Chuck Canzoneri’s 5/6/09 Photo Report

Anthony Yacullo

Chuck Canzoneri’s 5/6/09 Photo Report

It’s once again for a photo report from our very own Chuck Canzoneri:

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The walls came down at Pixie Hollow on Wednesday

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This is the new fountain with octopus shaped lighting

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While it is very obvious that the lighting is there, it still does look quite nice

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A Cast Member at Pixie Hollow said the lights won’t be active until they finish installing the ones in the trees

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A statue of Fawn in the queue

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And here’s Rosetta, weirdly under a new structure

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Only Fawn was at Pixie Hollow when Chuck visited. No Tinker Bell :(

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Moving over to Disney’s California Adventure… Only on a Wednesday would you see the line this short for Toy Story Midway Mania!

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Now it’s time for our first coverage of the recently re-opened Mickey’s Fun Wheel

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There were 30 minute waits for both swinging and non-swinging gondolas

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People loved seeing the classic characters on the cars

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Mickey is on all of the non-swinging gondolas

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And the rest of the Fab 5 are on the swinging gondolas

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The Paradise Pier logo is now on the sides of the gondolas

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And now we’re on the ride

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On the Fun Wheel, you can see the new platform queue being built for Silly Symphony Swings

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And you get a great view of California Screamin’

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As well as Mulholland Madness

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The new color scheme is so much nicer than the old color scheme

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For some reason (maybe testing), the lights on the Fun Wheel were on all day

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From this angle, it looked like Golden Dreams was about to be crushed by a giant stone grizzly bear!

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This billboard is very out of date now that the Sun Wheel is gone

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This one seems even more out of date, since it has the Sun Wheel and the Mickey Ears on California Screamin’

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Back over at Disneyland… Former Walt Disney Imagineers Rolly Crump and the late Don Edgren were honored last week with windows on Main Street

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A nice new sign that goes along with Rolly Crump’s window

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The new Simba figurine, and right next to it for some reason is Epcot’s Figment, wearing a space suit

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The Hungry Bear Restaurant is currently closed for a routine refurbishment

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The restaurant is currently scheduled to re-open on May 16th, 2009

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Peter Pan’s Flight is closed through June 7th, 2009

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The goats at Big Thunder Ranch were all wearing colored bandannas. Perhaps they were celebrating something?

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This is probably the image of Celebration Roundup and Barbecue Disney would like to sell. See how busy it looks. But in total, only 9 of the 38 tables (Chuck finally did an accurate count) were being used

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Over at Splash Mountain, the Honycomb Hound wasn’t spinning around

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After a brief 4-day refurbishment, Pirates of the Caribbean has reopened. Here the skeleton captain’s bedroom has been given a thicker coat of spider webs

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The donkey is still missing, but you can clearly hear him singing along

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And the fire/rubble room which follows the prisoners trying to lure the dog who holds the keys, has gained some mysterious objects… a red cloth (pictured), an empty bottle of rum, and a brown trinket box

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Do these faces look familiar?

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Above one of the entrances to the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique are wood carvings of Mr. Smee, Captain Hook, and the Tick Tock Crocodile

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Here’s an awesome poster for the upcoming Summer 2009 Disney Pin Festival, The Haunted Mansion O-Pin House

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Chuck took numerous close-ups so you can see all the neat details. See if you can figure them all out

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I’ll give this one to you. It’s the Hatbox Ghost, which was featured in the Attic for a couple of months when The Haunted Mansion first opened back in 1969

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As stated in the picture, the festival runs from June 19th through August 9th. For all the information you could need on The Haunted Mansion O-Pin House, tune in to future episodes of The Disney Pincast

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If only Fawn at Pixie Hollow wasn’t enough for you, then how about some Princesses?

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At night, you could still see the clock on Peter Pan’s Flight through the tarps

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I’m personally not a fan of the parks closing so early on off season days. 8pm is really too early to be hustled out of Disneyland, let alone 6pm for DCA!

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Although, Disney was holding its annual Minnie’s Moonlight Madness. I’ve never heard of it, but this annual Cast Member charity event is huge. This year’s theme was funkadelic

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Our new nighttime skyline now that the Fun Wheel is open

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This new LED lighting is absolutely stunning!

Thanks for the great report Chuck!

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