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Orlando theme park lover who loves thrills and theming, with a side of entertainment. You can often catch me at Disney or Universal sipping a cocktail, or crying during Happily Ever After or Fantasmic.

Disneyland Paris Operations Collapse Mid-Day, Rides Go Still

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Disney Adventure World has only been open for about six weeks. The park officially welcomed its first guests on March 29, 2026, representing the most extensive reimagining in the history of Disneyland Paris’s second gate and one of the most significant new park openings in European theme park history. It has been generating enormous excitement across the Disney community since ...

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Final Results: Disney Removes Line Skipping Pass After ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ Controversy

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There is a specific category of Disney news that generates a particular kind of frustration among park fans, and this week delivered a perfect example of it. For a brief window, Walt Disney World guests had access to a free Lightning Lane pass for Pirates of the Caribbean as a prize for completing A Pirate’s Adventure: Treasures of the Seven ...

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Disney to Shutter and Reboot ‘Star Wars’ Rides Across America in Under 1 Month

Sign for "Star Tours" at an amusement park entrance, featuring a "Disney FastPass+ Entrance" on the left with a clock, and "Stand-By Entrance" space on the right for wait time, surrounded by trees.

Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge opened at Disneyland in 2019 and at Disney’s Hollywood Studios shortly after, and in the seven years since, the land has been one of the most discussed, debated, and genuinely impressive additions Disney has made to any of its parks. The immersive detail is extraordinary. The food and merchandise are some of the most creative in ...

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8+ Family Size No Longer Acceptable at Disney World With New Policy Shift

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Disney Vacation Club membership comes with a set of benefits that members spend years factoring into how they plan and budget their vacations. The DVC points system, the resort access, the member discounts, and perhaps most significantly for frequent visitors, the ability to purchase the Disney Sorcerer Annual Pass at a price point that is not available to non-Florida residents ...

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Disney’s 19-Year-Old Tower of Terror Removed After Public Company Decision

A young girl in a Cinderella dress runs up to greet Cinderella in Disneyland Paris

Disney Adventure World has been open for less than a month and it is already generating a mystery that the theme park community cannot stop talking about. Not about a ride malfunction or a construction delay or a character meet and greet change. About a photograph. Specifically, about what is not in it. Credit: Matthieu Imbert, Flickr Disneyland Paris released ...

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