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Mar 5—Downtown Disney Downtown Disney is welcoming two new stores, a quick-service restaurant and 3D technology to the AMC Pleasure Island 24 theater. The new 3D technology has already debuted, when Alice in Wonderland opened today. AMC Entertainment upgraded auditorium 1 to be the first Enhanced Theater Experience (ETX™) in the United States. The ETX auditorium includes a 20 percent larger, floor-to-ceiling screen, 3D technology, 12 channel audio and digital projection that delivers higher resolution that HD. RIDEMAKERZ ® was such a success at the Downtown Disney® District in Disneyland in California, Disney will open a new retail entertainment experience on the Westside of Downtown Disney. This is a limited time engagement. This store will integrate full-sized cars and a supercharged interactive experience that lets guests build, customize and trick out their very own radio-controlled vehicles. Kids of all ages will be able to satisfy their need for speed with over 649 million ways to create a mean machine. RIDEMAKERZ will open March 25 through fall 2010. D Street, a new apparel store where urban inspired product “intersects” with a Disney creative edge will also open on the West Side and showcase a mix of products for both men and women. Building on the existing popularity of Trend-D at the Marketplace, D-Street will include edgy apparel, pop culture novelties, Vinylmation™ figures and collectibles, artwork, handbags, accessories, jewelry and more. Opening in April, the store will feature a raw, unfinished industrial look and provide a great venue to showcase Disney art created by local artists. A new restaurant is opening this fall at Downtown Disney’s Marketplace. Pollo Campero is an international Latin chicken quick service restaurant. Keeping with the Latin theme, you will find drinks, delicious side dishes and Latin beverages. You will find several sugar free options, low sodium, organic offerings, and gluten free options as well. Watch Our Laughing Place for reviews on this restaurant. Mar 5— Sounds Like Summer Concert Series The America Gardens Theatre (map), in the American Adventure Pavilion at Epcot, is host every year to The Sounds Like Summer Concert Series. The series of concerts features “tribute” bands that cover a variety of music by popular artists. In 2010 the concerts start on June 12, and run through July 31. This schedule is subject to change. June 12 – June 19: Stayin' Alive (Bee Gees) June 20 – June 26: Hotel California (Eagles) June 27 – July 3: TBD July 4 – July 10: Satisfaction (Rolling Stones) July 11 – July 17: Slippery When Wet (Bon Jovi) July 18 – July 24: 2U (U2) July 25 – July 31: Beginnings (Chicago) Showtimes are 5:45, 7 and 8:15 p.m. nightly, except July 4 shows which are scheduled for 5:15, 6:30, 7:45 and 9 p.m. Mar 1— Castle Couture! 'Tinker Bell’s Fairy Treasures' , the little store in the Magic Kingdom's Fantasyland, is closed for remodeling. The store will reopen in late March, and will be part of ‘Castle Couture’, offering Bibbidy Bobbidy Boutique guests a Photopass location where they can have photo portraits done. The newly crowned princesses won’t have to go to Exposition Hall on Main Street USA for their package photo. The merchandise available at the former ‘Tinker Bell’s Treasures’ will be next door in castle Couture. Making room in Exposition Hall for Character Meet and greets, while Fantasyland is rebuilt, is part of this plan. Feb 27—Epcot Flower and Garden Festival Disney has released a brochure of events at this year’s festival. Find your way around the 2010 Flower and Garden Festival at Walt Disney World’s Epcot. Feb 24—Disney Vinylmation A new Vinylmation store is coming to Downtown Disney! This store will take the place of the Planet Hollywood store that recently closed, in the West Side. Rumored opening is some time in April 2010. Feb 24—Florida Resident Annual Passes Disney may be offering payment plans to Florida resident who are purchasing Annual Passes to the Walt Disney World theme parks. This is something offered in Disneyland California now. No date has been set as to when this will be offered, but it is coming. Feb 22, 2010— ESPN Wide World of Sports Transportation to the Wide World of Sports will no longer be available from Hollywood Studios. Bus transportation will be provided from Disney’s All-Star Resorts, Disney’s Pop Century Resort, or Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort. Feb 18, 2010—Walt Disney World The Wishes Dessert Party is not available now. Construction walls have recently blocked the Tommorowland Noodle Station area, and work is going on in the areas primarily used for the Dessert Party. No formal announcement has been made yet, but the Dessert Party will return in Spring 2010 with a refurbished location that will feature enhancements for the viewing of Wishes. The Meet & Greet locations for Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse will move from Towntown Fair to the Exposition Hall in Town Square at the Magic Kingdom by Late Spring 2010 Meet & Greet locations will be set up in the Exposition Hall for the Fairy and Princess Meet & Greets while Fantasyland construction progresses. These new Meet & Greet areas will replace the existing movie theaters. The UP Character Meet & Greet in the Magic of Disney Animation building at Disney's Hollywood Studios will end in Early May 2010. Carl and Dug will begin new Meet & Greet appearance at Disney's Animal Kingdom once the Studios location closes. Currently it is planned for Russel to be retired when the UP Meet & Greet ends its Studios run. The buffet at Maya Grill, at Disney’s Coronado Springs, will be replaced with a menu style breakfast offering. This will begin on February 23, 2010. The actual menu has not been announced. The character Lotso is scheduled to start daily Meet & Greet appearances, in early May 2010, in the Disney of Animation building. Lotso will replace the spot vacated by the UP characters. He is a purple teddy bear who will be introduced in the third chapter of the Toy Story trilogy. |
