Marvel’s ‘The Avengers’ Has Biggest Opening Weekend of All Time

Wow, just wow! This weekend, Marvel released its massive crossover film, ‘The Avengers’, to critical and commercial praise. But to top it all off, The Avengers has earned the title of biggest opening weekend of all time, beating the final Harry Potter film! This is great news for fans, as well as

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Take the Wildlife Express Train at Animal Kingdom

When going to Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park a great stop is the Wildlife Express Train. It is something fun to do whether it is raining or not and is often overlooked. It is found toward the back of the park in the Africa area behind the Tree of Life.

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Why I love Walt Disney World Extra Magic Hours!

When it comes to Walt Disney World and Extra Magic Hours, the debate is endless!  There are strategies about how to make the most of your Extra Magic Hours (EMH), there are debates over which is better, morning EMH or evening EMH, and there are people that avoid them like

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Disney Wonder Sails Inaugural Trip to Hawai’i

As the Disney Wonder sails on its historic trip to Hawai’i, the ship will call on multiple ports for the first time. Keeping with maritime tradition, Captain Fabian Dib will join shipboard officers and host local port officials and community leaders aboard the vessel for a traditional plaque exchange ceremony

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2012 Eat to the Beat Concert Series Schedule

The concerts for the 2012 Food and Wine Festival have just been released. We love going to the Food and Wine Festival and it’s not only for the different booths of delicious samples of food,desserts or drinks but for the free concerts! The concerts are held at the America Gardens

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Tickets On Sale for Not-So-Scary, Very Merry Christmas Party Events at Walt Disney World Resort

Those of you who are already busy planning fall vacations will be happy to hear that tickets are now on sale for Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Parties and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Parties. Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party is a Halloween-themed special event held on select evenings at Magic Kingdom Park. Purchase

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Review of Disneyland: Sunrise to Sunrise, by Tom Bricker

If you subscribe to TouringPlans.com, you are probably familiar with the photographic genius of Tom Bricker. Tom is the Chief Photographer for TouringPlans, and as such is responsible for the photos at the top of each page of the website as well as the attraction photo galleries and other assignments.

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How Soon Should You Start Disney Planning?

I’m not a planner in my “real life.” I don’t know what I’ll do at work tomorrow, what I’ll have for dinner or even who is picking my son up from golf practice. Tomorrow is plenty of time to work that out. But I DO know that more than six

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Disneyland Resort Annual Passholders Invited to Special 20th Anniversary ‘Fantasmic!’ Performances

Calling all Disneyland Resort Annual Passholders! You may have already heard about the private performances of “Fantasmic!” being held just for you to celebrate its 20th anniversary this month. Did you also know about the commemorative “Fantasmic!” 20th Anniversary apparel for Annual Passholders that will be available at select locations

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Disney Baby Wishes Moms A Magical Mother’s Day And Honors Moms With A Special Video

To honor moms on Mother’s Day, Disney Baby has released a special tribute video on DisneyLiving, featuring magical moments between moms and their babies, interspersed with animated scenes from some of Disney film’s greatest family moments. The video celebrates motherhood and babies and is the perfect heartwarming tribute for moms

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The Legend of Captain Jack Sparrow Coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Disney has announced via the summer edition of Mickey Monitor, the newsletter for Annual Passholders,  that a new attraction will be coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios. The Legend of Captain Jack Sparrow will be “will be a first-of-its-kind sensory experience in which Guests will have the chance to be enveloped

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Disney to Adapt Neil Gaiman’s ‘Graveyard Book’

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney has picked up Neil Gaiman’s award winning novel Graveyard Book.  Gaiman is probably best known outside of comic book circles for his book Coraline which was also turned into a film. Attached to direct is Henry Selick who not only directed Coraline but also

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