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Agent P World Showcase Photoshoot

WDWNT on September 8, 2012

The Agent P World Showcase Adventure recently opened up at Epcot. It is an interactive game for Phineas and Ferb fans of all ages to play. So of course, the Vinylmation version of the secret agent platypus wanted to check it out as well. While there, he took a tour around the world.

Agent P’s World Showcase Adventure

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Canada

United Kingdom

France

Morocco

Japan

America

Italy

Epcot World Showcase

Germany

The Outpost

China

Norway

Mexico

Epcot World Showcase

All Art of Animation Resort Opening Dates Announced

WDWNT on September 8, 2012

While we knew that the Finding Nemo wing of Disney’s Art of Animation Resort was opening May 31st, we really could only guess when the other wings might open. Well, we now have the official dates:

Finding Nemo (Grand opening) – Opens May 31
Cars – Opens June 18
Lion King – Opens August 10
Little Mermaid – Opens September 15

Guests can begin booking all of these tomorrow, March 23rd.

Disney also released a second preview video for the resort a few weeks ago, now seems like a good time to share that with you:

Disney Releases Pictures from Inside Art of Animation Resort

WDWNT on September 8, 2012

The marquee outside of the resort

The playground for the Finding Nemo wing features Squirt and the Righteous Reef

Concept art adorns the walls of the lobby, Animation Hall

VIDEO: First Look Around Art of Animation Lobby with Imagineers

WDWNT on September 8, 2012

This seems to be a big news day for Disney’s Art of Animation Resort, with it opening in about 2 months from now. We happened to come across a rather poorly edited video from Disney that we haven’t seen anywhere else yet, giving us our first look around the main building of the hotel. This video features Gary Hoffmann, Walt Disney Imagineering senior project manager, and Kevin Myers, speaking in the nearly finished lobby, Animation Hall:

Adam Roth’s 3/23/12 WDW Photo Report

WDWNT on September 8, 2012

WDWNT Reporter Adam Roth visited Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and the Magic Kingdom on Friday and has a TON of newsworthy photos to share with us, so let’s take a look:

Flower and Garden Festival in bloom at Epcot

IF ONLY WE HAD XPASS!!!!

Queue modifications are done… it’s a completely different queue experience now…

Peacock

Cool graphics on the Epcot tip board

Enjoy Kim Possible while it lasts

Habit Heroes and the VISION House now on the list inside Innoventions East

Habit Heroes is still closed

I’m offended…

Work continues on the VISION House

Habit Heroes now has a sign on the entry wall

Goodbye

VISION House will be added soon as it opens in April

Phineas and Ferb now have an entire section at MouseGear

AGENT P!

The light-up Vinylmation lamps and Baseball figures now available

Let’s Go Yankees! (Personal bias)

These are buy 1, get 1 50% off

Shouldn’t the Knicks be on the bottom? (I actually am a fan… but I’m realistic)

Let’s go Dolphins! (Please pity me)

2012 dated Vinylmation

Zodiac series

Flower and Garden merchandise

Cool magnets

This is too cool…

If your imagination features Captain EO, seek help

Bambi’s Butterfly House is back

The play area for this year’s festival is called “Let’s Get Moving”

Chimpanzee is coming… before Earth Day?

Can’t imagine why they are changing this…

Exterior work continues at the Seas with Nemo and Friends

A new entrance being worked on, possibly for Turtle Talk

There’s a new path in the queue…

It leads to Seabase

The mural is surviving the work

A new company has taken over the chromakey photo area at Imageworks

It’s pretty empty right now

Amazing Pictures (who you may have seen at Universal Studios) is now here

Hey, why don’t we just start the demolition…

On to the Festival Center

The Flower and Garden, Food and Wine Festival?

A touch-screen map of the Festival available

Body Wars is back there somewhere

The Odyssey has been painted blue

Well, at least the roof

This exhibit is weird…

Tarps are now up for the Tutto Italia refurbishment

FREE SAMPLES!

