4/5/12 Grand Floridian Resort DVC and Fantasyland Construction Photos

Hi everyone!

It’s just a few days until Easter, and we’ll be sharing photos and videos of the beautifully decorated Easter Eggs (large chocolate eggs) found at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort tomorrow. In the meantime, here are photos of both Grand Floridian DVC and Fantasyland construction!

The Grand Floridian DVC Villas are expected to open late next year.

We walked from Disney’s Polynesian Resort to Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort:

 

Gorgeous clouds above the resort:

One photo in black and white:

We’ve not seen this particular wall before, which is very close to the main building (and the main pool). Workers were touching up the paint on the wall while we were there. We have video of the construction from several angles here.

 

 

I’m including a few photos of the gorgeous eggs that are on display! We’ll have a full update tomorrow (Friday) with many more – there were 19 eggs in the lobby of the Grand Floridian, and we took detailed photos and video. 

 

We went to Disney’s Contemporary Resort to take photos of Fantasyland from the roof (as we’ve done a few times in the past). This is really a great view! You can see Maurice’s Cottage, Little Mermaid, Beast’s Castle and more.

Check out our video of the Fantasyland view from the Contemporary Resort here!

We have photos and video from the first day of the Avengers Monorail:

A few photos of Disney’s Grand Floridian:

And back to Fantasyland:

A view of the crowds in Frontierland:

 

The DVC construction from the monorail:

Beer confiscated from a guest at Security:

New pillows at the Emporium:

The scrim has come down from Center Street. The paint and texture on the buildings look really nice!

 

 

Walking through Fantasyland:

 

The path seems wider in Storybook Circus, and the water tower is now painted from the Toontown Fair colors:

This is what the train station water tower area looked like a few days ago:

Two last Grand Floridian photos:

And – if you’ve made it this far, we also plan a small update on Disney’s Art of Animation tomorrow (just with the new stuff). This is Lightning McQueen being added to the front of the building:

 

We have quite the slate of updates scheduled for tomorrow, including Grand Floridian easter egg photos and the photo walk of Disney’s Polynesian Resort!