Every year there is a group of Disney World guests playing the same game with the Christmas party, and if you are reading this, you might be one of them. The strategy goes like this. Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party has 25 dates and a price range, so you wait. You watch. You figure the early November Mondays will sit ...
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Confirmed: Something New Is Coming to Disney’s BoardWalk, and It’s Not a Restaurant
If you have spent any time at Disney Springs, you know Basin by smell before you know it by sight. It is the shop that announces itself from down the walkway. Walls of soap stacked like bakery goods, bins of bath bombs in colors that do not occur in nature, little displays of salts and salves and body butters. People ...
Read More »Disney Confirms Magic Kingdom Transportation Change Ahead of 2027
Getting to and from Magic Kingdom is the most complicated arrival in all of Walt Disney World, and it is not close. Every other park is basically a parking lot and a gate. Magic Kingdom makes you choose. Monorail, ferryboat, resort launch, or bus, each with its own loading area, its own route, and its own crowd. At park close, ...
Read More »New Disney Permit Signals Kids Area Coming to ‘Monsters, Inc.’ Land in 2027 at Hollywood Studios
News Ask any parent what the hardest part of a Disney World day actually is, and very few of them will say the cost, the walking, or the heat. They will say the waiting. A theme park day asks a four-year-old to do the exact opposite of everything a four-year-old is built to do. Stand in this line. Do not ...
Read More »Six Flags Renames Halloween Show ‘Dead Man’s Party’, Declines to Give a Reason
It has been a hard week for theme park fans all over the world. News On Monday, October 12, a man died after being ejected from Goliath at Six Flags Over Georgia. Georgia’s Office of the Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner is conducting what a spokesperson described as an in-depth, comprehensive review of what happened. The park closed and is ...
Read More »Disney Confirms New Grand Floridian Entrance Opens October 19!
Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort and Spa has been through a rough stretch, looking like a construction site with a Victorian hotel attached. The resort has been working through refurbishments inside and out. The roads feeding it have been torn up and rerouted. Walt Disney World’s first-ever roundabouts opened just down the way in August, which changed how traffic moves through ...
Read More »Disney World Opens Allergy Ordering Station at EPCOT, No New Menu Items
If you struggle with food allergies and visit Disney often, you already know the moment I am about to describe. You are at a quick service counter at peak lunch. There is a line of thirty people behind you, the cast member is moving fast because that is the job, and you need to explain that you cannot have dairy ...
Read More »Star Wars Characters Removed From Disneyland Resort Property, Return Date Unknown
The LEGO Store at Downtown Disney in the Disneyland Resort has been under some form of exterior construction for most of 2026. Not one project. A rolling series of them. Figures come down, frames go up, displays appear and disappear, and if you have visited Disneyland Resort more than twice this year, you have probably seen the storefront look three ...
Read More »Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lounge Set to Start Taking Reservations, Effective November 8
Nomad Lounge at Disney’s Animal Kingdom has a specific problem that most Disney restaurants do not. People will not leave. That is not a criticism. It is the entire design. Nomad is a lounge, not a restaurant, which means the whole point is sitting down for a while. You get a cocktail, you get a few small plates, you take ...
Read More »Walt Disney World and Orlando Magic Extend Sponsorship, Unveil Redesigned Kia Center Atrium
The Kia Center is not just where the Orlando Magic play. It is the building nearly everything in Orlando passes through. The arena hosts the Orlando Magic, yes, but it is also the primary indoor venue for major touring concerts in Central Florida. If a stadium-level act comes through Orlando, it is usually there. Same for a long list of ...
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