Tagged with " The Magic Kingdom"

As we have been reporting here at WDW News Today for almost a year, Space Mountain at the Magic Kingdom is scheduled to go down for an extensive refurbishment beginning in January of 2009. The number one priority for Disney during this refurbishment will be to bring in new, more comfortable ride vehicles and loading gates for added safety to the attraction. However, Imagineering has a few other ideas in store for the attraction. Among those ideas are new lighting effects, a completely new queue and exit, and a unique music track to play through the new on-board speakers that each vehicle will have. We are still 6 months away from what should be the beginning of a lengthy refurbishment, but [...]

The Jungle Cruise attraction returned into service at the Magic Kingdom this past Memorial Day weekend with a few noticeable changes. The first thing you should notice while aboard is that most of the props and sets throughout the attraction have been repainted and repaired, all looking practically brand new. Besides the general maintenance, some of the audio-animatronics characters from the attraction are still missing or have been removed. The Tiger from the cave scene and Chief Nami (the man holding the two shrunken heads near the very end) were still missing from the attraction as of early Wendesday morning. WDW News Today will be sure to keep an eye on the attraction in the coming weeks, as it is believed that this was only the first phase of a [...]

It has taken me a few days, but here is my very own Walt Disney World photo update from the past week. While we still do not have the video and photos from the rest of our staff this week (most of us are still recovering from “A Wild Decade”), we will have all of that coverage for you as soon as we can provide it. Notice that we have gone “green” for this update, well, at least our name has….  Disney’s Animal Kingdom park celebrated its tenth anniversary on April 22, 2008. We all sat patiently and awaited the speech by Imagineer Joe Rohde inside the Theater in the Wild. There he is, imagineer Joe Rohde. Notice the stylish [...]

In an announcement we have been expecting for a long time, Disney’s Virtual Magic Kingdom online game is finally shutting down forever next month. As stated on the VMK website, the game was only meant to run throughout the Happiest Celebration on Earth in 2005-06 and has lasted well beyond that. The Virtual Magic Kingdom did make it to the real-life Magic Kingdom during that time, gaining space over in the Main Street Cinema at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom from early 2005 until the Fall of 2007. The game will open for one final day of operation on May 21, 2008 before becoming the first virtual member of Yesterland.

Staff Columnist Sparky LD returns after another lengthy hiatus to once again bring us behind the scenes at the Walt Disney World Resort. This time around, Sparky fills us in on the story and technical aspects that are a part of the Magic Kingdom’s night spectacular, Spectromagic. The back-story and technical aspects behind Spectromagic are both amazingly detailed. The story itself is little know, so why don’t we start with that? The SpectroMen are keepers of light.  They hold the parades magical light and transform it for you in the midst of the night.  They come from a land called LightSpriation where everything is filled with rays of light and magical bursts of color. They were always afraid to come out [...]