Disney Tips Your Guide To A Great Disney Vacation

Yesterday, we wrote about what Lilypad’s arrival would mean for Toy Story Land. Today, she is physically standing there. The larger-than-life tablet has been installed outside Alien Swirling Saucers at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, sitting atop a large orange toy block. She is not active yet, displaying only her “The Pond” interface with no other graphics running. Disney has said Lilypad ...

My family lives three hours from Walt Disney World, and for most of my life, that meant we got to be strategic about it. We knew the calendar. The second week of December was ours, after the early-month crowds and before everyone showed up for the holidays. Or we would wait until after Presidents’ Day, when the schools went back, ...

Rainforest Cafe is not a Disney restaurant, and it never has been. But try telling that to anyone who grew up going to Disney parks. The chain has been part of the Disney experience for decades through sheer proximity and persistence. There is one at Disney Springs, still doing steady business. There is one outside of Disney’s Animal Kingdom, where ...

Disney has quietly built one of the stranger content pipelines in its portfolio, and almost nobody has noticed it happening. Right now, a Savannah Bananas second baseman is competing on Dancing with the Stars, which airs on ABC and streams on Disney+. Banana Ball games have been showcased at Disneyland and at Walt Disney World. Disney Parks Blog has covered ...

Disneyland has been photographed more than almost any place on earth, and that creates a specific kind of opportunity. Every day since 1955, thousands of people have pointed cameras at the same castle, the same storefronts, the same stretches of Main Street, U.S.A. Millions of those photos sit in shoeboxes, slide carousels, and undeveloped film canisters in garages across America. ...

The return-to-office fight has been running for six years now, and it keeps ending the same way. The Walt Disney Company is now telling certain employees that they have to return to office instead of remaining remote. Remote work went from emergency measure to normal operating procedure in 2020. Companies discovered that a large share of knowledge work genuinely did ...

The Germany Pavilion at EPCOT has a joke built into its premise that most guests never think about. It is always Oktoberfest there. Not during October. Always. The Biergarten has been running an Oktoberfest buffet with live polka every single day of the year for decades, which means a family visiting in March gets the same accordion, the same communal ...

Some crimes are memorable because of what was taken. This one at Disney Springs is memorable because of how it was done. A year ago this week, a man in full scuba gear swam across the water at Disney Springs, entered Paddlefish after closing, tied up two employees counting the day’s cash, took somewhere between $10,000 and $20,000, and disappeared ...

Walt Disney World runs a lot of celebrations, and they do not all carry the same weight. Some are essentially merchandise drops with a hashtag attached. Others get real programming, real talent, and real presence across multiple parks. The difference is usually visible within about five minutes of walking through a gate, and guests have gotten very good at telling ...

If you have ever earned a digital achievement in the Play Disney Parks app, today is your last chance to look at it. That sounds like a small thing, and for most guests it will be. But there is a specific kind of Disney fan who has been collecting these for years, checking off Fab 50 statues across Walt Disney ...