Disney is making over a part of the Kilimanjaro Safari ride, and you can say goodbye to the puny pachyderm who waved hello from the back of a would-be poacher’s truck. According to the Disney Parks Blog, the move is designed to increase savanna space and the attraction’s zebra presence. So say goodbye to Little Red, [...]
While at Walt Disney World in May, my friend Kevin took the Wild Africa Trek. I thought I’d put up a few pics of Kevin during his grand adventure. Yes, he did survive. I’ve got a lot more pics that gives an amazing close-up look at the trek, but for now I thought I’d introduce [...]
The Disney Blog’s John Frost is reporting that a cast member at Disney’s Animal Kingdom was injured this morning in a fall at the park. There are no details available yet on where the fall happened, but the cast member has been taken to a nearby hospital with hip pain.
Animal Kingdom’s Wild Africa Trek is already one of the most amazing specialty tours available. Evidently, they’re dumping just a bit more awesome-sauce all over it. The Disney Parks Blog reported that it’s getting “a shot of extra adventure” with an expansion to the private safari camp. Now, you’ll get the opportunity for even more [...]
Movie night at Mousejunkies… Teen Mousejunkie Ryan came across “The Lion King” – in its entirety – on Youtube. I’ll make the popcorn.
Sad news from Walt Disney World today: A 52-year-old working on the Primeval Whirl attraction at the Animal Kingdom theme park was seriously injured in a construction-related accident. The worker, Russ Roscoe, reportedly suffered head injuries and was flown to Orlando Regional Medical Center where he later died. Walt Disney World released the following statement: [...]
Leave it to Julian (of Mickeyxtreme.com) to get his new son going in the right direction. Just weeks old, Julian and Liz’s new baby boy visited Walt Disney World. But he couldn’t just accompany his parents around the parks. No, see, that would be boring. And Liz and Julian are nothing, if not boring. Such [...]
It’s always fun when I can write about something I love. In this case I got to do a feature story about the Wild Africa Trek at Disney’s Animal Knigdom and a sidebar about all the changes and innovations announced last week. It’s in today’s Boston Herald. The best thing is that they turned it [...]
I was reading this great rundown of the Yak & Yeti restaurant in Disney’s Animal Kingdom, when I was reminded of something I discovered quite by accident during my last meal there a few weeks ago. First of all, the theming in this place is amazing. From DisneyShawn: “The proprietor of this establishment, a local [...]
As I traveled on the Kilimanjaro Safari a few weeks back, I started noticing new structures and a lot of suit-type Imagineer/cast members walking around, conferencing and pointing at things just beyond the brush along certain parts of the savanna. Now I know what they were doing. They were putting the finishing touches on the [...]
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