The latest MouseTimes DLR Pictorial, as always, has some great construction pictures from the latest happenings through-out the Disneyland Resort:

The Incredibles Unit in the PIXAR Play Parade

This is the background for the Mr. Potato Head animatronic in Toy Story Mania

The new seat belts installed on the Matterhorn Bobsleds

The new Honey I Shrunk the Audience costumes

The new Tomorrowland costumes now in use at the Astro Orbitor

It turns out those new Autopia costumes aren’t just for Autopia cast members! Those same costumes (shirt & jacket) are now being used at Space Mountain, Astro Oribitor, & maybe Star Tours. Honey I Shrunk the Audience also got new costumes, but they are different from the other ones. We’ll have pictures up of these new costumes in use sometime later tonight or tomorrow.

Updated: February 29th - 10:11PM - PST

MiceAge’s Andy Castro has put up a couple of really good videos on his YouTube account!

The first is of the new Wall-E preview in DCA’s Animation Academy, with Andrew Stanton of PIXAR:

And the second is from the 2008 Disney Parks Vacation Planning DVD, which has a sneak preview of the new PIXAR Play Parade with Marilyn Magness of Disney Parks Creative Entertainment:

Ok, so new art now is kinda dumb, but its stuff no one has seen, unless you looked at every feature on the 2008 Vacation Planning DVD.

We have a few stills from the DVD showing some of the units in concept stages.

Images provided by the Dateline Disneyland article on MiceChat.

Fantasmic has been down since after the Christmas Season. It under went a major lighting overhaul and a few other changes as well.

The new lighting consists of many fixtures including, Clay Paky Alpha Wash 1200’s, ColorKinetic ColorBlast 12’s, 5kW Syncrolites, High End Systems AF1000’s strobes, ColorKinetic ColorBlast TR UV’s, ETC Source Four Pars with Color scrollers (brand unknown).

Here we have pictures of some of the new lighting:

The refurbishment for the Carnation Cafe on Main Street USA was originally planned to go from February 25th to the 29th, but has now been extended to run through March 11th. Also, the Plaza Gardens Stage will be closed for a very short refurbishment from March 3rd to the 5th.

As always, you can keep up to date on the latest Disneyland Resort refurbishments on our Attraction Refurbishments page!

I know we have had tons of stuff on PIXAR Play Parade, but more news about it is popping up.

Here we have a close up image of the Bugs Life unit from Disney Geek: