel, or at very least thinking about it.
Another interesting purchase was the domain TheTigerKingMovie.com, which we can only assume is a spin-off based on The Lion King. With the word Movie in the domain name, we know it is a feature film but we don’t know if it is a new animated feature film or a direct-to-dvd production. Some of you might remember that when John Lasseter became Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios when the Mouse purchased Pixar in January of 2006, he was quick to kill many of the companys direct-to-dvd sequels and spin-offs, because he believed the productions hurt the studios brand. The Aristocats 2, Chicken Little 2 : The Ugly Duckling Story, Meet the Robinsons 2: First Date, and Disneys Dwarfs were among the productions which were trashed. I find it hard to believe that Lasseter would approve of a Lions King spin-off titled The Tiger King, unless it was for theatrical release. But you never know?