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With Toy Story Mania now operating, bigger plans for the entire Pixar Place area of Disney’s Hollywood Studios are firming up. Imagineering is already beginning to work on upgrades for Toy Story Mania, with holiday version of the ride planned to debut in 2011 and an updated Toy Story 3 inspired version coming Summer 2010. Across the street, the new shop, small-scale food service area, and the ”top secret” Toy Story meet and greet spot are all nearing completion. According to Disney, the waiting area for the meet and greet will feature something they “have never done before”, to quote an Imagineer. Also slated to debut on the street, around the same time in June as the other Pixar Place offerings, is the Wall-E interactive [...]

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 once again brings us updates from the current Walt Disney World hotbed of news, Disney’s Hollywood Studios: Prince Caspian is doing some outdoor meet-and-greets as he waits on the opening of the delayed Journey Into Narnia: Prince Caspian exhibit. As we stated earlier this week, soft-openings of Toy Story Mania are now being conducted on a regular schedule, so expect the attraction to be open from now on, as long as there are no technical difficulties. Jose managed to get one of the best scores of the day, as you can see by his highlighted score on the leader board. A sign warns guests that the attraction does not officially open until May 31st and that it may have [...]

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.