Disney Does the Holidays – By the Numbers

Each year as the Christmas Season approaches, Santa's elves spread out across the Walt Disney World Resort. From late summer, they are busy dressing up the theme parks, hotels and shopping areas to be ready to entertain and dazzle the millions of guests that will join them for their holiday celebrations. You won't believe the numbers the Walt Disney World Resort adds up while they prepare for this joyous time of year. All four theme parks are decorated to the hilt for the holiday season. The Disney hotels, water parks and other attractions don't disappoint either as they dress to impress all of the special holiday guests that will pass through this month. During this great time of preparation, they rack up some impressive numbers. Imagine this:

There are a total of 1,500 trees decorated in various ways across the Walt Disney World Resort property. This includes one tree at Disney's Contemporary Resort that has a 26' wide base and a 45' tall tree at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort that displays 60,000 miniature LED lights.

And speaking of lights, there are 8 million of them glistening throughout the resort's theme parks, hotels and attractions. Six miles of them are at the Disney-MGM Studios as part of The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights. Along with the tremendous mileage of lights, the Walt Disney World Resort strings 15 miles of garland to boost the holiday spirit. On the trees decorated around the resort, you will find over 300,000 yards of ribbon and bows. Add to that more than 800 entertainers including singers, dancers, storytellers, musicians and characters, and you have a Walt Disney World Christmas.

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“Year of A Million Dreams” Extended at Walt Disney World

Walt Disney World has always been considered a place where dreams come true, but starting in 2006 and continuing through this year that became more of a reality with the Year of a Million Dreams. Well, Disney Parks recently announced that the first million-dream year has been extended. While the folks at Disney are busy making theme park dreams come true, we here at DWTickets.com are working to grant you your deepest desires when it comes to cheap tickets. If you want to get in on the next year’s worth of Disney dream giveaways, click quick and get your discount Orlando theme park tickets at DWTickets.com now!

Walt Disney World gave away over one million dream prizes during the past year, and they are committed to broaden the dream granting all over their Orlando resort. The “Year of a Million Dreams” has officially been expanded into the “2008 Disney Dreams Giveaway,” and this year park officials boast that they will make even more than a million spectacular guest dreams come true. Disney asked guests what they wanted out of this encore of dreams and overwhelmingly, guests said they wanted “dreams that money can’t buy.” And they will get their wish in 2008 with even bigger, better dreams “that only Disney can make come true.”

At the Magic Kingdom, Disney created a spectacular new family suite that allows chosen guests to spend the night in Cinderella’s Castle smack in the middle of the Magic Kingdom. Now what little girl hasn’t dreamed of that? What about staying on your own private Disney island? In the 2008 Dreams Giveaway, some lucky winner will be Disney’s special guest on Castaway Cay, the private Bahamian island of the Disney Cruise Line. The winner and five guests will spend one day living in the true lap of luxury with sleeping accommodations on a private yacht. Now that is definitely a dream only Disney can make come true.

Other special dreamers will be treated to special VIP viewings of the fireworks in all of the World Disney World theme parks, and there are special resort stays and dining giveaways that will absolutely make vacation dreams come true for many families visiting Walt Disney World next year. DWTickets.com can make your vacation planning dreams come true too. We have the best discounts on them park tickets and you can get them all in one place – and that’s not a dream!

STAR TOURS 2 ?? MGM Studios Ride Gets Makeover

If you've ever been to Disney's MGM Studios, one of their signature rides is Star Tours, located in the MGM Studios backlot. Star Tours is a Star Wars adventure simulated thrill ride (much like Islands of Adventure's Spiderman) and takes you on an intergalactic ride through outer space. Created almost 20 years ago, there have been rumors about an update with 3-D and digitized picture quality. The update of Star Tours has come up in discussion through the past year, and during Star Wars Weekends at MGM. The new ride should be completed sometime next year, around Thanksgiving 2008. Disney MGM Studios tickets can be purchased at a heavy discount by CLICKING HERE!

Star Wars Weekends continues throughout June, every Friday, Saturday and Sunday at MGM Studios Theme Park. MGM Studios is one of the hottest places to visit at the Walt Disney World Resort, and the Tower of Terror and Rock N Rollercoaster are the most popular rides along with Star Tours. Summer if officially two weeks away, and now is the perfect time to bring your family down to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Have a great weekend, and come to the DW Blog for more updates about new rides and attractions in Orlando.

Kraken at Sea World

Sea World is Orlando's most dynamic theme park, with an array of attractions, shows and thrill rides. Kraken is starting to get a lot of attention, so I thought you should be aware of how amazing a ride this really is. First of all, Kraken happens to be the longest, tallest, and fastest roller coaster in all of Orlando. That is a pretty cool fact, since Orlando is home to Disney's Space Mountain, Islands of Adventure's Hulk and Dueling Dragons, and MGM's Rock N Rollercoaster. Kraken reaches the heights of a 15 story building, and is also the only floorless roller coaster in Orlando. Save big with discounted Sea World tickets and CLICK HERE!

Kraken takes you 150 feet in the air and spins you upside-down 7 times for a blood-rushing thrill ride experience of a lifetime. While Sea World once was all about Shamu and the dolphin pools, the creative engineering teams have gotten together and started building some spectacular roller coasters. Kraken is not to be missed, so come to Sea World - Orlando and see what all the buzz is about. The next time you come to Orlando and are looking for a great roller coaster ride to get your kids screaming and hearts pounding, check out Sea World and climb onto Kraken - the fastest roller coaster in town.