There is a specific kind of anticipation that comes with the Walt Disney World holiday season that does not exist at any other time of year. It builds slowly, usually somewhere around mid-summer, when the first casting calls go out and the first hints of the season’s entertainment lineup start surfacing through the channels that Disney Parks fans pay close ...
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Orlando’s Most Popular Halloween Event Just Opened Ticket Sales To The Public
There is a moment every summer when the Walt Disney World calendar shifts. The heat is still fully in place, the summer crowds are still doing their thing across the parks, and yet something in the planning conversation changes. The Halloween season, which feels impossibly far away in the middle of July, suddenly feels like something that requires immediate attention. ...
Read More »Theme Park Travel in 2028 Is About to Get More Complicated Than Anyone Expected
Planning a Walt Disney World vacation in 2028 already requires thinking further ahead than most families are accustomed to. Hotels book up. Special events create demand spikes around specific dates. Crowd calendars shift based on school schedules, holidays, and the endless variables that make Central Florida theme park planning feel like a part-time job even in a normal year. Add ...
Read More »Disney Kicked Families Off Its Newest Cruise Ship and Left Them Stranded in Singapore
Disney Cruise Line has spent the better part of the last several years aggressively expanding its fleet and its global footprint. New ships, new itineraries, new ports, new markets. The Disney Wish debuted in 2022. The Disney Treasurefollowed. And most recently, Disney made its biggest international move yet with Disney Adventure, a brand-new ship launched in partnership with the Singapore ...
Read More »Disney Quietly Leaked the Menu for Its Next Big Disney Springs Food Obsession
If you have spent any time at Disney Springs in the last few years, you already know what Gideon’s Bakehouse is. You have probably seen the line. You have probably stood in it. You have possibly made a trip to Disney Springs specifically because of it, skipping every major theme park in Orlando for an afternoon just to get your ...
Read More »Disney Is Pumping the Brakes on Its Woke Tomorrowland Overhaul
There are certain things about Disneyland that have never changed, and for70 years, the smell and sound of gasoline engines rumbling through Tomorrowland was one of them. Autopia opened on July 17, 1955, the same day the park itself did, and it has been sending guests down that guided roadway in small, loud, gas-powered cars ever since. It survived the ...
Read More »The Man Behind a Beloved Disney Movie Attraction Has Passed Away at Age 87
There are figures in American media history whose influence extends so far beyond their most visible achievements that any single headline about their lives and legacy necessarily leaves most of the story untold. Ted Turner was one of those figures. The man who transformed a struggling family billboard business into one of the most powerful media empires in the history ...
Read More »After Waiting 9 Years, Asian Disney Fans Just Got the News They Have Begged For
D23 has been one of the most distinctive events in the entertainment fan convention landscape since it launched in 2009, and its identity has been built almost entirely around a single geographic anchor. Anaheim, California, is where D23 happens. The Anaheim Convention Center and the Honda Center are where Disney fans from around the world converge every two years to ...
Read More »Disney Expanded Something in a Foreign Country That Has Nothing to Do With Theme Parks
Disney Cruise Line’s relationship with the Bahamas goes far beyond the ports its ships call at and the private destinations its guests visit. The company has been operating in Bahamian waters for decades, its ships are registered in Nassau, and the 2024 opening of Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Point on Eleuthera represented a significant expansion of Disney’s physical and community ...
Read More »CONFIRMED: Disney Holding Exclusive Event for Passholders for A Major EPCOT Experience
There is a specific kind of Disney moment that lands differently for Annual Passholders than it does for the general visiting public, and it is not the big announcement moments, the opening-day crowds, or the first look at a new land from behind a construction wall. It is the preview event, the early access window, where the most dedicated and ...
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