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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.

Fantasyland Expansion

From Magic Maker® Julie PaolinoFantasyland Expansion

If you’ve ever been to the Walt Disney World® Resort, you know that the Magic Kingdom® Park is divided into themed lands.  Fantasyland® is the place to go to feel nostalgic about some of Walt Disney’s most beloved movies of all time.  It is home to rides where you taking flight with Peter Pan, bounce around with Tigger and Pooh, or soar with Dumbo. In Fantasyland® you will also find other attractions such as the classic ride, “it’s a small world” and the more recent addition, Mickey’s PhilharMagic.  Very little has changed in Fantasyland® in the 38 years since the Walt Disney World® Resort first opened its doors.  But hold on to your Mickey ears, because Fantasyland® is getting significant makeover!

The Fantasyland® makeover will focus strongly on the princess theme.  One of the biggest additions is a new attraction based on Disney’s The Little Mermaid, called Under the Sea: Journey of The Little Mermaid. New storybook interactive areas will feature three of Disney’s best known princesses in an area called the Fantasyland Forest. Here Guests will visit Cinderella’s Chateau and help her prepare for the ball, visit Sleeping Beauty in Briar Rose’s Cottage just in time for her 16th birthday party, and have a storytelling session with Belle in the Beast’s library. If you are feeling hungry, you will be able to stop by the Be Our Guest Restaurant for a bite to eat.

In addition to the princesses, little ones will also take pleasure in another area based on the Disney Fairies.  This new Pixie Hollow character meeting area will allow Guests to get the feeling of being fairy sized and truly immersed in the Fairy world.  Here a visit with Tinker Bell will certainly be the main attraction!

Beyond princesses and fairies, the classic Dumbo the Flying Elephant attraction is being relocated. It will soon reside in new “circus grounds” where Guests will participate in interactive experiences, under an air conditioned big top tent, all while waiting to board one of the flying elephants. Parents take note, there will be two Dumbo spinners under one big top which will cut the usual wait time in half!  Also being incorporated into the new “circus grounds” is Goofy’s Barnstormer, the kid sized roller coaster, which will take on a clown theme.

You may wonder where all this is going to fit. Sad to say, but Mickey’s Toontown® Fair will be removed to make room for the Fantasyland® expansion. But don’t worry; Mickey and Minnie are rumored to be getting new houses near the front of the park.

The first phase of the Fantasyland expansion, which will include Under the Sea: Journey of The Little Mermaid attraction, the Fantasyland Forest, and Dumbo’s Circus is set to debut in the fall of 2012. Pixie Hollow will follow in 2013.  Now, with such exciting changes on the horizon, let Off to Neverland Travel® help you plan your next magical getaway!

*Images Walt Disney Imagineering Concept Art, actual construction may vary