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Photos & Video: Cars Wing Opens at Disney’s Art of Animation Resort

wdwntadmin — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:23:40 +0000

Thanks to WDWNT photographers Jeff Lukas and Adam Roth, we have an in-depth look at the Cars wing of Disney’s Art of Animation Resort which opened recently. Let’s take a look:

Welcome to Radiator Springs

Doc Hudson

Sheriff

Ramone

One building enters through Tow Mater’s junkyard

Flo

The Cadillac Range

The Cozy Cone office has restrooms

Another building enters through Casa Della Tires

Unlike in the movie, the sign spins

Luigi

Guido

The Cozy Cones are first-come first-serve cabanas

The back building is the Wheel Well Motel

Lightning McQueen

Sally

Fillmore

Sarge’s Surplus Hut

Sarge

The interior hallways look great

Hidden mickey in the carpet

A look inside the rooms

The sink area looks like a car wash

The table has a map of Route 66

Convertible sofa… GET IT?

Awww, Mater is sleeping

The Lion King wing opens August 10th

Rafiki!

Back to Cars

Flo’s license plate

Ramone’s plate

Hidden car

Alright… that’s too cool

Looking back towards Nemo

Here’s a video of the new wing:

Art of Animation Resort Offers A Little Bit of Cars Land in Florida

wdwntadmin — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 16:32:05 +0000

Opening on June 18th, the Cars wing of Disney’s Art of Animation Resort is already expected to be the most popular wing of the hotel. We took a lot of pictures over the construction fences during our stay, so let’s see how the next phase of the resort is doing (You may also want to check out our photos from a few weeks ago for a look inside the Cars rooms):

Sheriff sits below a billboard from the film

The back of one of the Cars buildings

Doc Hudson

Flo

Yes, the Cozy Cone Sign has neon, and unlike the one in the movie, it spins…

Ramone

Mater

Cozy Cone cabanas around the pool

The back of another building

The Cozy Cone cabanas will be first-come, first-serve

Sarge’s Surplus Hut

The Wheel-Well Motel in the very back

In the windows of the Cozy Cone Motel, we spotted postcards…

And the little alarm clocks from the film

Great signage

Gas pumps at the Wheel-Well

Lightning McQueen and Sally

A peek inside a cabana

In-Depth Look at the Finding Nemo & Cars Wings of Disney’s Art of Animation Resort

wdwntadmin — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:41:31 +0000

WDWNT’s own Katey McGregor went on a special tour of Disney’s Art of Animation Resort on Monday and was nice enough to take a number of photos to share with us prior to the resort’s official opening on May 31st:

Pulling up to the resort

One of the large sketches on the exterior of the main building

A palette of colors dominate the check-in area, while early character concepts cover the opposite wall

An animator at work in the lobby. I hope this is a regular thing and not just something they were doing for the special event…

Some of your favorite characters looked a little different at first

Storyboard artwork covers a chandelier

This one is actually signed by hand by John Lasseter

More artwork on another wall

Landscapes of Flavor has 4 themed sections like the resort – Cars

The Little Mermaid

Finding Nemo

Lion King

The Ink and Paint Shop looks ready to go

The back of the Cars wing

Even the staircases are themed to the different films

The Lion King section is coming along nicely

I can kind of see Simba there…

Finding Nemo is ready to open on May 31st

A look inside the rooms

The bathroom looks like the sunken ship where the sharks live

Shower curtain

Squirt’s Righteous Reef

Ha…

Welcome to Radiator Springs!

A little bit of Cars Land in Florida

Sheriff hiding near the billboard as always

A picture with Doc Hudson

The Cadillac Range is on the buildings

Some of the town establishments were built

They even have the Cozy Cone sign

Sarge’s Surplus Hut

Guests are staying at the Wheel Well Motel

I didn’t know Luigi sold Lightyear tires

Another building has an entrance through Casa Della Tires

Guido!

The Cozy Cone motel

A look inside the rooms

The TV is on a toolbox

brilliant

The bathroom is a car wash…

Thanks for the report Katey!

Complete Video Tour of Disney’s Art of Animation Resort

wdwntadmin — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:23:28 +0000

Disney has provided some fantastic video looking inside the Art of Animation Resort. From the main lobby, to the Finding Nemo wing themed elements, to the interiors of each room, no corner has been left unexplored:

John Corigliano’s 3/23-25/12 WDW Photo Report

wdwntadmin — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:54:29 +0000

WDWNT Reporter John Corigliano visited the Walt Disney World Resort this weekend and has some newsworthy photos to share with us, so let’s take a look:

MORE CIRCUS PHOTOS!

Can’t get enough of these shirts

New character shirts

The back

On to Disney’s Hollywood Studios, here’s another look at the Brave exhibit at Magic of Disney Animation

Monsters University billboard

Wreck-It Ralph poster

The remodeled Storyroom

Still no Narnia replacement… and I’m fine with that…

Only 90 minutes…

Splash fountain is being refurbished

Cars meet and greet has had short lines recently

Phineas and Ferb has long lines all the time

The Art of Animation sign is in place along the road

Both hands on the wheel John…

Habit Heroes is still closed

Someone is up in that window…

The Honeymooners? WHY?

