R.A. Pedersen's Blog, page 48
April 26, 2011
Disney announces new specialty suites for Walt Disney World resorts
Disney picked midnight to announce their new Health and Wellness suites at the Contemporary Resort and the Princess Suites at the Port Orleans Riverside Resort. The suites at the Contemporary were a long time coming – essentially it's the final … Continue reading →
April 25, 2011
We need Amazon.com reviews for the Epcot Explorer's Encyclopedia!
Greetings fans and followers! We need your help. We've gotten a good amount of feedback on the book – thankfully most of it positive – but we're still having trouble getting the word out. In short, many people don't know … Continue reading →
EcoWalls at Epcot's Flower and Garden Festival
We stumbled on a great article about the living plant walls used at this year's Flower and Garden festival. Essentially a company called EcoWalls is responsible for their installation and the website below provides some great details and photos of … Continue reading →
April 24, 2011
Grand Floridian's New Wing gets permit approval
The permit filed back in March with Walt Disney World's water management district has been approved. Disney now can go forward with the wing/annex of the Grand Floridian complex near the wedding pavilion. Here's a link for the approval and … Continue reading →
April 23, 2011
The Epcot Explorer's Encyclopedia giveaway on GoodReads!
Hey, look! A new giveaway. We're trying out GoodReads and you should too! If this things works as well as planned maybe we'll use some of the other primo features they keep trying to sell us on. Goodreads Book Giveaway … Continue reading →
April 22, 2011
Imagineering behind the scenes: New Hitchhiking Ghosts video
Imagineering has released a new video about the new Hitchhiking Ghosts effect at the Magic Kingdom.
April 21, 2011
Epcot's World Showcase ear-hats now available!
After month of complaining that there were no Epcot-themed ear hats (specifically Spaceship Earth) we're happy to see Disney rolling out new hats representing World Showcase countries. The hats will cost $14.95 and are being issued as a test of … Continue reading →
Piece of the Past: Unused Horizons theme song
We've run across all sorts of odd bits of media while researching The Epcot Explorer's Encyclopedia and we'd like to share some of them with you. There are some pretty spectacular things that we've amassed that just wont fit into … Continue reading →
Epcot's Norway pavilion in jeopardy?
We ran across an article from the Norwegian newspaper Kapital (think of it like Forbes for Norwegians) back in February that mentioned the Norway pavilion at Epcot. It was of course in Norwegian and we couldn't find a decent translation, … Continue reading →
Amazon's "Look Inside" feature now active for the Epcot Explorer's Encyclopedia
After some fidgeting and thumb twiddling the "Look Inside" feature from Amazon.com is now active for the Epcot Explorer's Encyclopedia. See it here. Now everyone who was on the fence doesn't have any more excuses! Enjoy.
