Disney’s Port Orleans (my favorite “moderate” resort at Walt Disney World) is about to get even more magical. There are two sections to the resort: French Quarter and Riverside (formerly “Dixie Landings Resort”). I have always preferred the more magically themed French Quarter, but, starting this March, Port Orleans Riverside is about to give the [...]

Universal Studios made it official this morning, with the Phelps Brothers announcing that “Harry Potter is coming to Hollywood!” According to the LA Times, Universal Studios’ President / COO Ron Meyer and Warner Bros. Chairman / CEO Barry Meyer said the new park would cost several hundred million dollars to construct, and create more than [...]

Officials have confirmed plans to build a second Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Hollywood, not many details as of yet, but the layout of the Hollywood theme park (which, unlike its sister park in Orlando, is built on a working film studio) is still unknown, and may lend itself to no mere [...]

For years the non-magical resorts that surround the 45 square miles of WDW property have had one tiny thing over their magical Disney counterparts — free Wifi. Despite all the perks and magic that go along with staying at an official Disney resort, this was the one thing that the Muggle-thinking guests had to their [...]

Perhaps you yourself have spotted one or two as you’ve left the park on your way back to the Mickey & Friends parking structure at 1am… now, Ryan Gosling of all people discusses Disneyland’s hidden populace of prowling NightCats… Oh! And if you would like to be like like Gosling in Drive when you drive [...]

The Disney Parks Blog has posted a fascinating account of the history of my tied-for-number-1-and-2-Disney-World-resrots-to-stay-at!… Filled with awesome, never-before-seen pictures of their construction, (incredibly, construction began in February 1971, less than eight months before the first guests were scheduled to arrive!) this is not to be missed by an WDW fan! …And for the rest [...]

October 1996 It seems like just yesterday when WDW celebrated it’s 25th in grand style. While the 40th isn’t bringing as many festivities, there will be amazing fun and magic to be had at the Magic Kingdom tomorrow. If you are in or around Orlando, you won’t want to miss out on Retro Day! Retro [...]

Ramona Flowers herself and ‘The Thing’ star Mary Elizabeth Winstead gave IGN an exclusive tour of ‘The Thing: Assimilation’ maze at Universal Studios’ 2011 Halloween Horror Nights in Hollywood last week… More The Thing (2011) Videos

Many of you out there know that Ernest P Worrell was the first one to venture down Chick-A-Pin Hill into The Briar Patch. But did you know others tried before him (and apparently died in the process?)… For those who need to revisit Ernest’s adventure, view on after the jump!… And for those of you [...]

Hear lots of exciting talk about nothing specific from Cameron, Iger and the gang…

So, by now you know this: James and his producing partner Jon Landau and their team at Lightstorm Entertainment will serve as creative consultants on the project and will work side-by-side with our Walt Disney Imagineers as we dream up experiences that will take our guests deep into worlds of AVATAR like never before. There [...]

With an Avatar themed land coming to Disney World in 2013, the Na’Vi invasion of Earth has begun! Disney made a deal with James Cameron to create attractions based on Avatar, the first of which will begin construction by 2013 in Orlando. If all goes as planned, there should be Avatar rides and attractions in [...]

The good folks at AllEars.net have a great recap of all the secrets, tidbits and FunFacts shared by Tom Fitzgerald a few weeks ago at the D23 Expo in Anaheim. Namely, this cool first mock up of what the new Star Tours would be… (Spoilers – don’t watch this if you have not taken your [...]

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Walt Disney World, D23 spoke with the Hollywood stars of the resort’s most beloved attractions. As Captain Rx-24 (Rex), in Star Tours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios (1990-2010) Paul Reubens took Starspeeders to Endor and back daily. Ruebens tells D23 about working with George Lucas, trips to Florida, and [...]

Now that all the films and books are over, there is no need to be sad — Universal Orlando is planning the first of likely many Harry Potter Celebrations, the first scheduled for this November! Click HERE for the info!

Evanna Lynch, known for her role as Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter film series, spent some time at Universal’s Orlando parks while attending Leakycon, a Harry Potter fan conference at Universal’s Royal Pacific Resort. Source = Attractions Magazine

One of the most nifty pieces of TRON: Legacy advertising last year was the TRONorail, the Tron makeover given to their Monorail in Walt Disney World. I remember thinking how I wish they would keep it like that forever. Now, word has just come in that the Tronorail is, in fact, just that! The Tronorail [...]

Tony Baxter, Senior VP Creative Development for Walt Disney Imagineering, recently chatted with the ForceCast, one of the more respected Star Wars fan podcasts, about Star Tours. They discussed the new version a bit, but Baxter was really excited to explore some of the history of the original Star Tours attraction, including many little known [...]