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"What's New" at Walt Disney World Resort

“Where Dreams Come True”

“Year of a Million Dreams” (Oct. 1, 2006-Dec. 31, 2007) -- During this 15-month, first-of-its-kind celebration, more than one million very special dreams are being awarded to guests visiting Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort. “The Year of a Million Dreams” celebrates the dreams of Disney Park guests the world over. Dreams to surprise and delight guests and unique experiences are hallmarks of “The Year of a Million Dreams.”

As part of the celebration, extra-special dreams are being awarded through a random process as part of the unique Disney Dreams Giveaway. Disney Vacation Club memberships, traveling around the world as a parade grand marshal at each Disney theme park, sporting exclusive pins and Mouse ears, Adventures by Disney vacations and Dream FASTPASS badges are among Disney Dreams Giveaways. Guests again chosen randomly are also selected to spend an enchanted night in the first-ever royal suite inside Cinderella Castle.
Disney cast members renowned for guest service also are creating an unprecedented number of Magical Moments for guests. These include guests being tapped to help with the pixie-dusted opening of Magic Kingdom, getting the star treatment at a celebrity-style handprint ceremony at Disney-MGM Studios or being Official Wildlife Spotter at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
Guests are also treated to a whole lineup of immersive entertainment that puts them right in the action, including living the cowboy or buccaneer life, “getting royal” with a Disney prince or princess or joining in the dancing and singing at a “High School Musical” pep rally.
“The Year of a Million Dreams” also features exciting new shows and attractions at Walt Disney World Resort including “The Seas with Nemo & Friends,” “Finding Nemo-The Musical,” “Dream Along With Mickey” and “Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor.”

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"Magic Your Way”

“Magic Your Way” (January 2005) -- “Magic Your Way” ticketing and packages allow guests to create their own magical Walt Disney World vacation. For the first time, ticket-holders can now customize their Walt Disney World theme park visits by adding components to the base ticket such as park-hopping or building on water parks or other vacation fun. The savings grow the longer a guest stays -- a one-park ticket, for instance, averages $30 per day for seven days of theme park visits. A family of four on a “Magic Your Way” vacation can enjoy a full week of magic, including lodging and theme park tickets for less than $1,600.


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Disney's FASTPASS

Disney's FASTPASS (launched in July 1999) -- Disney's antidote to line-standing is offered at a selection of popular attractions in all four theme parks. Guests who choose to get a FASTPASS receive a ticket with a designated one-hour-long window of time when they can return and skip the regular line. Guests don't have to choose FASTPASS: there's a standby line at all attractions. Disney's FASTPASS costs theme park guests nothing extra. Since its debut, more than 100 million FASTPASS tickets have been issued.


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Pal Mickey

Pal Mickey (May 2003) -- Pal Mickey is a talking Mickey Mouse toy that entertains and assists guests in the four Walt Disney World theme parks. Each Pal Mickey shares stories and fun facts, offers reminders about parades and show times and tells guests where to locate Disney characters. The 10½-inch interactive toy keeps the whole family entertained with jokes and games guests can initiate, whether waiting in line at the theme parks or relaxing in a hotel room -- even back at home.


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Disney’s PhotoPass

Disney’s PhotoPass (December 2004) -- Using the latest digital equipment and Disney-engineered technology, photographers take photos of guests throughout the theme parks. Instead of receiving a paper claim ticket, guests receive a Disney’s PhotoPass card that links all of their vacation photos taken by Disney photographers together into one online account. Guests can go online to disneyphotopass.com to easily view, share and order their photos, order a CD of all their Disney’s PhotoPass images, and more.


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Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex

Hess Sports Fields (August 2004) -- The Hess Sports Fields addition is the first major venue expansion since Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex opened in March 1997. The Hess Sports Fields addition includes 20 acres and offers competition space for four full-size football/soccer playing fields and four baseball-softball diamonds.


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Disney's Animal Kingdom

“Finding Nemo-The Musical” (January 2007) -- The undersea world that charmed audiences around the world in the Disney•Pixar film “Finding Nemo” comes to life in an all-new live musical stage show at Disney’s Animal Kingdom featuring original songs by Tony Award-winning “Avenue Q” co-composer-creator Robert Lopez and a cappella musical “Along the Way” co-creator Kristen Anderson-Lopez. The show immerses guests of all ages in the story of Marlin and Nemo, an overprotective clownfish father and his curious son, through a dazzling production that combines puppets, dancers, acrobats and animated backdrops. The 30-minute show represents the first time Disney has taken a non-musical animated feature and transformed it into an original musical production.

