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It has been known for some time now that Fantasy Festival Stage in Fantasyland in Disneyland Paris will be closed and converted into the new pemanent meet 'n' greet location of Mickey Mouse.
In the last two weeks, as expected construction walls have indeed gone up around the theatre, and work has begun to install Mickey's new home.
The new 2012 DLP brochure, now available in travel agencies and online, which was released just about two weeks ago, also now has a small description that reads (and I quote)
"[Mickey] welcomes you to meet him backstage in the rehearsal room of his theatre in Fantasyland."
The description goes on to detail the "ornate music hall" where, while waiting in line, you can "laugh along with some classic short films featuring Mickey". [ Read More... ] |
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| DisneyDan
Friday, November 18, 2011 12:05:57 AM |
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Today is Mickey and Minnie Mouse's 83rd Birthday, so join Character Central as we take a photographic look at the pair in action across the parks and resorts.
Happy Birthday Mickey and Minnie from Character Central!
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Hi all, After a quiet couple of weeks on the characters news front, like buses, it all comes at once today! As Halloween Season across the parks draws to a close tonight, I have a few things to mention. Disney's Animal Kingdom, which for as long as one can remember has featured the Pooh and Fab 5 characters in Halloween outfits during the last few days of the season, has this year dropped this tradition. It was the only place across the WDW Resort you could meet any Halloween characters without having to pay for the parties (with exception to Duffy at Epcot this year). So we say a sad farewell to scarecrow Mickey, mummy Eeyore and all the other cool costumes from years passed. Over in the Magic Kingdom at the parties, it was reported that Donald has been seen in his pirate outfit on some random occasions even though he is supposed to be meeting as the pumpkin this year. Moving across the pond to Paris, and this weekend saw the Terrorific Nights return, this year with the addition of some Disney Villains. The event in it's two previous incarnations had billed itself as being the more adult, and much scarier event, with very little Disney influence at all. This year saw all the regular Villains from DLP's main Halloween Season and parties appear at the Studios events, including Shan Yu, The Witch, Hades, Frollo and Jafar. I had previously said that the Headless Horseman was making a surprise appearance at the Halloween version of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for all performance in the last week of October, and much to everyone's surprise, he even made it over to Terrorific Nights as well! Staying with Paris, but jumping ahead to next week, and in preparation for his Christmas Season public début, Duffy the Disney Bear is appearing at a special Annual Passholder event tomorrow at the Newport Bay Club. From 1pm to 2.30pm, Duffy will greet his fans who hold the Dream pass. I have no working link for the sign up, so you will have to contact Disney if you want to attend. Over in California, Loren keeps us up to date as always with any character developments there. His latest post can be found here, and includes details about the Christmas Day Parade taping at the park this coming weekend! It is likely to be awesome, but also very hectic, so make sure you read his post about all the events before you go! Over at WDWMagic, our friend Drew posted that Talking Mickey will be making appearances in WDW this week at Town Square Theater. Disney will probably not release any details about this, and it will be pot luck if you get to meet him. Let us know if you get to see him! Don't forget to check out all the latest additions to the site. Happy Halloween everyone! Dan. |
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Hi all,
The Disney Parks Blog the other day made a post about the
opening of the new Mickey meet ‘n’ greet in Town Square. In the post they mentioned magician Mickey, to which I, and the rest of the Disney community
took as meaning he will have an actual magician’s outfit. But it has now come
to light that this is not the case, and it will be just regular Mickey. The “magician”
part simply implied, well, that Mickey can do magic I suppose. The post doesn’t
make it too clear and caused quite a lot of confusion, but sadly regular Mickey
will be greeting Guests. We will be there in just over two weeks to check this
out for ourselves. The new area does look neat, and today Stitch Kingdom shared
two (albeit blurry) images taken by someone on the inside! [ Read More... ] |
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Hi all,
Friday night saw a special preview event at Disneyland Paris
for the new Magical Moments Festival, due to start in less than weeks at the
Resort. The event consisted of special previews of the brand new hub show, and
the Disney Dance Express (the latest incarnation of the Character Express/Casey
Jr). [ Read More... ] |
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| DisneyDan
Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:28:04 PM |
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Hi all, The Disney Parks Blog today announced that when the brand new, near-completed Expo Hall meet 'n' greet location opens, Mickey will be greeting his fans in a magicians outfit! I have to say we are quite excited about this, and hope that the new area is completed for our trip in three weeks time! The princesses will also be moving into Expo Hall until the new Fantasyland is at a stage where they can go back up there. What will become of the extra queue area once they move out of Expo Hall is also unknown. Hopefully WDI have something up their sleeves so that it does not become yet another redundant area of the park! (Especially since the Mickey meet will be permanent and so cool looking, we don't want disused areas making the place look untidy!) As the comment replies from Staff explain, there is currently no idea of how the FastPass system for the meets will work. Sadly there isn't anything else character related to report this week, but I'll keep you posted as always. Dan. |
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Hi all,
This week I heard from a friend that Merlin made an
unprecedented appearance in Disneyland Park in Disneyland Paris. For the first
time in many years during regular hours (besides ticketed events), Merlin was found in the Castle Courtyard trying to find the
new King of England in the much pined for Sword in the Stone Ceremony! [ Read More... ] |
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Hi all,
This weekend saw the St David’s Welsh Festival hit
Disneyland Paris. This annual event usually comprises of Mickey and Minnie in
their traditional finest, a small pre-parade, fireworks and other entertainment
throughout the park. Our friends at Characters Photos Blog were there, and
their photos will soon be on their Facebook page. They have already uploaded
this video to their YouTube, so check it out! [ Read More... ] |
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Hi all,
As ever Jon and I have been working hard to improve the site
and its functionality, which means there have been some changes I need to point
out.
The much asked for, and much anticipated comments feature
for this blog is now up and running. At the end of each entry there is a link
that says Discuss this Blog Entry. If you click it, it will take you to a
pre-formatted version of this blog on the forum where you can post all your
replies. [ Read More... ] |
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