Our Favorite Food This Week: BBQ Pulled Pork Mac & Cheese Location: Min & Bill’s Dockside Diner – Hollywood Studios Cost: $9.99
Welcome to this week’s Favorite Food Friday where we share our favorite foods with our friends. This week we wanted to spend a little time with the Sorcerer’s Hat before it’s all gone, so we headed over to Hollywood Studios. We didn’t wander far from the hat as we stopped at Min & Bill’s Dockside Diner for a quick snack. I had heard a lot about the new Mac & Cheese items that have popped up here and at other parks. Min & Bill’s has two new Mac & Cheese dishes: Buffalo Chicken and BBQ Pulled Pork. I went with the BBQ Pulled Pork and I was blown away by it. First off, I have always loved Disney’s Mac & Cheese, so take that and add a nice helping of BBQ pulled pork with little fat and you have an amazing meal. To be honest I really didn’t think it was going to be as good as it was. I will definitely stop here again. Be sure to check it out, hopefully rumors aren’t true but we have heard that Min & Bill’s along with all of Echo lake may be removed to make way for the Star Wars additions.
A live-action feature inspired by the classic fairy tale, “Cinderella” brings to life the timeless images from Disney’s 1950 animated masterpiece as fully-realized characters in a visually-dazzling spectacle for a whole new generation.
The story of “Cinderella” follows the fortunes of young Ella (Lily James) whose merchant father remarries following the death of her mother. Eager to support her loving father, Ella welcomes her new Stepmother (Cate Blanchett) and her daughters Anastasia (Holliday Grainger) and Drisella (Sophie McShera) into the family home. But, when Ella’s father unexpectedly passes away, she finds herself at the mercy of a jealous and cruel new family.
Soon, she is forced to become their servant, disrespected, covered in ashes and spitefully renamed Cinderella. Yet, despite the cruelty inflicted upon her, Ella will not give in to despair nor despise those who mistreat her, and she continues to remain positive, determined to honor her mother’s dying words and to “have courage and be kind.”
When Ella meets a dashing stranger in the woods, unaware that he is really the Prince (Richard Madden) and not merely Kit, an apprentice at the palace, she believes she has finally found a kindred soul. It appears her fortunes may be about to change when the King (Derek Jacobi) summons all maidens in the kingdom to attend a royal ball at the palace, raising Ella’s hopes of once again encountering the charming Kit. Alas, her Stepmother forbids her to attend and callously destroys her dress.
Meanwhile, the calculating Grand Duke (Stellan Skarsgård) devises a plan to thwart the Prince’s hopes of reuniting with Ella and enlists the support of the devious Stepmother. But, as in all good fairy tales, help is at hand. Soon, a kindly beggar woman (Helena Bonham Carter) steps forward and, armed with a pumpkin, a few mice and a magic wand, changes Cinderella’s life forever.
A live-action feature inspired by the classic fairy tale, “Cinderella” brings to life the timeless images from Disney’s 1950 animated masterpiece as fully-realized characters in a visually-dazzling spectacle for a whole new generation.
Directed by Academy Award® nominee Kenneth Branagh (“Thor,” “Hamlet”) and starring two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett (“Blue Jasmine,” “Elizabeth”), Lily James (“Downton Abbey”), Richard Madden (“Game of Thrones”) and Academy Award nominee Helena Bonham Carter (“The King’s Speech,” “Alice in Wonderland”), “Cinderella” is produced by Simon Kinberg (“X-Men: Days of Future Past,” “Elysium”), Allison Shearmur (“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1”) and David Barron (“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1”) with Tim Lewis (“Edge of Tomorrow”) serving as executive producer. The screenplay is by Chris Weitz (“About a Boy,” “The Golden Compass”).
“Cinderella” will be released through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures on March 13, 2015.
Our Hidden Mickey this week comes from The Art of Animation resort Finding Nemo building hallway. As you know – when you see bubbles there just has to be a Hidden Mickey. As you float along the EAC to your room be sure to look down at the carpet to spot this Hidden Mickey.
