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From Jennifer Fickley-Baker on the Disney Parks Blog: Who’s ready for an update on New Fantasyland? I just heard that the first elements of Storybook Circus will open by late March, marking the first in a series of progressive openings for the largest expansion in Magic Kingdom Park history. Among the first experiences to open will be one carousel of Dumbo the Flying Elephant, a re-themed Barnstormer starring the Great Goofini and the Fantasyland Station of the Walt Disney World Railroad. In designing Storybook Circus, Imagineers were inspired by Disney’s animated film, “Dumbo.” When complete later this year, the area will be filled with multicolored circus tents and other nods to the film. The section will also feature Casey Jr., the famous locomotive from the movie, who [...]

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 [...]

From Super Bowl MVP parades to Animal Kingdom, WDWNT Reporter Zach Larson brings us around the world with him on a very busy photo report. Let’s take a look: Land clearing continues for the Grand Floridian DVC wing Meanwhile, some brush is being cleared from this island in the Seven Seas Lagoon The main street characters were out entertaining guests waiting for Eli Manning to parade down the street. I really don’t like the new one in the beige shorts… They were offering free balloons with every audio guide purchased! Giants fans out in force Here comes the Super Bowl MVP Congratulations to our hometown champions, the New York Giants… even though I’m a Dolphins fan… stop laughing… The Big [...]

WDWNT Reporter Josh Siegel visited the Magic Kingdom on Sunday to complete his Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom quest and he took some newsworthy photos from his trip to share with us: Pain and Panic disguised as happy woodland creatures DEFEATED! Merlin has statues of all of the villains Hades has another challenge for us… Chernabog! Time to rest after defeating all of the villains Ooooooo, a badge! Hades isn’t happy He’s trapped… All of the Villains are stuck in a snowglobe Progress on the old Dumbo Mostly intact still The Castle Wall waits to grow over this plot The construction site is still a bit messy The stroller parking situation is getting bad Work ont turning the Skyway into [...]

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 [...]