Posted on Tuesday, 1st November 2011 by Aaron DelPrince

Disney park guests were treated to a very special visit by talking Mickey Mouse on Monday evening, October 31st.  During Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party talking Mickey Mouse made an appearance in the Magic Kingdom’s Town Square.  Guests who arrived to meet Mickey Mouse were surprised by this technology which is part of Disney Imagineering’s “Living Character [...]

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Posted on Saturday, 1st October 2011 by Dave Parfitt

In this video, released by Disney, Mickey Mouse leads a parade of characters down Main Street, U.S.A. to officially open Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971.  Parking lots are jammed and traffic was backed up for miles as folks headed to the new theme park.  Also included in the video is a [...]

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Posted on Sunday, 3rd April 2011 by Dave Parfitt

Mickey Mouse has moved out of his country home at the ToonTown Fair, and is now the star of a magic show at the Town Square Theater.  The new meet and greet location officially opened to guests on April 1, 2011, and is the first time that visitors to Walt Disney World can obtain a FASTPASS [...]

Tags: Exposition Hall, FASTPASS, interactive queue, Magic Kingdom, Main Street U.S.A., Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Princesses, Town Square Theater
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Posted on Thursday, 31st March 2011 by Nancy Johnson

I’ll admit it.  I went to see the new Disney Junior Live on Stage show at Disney’s California Adventure with a bias on my shoulders.   Let me explain. Even though I love most of Disney’s pre-school shows and have kids that fit their target demographic, I need to disclose that I grew to become a “hater” of [...]

Tags: Bear in the Big Blue House, California Adventure, Disney Junior, Disney Junior Live on Stage, disney world, Disney's Hollywood Studios, Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Little Einsteins, Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Minnie Mouse, My Friends Tigger and Pooh, Playhouse Disney, Stanley, The Never Land Pirate Band
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Posted on Wednesday, 30th March 2011 by Kathy Werling

The former Exposition Hall in Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World has been renamed as Town Square Theater. It formally opens on April 1, 2011 as the new home of Mickey and Minnie Mouse and the Princesses.  Disney was operating the meet and greet as a soft opening today.

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Posted on Sunday, 6th March 2011 by Dave Parfitt

Disneyland tested a talking version of Mickey Mouse in California last summer.  Walt Disney World fans have wondered if this talking version of Mickey Mouse would also be appearing sometime in Florida.  Friend of the DIS, Mike Holland (DISboards name k5jmh) captured video on Friday, March 4th of the new “talking” version of Mickey Mouse appearing during [...]

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Posted on Thursday, 24th February 2011 by Dave Parfitt

On Tuesday, February 22, the DisneyParks blog announced that this spring guests visiting Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom will be able to secure a FASTPASS to reserve a time to visit with Mickey Mouse.  The new meet-and-greet-location will be right as you enter Town Square in a re-modeled Exposition Hall.  This is prime real estate for Mickey’s new [...]

Tags: FASTPASS, interactive queue, Magic Kingdom, Main Street, main street USA, Mickey Mouse, talking Mickey Mouse
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