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Here are some picture updates of the new Toy Story Midway Mania attraction at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, officially opening on May 31, 2008: The new Hollywood Studios map with the Toy Story Midway Mania promotional art on the cover debuted last weekend. (Despite what some other websites argued about the image being concept art) Despite the signage that says Pixar Studios, the new area is being called Pixar Place officially. The back of the map also received a change, switching to promote a new water resistant camera and Voyage of the Little Mermaid. The attraction has been operating Fastpass for about a week now, certainly not without some issues to be resolved. Here is a look at the loading area from [...]

Hello everybody, Tom Corless here reporting from the Walt Disney World Resort in Orland, Florida. It has been a fun and hectic nine days here, but I’ll be returning home to New York tomorrow evening. I apologize for the lack of news lately, but here are some tidbits to tide you over until we are fully operational again on May 29. -Toy Story Midway Mania was operating perfectly at Disney’s Hollywood Studios the first few days of my vacation, but has suffered greatly from the addition of the fastpass system this past weekend. The stand-by line moved very fast prior to the changes, but wait times after the changes went up to 2 hours in length, despite what the estimated [...]

Jose Eber brings us some new happenings from Disney’s Hollywood Studios in today’s mini-update: The new Journey Into Narnia backdrop is now near the entrance to the exhibit. The new exhibit features props from The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, which opened in theaters today. Toy Story Mania is not yet on a full-time running schedule, but is ready at any time to take guests. Some more props are appearing around the Pixar Studios, such as Mr. Spell and the jump rope being used to hoist him up. Toy Story Mania should be on full schedule beginning sometime in the next week, possibly tomorrow. 

Multiple sources have confirmed that the new Journey Into Narnia: Prince Caspian exhibit at Disney’s Hollywood Studios will be opening this Friday as the Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian movie is released in theaters. The opening of this exhibit marks the conclusion of 5 months of total inactivity for the right-east corner of the park as Toy Story Midway Mania enters a full-time soft-openings schedule beginning, as well, on Friday. 

Here are some little know facts Disney has released about the new Toy Story Midway Mania attraction at Disney’s Hollywood Studios: Each ride vehicle weighs as much as 8,580 Woody dolls. It would take 5,026 toy soldiers lined up end-to-end to make up the total track length. Toy Story Mania! is the first time that Walt Disney Imagineering is creating an attraction for two Disney Parks simultaneously. It has been estimated that, each day, guests may break over one million virtual plates using the spring-action shooters. Riders in the Sky, the award winning group that wrote the songs that Mr. Potato Head performs as part of the attraction, is the same group that wrote “Woody’s Roundup” for the “Toy Story” [...]