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Adam Roth’s 11/8/08 WDW Photo Report

WDWNT on November 9, 2008

WDWNT Reporter Adam Roth of WDWCelebrations has provided us with another fantastic photo update from around the Walt Disney World Resort during his latest trip. Let’s see what’s new around the world:

The display in the window of the Toy Soldier store over at the United Kingdom pavilion has some new decorations

If you look at the blocks, they spell out Kim Possible

This is another element the country’s shops have added for the upcoming Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure game

Adam ran into a familiar face to those of you who used to visit the Adventurer’s Club at Pleasure Island. Most of the former PI entertainers have already been moved to other roles throughout the Resort.

Tarps are still up in Japan, always seems to be up in this pavilion

A quick look at the old Body Wars attraction exit inside the Festival Center, which closes again today until the beginning of the Flower and Garden Festival in 2009

The Kim Possible game displays are waiting for use inside Innoventions East and West and feature some new wanted posters of Villains from the show

Adam found something rather funny at one of the Food and Wine Festival kiosks

Hosted by Anheuser-Bush

Serving InBev’s (the new owners of the company) signature Stella Artois

Another piece that will be part of the Kim Possible Adventure for the China pavilion

On his way to the Magic Kingdom, Adam snapped some quick shots of continuing work on Disney’s Contemporary Resort

The Bay Lake Tower continues to take shape

The construction site is starting to get pretty clean

Over to the Magic Kingdom

The final strands of the Cinderella Castle Dreamlights have been put in place

The Hall of Presidents….

still closed until July 🙂

We’ll end this report with Adam’s best score to date on Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin (I didn’t have the heart to tell him how many times I’ve gotten the perfect score)

Thanks Adam!!!

11/8 Jose Eber’s WDW Updates

WDWNT on November 9, 2008

WDWNT Photographer and Videographer Jose Eber has sent us a few pictures and videos of his observations from the last week at the Walt Disney World Resort:

This is the sign guests will be greeted by at the Hall of Presidents until next summer when the show returns

The Country Bear Jamboree has been opened from its refurbishment for a good week and is looking much better than it did just a few weeks ago.

While it awaits the ads for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party, the boards outside the Magic Kingdom feature this new artwork of Tinkerbell flying over the park

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They are now distributing postcards promoting the upcoming Bay Lake Tower at Disney’s Contemporary Resort (without the bridge that will connect it to the main building)

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The back features a short description

We’ll end this report with a video of continuing construction of the new Four Seasons Resort

Jose Eber’s Panoramic Photo Report

WDWNT on October 30, 2008

WDWNT Photographer Jose Eber has put together a few nice panoramic pictures for your enjoyment from the Magic Kingdom Resort area, including an updated photo of continuing construction of the Bay Lake Tower (be sure to click on the images for bigger versions of the panoramic pictures):

Adam Roth’s 10/25/08 Epcot Update

WDWNT on October 25, 2008

Adam Roth was at Epcot today & has a photo report for us. So let’s get to it:

New LED lights have recently been added to the earth globe in IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth.

The rest of these photos are all related to the upcoming Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure, which opens to guests sometime in November… A golfball cleaner has been added to one of the shops in the United Kingdom pavilion. The little green box is a video screen.

This is the King’s Court in the United Kingdom. When the players in the game come up to it, the scene will react accordingly.

This is Duff Killingans’ (from the Kim Possible show) golf club. There’s a spindle at the bottom on top of the grass, which will spin the crest around to reveal a clue.

This is the display for the game, in the window of the Toy Soldier shop. What’s seen here is very different than that seen in the test from 2 years ago. The toy soldier is large, & far more rounded, with the original looking much more like a nutcracker.

This is a video screen, that when not used, the screen displays the logo from the store.

This is an audio-animatronic character that will speak to guests playing the game.

The difference is pretty much night & day from the original.

Be sure to stay tuned to WDW News Today as we continue to get more details on the Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure, opening sometime in November at Epcot.

9/21/08 Jose Eber’s Contemporary Resort Update

WDWNT on October 21, 2008

Work around Disney’s Contemporary Resort is really picking up with some major changes taking place over the last week. WDWNT photographer Jose Eber was there to share with us some of the new additions:

The Resort map has been updated to include the upcoming Bay Lake Tower expansion.

Officially Opens Fall 2009.

However, there is something new you can experience now: the seating area for the new quick service dining location for the resort.

