Walt Disney World Resort Update

October 31 – November 6, 2011 – NTSB releases findings in fatal monorail accident | Talking Mickey Mouse meets guests at City Hall in new test | Join us for the Big Bad Voodoo Food-Do To-Do meet-up | New Year’s Eve festivities announced | and more.

October 24 – 30, 2011 – 2012-2013 Disney Cruises now available for booking | James Cameron visits Disney’s Animal Kingdom as Avatar planning gets under way | Disney Parks offers $1,000 Shopping Card | Disney tests parade Fastpasses | and more.

October 17 – 23, 2011 – Disney expands credit card guarantee requirements for dining reservations | Free wi-fi added at higher-end resorts | Disney Cruise Line recategorizes 120 staterooms on new ships | Disney Fantasy’s AquaLab revealed | and more.

October 10 – 16, 2011 – Art of Animation Resort opening date officially announced | New fall discount announced | Monorail Peach reports for duty | Whoopi out, Geena in as Candlelight narrator | Fire causes brief Tomorrowland evacuation | and more!

October 3 – 9, 2011 – Walt Disney World celebrates 40th anniversary | Epcot International Food & Wine Festival kicks off | New discount available for Disney Visa cardholders now, general public on Wednesday | Storybook Circus section opens early 2012 | more.

September 26 – October 2, 2011 – Can Pandora beat back Potter? Avatar coming to Disney’s Animal Kingdom | So long, Pluto lot | Wilderness Explorers game play testing at Disney’s Animal Kingdom | Halloween fun coming to Fort Wilderness | Aulani opens | and more!

September 19 – 25, 2011 – OSHA cites Walt Disney World for 4 violations, issues $69,000 in penalties in Primeval Whirl death | Not So Scary time again | Child molestation charges dropped in Typhoon Lagoon case | Dumbo and Timothy Mouse to grace Disney Fantasy | more

September 12 – 18, 2011 – Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom confirmed for early next year | Walt Disney World Moms Panel applications open today | Characters take over lunch at Tusker House | Adventures By Disney adds new destinations, itineraries for 2012 | and more.

September 6 – September 11, 2011 – Superstructure assembly of Disney Fantasy is completed | La Nouba price hike | Meet Mark this fall in Florida! | Work on Grand Floridian Villas evicts weddings from Disney Wedding Pavilion | and more.

August 29 – September 4, 2011 – D23 provides new details about known projects, no new projects | Jim Lewis and the Aulani snafu | Free dining dates changed | Meet Mark this fall in Florida! | Night of Joy performance schedules released | Fastpass crackdown | and more.