It looks like Minnie’s Fly Girls is back on according to the Disney Auditions website. A casting call is being sent out once again for singers and actors. Though that is not what interested me. Here is from the posting…
Disney Parks Talent Casting is seeking Female and Male Singer/Actors for two brand new shows to be performed outdoors at Disney California Adventure® Park: Minnie’s Fly Girls Charter Airlines, a four-member charter airline crew that sings and swings to songs from the 40s, 50s, and 60s, and The Friendly Sisters, a talented trio from the Midwest who epitomize the innocent, optimistic “can-do” America of the 1920s. Cast will perform in both shows daily.
A new show called “The Friendly Sisters” has been added to the list. “A talented trio from the Midwest who epitomize the innocent, optimistic “can-do” America of the 1920s.” I assume we would be seeing these “Friendly Sisters” on Buena Vista Street performing their musical numbers. Minnie’s Fly Girls is listed to premiere Febuary 2012 and “The Friendly Sisters” in May 2012. Their aren’t any more details though stay tuned to Disneyland News today as we will keep you updated as more details arise on both Minnie’s Fly Girls and “The Friendly Sisters.”
Radio Disney is holding a “No Tricks, Just Treats” contest. The winning family will win a trip to Los Angeles for an ultimate Halloween experience! You will get to see Tim Burton’s “A Nightmare before Christmas” at the famous El Capitan theatre, go to the LACMA for the special Tim Burton exhibit, you will get the full set of “The Nightmare before Christmas” Vinylmation figurines, and many other spooky surprises!
Update: 10/23/11 Kidada announced that there will also be a separately sold t-shirt that comes out the day after the vinylmation. Here’s a look at it. The shirt will have a LE of 1500 just like the vinyl. It’s official! The new Kidada 9/3 combo featuring Peter Pan and Tinkerbell will be released exclusively online at the DisneyStore.com on October 30. This combo is an LE 1,500, so a good deal more of these than the first one to go around. It will retail for $74.95. If you remember, the original leaked images of this figure were found on the UK Disney Store Online website. But this release seems like a US Disney Store Online release according to the link on the official Disney Vinylmation blog. No word at this time if part of the 1,500 figures will be available to the UK.
The 9″ is an Ice Cream Sundae design with the 3″ being Tink on a partially unwrapped candy bar.
The back of the ear says “Never Grow Up.”
On the back, there is also a quote from the movie.
As with the first Kidada, this one comes in a brilliantly designed box. It looks like a candy shop and has “nutrition info” on the side panel.
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Collection Size: 491
3″ = 387
9″ = 90
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What is your favorite Vinylmation you own?
9″ Mickey Riding Space Mountain – 35th anniversary
What is you favorite Vinylmation you DO NOT own?
Cinderella 55th anniversary Tin
Why do you collect Vinylmation?
I collect Vinylmation because I am a fan of creative art & Disney. When you combine both of those two entities, you have a huge win. I love the creativity behind each design. Each design represents and means something to me, personally. This is what fuels the fire for me behind Vinylmation.
Which of these is the best feeling: Pulling a figure you want… from a blind box you just purchased? from a great trade with another collector? from a mystery trading box at the park? from a clear trading box?
The best feeling, for me, is opening a fresh case of Vinylmation. I love the first moment when you rip off the plastic and open the lid to see all of the fresh un-opened boxes. Music to my ears…
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla., Oct. 10, 2011 – The first wing of the new Disney’s Art of Animation Resort will open to Guests on May 31, 2012, as construction on the 25th resort hotel at Walt Disney World continues on schedule.
In size and scope, the construction of Disney’s Art of Animation Resort is a major project at Walt Disney World Resort and has created up to 800 construction jobs. Once open in 2012, Disney’s Art of Animation Resort will also create 750 ongoing resort hotel jobs.
At a media gathering today, Walt Disney Imagineering and Walt Disney World Resort Operations released images of new icons arriving at the resort this fall and shared some of the details Guests will see when Disney’s Art of Animation opens next year. For example, Guests exploring The Lion King courtyard will see characters from the film, such as the hyenas and the evil Scar, through the eyes of Simba and in the same size and scale as the young cub would experience them.
“Here at Disney, we are in the Guest experience business,” said Kevin Myers, vice president of resort operations for Walt Disney World Resort. “When we develop a new resort hotel, we draw on Guest feedback about our parks, entertainment, special events and every aspect of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts to provide a resort hotel experience that only Disney can deliver.”
Examples of enhancements based on Guest feedback will be evident at Disney’s Art of Animation Resort in the food-and-beverage and recreation offerings. The dining area will feature items such as fresh smoothies, hand-scooped gelato and Mongolian barbecue. The resort also will feature the largest swimming pool outside of Disney’s water parks, as well as an extensive children’s water play area at the larger-than-life icons for the Finding Nemo wings of the resort.
Located adjacent to Disney’s Pop Century Resort, the new resort will include 1,120 family suites in The Lion King, Cars and Finding Nemo wings, and 864 themed rooms in The Little Mermaid wings. Suites will feature both a living room and bedroom, offering added space for families.
The family suites and rooms at Disney’s Art of Animation Resort will fit into the “value” category of lodging, with nightly rates similar to Disney’s All-Star Resort and Disney’s Pop Century Resort.
The phased opening of the resort will begin when the Finding Nemo wing opens May 31, 2012. Next, the Cars wing of the resort will open near the end of July. The Lion King suites will open a short time later in September, and The Little Mermaid value rooms will open by the end of next year.
