WDWNT Reporter Adam Roth spent a day at the Walt Disney World theme parks yesterday and has plenty of photos to share with us from his trip. Let’s take a look:
Welcome to Epcot
Someone needs to go up there…
No more Garden Town, it’s now just the Festival Center
If you listen closely, you can hear Adam crying over the name change
Fairly empty this year…
Food and Wine is ready to go…
The decorations on the back wall are a nice touch, but it is just way too empty in here now
Love makeshift walls
Beneath all of this lies what remains of the Wonders of Life
The Making of the Festival at the newly named HGTV Theater
The stages are very nice
Nope…
Zoom in please
A little more…
What is that?
Just think of all the fun WDI is having in there…
Merchandise!
A new exhibit this year
Looks like fun
Pixie Hollow
Excited guests meeting Tinker Bell and Terrence
The Race Around World Showcase is still running, where guests can collect stickers in a special activity booklet with the ultimate goal of getting an exclusive button
“Kachow!”
International flags representing the countries Lightning will be racing through in Cars 2
Over to the Magic Kingdom, where it appears the store inside Town Square Theater will be called Curtain Call Collectibles. No word on where in the building this is or if this means Box Office Gifts is not the name of the store as the Disney Parks Blog stated…
Character wait time signs already in place
FASTPASS machines will be located near Tony’s Town Square Restaurant
Kodak is still the sponsor
Work continues on the facade of Tony’s Town Square Restaurant
This is the cover for the “Magic, Memories, and You!” projectors on Main Street…
Is it just me, or did it look better before?
We can only hope a mechanism is eventually built to lower these
The new bridge to Adventureland continues to get new little accents
A bunch of new cement on this side
Adam really wants to get in this line, but the wait is too long…
Tiki Room still closed
Will we soon be “Under Old Managment”? Get it, because the old… yeah, it wasn’t very good the first time someone said it either…
Nothing to see here
It’s obvious work is being done
Tortuga Tavern closed
My mistake…
The interactive queue at the Haunted Mansion is also closed
Imagineers still walking around
The handicap sign was illuminated today
The rearrangement of the graveyard is finished and it looks great!
A few new headstones peppered in as well
Not as many trees back here, but the new ones planted need some time to grow in
The animatronic hitchhiking ghosts are back and better than ever with more fluid movement and new props. You’ll have to take our word for it…
The “curtain ghosts” are still covering the mirrors
Meanwhile in Fantasyland, work continues! (Big surprise)
What we thought was a castle wall now appears to be some rockwork
Enchanted Tales and the Be Our Guest restaurant look like they will blend in pretty nicely (although a castle wall will stand here at some point)
Another look at the rockwork
The lift hill of the Barnstormer is exposed
Looks like the ride will get a nice refurb with the cosmetic changes to become The Great Goofini
Something missing? Yeah, the Toontown billboard is history…
A look through the walls…
All gone!
Did they repaint The barnstormer building already? looks brand new to me!
The Storybook Circus is coming to town!