Princess Fairytale Hall Now Open: Press-Release
The new Princess Fairytale Hall officially opened to the public yesterday (Wednesday, September 18, 2013) at the Magic Kingdom Park. Here's the official press-release to welcome this new meet-and-greet:
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Fit For Royalty! Happily-Ever-After Dreams Come True at Princess Fairytale Hall, Latest Jewel in New Fantasyland Expansion at Walt Disney World Resort
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The fantasy world of Disney royalty becomes reality in the all-new Princess Fairytale Hall, where Magic Kingdom guests get to live out their dream of meeting a real Disney princess.
Opening to guests September 18, 2013 the enchanting new home to Cinderella, Rapunzel and the princesses who visit them is fit for royalty with lush purple and gold trimmings, stone walls and ornate chandeliers. Past the intricate tiara that graces the attraction’s entryway, guests will feel the anticipation of being in the presence of Disney nobility and becoming immersed in their world.
As loyal subjects to the princesses, guests can choose between two queues: one for Cinderella and a visiting princess or one for Rapunzel and a visiting princess.
The castle-like entrance to Princess Fairytale Hall features walls of stone and stained glass windows with images from the Disney animated film classic Cinderella. The entryway opens to a large Royal Gallery – an airy space with stone columns and a high ceiling with wooden beams and peaked arches. Framed portraits of Disney princesses adorn the walls. It’s the ideal royal setting for coming face-to-face with a Disney princess as their timeless tales come to life.
When it’s time for the big moment, guests are ushered into the royal chambers, richly paneled in wood and elegantly finished. Cinderella in one reception room and Rapunzel in the other are each joined by one other Disney princess. Royal visitors might include Aurora, Snow White, Tiana, Jasmine or Mulan.
Whoever from the royal court stops by to meet and greet her loyal subjects, it’s a royal scene made for making magical memories.
Each chamber features a large framed painting of a fairytale landscape and a table with a set of bound leather storybooks that bear the titles of fairytales in the language of the original tale. Rose vases are located on the far side of each reception room and wallpaper decorated with crowns and other royal imagery completes the scene. Guests are encouraged to bring cameras and autograph books. Disney PhotoPass Imaging specialists also are on hand to capture the events in each room.
“Through the years dating to Walt’s time, fairy tales have always been a rich cornerstone of Disney storytelling,” said Chris Beatty, Creative Executive Director of Walt Disney Imagineering. “Princess Fairytale Hall carries on our tradition of bringing classic Disney fairy tales to life in new and unexpected ways.”
To make Princess Fairytale Hall their new home, the princesses relocated from their former meet-and-greet area at Town Square Theater. Besides the standby queue, guests using FastPass+ and Legacy FastPass will be welcome as loyal subjects to Princess Fairytale Hall.
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We will soon post some of the photos taken by Dillon and other official OTPN staff members. Se you soon!
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oh boy! a long line to meet people dressed as princesses, thats so much better then a ride! :D
ReplyDeleteplease disney take my 90 dollars now!
I can go to Hooters and meet the same girls. Give me more rides or respectable women its freaking 2013
ReplyDeleteHey guys, girls like to meet princesses. I think that's ok. That it's taking the place of a ride is sad but Disney is making much more money from this.
ReplyDeleteWhat worries me is the design.
When Walt started he had some amazing talent in his studio and he asked the best to design the buildings, facades and the scene's. These guys studied, made concepts and grounded the fantastical and magical into reality.
Now this façade, it's a tent with a huge tiara and a banner. It's a big commercial turn screaming GET A TIARA OR YOU CAN'T COME IN!!! No where in WDW do we have such an ugly entrance then here.
Lets go to the inside. That is a mess up of gothic, medieval, classicistic and baroque, It's finished of with a magical glass disco slipper and some garden ornaments. It's a mess! I get it, if you have never been to Europe you probably won't notice it but there is nothing consistent here. When you look at the castle and it's interiors you can see where they came from. It works, it's right and it's tasteful, You can see they took one design and sprinkled some magic dust over it to enhance it, perfect. But this is cutting and pasting to many ideas and ending up with a cheap brothel. It's exactly what you see with the Chinese copy and past parks, they don't know the context and although it's all there it look creepy and awful and out of place. It doesn't have a hart.
I've seen the mine coaster cars and I love them, the mountain looks cool. If they all get it to work it will be a nice addition. But I hope they don't mess this one up to because the hug hall is awful.
Great. More princess crap!
ReplyDeleteYes this will be a huge draw for girls, but it's still a poor excuse to rip out a ride for this! I know another snow white ride themed ride is coming but this is kind of a cheap attraction to soak up the crowds. I agree with Mark that it doesn't look particularly well themed especially when compared to the rest of new fantasyland. Even a Princess themed dark ride would have had wider appeal!
ReplyDeleteIt looks so beautiful in there! I can't wait to see it soon.
ReplyDeleteNow with the princesses here, I wonder what will happen to thier old home in TS Theater now? Is it still gonna be another meet n greet or something else?
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid I have to agree with the sentiment of "Not more princess crap". Much like others here I'd much rather have a multiple princess themed dark-ride then yet another meet and greet.
ReplyDeleteThe Disney Parks, Magic Kingdom especially has been inundated with princess crap. It's taken over most of the stores and it's very rare to find unique 'attraction themed' merchandise because their far to busy trying to sell me a plastic tiara that I can get in the local party store (for half the price). While I believe the princesses have their place and I'm glad their restricted to a single area now, maybe we can move past this now?
More Haunted Mansion goodies and less sparkly pink princess items, Please?!