Wreck It Ralph 2 - Official Teaser Trailer

Disney has released a teaser trailer for Wreck It Ralph 2, which will be released Thanksgiving this year. The trailer is histerical!



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Disney Easter Eggs at Hallmark

Found these Disney Easter Eggs ornaments at our Hallmark store.

They are ridiculously adorable!

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The Long Wait Times For "Flight of Passage"

This Orlando Sentinel article highlights the popularity of "Flight of Passage" at Disney's Animal Kingdom, and the fact that the wait times have not diminished, reaching to more than 6 hours recently.

Visitors who did not have FastPasses waited in stand-by lines an average of about 2 hours and 15 minutes in June, according to Testa’s numbers. He bases those on a rolling average, which helps eliminate outliers, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., the busiest time of day, he said.

Through Touring Plans, Testa’s 140,000 paying subscribers (plus half a million who use his website for free) feed him data. He’s collected 20 million data points to guide his analysis, he said.

Fast forward to Dec. 16, a Saturday, about 6 p.m., the wait time hit 6½ hours — the highest Testa has ever recorded, beating the previous 305-minute wait for Soarin’ Over California at Epcot.

Yowzah!

We managed to go on "Flight of Passage" twice during our last trip in Dec. 2017. It is certainly a spectacular attraction. But is it worth a wait that long? It appears that many people standing in line for hours seem to think so.

But the Na'vi River ride? Not worth the wait more than 20 minutes.

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Contemporary bungalows

The modern Contemporary resort seen from the even newer Polynesian bungalows

Morimito’s

The inside of Iron Chef Morimoto's restaurant at Disney Springs

Gourmet Donald at Festival of the Arts

Donald is sometimes feeling deconstructed so he is having Deconstructed BLT and a DC strawberry cheesecake. The BLT is pork belly, egg and tomato jam.

Donald at the Painter’s Palatte

Don is eyeing a gourmet appetizer at the Festival of the Arts. The egg with candied bacon was especially good.

Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway

More news out of D23 Expo Japan. New details on the attraction replacing The Great Movie Ride at DHS has been released.

"On the attraction, the fun begins when you see the premiere of a new cartoon short with Mickey and Minnie getting ready for a picnic," Disney said. "As they head out, they drive alongside a train and find out that the engineer is Goofy. Then, one magical moment lets you step into the movie and on Goofy's train for a wacky, wild ride."

This is interesting because it will be the first ride at WDW that features Mickey and Minnie (not counting Philharmagic, which is a show and not a ride).

Let's hope it is not another lame attraction such as the Na'vi River ride at Pandora.

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Epcot's "Guardians of the Galaxy" Coaster Will Be Massive

The big news that came out of the D23 Expo in Japan is that the "Guardians of the Galaxy" roller coaster ride at Epcot will be one of the largest indoor coasters in the world.

With the “Guardians of the Galaxy”-inspired coaster, we’re going big. This one-of-a-kind family attraction will be one of the world’s longest enclosed roller coasters when it’s added to Future World at Epcot. It’ll feature a unique story currently being created by Walt Disney Imagineering and include a new innovative ride system that’s guaranteed to “wow” guests.

OK, wow!

I hope they're not doing to wait till WDW's 50th Anniversary to finish it.

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Dragon in Blue

Seen somewhere at EPCOT. Inspired by Festival of the Arts.
Part of a treasure hunt type game so exact location can’t be revealed

Donald’s pandemonium

Don with strange bear

Chalk art at EPCOT

An area dedicated to chalk art by various artists, at Festival of the Arts

Chalk art in progress

Chalk art at the Festival if the Arts at EPCOT

Donald and Donald

Our famous duck admiring a portrait of himself at EPCOT

Mona Figment

A possibly rare painting by a possible Italian master, possibly seen at EPCOT. Actually it isn't and it was.

Impression de Figment

A rare Monet (or not) painting of Figment seen at the EPCOT Festival of the Arts

Festival of the Arts goodies

From the Painters Palette at EPCOT, white chocolate "paintings" with chocolate easels.

Star Wars Dessert Party

One of the tables at the dessert party at DHS. Tried the blue stuff, it was delicious. The party includes a special fireworks viewing area.

Star Wars Ice Cream

Seen at Annie's on the Boardwalk. The cup has a scoop of First Order, very chocolate.

New Disney Skyliner

Seen at DHS, poster for the new Tram that will connect several places(see map). This also shows the proposed Riviera resort which might be near the Caribbean. Construction can be seen at DHS.

Dancing and Singing Mickey and Minnie

OK, so this is rather late to show something that is more appropriate for the holiday season, but hey, I've been busy!

We bought these at CVS, of all places, in Nov. 2017. At first we didn't want them because we need more singing Mickey and Minnie plushes like we need a hole in the head. But when I played and put it on the floor, we just had to get them because they actually dance and move across the floor! They were too adorable to pass up.

So, this may be late, but here they are, Mickey and Minnie, dancing and singing "Deck The Halls".



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