Another play area

Let’s take a boat over to Studios

We can’t get enough of these

The outline of Roger Rabbit has seen better days

The entrance at Tower of Terror had some pavement replaced

The Star Tours name is on some of the merchandise tags now

On to the Magic Kingdom, Skyway demolition continues in Fantasyland

The Tigger Bounce area being removed from the Pooh queue

Yes, more Dumbo photos…

Storybook Circus sure is something at night

HA!

I love restrooms… there, I said it…

I’ll tell you what I don’t love… the Club 626 Dance Party

A sad not to end on…

John Corigliano’s 3/23-25/12 WDW Photo Report

WDWNT on September 8, 2012

WDWNT Reporter John Corigliano visited the Walt Disney World Resort this weekend and has some newsworthy photos to share with us, so let’s take a look:

MORE CIRCUS PHOTOS!

Can’t get enough of these shirts

New character shirts

The back

On to Disney’s Hollywood Studios, here’s another look at the Brave exhibit at Magic of Disney Animation

Monsters University billboard

Wreck-It Ralph poster

The remodeled Storyroom

Still no Narnia replacement… and I’m fine with that…

Only 90 minutes…

Splash fountain is being refurbished

Cars meet and greet has had short lines recently

Phineas and Ferb has long lines all the time

The Art of Animation sign is in place along the road

Both hands on the wheel John…

Habit Heroes is still closed

Someone is up in that window…

The Honeymooners? WHY?

Awwww…

Tick… tock…

This is one nerdy reptile… we named him fanboy

“Horizons was the greatest thing EVER!”

Land accross from the site of the new Grand Floridian DVC wing is being cleared, probably for parking

VIDEO: Incredible In-Depth Look at “Dumbo The Flying Elephant” Day & Night

WDWNT on September 8, 2012

WDWNT Reporter John Corigliano shot and edited a fantastic in-depth look at Dumbo the Flying Elephant in the Storybook Circus of New Fantasyland. This video is a must watch if you have yet to experience the new addition:

Fantasyland Character Shuffle Moves Rapunzel Out and Merida In

WDWNT on September 8, 2012

As announced on the Disney Parks Blog earlier today, Merida from Disney-PIXAR’s Brave is going to be taking over Rapunzel’s current home in Fairytale Gardens in Fantasyland at the Magic Kingdom.

Merida’s Fairytale Garden meet and greet will be a a setting inspired by her Scottish Highlands home, where young guests will be invited to engage in archery lessons and other activities until it’s their turn to meet her. Joining Merida will be the three bear cubs from the film, who will no doubt be up to plenty of mischief.

To prepare for Merida’s arrival, Rapunzel will be moving from Fairytale Garden April 15, to a new spot at the outskirts of Adventureland where she will continue to do meet and greets, possibly along with Flynn Rider once again.

With the Tangled characters remaining so popular, it is apparent that the move to Adventureland won’t be permanent and that the rumors we reported a few months back of the Fantasyland Skyway replacement including a new meet and greet experience are true. When work is done, we expect to see a new Tangled meet and greet, complete with Rapunzel’s tower from the movie, open in Fantasyland later this year.

Stay tuned for more information on this story as it becomes available.

An Aerial Look at New Fantasyland – March 2012

WDWNT on September 8, 2012

Courtesy of Scott Keating and scottkeating.net, we once again have some fantastic aerial photos of Fantasyland to share with you:

The base of the old Dumbo is still lingering, guess it isn’t that easy to completely remove…

A lot going on here: The bridge that will serve as the entrance to the Be Our Guest Restaurant is nearing completion, the Mermaid queue entrance is out from behind scaffolding and appears mostly complete with the exception of pavement, and we can now make out a distinguishable footprint for the Seven Dwarves Mine Train

Another angle shows that Gaston’s Tavern is far behind the other buildings in the village

We can now see where the Casey Jr. Splash ‘N’ Soak Station is going in Storybook Circus, but what lies beyond it in the tents is mostly a mystery…

Getting away from Fantasyland, the Big Thunder Mountain refurbishment rolls on with most of the queue being rebuilt, all track being replaced, and a visible fresh coat of paint being applied to the entire mountain