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Wednesday

Almost #WW Linky | Be Our Guest Restaurant Details

With this week’s release of the highly-anticipated live-action adaptation of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, I thought it would be fun to have a closer look at some of the details you may discover at Be Our Guest Restaurant in New Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom in the Walt Disney World Resort.

Throughout the restaurant you'll find roses in the design and decor. The rose represents the Beast's "countdown clock" to finding true love and accepting it.
You'll see them from the royal crest and iron gates, the gargoyles guarding the entrance and into the elegant Ballroom, the elegant Rose Gallery, and then to the dark West Wing where the Enchanted Rose is under glass slowly dropping petals as it counts down.

Be Our Guest Restaurant in Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom in the Walt Disney World Resort.

Be Our Guest Restaurant is a quick serve table service dining experience. For the menu click here.
Don't forget to try "The Grey Stuff", it's delicious.

What is your favorite quick serve restaurant? What do you usually order?

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Tuesday

Disney in the Rain

A rainy day in Disney World doesn't mean all your magical plans will be a total wash out. Being prepared with umbrellas, ponchos and a list of alternative activities might help you discover that rain in Disney can actually be fun and offer magical moments that you may not experience on a sunny day.

Unless there is a possibility of a storm, most rain showers are in the afternoon and last a brief amount of time. In May it rained every day for the last 5 days of our 10 day trip. While most people headed for the gates we donned our ponchos or popped open our umbrellas and went with the flow making memories that will last a lifetime.

Downtown Disney is a great place to be when it rains offering many indoor activities. My son Peter and I were caught in a downpour there one Friday night. We decided it was a good time to play video games at Disney Quest which we hadn't done in a very very long time. I'm not a big video gamer so it's not on top of my list. I got to play the Wreck it Ralph game for the first time. Then we tried our hand at bowling at Splitsville along with a quick bite to eat. If it hadn't been raining I know we would have walked right by those magical experiences.

Imagineers Add Character to Belle's Village in New Fantasyland

New Fantasyland Imagineers are adding more interesting details to Belle's Village. Thanks to our InsidEARS Disneyland Community Manager Kelly for sharing this news article with us.

This week, our “All in the Details” post is taking on a video twist thanks to our friends at the Disney Parks Blog and Walt Disney Imagineering, who recently installed the centerpiece of Belle’s Village – an elaborate bronze statue of Gaston and his sidekick, Lefou.
As Imagineers Ted Robledo and Chris Kelly explain here, the statue’s design of Gaston and Lefou juggling leaky barrels and mugs was inspired by both Gaston’s boisterous temperament and the fountain Belle visits early in the film as she is reading. Ted and Chris also walk us through the detailed process it takes to create such an elaborate bronze statue – from building a clay maquette to choosing specific shades of bronze for the piece.

For reference, the fountain sits in the center of Belle’s Village in New Fantasyland. The building that appears behind the fountain is Gaston’s Tavern, while the structure directly across is Bonjour! Village Gifts.And as we shared last week, each of these experiences will grand open December 6 (with general previews beginning November 19).

Are you excited to see the new Fantasyland?

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Thursday

A Look Inside Maurice's Cottage in Fantasyland

Excitement is building and so are the Imagineers over in the new Fantasyland expansion. Maurice's Cottage is in it's final stages of development and we have a video of it. I'm still hopeful that a part of it will be open for our trip in October. A girl can dream...
Thanks to InsidEARS Disneyland Community Manager Kelly for sharing this news article with us.

We’ve hinted before on InsidEARS and the Disney Parks Blog that Enchanted Tales with Belle, in New Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom Park, will be no ordinary character greeting. Today, we are sharing more details about this special experience.As you’ll see from the video below – provided by Walt Disney Imagineering – the goal of this attraction is not just to give you a place to meet a Disney character, but to completely transport you into the world of “Beauty and The Beast.”

The journey begins at Maurice’s Cottage, where they’ll walk through the whimsical garden and find inventions created by Belle’s tinkerer father, Maurice. Inside are books, pictures and other symbols that define the home of Belle and Maurice and their lives there, including leftover gadgets and artifacts from experiments gone awry. But guests also will see a mirror that magically becomes a portal into Beast’s Castle…

What are you most looking forward to in the new Fantasyland?

A Look at Prince Eric's Castle In New Fantasyland

There's been a great deal of excitement and anticipation in the air over the new Fantasyland expansion for awhile. Every time I see a new picture posted I get even more excited and hopeful that maybe some of it will open up in time for our trip and we'll get to experience it.

Things are really taking shape now. When I saw the latest picture of Prince Eric's Castle it became more of a reality and less of a dream. This castle is breathtaking!

Thanks to InsidEARS Disneyland Community Manager Kelly for sharing this news article with us.

Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) is adding two Disney castles to the park – Beast’s Castle, which houses Be Our Guest Restaurant, and the one pictured below, Prince Eric’s Castle, which tops off the Under the Sea ~ Journey of The Little Mermaid attraction.

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Here’s the first complete look at Prince Eric’s castle!

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Just like Beast’s Castle, Prince Eric’s Castle uses the forced perspective technique for which WDI is famous to make the structure appear much larger in size than it is in reality.

Forced perspective, which has been used since Walt Disney oversaw the construction of Disneyland park in the 1950s, is sort of an optical illusion that uses architectural scale to “trick” the eye into believing a building towers above you, when it’s really not as tall as you’d think.

What are you looking forward to most in the new Fantasyland expansion?

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Photo Flashback ~ 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

It's Photo Flashback Friday! Time to once again enter the Wayback Machine and have another look at our old Disney photos.
Today's flashback photos may be familiar to you. I've posted them before. Sorry, but I really enjoy looking at them. They bring back many happy memories from the late 1980's & 90's. As you can see they are scans of matte finished pictures. The matte finish gives them a vintage look. Come to think of it, they are vintage!

Sail with Captain Nemo on a submarine voyage aboard the "Nautilus" and explore lost undersea worlds.

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The submarine ride 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea was located in Fantasyland in The Magic Kingdom. It was later re-imagineered into Ariel's Grotto as a Meet & Greet area.

I really enjoyed this ride even if it was cramped and the line waiting to board was long. It was always worth the wait. There were no characters or animatronics involved but a lot of imaginearing.

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