Last night I was watching Toy Story 2, & during the Woody’s Roundup TV show part of the movie, I noticed something I had seen before in Toy Story Midway Mania:
In case you didn’t realize, those are the virtual prizes that you can win in Toy Story Midway Mania
Just an interesting tidbit I thought I’d share with y’all!
From Screamscape:
Late 2010 or Early 2011 – Voyage of the Little Mermaid – Confirmed – (7/3/08) According to the latest rumors Little Mermaid may have been pushed up a bit to either open in mid to late 2010 now. Meanwhile full construction on The Little Mermaid ride is now expected to begin sometime this fall if all goes well.
If all this goes according to plan, they’ll most likely transfer Golden Dreams over to Golden Screams for one last time this Halloween, & then begin construction on Voyage of the Little Mermaid.
We’ve just been informed that the Sun Wheel’s re-theme/refurbishment will start on September 11th, 2008. The re-theme will include the new 1930’s style Mickey Mouse face, re-working of the queue, a re-paint, & the new name, Mickey’s Fun Wheel!
Also planned to take place during this time is the re-theming of the Games of the Boardwalk & California Screamin’s queue, but we don’t have any solid information on that just yet.
MouseInfo managed to get a shot of the new Wall-E display in Hollywood Pictures Backlot, where Wall-E should be appearing later this year:
Here are 3 articles from the OC Register with information on the Innoventions Dream Home, Wall-E in the parks, & an incident in New Orleans Square:
The Innoventions Dream Home is still closed and will possibly open to the public next week, according to Disney Spokesman John McClintock.
Last week Disney pulled back the curtain on the new Innoventions Dream Home, but the attraction was only open for limited hours and only to annual passholders.
McClintock said today that Disney workers are “making sure that all the technology in the home is working perfectly” before opening the Dream Home to the public. He said that the goal is to open the home to the public next week.
Currently, the second floor of the Innoventions building is open. Just the first floor, the Dream Home level, is closed.
We’ll keep everyone updated on this blog about when the Dream Home will open to the public.
Disney’s Wall-E character debuted in theaters yesterday, but don’t expect the little robot in the Disneyland Resort any time soon.
A Disney Backstage Pass newsletter mailed to Disneyland Annual Passholders a few weeks ago included thata three-foot-tall Audio-Animatronic model of Wall-E would be visiting people in Disney’s California Adventure this summer
But, Disney Spokesman John McClintock said the robot is not expected to be in the park for a few months.
“We don’t expect Wall-E to be in the Disneyland Resort any time soon, especially during the summer,” McClintock said.
Update: New photo on the left sent in by someone who was in the park when the tree branch fell. Right click and click view image on either photo to see an enlarged image.
A tree branch broke and fell onto a pathway last night near the French Market restaurant in the New Orleans Square area of Disneyland.
A Disney spokeswoman said it was one branch and that it did not fall directly on anybody. She said that no more than five people were near the branch when it fell. She said those people had minor scrapes.
Irvine resident Vicki Munsell was at the park yesterday when the branch fell. She was there with her family celebrating her and her husband’s 14th wedding anniversary.
Munsell and her family were eating at the Cafe Orleans restaurant when they heard someone shout and she turned around in time to hear the branch cracking and see it fall on a pathway.
She said people ran over right away to help. While Disney said the tree did not fall on anyone, Munsell said people were pulled out from underneath the tree. Still, Munsell agreed that she did not see anyone injured with more than a few scratches.
Munsell took the photo that you see at right with her camera phone, and she sent it to The Orange County Register. After the branch fell, she said the area was blocked off by Disney cast members who removed the branch and checked on people nearby.
This is not the first time trees have fallen on people in theme parks. On Aug. 1, 1997, a large tree limb at Knott’s Berry Farm broke and fell onto four visitors near the Montezooma’s Revenge ride, causing minor injuries to three and leaving the fourth hospitalized. And on May 5, 2001, Jeanne Gill, 73 suffered a broken hip, and 27 others are injured when a 20-foot oak tree falls in Frontierland at Disneyland.
Let’s take a look at some of the various things going on through-out the Disneyland Resort from this week’s Dateline Disneyland on MiceAge:
The information sign that’s been missing for well over a year now has returned to the security tents, with the only change being the “new DCA logo”
While New Century Timepieces is closed, New Century Jewelry is remaining open
The Three Magic Fairies crystal shop in Sleeping Beauty Castle has been closed, & will be converted into the disabled room for the Sleeping Beauty Castle Walk-through
Monorail Blue has finally started daytime testing! No guests yet unfortunately
As previously reported, the Department 56 store in Downtown Disney has been cut in half, & a new store is expected to take over the currently closed half
Be sure to take a look at the Dateline Disneyland article (the link is at the top of the post) for more news & information from through-out the Resort, including a look at all 3 McDonald’s locations in the Resort, which will soon be a thing of the past!
Staff Photographer MintCrocodile was also at the Disneyland Resort yesterday, & he managed to find a few things that I didn’t snap:
The golden apple is back at the entrance to Snow White’s Scary Adventures
The new menu at the French Market
A new wait time sign outside Pirates of the Caribbean
First High School Musical, now this!
More of Mint’s pictures from yesterday can be found here!
It seems that the Single Rider line for Toy Story Midway Mania has been set up earlier than we original thought. We’re not sure if it’s being used yet, but it’s definitely there.
Picture by BCC
We have a couple of pieces of news from the 2 newest DCA Pixar attractions to go over.
First off, the Pixar Play Parade has returned to its (almost) original form. The entire a Bug’s Life float is now completely back. However, the order of the floats has changed slightly. The Ratatouille & a Bug’s Life have switched with each other, due to one of the Chefs on stilts slipping due to the water & bubbles from the Finding Nemo float before hand.
Secondly, Toy Story Midway Mania will be gaining a Single Rider line in around 2 weeks. Not much more to say on that, but we’ll let you know when it debuts.
Laughing Place has a bunch of videos from the grand opening ceremony of Toy Story Midway Mania from this past Tuesday. You can find them all here.
