For the 6th time, the Disney World monorail has changed its narration, this time issuing a warning about hazardous, toxic fumes. Along with the changes is the removal of certain triggering language. Magic Kingdom Monorail Undergoes ‘Corporate Language’ and ‘Toxic Warning’ Narration Change Walt Disney World has quietly changed the familiar narration heard aboard its Express Monorail, adding an explicit ...
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“It Looks Like an Airport”: Disney World Fans Turn on Disney’s Makeover of EPCOT
Last week, I wrote about what is happening to Walt Disney World’s hotels. The short version is that the whimsy is going. One resort at a time, the heavily themed rooms are being replaced with something cleaner, calmer, and considerably more neutral. Muted palettes. Simple lines. A framed character silhouette where a full mural once stood. It looks nice. It ...
Read More »Walt Disney World Suffers “Glitch,” Affecting Thousands of Vacations
Walt Disney World guests rely on the My Disney Experience app for just about everything these days. From checking wait times to managing dining plans, the app has become an important part of navigating a day inside the parks. That dependence becomes even greater during special events, when guests have only a limited number of hours to experience everything they ...
Read More »Mexico Attraction To Close at Disney World’s EPCOT Next Week
EPCOT guests have just days left to shop at a beloved handcrafted goods stand inside the Mexico World Showcase Pavilion, as Walt Disney World Resort prepares to shutter the spot for good. Liquidation Sale Signals the End On Tuesday, WDWNT reported that the Oaxacan wood-carving stand tucked inside the Plaza de los Amigos, part of the pyramid within the Mexico ...
Read More »After Just 1 Year, Disney Issues Troubling Update on Test Track Ride in EPCOT
Test Track hasn’t even been back for much more than a year, but Walt Disney World guests are already running into a frustrating problem with one of EPCOT’s biggest attractions. The reimagined Test Track reopened in July 2025 following a lengthy transformation that gave the attraction a completely different feel. Disney moved away from the futuristic Chevrolet design studio theme ...
Read More »Walt Disney World Confirms BoardWalk Inn Replacement Now Official
Walt Disney World has officially completed another replacement at Disney’s BoardWalk Inn, and guests are getting their first look at the finished project. Disney has been working its way through a lengthy refurbishment of the popular EPCOT-area resort, with changes affecting several areas around Disney’s BoardWalk Inn and Villas. One of the latest projects focused on the Village Green, a ...
Read More »Walt Disney World Hotel Room Leaves Disabled Guest in Tears
Disney has spent the last few years absorbing criticism from disabled guests, and it has not found a way out of it yet. The DAS overhaul brought a wave of it. Guests who had relied on the old system for years found themselves reclassified, denied, or funneled into alternatives that did not fit their needs. Some of that criticism was ...
Read More »New Disney World Filing Points to Growing Transportation Fleet
Most of what makes a Walt Disney World vacation work happens somewhere guests never see. Nobody thinks about where the monorails sleep. Nobody wonders where the parade floats go when the parade ends, or where the buses get serviced, or where the fireworks shells are stored between shows. The resort runs on an enormous backstage operation that exists purely so ...
Read More »Disney World Officially Replaces Iconic Hollywood Studios Area After 37 Years
Disney’s Hollywood Studios is in the middle of some major changes, but not every project involves a brand-new attraction or an entire land. Sometimes, Disney changes a familiar corner of the park that guests have walked past for decades. That’s exactly what’s happening near The Hollywood Brown Derby, where construction is transforming an outdoor area connected to one of Hollywood ...
Read More »Walt Disney World Confirms 18 Locations Shutdown, Effective Immediately
A Walt Disney World vacation in 2026 looks very different from what guests experienced just a few years ago. Major projects are moving forward across the resort, and Disney’s theme parks and hotels remain in the middle of a significant transformation. That means guests arriving right now may encounter construction walls, unavailable attractions, closed restaurants, and entire areas that have ...
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