Expedition Everest (April 2006) -- The legend of the yeti comes to life in Expedition Everest. A high-speed train bound for Mount Everest takes trekkers on a daring adventure through rugged terrain, along icy mountain ledges and inside dark snowy caves in the forbidden mountain. The mammoth attraction is located in the Asia section.

"Mickey's Jammin' Jungle" (October 2001) -- The daily parade is a traveling, interactive island street party that features Disney characters "on expedition" and a tribute to their animal friends. As the procession winds through the park, a menagerie of abstract animals comes to life in handcrafted theatrical designs.


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Magic Kingdom

"Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor" (April 2007) -- Guests find the power of laughter in an engaging and interactive new adventure inspired by Disney•Pixar's “Monsters, Inc.” as they match wits with the one-eyed hero Mike Wazowski and his friends. As Monster-of-Ceremonies, Mike recruits two comedian wanna-bes whose humor will delight audiences at a 400-seat theater in Tomorrowland in Magic Kingdom.

Cinderella Castle Suite (January 2007) -- A grand new, fit-for-royalty suite inside Cinderella Castle features rich fabrics and fittings, and a fireplace bedchamber. An enchanted overnight stay in the suite is awarded to guests chosen at random as part of “The Year of a Million Dreams.”

“Dream Along with Mickey” (October 2006) -- It’s a dreams-inspired party and Mickey Mouse and the gang have invited everyone to join in the music and dancing. The power of everyone’s dreams even thwarts the evil Maleficent from spoiling the fun. Performed live several times daily on the Cinderella Castle stage.

Pirates of the Caribbean (July 2006) -- The classic Disney theme park adventure, brought to the big screen in “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” has added new characters and features from the blockbuster film franchise. Woven into some of the attraction’s most memorable scenes, Captain Jack Sparrow and his nemesis Barbossa are seen interacting with the familiar Audio-Animatronics buccaneers.

"Wishes" (October 2003) -- The power of a wish combines with magical moments from cherished Disney films and dazzling pyrotechnic effects to create a thrilling story-in-the-sky fireworks spectacular at Magic Kingdom. Narrated by Jiminy Cricket, the show tells a heart-tugging story about making wishes come true, accompanied by brilliant bursts of color and light above -- and around -- Cinderella Castle.

"Mickey's PhilharMagic" (October 2003) -- Disney magic meets Disney music in a 3-D film spectacular starring Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and other favorite Disney characters animated in a way they've never been seen before. Set in the PhilharMagic Concert Hall in Fantasyland, the eye-popping 3-D experience unfolds on one of the largest screens ever created for a 3-D film, a 150-foot-wide canvas.


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Epcot

“The Seas with Nemo & Friends” (December 2006) -- Featuring technology that for all appearances has the stars of the Disney•Pixar film “Finding Nemo” swimming amid the marine life of the huge aquarium in The Seas with Nemo & Friends pavilion at Epcot. The whimsical and visually stunning attraction picks up where the motion picture left off. Riding aboard “clamobiles” in a colorful coral reef setting, guests meet Mr. Ray and his class on a field trip and soon learn that Nemo has wandered off. The journey to find Nemo continues as familiar characters such as Dory, Bruce, Marlin, Squirt and Crush help with the search. These deep-sea friends inhabit a variety of vibrant vignettes, including the huge aquarium which contains more than 65 species of marine life. Their search leads to a happily musical finale.

"Soarin' (May 2005) -- Guests can take flight aboard Soarin', an exhilarating hang-gliding journey over the magnificent landscapes of California. Appropriately enough, this incredible aerial tour of the Golden State comes to Epcot from Disney’s California Adventure in Anaheim.

“Turtle Talk With Crush” (November 2004) -- Crush (from Disney•Pixar’s “Finding Nemo”) has made a different kind of screen debut in The Seas with Nemo & Friends pavilion at Epcot -- as a chatting, joking quipster who engages guests in conversation from his movie-screen undersea environment. The interactive show is a breakthrough experience into real-time animation using digital projection and sophisticated, voice-activated animation.

Mission: SPACE (August 2003) -- Presented by HP, Mission: SPACE launches Epcot guests on a simulated space adventure. During this one-of-a-kind "astronaut-like" adventure in Future World, guests experience everything from a pulse-racing liftoff to weightlessness in the deep reaches of outer space.

