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Your Favorite Muppet Is Getting Their Own Snack Stand at Orlando Disney Park

Muppets Mayhem Poster

Disney’s Hollywood Studios is about to offer one of the more fully realized single-day experiences the park has offered in years, and it is all centered around a franchise that has been part of the park’s identity for decades, in various forms. The Muppets have always belonged at Hollywood Studios in a way that feels genuinely earned rather than arbitrarily ...

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Disneyland Closed Its Beloved Pin Trading Location, and the New Rules Are Brutal

Disneyland Pin Trading

There are traditions at Disneyland that exist entirely outside the official guest experience, things that were never formally designed by Imagineers or written into any operational playbook but grew organically out of the community that surrounds the park. Pin trading is one of those traditions. It has been part of Disneyland culture for decades, evolving from a simple collectible exchange ...

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Holiday Shows Everyone Wanted Back at Disney Are Officially Returning This Year

Mickey Mouse Christmas parade

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

Mickey Halloween

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. ...

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Theme Park Travel in 2028 Is About to Get More Complicated Than Anyone Expected

Florida Map Castle

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 ...

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Disney Kicked Families Off Its Newest Cruise Ship and Left Them Stranded in Singapore

Mickey Mouse with a Disney Cruise Line ship

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 ...

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