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The Disney Parks Blog this afternoon announced the brand new parade for Disneyland Park at the Disneyland Resort in California!
Coming in 2011, the amazing looking offering will be called Mickey's Soundsational Parade (subject to change), and will be a celebration of classic Disney music from the movies. I have to say the initial artwork for the parade looks really promising, and I can't wait to see it! From the drawing, it appears that Dr. Facilier will make his parade debut and none other than Disney's newest princess - Rapunzel!! Of course there are the more popular and traditional characters such as Peter Pan, the Fab 5 and friends and the Lion King too. One interesting point to note is that it appears there will be no PIXAR in this parade, which honestly, is not a bad thing! It will be a welcome replacement for Celebrate! A Street Party which many fans find greatly underwhelming, rather than exciting. Dan.
The image below is from the Disney Parks Blog (C) The Walt Disney Company, 2010. 
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Not a surprise but the Disney Parks blog officially announced that the Main Street Electrical Parade will stay in WDW past the end of summer Nightastic... no new official end date was specified and in fact they stated it was an "open ended run" so it could be there for awhile... of course since it was announced there have been rumors it would stay for up to two years. We are very excited about this as we won't be back in WDW until December and where hoping we would get to see it and now we can! It does leave a few questions though... just how long will it stay? Will CA actually ever get it back or will it be replaced by something else? (and hopefully won't be replaced by nothing like seems to happen way too much recently) What are they doing with SpectroMagic while it is on hiatus... the rumors before were that it was badly in need of a refurb which was part of the reason for bringing over the Electrical Parade, if they are going to have a year or more to refurb it... will they make some big changes and improvements? We can only hope so! While we haven't gotten to see it in WDW yet, we did get to see the Electrical Parade in CA last summer when all the latest changes debuted... so you can see our pictures of it here :) They also released this video showing some of the prep and training work that cast members have to do for Celebrate! a Street Party
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 | Disney and Character News from Around the Web | |
| PeterPanFan
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:26:32 PM |
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Jim Hill gives details about Tangled from the Comic Con panel. It sounds really promising and I am more excited about this movie then any Disney (animated) movie in awhile. I have really liked almost all the recent Disney animated movies but there haven't been many I have been really excited about beforehand. Happily, three of the main characters (Rapunzel, Mother Gothel and Flynn) will be coming to the parks before the movie release (rumors say Oct for WDW at least) and I can't wait to meet them in December! Disney posted this behind the scenes video describing how they came up with the "look" of Tangled
The Disney Parks blog posted the following awesome video of World of Color from an airplane at 1800 feet... it is a pretty awesome view!
WDW Magic reports that the Glas und Porzellan shop in Epcot's Germany pavilion has closed so that construction can begin on new Karamelle-Kuche shop that will replace it. The new shop will sell gourmet caramels and other tasty German treats. It is supposed to reopen in late Sept and we will definitely be checking it out when we go there in Dec!
Disneyland Paris released some more teasers about their upcoming Halloween festivities and parties. The main news as I reported before is that Dr. Facilier will be joining the other Disney Villains. He will definitely be in the Halloween pre-parade and shows... not sure if he will be available for Meet and Greets but we are hopeful! Speaking of the "pre-parade", for those that aren't familiar with DLPs normal Halloween offerings in years past there has been a short pre-parade before the normal day parade with all the villains, Jack, Sally, and a bunch of Pumpkin People; however, this year it sounds like the special Halloween section might be *after* the normal parade instead of before and will include a new float themed for Dr. Facilier. They also released more details for their Halloween Eve party "Terrorific Night 2" which will be held in the studios park and they promise to be much more scary than the normal Halloween parties in Disneyland Park and will include "Scary creatures , monstrous figures and artists from another world that are determined to haunt your nights for eternity." (rough translation from the French press release). They are strongly discouraging people from bringing younger children to this party. The rest of the parties sound about the same as previous years with slight changes to some of the shows possible. It does sound like some of the normal day time Halloween shows will also be receiving some changes (and one, Witches Dancing Spells, may either be removed or replaced). We will be there for both the Terrorific Night and the main Halloween Night party so expect lots of pictures and details from Halloween at DLP here!
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Hi all, I'm going to start trying to do a post like this fairly often with Character and other big Disney News from around the web... hopefully at least weekly but maybe more often.