Innoventions (continual updates) -- Discover tomorrow's technology today at this hands-on exposition of the world's newest products and inventions. Guests visit the house of the future, explore cyberspace, test the latest developments in computers and discover the latest breakthroughs in virtual reality and communications. Guests to Epcot can now experience a Segway™ Human Transporter (HT) for themselves, firsthand, at World Showcase before the area opens for other park guests. Innoventions has featured the first public display of the Segway HT since 2002.


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Disney-MGM Studios

"High School Musical” Pep Rally (December 2006) -- All the hottest dance moves and the biggest hit songs of today’s most popular entertainment phenomenon come to life in “High School Musical” Pep Rally, a new immersive show for the whole family. Throughout the park, a multi-talented team of entertainers re-create the world of East High. Guests may find themselves shooting hoops or joining in as the whole street turns into a rockin’ party as great songs fill the air. It’s a showcase of sing-along fun that invites all ages to be part of a new kind of live excitement.

"Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show" (May 2005) -- This fast-paced show spotlights the high-octane best of the movie industry’s stunt masters. Inspired by the blockbuster show from Disneyland Resort Paris, this action extravaganza sends cars, motorcycles and watercraft careening and jumping across an enormous Mediterranean village set.

"JoJo's Circus" (April 2004) -- Two of the stars from the Disney Channel’s popular “Playhouse Disney” series, “JoJo’s Circus,” are part of the Disney-MGM Studios family. The show stars -- JoJo, a six-year-old clown girl and her pet lion, Goliath -- are characters who appear in the “Disney Stars and Motor Cars” parade and also in meet-and-greets with guests in the park.

The Twilight Zone™ Tower of Terror (January 2003) -- Five simple words, one chilling thought: The tower is in control. The thrills are multiplied inside the 13-story haunted hotel by technology that actually places the attraction in control of each ride experience. Random ride and drop sequences make the attraction faster with more drops than ever before. In addition, visual, audio and olfactory special effects make Tower of Terror one of the most advanced multi-sensory attractions anywhere in the world. Ghostly apparitions, rocketing ascents, more “air time” and cannon blasts of chilling air are just a few of the surprises in store for brave Walt Disney World guests.

"Disney Stars and Motor Cars" (October 2001) -- The resident stars at Disney-MGM Studios participate in a celebrity cavalcade worthy of a red-carpet event. The luminaries -- from big-screen stars Mike and Sulley of "Monsters, Inc." fame to Aladdin and Jasmine, Luke Skywalker, Power Rangers, Miss Piggy, Mary Poppins, Mickey Mouse and more -- all are on hand for a Hollywood celebration honoring Walt Disney's career in motion pictures.

"Playhouse Disney-Live on Stage!" (October 2001) -- Stars from "Bear in the Big Blue House," "JoJo's Circus," "Stanley" and "The Book of Pooh" entertain Disney-MGM Studios guests with music, songs and stories of friendship in this enjoyable stage show.


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Downtown Disney

World of Disney (March 2006) -- The World of Disney store in Downtown Disney Marketplace has unveiled new and interactive experiences at the largest Disney shopping destination on earth. The newly “re-imagined,” 51,000-square-foot retail playground features a world of pirates and heroes in a new, interactive Adventure Room. Across the store, youngsters can be made up as pretty as a princess with the help of a “Fairy Godmother-in-Training” in the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique, part of the store’s new Princess Room.

Raglan Road Irish Pub and Restaurant (October 2005) -- Irish hospitality and a bit of blarney comes to Downtown Disney in Raglan Road Irish Pub and Restaurant. The pub delivers an experience immersed in genuine Irish atmosphere -- from food and drink to music and entertainment. Traditional and contemporary Irish music, storytelling and dance create a lively social ambience, and the restaurant’s menu features Irish fare with a modern flair.

Disney Tails (August 2004) -- Pet care and pet pampering products include fun toys and fresh-baked treats, and personalized collar ID tags with a Disney flair. Located at Downtown Disney Marketplace.

Earl of Sandwich (March 2004) -- The Downtown Disney Marketplace eatery features a variety of hot, freshly prepared sandwiches served on warm fresh bread, and original sauces and spreads. The Butler’s Pantry features “grab 'n go” cold sandwiches, salads, side items and desserts.


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(July 30, 2007)