What is finished of the new dining spot sports a touch of character.

The Concourse Steakhouse replacement is going to be right next door to the often loud Chef Mickey’s. The Grand Canyon Concourse is going to be very noisy.

A wall of planters separates guests from where they will buy their food when the counter service addition opens in a few days.

I’m hoping more registers than these pop up before this place opens, or I’ll be expecting long lines.

Jose even pieced together a nice little panoramic shot for us. As you can see, more of the seating area is behind walls where the Outer Rim bar once stood.

Be sure to stay tuned to WDW News Today as work continues on Disney’s Contemporary Resort through the Fall of next year.

Tom Corless’ 9/24-10/1/08 WDW Update

WDWNT on October 3, 2008

As promised, here is a photo report from my latest trip to Walt Disney World during WDWCelebrations World Wide Weekend event. I only get to do one of these every few months, so please forgive me if my photos aren’t as good as you are used to seeing:

The Braille map at Pleasure Island was updated to reflect the closing of the 6 remaining clubs almost instantly

Pretty empty at the time being

T-Rex Cafe is being considered Pleasure Island property just to pad the line-up, even though it does not open until October 14.

9/24-10/1/08 WDW Update

WDWNT on October 3, 2008

While I’m certainly not happy about it, I’m back from Walt Disney World after 8 days, 4 parks, and 1 WDWCelebrations.com World Wide Weekend event that I will never forget. It was another great success for the teams (both WDWCelebrations and WDW News Today) and here are some pictures taken, in chronological order, by WDWNT of the spectacular World Wide Weekend event and some current events from around the Walt Disney World Resort:

While the remainder of the team was on the special Backstage Magic tour Thursday, WDWNT met up with Chris Lastrapes of Disneyland News Today and Jose Castillo of WDW News Today for a day at the Magic Kingdom and Epcot.

Jose Castillo’s World Wide Weekend Photo Report

WDWNT on October 2, 2008

Most of the WDWNT Crew is back from Walt Disney World (Tom will be back tomorrow), so you can expect a lot of photo reports in the coming week. Here’s the first one from our very own Jose Castillo:

Jackie Steele leading the Pleasure Island History Walk as part of WDWCelebration’s World Wide Weekend event.

A skeletal T-Rex has arrived outside the upcoming T-Rex restaurant in Downtown Disney.

Tom Corless, Jason Diffendal, & Adam Roth with his head turned away.

Jackie Steele along with event attendees at the Mickey’s PhilharMagic group showing.

Construction on Bay Lake Tower is pressing along nicely.

A look around this year’s Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party.

Mickey’s Boo to You Halloween Parade.

The awesome looking Haunted Mansion float.

This mini-float from SpectroMagic carries a “pumpkin man”.

Nice atmosphere around the Main Street Train Station.

Cinderella Castle VERY late at night.

The WDWNT Crew were the last to leave the park on that night.

Moving on to the second day of World Wide Weekend… Here we see Marcus D’Amelio, & Matt Pezzula setting up the WDWCelebrations table at Epcot in the morning.

You gotta love free goodies.

Jason Diffendal ready for a great day at Epcot.

Turned out Saturday was the last day for the Epcot 25th Anniversary exhibit.

Jason, Adam, & Tom.

The Festival Center was open once again, with this year’s theme, Cities in Wonderland.

Marcus & Jason at the Electric Umbrella.

World Wide Weekend attendees.

Winners of the World Showcase Scavenger Hunt.

The WDWCelebrations Core Team: (L-R) Adam, Matt, Jackie, Jason, Marcus, and Tom

The first event of Day 3 was an It’s Tough to be a Bug group showing.

Then it was off to Expedition Everest.

Followed by Dinosaur.

Jim Henson’s name has been removed from Muppet Vision 3D.

The Hot Air Balloon is back up to its rightful space.

Jason & Adam waiting for Block Party Bash to start.

This was Jose’s first time seeing Block Party Bash, & he loved it!

Next up was the Star Tours group ride.

Construction on the exterior of the American Idol Experience theater.

The guys look excited on the Tower of Terror group ride.

For more of Jose’s lovely pictures (and a couple of videos too), head on over to his Flickr page. Be sure to stay tuned to WDW News Today in the upcoming week for plenty more photo reports from Walt Disney World & World Wide Weekend, as we continue to “Bridge The Gaps Between You & the World”!