Tagged with " Beauty & The Beast"

From Jennifer Fickley-Baker on the Disney Parks Blog: “Be our guest! Be our guest! Put our service to the test!” Or so the song goes. Who doesn’t love this playful scene from “Beauty and The Beast,” in which the enchanted staff welcomes Belle to the castle in grand style? And speaking of “style,” Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) has been busy recreating the castle’s very detailed beauty in the form of the Be Our Guest Restaurant in New Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom Park. In this video, provided by WDI, Senior Concept Designer Ted Robledo presents our very first sneak peek inside this highly anticipated restaurant. Imagineers recently put the finishing touches on one of its major elements: a massive mural that [...]

WDWNT Reporter Josh Siegel visited the Magic Kingdom yesterday and has some newsworthy photos to share with us, so let’s take a look: The Bakery is still behind tarps A tarp came down in the bad weather Some lighted effects added to another Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom window A line building for some of the windows A new poster inside the Fire Station A decent amount of guests waiting The Chapeau is still behind tarps Some new, smaller trees planted in Town Square Chamber of commerce (package pick-up) is also still behind tarps A temporary wheelchair ramp installed while work is being done Another look at the new trees everyone seems to hate I don’t see what all of [...]

Courtesy of Scott Keating and scottkeating.net, we once again have some fantastic aerial photos of Fantasyland to share with you: The foundations for the Seven Dwarves Mine Train are now in place, the old Dumbo is now history, and it looks like an extension of the Mermaid rock-work is about to begin to make the show building not visible from Storybook Circus The queue for Enchanted Tales with Belle seems further along than any other project, so it’s possible that may open first Prince Eric’s castle is looking good, but the rest of the facade is far from finished Dumbo and the Fantasyland Station are nearing completion, meanwhile, the Barnstormer is complete with the exception of some landscaping and queue [...]

WDWNT Reporter Josh Siegel visited the Magic Kingdom on Thursday and has a ton of newsworthy photos to share with us, so let’s take a look: Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom was testing There is a window at the head of the queue area to give guests more info It is still a fire station, just with three added Sorcerers stations WDWFD used instead of the customary MKFD Package Pick-up/Chamber of Commerce behind tarps Pooh and Tigger now greeting guests in the garden New flowers planted for the season Roy and Minnie await the move back to Town Square Some of the Confectionary and The Chapeau facades behind tarps Sign pointing guests to character FASTPASS Waits are short This will [...]

WDWNT Reporter Adam Roth visited Disney’s Hollywood Studios on Thursday and has some newsworthy photos to share with us from his trip: First stop: The Backlot Tour… Posters for War Horse, John Carter, and The Muppets up Muppets ad inside the Backlot Tour tram Block Party Bash cones still sitting around You’ve probably already read our story about it, but here is another look at the Beauty and the Beast statue There appears to be a damaged or unfinished Beast statue off to the side as well Pan-Am poster KUNGALOOSH! Happy birthday Walt! It may be time to take down the TRON Legacy billboards… Phineas and Ferb are dressed for the holidays Lines remain long OOOOOO, my favorite part! “No [...]