Ladies and gentlemen, this evening's performance of Illuminations will begin in two minutes.

Hello everybody and welcome to the WDW Radio Show, your Walt Disney World Information Station.

This is show number 105 for the week of February 8th, 2009 and as always I am your host, Lume Angelo.

We're going to kick off this week's show with some news from Walt Disney World before climbing aboard my way back machine for another trip back in time and to the future as we look at the World Showcase that never was.

Ryan Wilson joins me to explore some pavilions in World Showcase that were closer to being built than you might think, other concepts that never made it off the drawing board and even some additions to current pavilions that we never got to see.

We'll take a look at what might have been and also peek ahead and discuss what may be coming to the promenade in the future and at the end I'm going to ask you for your opinion on the future of World Showcase.

I'll open up the inbox once again and answer many more of your emails this week with the help of Becky Mankin.

We'll walk around the world, take a look at birthdays, music, romance, animatronics and so much more as we answer your questions and help you with some vacation planning, advice and tips.

I'll announce last week's Walt Disney World trivia contest winner before I give you a new set of challenges for this week's contest where you can win a prize package and even a bonus prize as well.

Stay tuned to the end of the show for some announcements before I play back some of your voicemails so sit back, relax and enjoy this week's episode of the WDW Radio Show.

Let's take a look at this week's Walt Disney World News. We'll start in the Magic Kingdom where more and more from the What Will You Celebrate campaign is being seen throughout the parks, including a new button cart outside of City Hall on Main Street USA.

The cart has an entire selection of new birthday, anniversary, honeymoon, first visit and family reunion buttons, as well as a general arm celebrating button which you can use for just about anything.

The buttons are free, they're available in all the parks again, the one on Main Street is available right outside of City Hall.

Also while you're in the Magic Kingdom, guests can also celebrate things like your marriage, other special events, over at the Tomorrowland Speedway which now has tailgate signs that cast members can attach to the back of your car.

Currently, guests can choose signs to help them celebrate their birthday, their honeymoon or their anniversary, just go ahead and tell the cast member when you're in the queue that you are celebrating one of those events.

I have some unofficial updates to the Space Mountain and Tomorrowland Transit Authority refurbishment news that we've been talking about over the past few weeks. Both attractions are scheduled to close on April 19th, 2009, but the tentative and again unofficial reopening dates differ slightly and are as follows.

The Tomorrowland Transit Authority is tentatively scheduled to reopen on or about August 19th, 2009, while Space Mountain is tentatively scheduled to reopen on or about November 22nd, 2009.

Also, according to the Walt Disney World Annual Pass Holder newsletter, the quote-unquote original elements from the serpentine track to the exterior silhouette will remain unchanged when it reopens later, so we can only wonder what the exact details of that refurb are going to consist of.

The Walt Disney Company recently announced that they are making a donation for two three-year fellowships at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University in honor of the late professor Randy Pausch.

His last lecture video was incredibly popular online and his book of the same title was a bestseller.

The Disney Memorial Pausch Fellowships will go to a fine art student and a computer science major at Carnegie Mellon University where Pausch was a teacher and also gave his last lecture before succumbing to pancreatic cancer.

Disney is also going to honor Pausch by placing a medallion near the Mad Tea Party in Fantasy Land that's also going to feature the following passage from his book inscribed on it.

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