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.

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.