Hi all,

This week has been a fairly quiet week news wise, so I thought I would just update you on some of the new things here at Character Central.

Part One of my Disneyland Halloween trip Report can be read here.

Part Two, which is all about the Halloween Parties, is here.

My review of the Soundsational Annual Passholder Event night is here, and Loren's is here and also includes his review of the CHOC Walk, which was last weekend.

I added the following new Characters to the site:

Shaker

Agent P

Zero

and the CDA Workers.

I added the following new locations to the site:

Halloween Time at Disneyland, including Mickey's Halloween Party, Piratepalooza, Buzz Lightyear's Intergalactic Space Jam and Mickey's Costume Party Cavalcade.

Phineas and Ferb's Rockin' Rollin' Dance Party

Ariel's Grotto "Under the Sea" Character Dining

PIXAR Pals Heroes in Training Squad and Monsters Inc Mayhem

The Mary Poppins Castle Show

The Wilderness Explorer Ceremony

and Disney Dance Crew.

A lot of pages now have more new photographs, with lots more to come. A few pages also have new videos too. I won't list them all, but next time you visit a page be sure to scroll down to see if anything new shows up under the Most Recent images! Of course, on top of that, all those new pages will need descriptions too, but they will come over time when I get chance!

Stay tuned for more updates over the next few days, including our trip to Walt Disney World for Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party!

Ok, that's all for now,

Dan.

Hi all!

We are now back from our AMAZING trip to Hong Kong and Hong Kong Disneyland.

We have thousands of pictures to go through as ever!

I have started to put together a trip report and hopefully the first part will be up tomorrow evening! So stay tuned for that one.

We had a totally wonderful time, and had some amazing experiences. Some of the cool things we did included meeting the casts of the Festival of the Lion King and the Golden Mickeys shows, plus we had a special finale dinner with some great characters.

Lots more to come over the coming days including all the pictures, but thought I would share at least those small pieces of information with you.

For now, you can check out my previous two "live" updates I made while in HK complete with some pictures of some of the cool characters we met. Click here and here to find out more!

That's all for now,

Dan.

Hi all,

Just to let you know that we will be away from our desks until next weekend as we will be in Hong Kong!

We will be leaving for Hong Kong tomorrow, arriving Sunday.

We will be spending next Monday and Wednesday in Hong Kong Disneyland!

Tuesday we do know our plans yet, but will be in HK, of course.

We arrive home again Thursday, but it will take us a day or two to get sorted out.

When I return I shall post the next Character of the Week (I know it is over due - but gives you more time to vote!).

Have a good week everyone!

The Character Central Team

Dan, Jon and Loren

Hi all,

Just to let you know that we have not forgotten about the site, we have just been extremely busy since returning from our trip last week.

We have been slowly adding new content to the site, and more photos, but it has been a long process so far.

As always you can find the latest additions by looking at the side panels here on the blog.

I promise that some more major updates and new entries on the blog will be coming soon, but it may be another day or two, so just hang in there!

Thank you all for your continued support as always, we really appreciate the kind feedback we receive on an almost daily basis!

Dan.

Hi all,

Following our awesome trip the last two weeks, I have been working hard to try and get more and more content up on the site. Today I added some videos to the new pages I have added the last few days.

So far I have added video to the following locations (all are special events we attended):  [ Read More... ]

Hi all,

Following our awesome trip the last two weeks, last night and today I have been working on getting a selection of some of the best images from our trip up, so that you can have a sneak peak of some of the awesome things to come.

So far I have added all of the following locations (all are special events we attended):  [ Read More... ]

Hi all,

Over the last few days I have been working hard to bring a lot of the character pages more up to date.

There is of course still a lot of work to do, but hopefully most of them now reflect the present situation at the Parks and Resorts.

It is very difficult to keep on top of it all the time as character situations change frequently, and sadly we are not in all the parks constantly (though we do try! Lol!).

Some of the more notable additions over the last two days has been the wardrobe sections on nearly every character in the Mickey and Friends, Princes and Princesses, Heroes, Fairies and Disney Classics sections. Most have had a more costumes added, and in some cases a lot more.

As always you can see the latest photos uploaded by us for any given character or location by selecting the "Recent" tab on the "Pictures Of..." section on every page (by default the selection is "Popular").

I can assure that we are always uploading mass quantities of photos, so it is always worth checking the "Recent" tab on any given page to see if there are any updates.

Ok, that's all for now,

Dan.

Hi all,

The big news this weekend of course was the premier of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides at the Disneyland Resort in California. As I already pointed out yesterday, Loren was there right on the front line, and made a forum post about it here, including up close pictures of all the stars! Be sure to check it out! His report also includes some character updates.  [ Read More... ]

Hi all,

DLRP Magic confirmed today what I already said yesterday, that Stars 'n' Cars would be made into a proper parade, running across the park. The show stops will basically be a meet 'n' greet opportunity apparently.

Over in Florida, Walt Disney World have now put on sale their Halloween and Christmas Party tickets. More information can be found on Jon's forum posts here (Halloween) and here (Christmas).

Star Wars Weekends are due to start soon, and WDW have been promoting the fantastic annual event by visiting malls across Florida. Small stages have popped up in at least four locations, and have included appearances by Jedi Mickey, C-3PO and R2-D2!

I have also heard from an inside source that Dumbo and the Three Little Pigs (Fiddler, Fifer and Practical) might be making a return once the new Fantasyland is complete. It has been suggested their costumes may be redesigned, but that is not confirmed by any means. This would be fantastic if they did! We hope this rumour comes true.

Over in Disneyland, California correspondent Loren ran the Orange County AIDS walk, and raised over $4000! Read his post here on the forum to see which amazing characters he saw along the way! Well done Loren!

Finally, as always we have been uploading huge amounts of photos to our Flickr pages, which in turn should automagically appear on their respective pages on this site. Lots of new Florida, Disney On Ice and Disneyland Paris photos should now be on many different pages. The latest images can always be seen by clicking the Most Recent tab on the main photos section of each page.

I have also updated the calendar to reflect some slight changes to our travel plans.

Ok, that's all for now,

Dan.