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Disney Princesses Meet and Greet

Opening Date Set for Fantasy Faire in Disneyland® Park

Fantasy Faire Concept ArtThe Disney Princess experience will soon change at the Disneyland® Park when the new Fantasy Faire opens to guests on Mar. 12, 2013! An extension of the current Fantasyland®Fantasy Faire will bring some of your favorite timeless tales to life! Located in the former Carnation Plaza Gardens in the shadows of Sleeping Beauty Castle, this expansion is an enchanting, immersive area for anyone who treasures fairy tales.

Inside Fantasy Faire, visitors will find the Royal Hall, a meet and greet area where many Disney Princesses await them. In the charming village square is Tangled Tower. At the Royal Theatre, enjoy two different shows telling the tales of Rapunzel (Tangled) and Belle (Beauty and the Beast) presented by a pair of vaudeville-style Renaissance storytellers. Fairytale Treasures is a shop found inside Fantasy Faire that will offers all kinds of Princess merchandise. And finally, Maurice, Belle’s inventor father, has transformed an old gypsy wagon into a colorful food cart, Maurice’s Treats, serving a new signature beverage, the Boysen Apple Freeze, along with bread twists – cheddar cheese garlic and strawberry almond cream flavors.

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Entertainment Changes in Fantasyland® at Disneyland® Park

Effective this morning, the meet and greet locations for Princesses inside Disneyland® Park has changed.

Guests will now find the Disney Princesses located along the path to the “it’s a small world®” attraction. This will serve as a temporary home for the Princesses while their new meet and greet location, Fantasy Faire, is under construction. The all-new Fantasy Faire will be located to the left of Sleeping Beauty Castle and is scheduled to open Spring 2013.

Crews will begin construction on the former meet and greet location today in preparation for a new show that will debut in the Fantasyland® Theatre in Summer 2013. While specific details of the new show have not been released, Disneyland® Park’s Creative Team has said it will be an original production. During this construction, the Troubadour Tavern will also be closed.

Walt Disney Imagineering has released these photos and artist renderings of the model for Fantasy Faire. We will bring you more as details become available about both Fantasy Faire and the new show at the Fantasyland® Theatre.

Images are Artistic renderings and models. Actual construction may differ.

New Meet-and-Greet Location for Rapunzel

Rapunzel is now meeting guests at a new location inside the Magic Kingdom® Park.

Guests will now find her inside the Town Square Theater in the park’s Main Street, U.S.A.® Area. There, guests will be able to meet her and a few of the other Disney Princesses. Due to Rapunzel’s popularity and the adoration for all her Princess friends, we suggest guests utilize Disney’s FASTPASS® Service early in the morning to secure a meet-and-greet time.

To accommodate this switch, Princess Aurora has moved to the location in the Town Square Courtyard by City Hall where Rapunzel last visited her guests.

Availability, location, and times of character meet-and-greets are subject to change. Please refer to your Times Guide for updated details.

Meet Mickey Mouse with FASTPASS

Mickey Mouse Meet and Greet

Mickey Mouse now reigns at a new location in Magic Kingdom® Park to meet and greet his friends at Walt Disney World® Resort. Guests can now go backstage at Town Square Theater for photos and autographs with Mickey — without waiting in a standby queue!

Mickey’s new location in the park also heralds the first-ever use of Disney’s FASTPASS Service for a character meet-and-greet experience. FASTPASS allows guests to reduce waiting by designating a window of time when they can return for a theme park experience.

The fun takes place at the Town Square Theater presented by Kodak, located just inside the Magic Kingdom® entrance. Previously known as Town Square Exposition Hall, the venue has been re-imagined as a turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century theater where posters proclaim Mickey Mouse as the star of a magic show.

A glistening marquee with gold-leaf trim and sparkling lights beckons guests to enter a lobby that serves as a hub for character meet-and-greet queues, the Box Office Gifts merchandise shop and Tony’s Town Square Restaurant. Lush curtains with gold rope tie-backs, polished-brass chandeliers and a huge tile floor mosaic of the Town Square Theater logo adorn the space.

Just beyond the lobby, guests pass through an ornate arch and enter a queue to meet Magician Mickey Mouse — or a queue to meet the Disney princesses, for whom Town Square Theater will be a meet-and-greet location during New Fantasyland construction.

The meet-and-greet experience begins when magical posters featuring Mickey’s various magic acts come to life, enhancing guests’ journey through queues into the backstage corridors of the theater. Mickey greets guests in a rehearsal-room environment amid posters, steamer trunks and stage props. It’s a classic backstage area with a wood floor and ceiling. One wall is brick, the others are papered in red and black — Mickey colors.

During the Princesses’ limited engagement at Town Square Theater, they will greet guests in an area fit for royalty — replete with plush carpeting, lush velvety-blue drapes with gold tiebacks, and a large mural backdrop of a chateau amid green, tree-covered hills and fields.

Exiting the meet-and-greet areas, guests pass through Curtain Call Collectibles, a shop with design elements suggesting a backstage area used for theater shipping and receiving — with large, barn-like doors through which props and set pieces could pass.

Guests wanting to meet Mickey or the Princesses can either obtain a Disney’s FASTPASS ticket or get in standby queues. FASTPASS tickets, which are available near Town Square Theater, designate an hour window of time during which the guest can return to the theater and have their “magic moment” with Mickey or the Princesses without joining the standby queues.

**Photo not taken at Mickey’s new location.

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