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NEWS: Get Camera-Yeti: Super Zoom Magic Shot Available Now at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park

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Not a fan of close-ups? Then Disney PhotoPass Service certainly has a photo op for you! Our Super Zoom Magic Shots capture the beauty of Walt Disney World Resort from a unique angle, delivered to you in a one-of-a-kind video that’s perfect for sharing. During the holiday season, we’re even offering a festive overlay on our Magic Kingdom Park Super Zoom Magic Shot. Check it out below.

If you’re a fan of these photo ops at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Magic Kingdom Park, I’m excited to share that you can now get a bird’s eye (or should I say macaw’s eye?) view of Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park with our newest Super Zoom Magic Shot!

With icy Himalayan peaks in the background, it’s a fun and foreboding photo op. To capture this video (as well as the accompanying zoomed-in and zoomed-out photos), trek over to the base camp of Expedition Everest and find a Disney PhotoPass photographer. This Super Zoom Magic Shot is available from 10 a.m. through sunset, weather permitting.

During your visit, Disney PhotoPass Service can also capture your photo onboard the DINOSAUR and Expedition Everest attractions, as well as Magic Shots and photo ops at iconic locations throughout the park. Plus, after you take photos with select photographers, you’ll see a photo or digital wallpaper added to your account that relates to that location. Check out a few from Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park.

If you want to download and share all of this Disney PhotoPass content from your visit, consider purchasing Memory Maker or Memory Maker One Day. Learn more here.

NEWS: First Look of Snow White’s Enchanted Wish at Disneyland Park

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As we’ve previously announced, Snow White’s Scary Adventures has been undergoing a magical reimagination. Today – on the 83rd anniversary of the premiere of Disney Animation’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles – we’re excited to share that Disneyland park’s only ride-through princess attraction has been reimagined and renamed as Snow White’s Enchanted Wish!

While Disneyland park has been closed, Walt Disney Imagineering has been putting the finishing touches on this cherished attraction, which will be ready to welcome guests when we reopen our theme parks at a later date. While you may recognize some familiar elements in the attraction, you’ll be surprised to discover enhanced story details and all-new scenes. Take a look at the sneak peek below!

Imagineers have updated this classic Fantasyland attraction with new magic inside and out. Using state-of-the-art audio and visual technology, including new music, LED black lighting, laser projections and a new animation system, the attraction brings to life Snow White’s “happily ever after.”

Snow White and Dopey - Snow White’s Enchanted Wish at Disneyland Park

You will delight in new appearances of beloved characters, including Snow White cheerfully dancing and twirling with the Seven Dwarfs in their cozy cottage. You may even notice the scent of Doc’s handiwork – a baking apple pie ­– wafting through the air, before heading “off to work we go!”

Snow White’s Enchanted Wish at Disneyland Park

Vibrant new shadow projections bring to life the dwarfs as they march happily off to work in the mine singing “Heigh-Ho.” The most dazzling scene is the mine, which sparkles with shimmering lighting effects and glittering jewels all around.

There are more surprises to discover and we cannot wait for you to experience the magic of this timeless fairytale, and Snow White’s enchanted wish coming true at last!

NEWS: First Look: New Entrance Fountain Celebrates the Past, Present and Future of EPCOT

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The past, present and future of EPCOT are all coming together today in one special moment at the front of the park. Anyone visiting as of this morning will see in real life what we at Walt Disney Imagineering have been dreaming up in our heads for many years now.

Overnight, our crews removed all the “progress walls” from the main entrance plaza, giving you the first full look at this next major milestone in the park’s historic transformation. While there is still more work to be done here in the future, the area is much more open and welcoming now. It features new planters, pathways, lush landscaping and a vibrant new color palette that will eventually tie into the four new neighborhoods we’re creating inside the park – World Celebration, World Discovery, World Nature and World Showcase.

And there in front of iconic Spaceship Earth you’ll now see a reimagined fountain, standing in the footprint of the original that welcomed guests on the park’s opening day in 1982. Our design team took special interest in this water feature, as we looked back to the geometry of the original for inspiration while creating some new magic of our own. In the fountain’s center is a brilliant light, a unique liquid-cooled fixture we’ve designed with new capabilities that complement the fountain’s changing colors and will coordinate with new lighting coming to Spaceship Earth and the upcoming World Celebration beyond.

Three acrylic pylons, each standing over 16 feet tall and featuring the park’s logo, surround the fountain and hearken back to the creation of EPCOT. Their timeless design and vertical presence draw your eye upward toward the sky – perfectly framing views of Spaceship Earth.

This new fountain is the centerpiece of EPCOT’s entrance plaza, which we’ve designed as a welcoming area that brings people together. The greenery and use of water celebrate a harmony between humanity and the natural world. This park was built to inspire optimism, and we’re infusing this transformation with the magic of possibility.

Today we took a big step toward that goal, and I’m so proud to be part of the team at Walt Disney Imagineering bringing this dream to life. I hope you’ll continue along with me on this exciting and amazing journey by keeping tabs on my updates here on the Disney Parks Blog