Inside the Magic reported that Phineas, Ferb, and Agent P were at the Montebello, CA Disney Store earlier this month... this was the first newly designed "Imagination Park" Disney Store to open... really hope that Phineas, Ferb, and Agent P start meeting at a park sometime soon and there continue to be rumors that they will be in the parks sometime this year or early next! The Character Photo Blog reports that while the Winnie the Pooh and Friends show did not return to DLP for this summer it should be back for the Halloween Parties and the Christmas season which is good news! They, along with DLRP Today, and others report that Dr Facilier will be a part of Disneyland Paris' Halloween parties! There have also been reports that he would be out for WDW's Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween parties... at least for the Villian's Mix and Mingle Show! Would be great to have him out since he has only been seen in the Tiana's Showboat Jubilee in WDW and CA so far and in general wasn't available for meets. The promotional photos have also appeared: here, here, and here Disney announced at Comic Con that there would be a new Haunted Mansion movie directed by Guillermo del Toro, this new version would be a complete departure from the Eddie Murphy comedy movie and instead would be a more scary/dark version and reportedly will be told from the viewpoint of the mysterious Hat Box Ghost. Disney and More reports on more signs of the as of yet unannounced DLP Studios Ratatouille attraction is a reality. The latest news focuses on two photos of the area outside of the soon to open Toy Story Playland. In what appears to be one of the entrances/exits to TSP there is a very Parisian looking arch that looks to have an image of Gusteau on it... all rumors of the details of this ride sound very interesting and exciting!
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| Last Tour to Endor | |
| PeterPanFan
Friday, July 23, 2010 3:16:57 PM |
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The Disney Parks Blog has released some details about the Last Tour to Endor here As a huge Star Wars fan (I am a member of the 501st) it sounds awesome and I really wish we could go! But I guess we will settle for Tokyo :P Some of the details revealed include that their will be a special Star Wars themed fireworks show, a Death Star disco (guessing a Star Wars themed dance party), Disney Characters (I would guess that they will have Jedi Mickey, Leia Minnie, Darth Goofy, and Stormtrooper Donald out... and maybe some of the other Star Wars characters seen during Star Wars Weekends), and last but not least a special version of the Hyperspace Hoopla (the stage show seen during Star Wars weekends). I have to say when we went to Star Wars weekends a couple years ago the Hyperspace Hoopla was a surprise that we really enjoyed so I am sure this special version will be even better! In addition, there will be special event merchandise. Tickets for it (it is on August 14, 2010) are $75 in advance and $89 at the
gate (if any are left). For more information and to purchase tickets, go can go to www.starwarscelebration.com. May the Force be with you!
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| Busy busy busy | |
| PeterPanFan
Thursday, July 22, 2010 2:58:57 PM |
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Well, I have been busy trying to get my backlog of pictures processed so I can focus on the thousands of new pictures I am sure I will take in a few weeks at Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland once we are back. So there are new photos showing up almost daily. Currently I am working on pictures from Christmas at WDW :) While I have been doing that, Dan has been working on adding lots of descriptions and meeting info to the lands in all the parks and has almost finished that so check out our parks pages to see the improvements! I think they have added a lot to those pages and have improved them significantly. Also along the way we have added several new characters and locations!
So expect to continue to see more new additions over the next couple weeks until we leave for our big trip! Once we are back look for lots of new and exciting pictures, characters, and a whole new resort! The site itself is enjoying it's best month yet and we really hope everyone is enjoying our site! And if you like the site please feel free to pass the word onto your friends! :) We have many new features planned. The next should be user accounts and a forum (along with the ability to comment on various things like the blog LOL) and I am hoping to have that working sometime soon after we get back from Tokyo :D In the meantime if you have any thoughts, suggestions, or feedback feel free to email us at [email protected] we also just created a twitter account for the site (DisCharCentral), so feel free to follow us if you want to hear about updates to the site and our adventures in the parks! :D
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| The site now supports Video! | |
| PeterPanFan
Friday, July 16, 2010 7:19:09 AM |
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We just added an exciting new feature to the site... Video! We don't have many videos up yet (well just one LOL) but we have many more that we have taken over the past few years that will be added over the coming days and weeks :D
Our first Video is from SpectroMagic so check out on the SpectroMagic page here to see it!
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 | New content added! | |
| DisneyDan
Wednesday, July 14, 2010 1:03:18 PM |
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I have added a load of new items to the site, including Jedi Training Academy, Wishes, Voyage of the Little Mermaid, Mickey's Twas the Night Before Christmas, some of the Holiday Storytellers, and many more! I have been adding new descriptions and updates to existing pages also. Be sure to check them all out! Dan :) |
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| Much Excitement! | |
| PeterPanFan
Thursday, July 8, 2010 6:46:13 AM |
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Hi all, It is now less than a month until our trip to Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland and we are VERY excited about it! It will be the first first trip to Tokyo Disneyland for both Dan and I and we can't wait! :D So start looking around the middle to end of next month for Tokyo to be added to the site! In the meantime we have both managed to get all our pictures done from our June trip to Disneyland Paris and they can be seen here. As far as site news... we are still working on adding more information to the site which will be a never ending task I am sure hehe. The next new site feature should be video in addition to pictures! Hopefully video should start showing up sometime later this month :) In the meantime you can find us on YouTube here and we have added a few videos already... with many more to come.
Have a magical day and as always if you have any ideas or questions please let us know! Jon
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