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After Waiting 9 Years, Asian Disney Fans Just Got the News They Have Begged For

D23 expo

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 ...

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Disney Expanded Something in a Foreign Country That Has Nothing to Do With Theme Parks

The Disney Wonder cruise ship as seen from the beach on Castaway Cay.

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 ...

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Whatever You Do Do Not Visit This Disney Park on Monday Without Reading This First

Galaxys Edge Hollywood Studios

There are certain days at Walt Disney World where the energy inside a specific park shifts from the standard busy-but-manageable to something genuinely different, something where the combination of a dedicated fan community, exclusive merchandise, special food offerings, and a cultural moment that only comes around once a year creates a crowd dynamic that regular theme park visitors are simply ...

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Disney Quietly Dropped Exclusive Passholder Merchandise and Here Is the Full Collection

Illustration of Mickey Mouse waving against a yellow background, with the text "Disney Annual Passholder." Mickey sports his classic red shorts and beams with a cheerful expression, capturing the magic of Walt Disney World.

There is a specific kind of Disney merchandise that exists almost entirely as a badge of identity rather than a fashion statement, and the Annual Passholder exclusive collection tends to fall squarely into that category. The whole point of Passholder merchandise is not necessarily to produce the most visually innovative pieces in the Disney Parks lineup but to give the ...

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Something Is Invading Disney Springs This Weekend and You Only Have 48 Hours to See It

Disney Springs at night

Disney Springs has a way of turning a casual shopping afternoon into something genuinely memorable, and the combination of the open-air environment, the rotating roster of pop-up events, and the steady stream of limited-edition merchandise that passes through the district gives frequent visitors a reason to keep coming back even when they have already seen everything the permanent shops have ...

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Disney Finally Spilled the Beans on the Secret Passholder Meet-and-Greet

A person with orange-painted nails holds up an annual passholder sticker featuring Timon and Pumbaa from Disney’s The Lion King. The background features lush greenery and the iconic Tree of Life from Disney's Animal Kingdom.

Walt Disney World’s V.I.PASSHOLDER Summer Days event officially kicked off today, May 1, and the exclusive character meet-and-greet, one of the most talked-about elements of the summer Passholder programming, is now live at EPCOT. The details of which characters will appear at the secretive meet-and-greet location have been revealed, and Chip ‘n’ Dale are the primary characters that Passholders can ...

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Could the Biggest Pop Star in the World Be Working With Disney on Toy Story 5?

Taylor Swift

The Taylor Swift fan community operates like nothing else in popular culture. It is a distributed network of millions of people who treat every public appearance, every social media post, every clothing choice, every color combination, and every cryptic website update as potential data points in an ongoing puzzle that may or may not have a definitive answer. The community ...

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