Awwww…

Tick… tock…

This is one nerdy reptile… we named him fanboy

“Horizons was the greatest thing EVER!”

Land accross from the site of the new Grand Floridian DVC wing is being cleared, probably for parking

All Art of Animation Resort Opening Dates Announced

wdwntadmin — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:22:42 +0000

While we knew that the Finding Nemo wing of Disney’s Art of Animation Resort was opening May 31st, we really could only guess when the other wings might open. Well, we now have the official dates:

Finding Nemo (Grand opening) – Opens May 31
Cars – Opens June 18
Lion King – Opens August 10
Little Mermaid – Opens September 15

Guests can begin booking all of these tomorrow, March 23rd.

Disney also released a second preview video for the resort a few weeks ago, now seems like a good time to share that with you:

Zach Larson’s 10/11/11 WDW Photo Report

wdwntadmin — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:49:07 +0000

WDWNT Reporter Zach Larson visited Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Epcot on Tuesday and took a number of newsworthy photos to share with us , so let’s take a look:

The Mater and Lightning McQueen topiaries from the Flower and Garden Festival are now outside of Studio to promote the home video release of Cars 2

It’s hard for the hat to play hide and seek…

The amazing levitating hula hoop!

No comment…

Not touching this one either…

The Osborne Lights are almost completely installed on the Streets of America

Let’s head there

Awesome new Tower of Terror mouse ears

Yep, they are trying to catch a squirrel

The squirrel escaped

She doesn’t look so well…

It’s tiring…

Uh oh…

Stone Granite said “she had a liquid lunch”

On to Epcot and the Food & Wine Festival

The cranberry bog has been popular

Donald and Daisy are back from the Flower and Garden Festival

Let’s take a walk around the world and the Epcot Food & Wine Festival

The scrims are still up on the Canada pavilion, there’s even a little box that can be removed for the laser effects in Illuminations

NO OFF-KILTER? ARGHHHH!

Yakitori House is still closed

This guy really loves Billy Ocean

Day turns to night at Epcot

Cars Land Ready to Become a “Radiator Springs Reality”

wdwntadmin — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:27:45 +0000

Time to hit the road for the D23 Expo and an exciting, high-octane look at one of the largest projects ever created for the Disney Parks!

In this presentation, John Lasseter and Roger Gould from Pixar and Kathy Mangum, Kevin Rafferty, & Jennifer Mok from Walt Disney Imagineering take us on a in-depth exploration of the upcoming Cars Land at Disney California Adventure. While it may not be a Walt Disney World related presentation, it is a fascinating look at the project and a rare opportunity to hear the creative forces behind the project talk for over an hour about every last detail of next Summer’s blockbuster addition to the Disneyland Resort. Enjoy!:

8/6/11 Disney’s Art of Animation Resort Update

wdwntadmin — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:22:10 +0000

Brandon Struve was kind enough to send us some photos from a recent trip over to Disney’s Pop Century Resort, taking a look at the current state of Disney’s Art of Animation Resort now under construction. Let’s take a look:

In we go…

Off topic, but Mowgli and Baloo look great after a recent refurbishment

Have to wonder if the lake and bridge will keep the name

The map won’t end here for much longer…

Disney’s Art of Animation Resort

The sides of the Finding Nemo buildings look almost complete

A Cars building starting to show details

Character sketches will soon adorn these pages

The main building is looking good

You can see rockwork forming in the pool area

You can spot some more Nemo building details on the right

The Little Mermaid buildings look untouched

Thanks for the update Brandon!

Zach Larson’s 7/25/11 Hollywood Studios Photo Report

wdwntadmin — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 21:44:14 +0000

WDWNT Reporter Zach Larson visited the Studios on Monday and has some photos from his trip to share with us:

Do you know your Streetmosphere? Officer Percival Peabody and Otto Von Bonn Bonn

Over at the animation Gallery, the Lightning McQueen ink and paint cell was released recently

Metal mini-poster 3 piece set for the 40th anniversary of Walt Disney World

Some of the “it’s a small world” merchandise from the Disney Gallery at Disneyland has made it’s way to WDW

The mugs feature the different “gooodbyes” from the WDW attraction

Congratulations to Zach and his fiance on their recent engagement!

Back to the streets, it’s the Hollywood Matchmaker Game with Dara Vamp, Mimi Kaboom, and Evie Starlight

Ummmm…

More of Evie Starlight

She “turns on” a car…

Dara Vamp takes Shelby Mayore for a ride

The strange awards ceremony is still going on outside of Star Tours…

Officer Peabody and Stone Granite were out filming a peanut brittle commercial

Hollywood Public Works out and about

Exterior work on Tower of Terror wrapped up a few weeks ago

Looks great!