Disney World Files Permits for Magic Kingdom’s Frontierland Expansion

Big changes are coming to Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom as Disney has already filed the first permits for the expansion of Frontierland, which will introduce two Cars-themed attractions to the park. Tom Sawyer Island and the Rivers of America will be transformed into the Cars-themed area, which will bring

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Tom Sawyer: the Man, the Myth, the Island

Tom Sawyer: the man, the myth, the island…or the boy, the novel, the attraction. Samuel Langhorn Clemens, aka Mark Twain, is one of America’s best-known humorists, lecturers and novelists. His The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) launched him to celebrity status, with his subsequent The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

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Disney off the Beaten Path: Tom Sawyer Island.

If there was ever an undiscovered treasure in Walt Disney World, it’s Tom Sawyer Island and Ft. Langhorn, located in the Magic Kingdom.   Really, I should know:  I’ve been going to the parks for over 20 years and I never visited this attraction until my trip last December.   The day I finally visited

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