Some fun facts about Disney’s Art of Animation Resort –
• With an area of 11,859 square feet, the feature pool at the Finding Nemo wing of the resort will be the largest swimming pool at Walt Disney World Resort outside of the water parks.
• The new resort hotel will feature 9,400 doors, which if stacked flat would be taller than the Empire State Building.
• The 227,000 lineal feet of carpet being used on the project would be enough carpet to stretch from Orlando to the Kennedy Space Center in Titusville.
The news of the week included Park Stars, Star Wars, Kidada, and Hawaii. We run down the full release date and events calendar. In our feature topic, we discuss Park 7 variants… what are the options? And we read your comments and answer your questions in the Mystery Mail Bag.
Disney has released more details on Storybook Circus, part of the Fantasyland Expansion at the Magic Kingdom. The following will all take place sometime between January & May of 2012:
Look! Dumbo is going the wrong way!
Actually, Dumbo is just reversing decades of flying in counter-clockwise circles. Call it “unwinding,” if you will. And in a new location within Magic Kingdom.
Guests will board Dumbo the Flying Elephant from the lovable critter’s left side — like mounting a horse … and unlike the way guests hop aboard for a whirl at Disney parks on three continents. It is scheduled to begin happening in early 2012 when select experiences in the Storybook Circus neighborhood of New Fantasyland debut just northeast of Mad Tea Party.
Also early 2012, the existing Dumbo attraction near Prince Charming Regal Carrousel will close, be refurbished and be moved to a location in Storybook Circus next to the new Dumbo attraction. The result when completed later in 2012: double Dumbos, one going this-a-way, one going that-a-way … a real circus act, if you will.
There also will be a “big top” that serves as a queue area for the popular attraction. It will feature a variety of interactive experiences currently being developed.
Two other Storybook Circus elements planned for opening early in the year are The Barnstormer and Fantasyland Station. Guests who enjoyed The Barnstormer at Goofy’s Wiseacre Farm will be happy to know the junior coaster thrills of that attraction are back with a thematic change: Goofy has sold the farm and is now a circus stunt pilot and magician, The Great Goofini. The completely re-imagined train station will serve as the gateway to Storybook Circus and all Fantasyland points beyond.
So, what’s new? We now have confirmation that the dueling Dumbos will indeed be dueling by going in opposite directions of each-other once work is completed on remodeling and moving the current attraction later in the year. Also, Disney has finally confirmed that The Barnstormer will keep its name, it will just be changing in theme. Finally, the train station will be Fantasyland Station, not Storybook Circus Station as previously reported.
For those wondering, there will be no Dumbo the Flying Elephant attraction at the Magic Kingdom from January 9th through February 17th, 2012. It is expected that the new Dumbo carousel will open on February 18th as work continues on remodeling the moved, older Dumbo attraction.
My name is Annemarie Brown and when I heard Destination Vinylmation wondering what villains would be left that they could add to another series of Villains I started to do some research. This is what I found… There are actually plenty of villains left to do another series, even two more if they get creative. This is part two of a two part look into Disney Villains.
For the first part check out Villains Speculation Part 1
Another cool villain would be Jafar’s trusty sidekick, Iago (Gilbert Gottfried). Unless they plan on making a “sidekick” series (which I don’t see happening) we can’t count out these great accomplice villains. Iago would be fantastic.
Frollo (Tony Jay) from “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” while not the most popular of villains, would make a cool-looking vinyl, I think.
Madame Medusa from “The Rescuers” is still one of the most chilling villains Disney’s ever created. Voiced by Geraldine Page, she kidnaps children AND teddy bears!!
Edgar might be a bit obscure, but that’s what makes him interesting! The evil butler from “Aristocats” determined to get rid of the future inheritors of Madame’s fortune would make a great addition to a Villains set! Voiced by” Roddy Maude-Roxby.
Horace(J. Pat O’ Malley) and Jasper (Frederick Worlock) would be great together on a vinylmation, I think. The bumbling duo from “101 Dalmatians” is almost as memorable as Cruella herself (almost!)
Another great pair that would be awesome on the same vinyl would be Flotsam and Jetsam, of course! Voiced by Paddi Edwards, Ursula wouldn’t be the same without these two by her side.
It’s been said before, but bears repeating… we still don’t have a Gaston vinylmation! Voiced by Richard White, he really needs no further introduction. And he would agree. (Also? I would give him a mirror as an accessory.)
One more random chaser idea: Pete from “Mickey’s Christmas Carol” is menacing and scary. Maybe with a cigar accessory? We already have a Steamboat Willie Pete, but he’s taken on so many incarnations of “bad guy” over the years, we have many wells to dip from with Pete.
I’m sure if we get creative we can come up with many more, throughout the years of Disney. Just rest assured, there are plenty of Villains to choose from for there to be future Villains vinylmation sets!
DLNT Podcaster Jae Brattain was at The Disneyland Resort recently and was nice enough to grab some photos to share. In this report we take a look at Buena Vista Street, Cars Land, Halloween Time around the resort, and much more…
You can celebrate Oktoberfest in Downtown Disney at the Biergarten
In the space formerly occupied by “Don’t Waste It!” in Innoventions at Epcot, the Habit Heroes are coming…
The signs simply say that guests will be battling those bad habits in eating, TV watching, and more sometime soon… stay tuned for more as it becomes available.
