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Post by Mrs. Nesbit on Jan 2, 2013 10:04:31 GMT -5
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Post by Merida Brave on Jan 2, 2013 17:01:55 GMT -5
This looks amazing!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Pride on Jan 5, 2013 1:21:15 GMT -5
I don't have any proof, but I heard they are building another castle in the Disneyland park in California. And according to this video, www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3DcB3shCZI, Disney World is building three new castles! |
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Post by barkydog2000 on Jan 6, 2013 16:37:25 GMT -5
I was able to preview it and I loved it. I will be honest and say that Magic Kingdom isn't my favorite WDW park so I never go there. But I loved what they had and look forward to what they are doing. The Under the Sea Journey is really well done. That is in one of the new castles (Prince Eric's). The line wasn't long when I went, but they have a lot of stuff to interact with when it is. They have a cute kind of game throughout the line that they have crabs collecting certain treasure and if they collect the wrong thing you can tell them and they will put it back. And on the ride itself they have a mix of digital screens and animatronics recreating the movie. It's funny one of my least favorite scenes of the movie (the Under the Sea scene) was my favorite part of the ride because I really felt like I was apart of the singing and dancing more then the other parts of the ride. The Be Our Guest restaurant was AMAZING!! I didn't eat there, but I looked in. And wow, the main eating room looks just like the ballroom and they darkened the windows so that it is always night in there. I didn't see it, but I know you can also eat in the West Wing. Tales with Belle I as skeptical about at first but it is actually really cool! You are not just being told the story, but they have people in the group become the characters. And even before that part, the "line" part you get to go though Maurice's workshop and Belle's cottage. Another place to eat is Gaton's. It is the tavern that they drink at. It is awesome, he really does use antlers in all his decorating hahaha.  My family had the cinnamon bread loaf and that was huge and really good. There is also a drink (non- alcoholic) that I got was a must! I forget what it was called but it was almost cider-y. And the Snow White mine train roller coaster wasn't done yet, but even unfinished it looks like a lot of fun! |
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Post by Mrs. Nesbit on Jan 6, 2013 18:04:26 GMT -5
I'm going to be visiting Disney World for the first time in early October. I'm very much looking forward to seeing everything mentioned. I've been doing a lot of research.  |
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Post by Briar Rose's Dark Knight on Jan 9, 2013 23:08:11 GMT -5
I was fortunate enough to tour the Fantasyland expansion and dine in Be Our Guest on my recent WDW visit.
The facade for The Little Mermaid ride is indeed Prince Eric's castle. It's very nice. The ride itself is an identical clone of the ride in Disney California Adventure. There is also a meet and greet with mermaid Ariel off to the side of the ride. You can do one or the other.
Be Our Guest Restaurant is AMAZING. Forget dining in Cinderella Castle as Be Our Guest has better atmosphere and better food. It's like being right inside the Beast's castle and different rooms from the film. Reservations are booking 6 months in advance for that restaurant with good reason.
Enchanted Tales with Belle is a well done experience. Do not use fastpass as you miss one of the best parts, getting to walk through Maurice's cottage and seeing a portrait of young Belle with her mother and Belle's copy of her favorite story (Sleeping Beauty) along with a lot of other nice touches. From there, you enter Maurice's workshop, where you are magically transported to the Beast's castle just minutes before Belle's dance with the Beast where they fell in love. There, some audience members (including adults) get to reenact the story of Beauty and the Beast for Belle. The animatronic Madame Wardrobe and Lumiere are awesome.
Gaston's Tavern lives up to the line in the song with "antlers in all of my decorating" and is as awesomely funny as that sounds.
Storybook Circus is also well themed to the circus and you can meet the Great Goofini, daredevil pilot extraordinaire, the Astounding Donaldo, snake charmer, Madame Daisy, fortune teller, and Minnie Magnifique and her prancing poodles. It has 2 Dumbo rides (both the same), a train water play area for the kiddies, and Goofy's Barnstormer has been rethemed to the circus.
All in all, I really liked the expansion to new Fantasyland. The Seven Dwarfs Mine Train isn't opening until 2014 and there may be a new princess meet and greet opening sometime in 2013. The expansion does some nice things to improve the Magic Kingdom and bring it a little bit closer to Disneyland.
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