- Recreation: Downtown Disney
- The nighttime
entertainment complex previously known as Pleasure Island & Village Marketplace
was re-christened Downtown Disney in 1997. It will consist of three sections:
Downtown Disney Marketplace, Downtown Disney Pleasure Island, and Downtown
Disney West End.
- Recreation: Lake Buena Vista Golf Club
- Starting in 1997, the previous back nine holes are now being played as the
front nine.
- Resorts: Grand Floridian-Citricos (Formerly Flagler's)
- Citricos, a new restaurant, replacing the former Flagler's, opened
at the Grand Floridian November 1997. The restaurant features the cooking
of both Florida and the Mediterranean, prepared in a show kitchen.
- Recreation: Downtown Disney-West End: Copperfield
Magic Underground - The Store
- Copperfield Magic Underground -
The Store, offering magic-related wares, opened November 1997 in the West
End area of Downtown Disney.
- Studios: GOOSEBUMPS
- GOOSEBUMPS opened
in October 1997 at the former Ninja Turtles stage area.
- Recreation: Downtown Disney-Marketplace: LEGO Imagination
Center
- The LEGO Imagination Center opened in the Downtown Disney
Marketplace in October 1997.
- Recreation: Downtown Disney-West End: Bongos Cuban
Cafe
- Bongos Cuban Cafe opened September 1997 in the West End
area of Downtown Disney. The restaurant, created by Gloria and Emilio Estefan,
features the Latin cuisine of Miami's South Beach.
- Recreation: Downtown Disney-West End: House of Blues
- The House of Blues opened September 1997 in the West End area of Downtown
Disney.
- Recreation: Downtown Disney-West End: Wolfgang Puck's
Cafe
- Wolfgang Puck's Cafe opened September 1997 in the West End
area of Downtown Disney.
- Recreation: Downtown Disney-Virgin Records Megastore
- the Virgin Records Megastore opened September 1997 in the West End area
of Downtown Disney.
- Magic Kingdom: Adventureland--The Enchanted Tiki
Birds
- The original attraction ended its quarter-century run at
the end of August 1997. A revamped show, featuring some of Disney's newer
birds, is opened in late March 1998.
- EPCOT: World Showcase-Canada-LeCellier Steakhouse
- The cafeteria-style restaurant LeCellier at World Showcase's Canada pavilion
was converted to a full-service steakhouse in mid-1997.
- Recreation: Blizzard Beach
- Side-by-side
racing slides, the Downhill Double Dipper, were added in mid-1997.
- Recreation: Downtown Disney-Marketplace: Wolfgang
Puck Express
- Wolfgang Puck Express opened mid-1997 in the Downtown
Disney Marketplace, serving better-than-your-average fast food.
- Recreation: Disney's Wide World of Sports--The NFL
Experience
- This previously temporary exhibit erected at each
year's Super Bowl site now makes a permanent home at Disney's Wide World of
Sports, as of mid-1997.
- Recreation: Downtown Disney--Pleasure Island: AMC
Cinema
- The AMC 10 Cinema expanded to the AMC 24 Cinema at the
beginning of the summer of 1997. Eight of the original ten screens remain
as they were, while two of the original screens and the 14 new screens are
stadium auditoriums with full digital sound. A second entrance has been added
that opens into the new Downtown Disney West End area. This will be AMC's
national flagship site.
- EPCOT: World Showcase-France-Chefs de France & Au
Petit Cafe
- Both of the full service indoor restaurants at the
France pavilion closed in June 1997 for renovation into one combined new restaurant.
- Studios: One Saturday Morning (formerly the Monster
Sound Show)
- The Monster Sound Show was changed to One Saturday
Morning in June 1997.
- Recreation: Disney's Wide World of Sports
- Disney's Wide World of Sports is a multi-sport complex located near the
US192 entrance to Walt Disney World. Opened in the spring of 1997, the complex
includes facilities for more than 25 different types of sports, including
a baseball stadium that will serve as the spring training site for the Atlanta
Braves.
- Recreation: Richard Petty Driving Experience
- Located at the Walt Disney World Speedway (at the back of the Magic Kingdom
parking lot), the Richard Petty Driving Experience began offering in the spring
of 1997 the chance to ride in--or even drive--a real stock car at speeds up
to 145 mph.
- EPCOT: Future World-GM Test Track
- The
opening of the GM Test Track, originally set for May 1997, has been postponed
indefinitely, due to ongoing problems with the ride.
- Resorts: Coronado Springs - The complex
of 1,967 rooms and suites situated in 3 villages opened on August 1, 1997.
Another of Disney's moderately priced resorts which around a 15 acre lake
called Lago Dorado.
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