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New Fantasmic Dragon to Finally Debut Tonight!

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Exciting news from our good friend Brady MacDonald over at the LA Times Travel Blog:
After months of false starts and frustrating anticipation, the Fantasmic dragon will finally take the stage at Disneyland tonight (Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009) at 8:15 p.m., according to park officials.
Despite top billing, the oft-delayed dragon failed to appear during the Anaheim [...]

First Official Pictures of New Fantasmic Dragon!

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Disney has finally given us our first real look at the new dragon in Fantasmic, after 3 months of waiting:

You’ll be absolutely stunned once you watch this video
There’s still no word on if “Murphy” will debut tonight or not, but stay tuned to Disneyland News Today as we keep up with the latest on Fantasmic’s [...]

Disneyland News Today Exclusive: First Picture of New Fantasmic Dragon!

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Disneyland News Today has acquired the very first picture of the new dragon set to debut in Fantasmic!:

Keep an eye out on Fantasmic! this weekend, as “Murphy” is strongly rumored to debut. Stay tuned to Disneyland News Today for the latest on this story.

Summer Nightastic Comes to a Close, Still With No Dragon

Friday, August 21st, 2009

According to the OC Register’s Around Disney blog:
The image of a giant glowing dragon spitting fire graces most promotional material — billboards, flags, fliers — for Disney’s Summer Nightastic events.
But the theme park’s official summer season will end this weekend without any appearance of the dragon in the water-and-light Fantasmic show because of technical difficulties.
Still, [...]

Video of Fantasmic!

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Our own Conner Purzycki has sent in a video of the updated Fantasmic, featuring just the new Crocodile and Flotsam and Jetsam (no dragon unfortunately). Here’s his video, embedded through our wonderful WDWNTube Disney Parks Video Site:

July 4th Trip Planner

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

To prepare everyone visiting the Disneyland Resort during this holiday weekend, I wanted to go over the entertainment schedule for July 4th, as well as the park hours, to make sure everyone can successfully see what they want to see:

Disneyland will be open from 8:00am to 12:00am all weekend.
“Celebrate! A Street Party” will be performed [...]

Disney Stars, and Disney’s Electrical Parade, Rock the Parks

Friday, June 12th, 2009

The OC Register’s Around Disney blog also has a report from last night’s media preview of Summer Nightastic:

Disney Channel stars Selena Gomez and Jennifer Stone were like any other kids at Disneyland Thursday night, standing in giddy excitement next to Mickey Mouse.
That is, until the “Wizards of Waverly Place” actresses were presented with magic wands [...]

Summer Nightastic Lights Up Disneyland

Friday, June 12th, 2009

D23 have put up 2 articles for the debut of Summer Nightastic today. The first covers last night’s media launch:
On Thursday, June 11, Disneyland was packed with summer guests, and D23 was invited for a peek at all the new happenings as Nightastic! takes over the park this summer.
First stop was the new TLT Dance [...]

Summer Nightastic is Here!

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Summer Nightastic begins tonight at the Disneyland Resort, and in honor of that, here’s a new Disney press video with footage from all three main offerings, as well as interviews with Carla Carlile (show director for Fantasmic), Denny Newell (senior show director for Disney’s Electrical Parade), and John Addis (senior show director for Magical):

The Electrical Parade Has a Dragon That Works…

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Summer Nightastic launches tomorrow at the Disneyland Resort, and Disney has released a press release for Fantasmic, as well as more pictures of the updated version of Disney’s Electrical Parade:
More powerful projection technology and some awe-inspiring new creatures – including 37-foot-long eels Flotsam and Jetsam – make “Fantasmic!” an exciting part of Summer Nightastic! at [...]

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