WDWNT Reporter Josh Siegel visited Epcot last night and has a number of newsworthy photos to share with us from his trip:

The Germany train village is decorated for the holidays

Candlelight Processional

Santa’s Village at the American Adventure

Plenty of holiday merchandise available

Precious Moments Disney dolls

More Precious Moments

You can build your own Disney Christmas village with these pieces

Decorations at the American Adventure

Hanukkah display

How to make one large gingerbread house

Katsura Grill at the Japan pavilion is now open

It looks nice after the long remodel

A look at the menu

Epcot Christmas tree

New directional signage is up around Future World

The signage is either blue or green, again pointing to the eventual renaming of Future World East and West as Blue/Green that we have been talking about for a few years

Topiary display near Innoventions

A booth on the walkway between Future World and World Showcase behind walls

Stage set for Joyful!

The tip board still works and is decorated for the holidays!

The Stitch topiary lights up at night

Lilo and Stitch signed the back

Bambi

Thumper and Flower

If you can’t have real snow…

]]> http://wdwnewstoday.com/archives/8415/feed 1 http://wdwnewstoday.com/archives/8306 http://wdwnewstoday.com/archives/8306#comments Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:59:45 +0000 wdwntadmin http://wdwnewstoday.com/?p=8306 WDWNT Reporter Adam Roth visited Epcot yesterday and took a TON of newsworthy photos to share with us, so let’s take a look:

The RFID ticket test is over for now while they work out the bugs…

They should be back soon

The holiday topiary display is up

Bambi

Stitch bit the card…

No line for Spaceship Earth

Holiday floral behind Spaceship Earth

The tip board still works!

It now sports a Holidays Around the World image

Club Cool has been decorated for the holidays

Joyful! is back

Another set of topiaries by the fountain

New sign outside of Kim Possible World showcase Adventure kiosks

The Epcot Christmas tree is up

More decorations

Canada is still behind tarps

No Off Kilter, but Papa Noel was performing for Holidays Around the World

Rose and Crown decorated

France storyteller stage

On to France

France decorations

The temporary Japan booth from Food & Wine remains as Yakitori House is still closed

Walls still up at Yakitori House

A look inside…

The Storytellers stage in Japan

More walls

Walls also up around the small food vendor

A look from above

A look inside

Workers finishing up

Candlelight Processional running

Santa’s Village is open at the American Adventure

Precious Moments doll signing

Candlelight Processional booth… and I won’t comment on anything else in the photo…

Santa and Mrs. Claus

Kwanzaa booth

There is a sign for the gingerbread house outside of the Liberty Inn

Mmmmmmm….

The Liberty Inn is decorated

The snowman Mickey buckets are back

The overflow restrooms are back for the Candlelight Processional

Long line to enter the theater

Storytellers in Italy

The train village in Germany now celebrates the season

Germany decorated

Storyteller on the schedule in Germany

Germany stage

Mmmmmm….

Ornaments and alcohol, a great mix!

China stage

Storytelling going on in Norway

Decorations on La Hacienda

The Mexico stage

Decorations on La Cantina

Stitch also got caught up in some lights…

Donald and Goofy are ice skating

Bambi looks on… goodbye sweet prince…

Even by the stroller rentals you can buy a Duffy

Here is the corner of new registers at MouseGear we showed you a few weeks ago

Walls have come down next door….

The wall of registers is gone, now there is more merchandise space

The other side is still walled off

Duffy available at Mouse Gear

The upward waterfall and upper lagoon at Imagination! are now drained

Not much to see inside Imageworks

Quite a sight when it is off

Some temporary guardrails keep guests out

Two new Soarin’ t-shirts available inside The Land, scratch and sniff oranges!

These shirts have the pine smell

Duffy signage all over Disney Traders

Too much Duffy!!!

The Christmas Duffy is now available

One bear, too many options…

I think it’s the first Duffy for most people….

What more can be said about Duffy?

Some of the country outfits are actually pretty cool

Generic clothing

Even the checkout area is covered in Duffy

You can meet Duffy once you buy him….

The meet and greet is very nicely themed to the area

Duffy available in Norway

Duffy at Village Traders

Werther’s “Karamell-Kuche” has proved popular thus far

There’s no reason to not buy Riesen

Caramel… chocolate’s forgotten middle child…

Kids are getting creative with… is that Sailor Moon? and Elvis?

Duffy in Italy

Duffy in the American Adventure

The first victim….

Duffy in France

The window display at the International Gateway’s World Traveler store has been “Duffied”

Duffy in the UK

Free samples of Twinings Tea being given out in the United Kingdom

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Port of Entry

Work continues by the Monorail station entrance

At the Magic Kingdom, work on the Tangled “play and greet” is complete and the characters are appearing intermittently from 10AM -5:30PM

It’s the 15th edition of the Food and Wine Festival at Epcot

A huge 15 topiary in World Showcase

Another cake by the Festival Center

A look inside the Festival Center

A map of the Festival Center

The extinct Seasons of the Vine film from California Adventure is once again playing at Epcot

Let’s take a look at some Festival booth menus

This is for the Mexico booth

The Kielbasa and Potato Pierogie

Werther’s “Karamell-Kuche” candy shop has opened in Germany, replacing the Goebel store

The hand made treats look amazing

They also sell a selection of candy like you’ll find in your local grocery store

The window is full of candy

Prices for the hand-crafted items

It gets busy in here and it isn’t wide enough for people to pass, you would think Universal designed it (zing!)

Pictures on the walls of the candy shop

How does this compare to normal store prices?

It’s Oktoberfest in Germany

A new Soarin’ Over California shirt available inside The Land

There is a permanent sign on the Disney Visa meet and greet experience now…

Probably for how popular this has actually become

Some of the soft-line WDW 40th Anniversary merchandise is now available at MouseGear, including these pajamas

This tag is most of the items

Another logo sewn on

These shirts aren’t new, they have just been slightly modified for the 40th anniversary

Some new character shirts allow guests to pick up an inexpensive Halloween costume

Two new Gallery of Lights pieces have made their way to WDW, here is the Mad Tea Party from Disneyland

Also now available, the Jungle Cruise

Moving over to the Magic Kingdom, the Tomorrowland Terrace Noodle Station is now the Tomorrowland Terrace Restaurant

One sign still says Noodle Station

In Fantasyland, work has begun on the roof of the Mad Tea Party

Rumors indicate that a glass roof similar to the one found at Disneyland Paris may be on the way

Work on Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid is moving along quickly

Work continues on the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

Large cranes tower over Fantasyland

The first pieces of the Be Our Guest Restaurant have become visible

A view over the walls shows a parking lot of construction vehicles

The giant pile of dirt is completely gone

Did you know they are still putting these on some broken seats at Stitch’s Great Escape?

The kennels of Walt Disney World are now the Lost and Found

Here’s where the Kennel sign once stood