Disney News

Earlier today, Disney’s PhotoPass® service announced a new product to their lineup. Attractions+ allows you to take home a digital copy of all those ride photos from your Walt Disney World® or Disneyland® Resort vacation! If you find yourself buying these photos at the parks, the $44.95 price covering a 14-day visit is a great deal.

The process is pretty simple. After riding one of the participating attractions, present your Attractions+ card to the Cast Member at the counter. At the end of your vacation, just follow the simple instructions to download all your fast-paced memories from your home computer!

Participating Attractions+ locations include:

Walt Disney World® Resort

• Space Mountain®
• Splash Mountain®
• Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin®
• The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror™
• Rock ‘n Roller Coaster® Starring Aerosmith
• Expedition Everest®
• Dinosaur
• Test Track® Presented by Chevrolet®

Imagineers at the Disneyland® Resort have added yet another opportunity for guests with the “Glow with the Show” Ears to shine!

“Glow with the Show” Ears will now sync with the Believe… In Holiday Magic fireworks spectacular when guests are in the Main Street, U.S.A.® and Central Plaza Areas of Disneyland® Park. The ears, which can be purchased at most Disneyland® Resort merchandise locations, also sync with World of Color, Fantasmic!, Mad T Party, and throughout various locations in Cars Land.

Now, let’s get geeky! Watch as Chuck Davis, Principle Technical Director of World of Color, explains a little bit about the technology and MAGIC behind the “Glow with the Show” Ears.

Disney Cruise Line® has unveiled itineraries for the early part of 2014 for the Disney Magic®, Disney Dream, Disney Fantasy and Disney Wonder®.

For the first part of 2014 the Disney Magic® is returning to Port Canaveral, where it will be home with the Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy, giving you more opportunities than ever to unwind Disney’s private island Castaway Cay on your next tropical vacation. There are also more opportunities to pair your next cruise aboard Disney Cruise Line® with a visit to Walt Disney World® Resort to visit the New Fantasyland® expansion!

The Disney Wonder® will remain in Miami, offering itineraries with something for everyone in the family!

Be sure to contact your Magic Maker® today for more information about the newly announced 2014 Disney Cruise Line® itineraries, or to plan your next vacation!

Sailing from Port Canaveral
3- and 4-night Bahamas
• Ports: Port Canaveral, Nassau, Castaway Cay
• Dates: Disney Dream departures Jan. 2 – Aug. 31, 2014; Disney Magic departures  Jan. 6 – May 16, 2014

7-night Eastern Caribbean
• Ports: Port Canaveral, St. Maarten, St. Thomas, Castaway Cay
• Dates: Disney Fantasy departures Jan. 11 – Aug. 23, 2014

7-night Western Caribbean 
• Ports: Port Canaveral, Grand Cayman, Costa Maya, Cozumel, Castaway Cay
• Dates: Disney Fantasy departures Jan. 4 – April 26, 2014

7-night Western Caribbean, including Jamaica
• Ports: Port Canaveral, Cozumel, Grand Cayman, Falmouth, Castaway Cay
• Dates: Disney Fantasy departures May 10 – Aug. 30, 2014

Sailing from Miami
4-night Bahamas
• Ports: Miami, Castaway Cay, Nassau, Key West
• Dates: Disney Wonder departures Jan. 15 – April 23, 2014

5-night Caribbean
• Ports: Miami, Grand Cayman, Cozumel
• Dates: Disney Wonder departures Jan. 10 – April 18, 2014

5-night Caribbean, including Castaway Cay
• Ports: Miami, Cozumel, Castaway Cay
• Dates: Disney Wonder departures Jan. 19 – April 27, 2014

Festive fun has hit the streets of Cars Land inside Disney California Adventure® Park. The residents of Radiator Springs have decorated for the holidays, and it something that you definitely do not want to miss!

Check out this video sampling some of the town’s decorations.

We are just 6 days away from the highly anticipated Grand Opening of the New Fantasyland® Area in the Magic Kingdom® Park. Officially opening on Thursday, Dec. 6th to park guests is the Enchanted Forest, consisting of Under the Sea~Journey of the Little Mermaid, Enchanted Tales with Belle, Ariel’s Grotto, Be Our Guest Restaurant, and Gaston’s Tavern. Storybook Circus, also part of the New Fantasyland® expansion, previously opened to guests. Future additions to New Fantasyland® include Princess Fairytale Hall(2013) and Seven Dwarfs Mine Train (2014).

We thought that some New Fantasyland® Fun Facts would be a great way help pass these few remaining days!

• Originally 10 acres, the New Fantasyland expansion doubles the size to 21 acres!

• Inside the Library at Enchanted Tales with Belle, guests will find over 12,000 “books.”

• Beast’s Castle contains 115 windows.

• The design teams called the lion-like figures flanking the door at the entrance to Be Our Guest Restaurant “golions,” a combination of goat and lion. The figures above the entrance doors, eagles with snake tails, were called “sneagles.”

• Be Our Guest Restaurant’s centerpiece chandelier measures more than 12 feet tall and 11 feet wide. It boasts more than 84 candles and more than 100 jewels that hang down to give it added shine.

• As a way to identify them, the six stone figures on the bridge leading to Be Our Guest Restaurant were all given the name “Frank” during the design phase.

• At the Magic Kingdom® Park, Disneyland® Paris, Hong Kong Disneyland®, and at the Disneyland® Resort, Timothy Mouse carries a magic feather atop the Dumbo attraction. At Tokyo Disneyland®, he holds a circus whip.

• Talk about authenticity! The music heard from the old fashioned calliope in the front of Pete’s Silly Sideshow was recorded from a set of antique circus crank organs owned by a collector in Southern California.

• Of the 183 characters in Under the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid, more than 70 percent (128, to be exact) are featured in the “Under the Sea” scene.

• The Audio-Animatronics® figure of the sea witch Ursula is 7 1/2-feet tall and 12 feet wide.