Scoop Sanderson is a long time citizen of Main Street USA at Disney’s Magic Kingdom.  He is a ton of fun and joy to interact with when you are passing through Main Street USA.  His contract wasn’t renewed, so his last official day as a full time Citizen of Main Street USA will be October 8th.  He will still be ...

Splash Mountain at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World is scheduled to close for 1 day in order to complete a scheduled refurbishment.  The attraction will be closed on December 7, 2016 and is set to re-open to guests the very next day.  We can’t expect that much will be changing about the attraction given the short window of ...

Disney’s Hollywood Studios has been under a lot of construction as Star Wars Land, Toy Story Land and other changes are being introduced into the park.  We expect to see construction and walls of some kind for a few years to come at this park.  Here are updates to the progress of a couple areas: [google_ad] PizzeRizzo:  Toy Story Pizza ...

The Haunted Mansion at the Magic Kingdom as been under refurbishment for a while now, but still operating as normal.  The teams have been working on the outside of the attraction with a scrim over the building.  It has been announced that the attraction will actually completely close operations on November 28th and remain closed through December 1 to continue ...

This year for the 2016 International Food and Wine Festival at Epcot a new tasting sampler will be introduced for purchase.  The cost to purchase the sampler will be $59, plus tax per guest.  With the purchase, each guest with a sampler will get 8 vouchers to use for food or drink purchases at locations throughout the World Showcase during ...

After the tragedy that occurred in June to 2 year old Lane Graves, who was wading in the water at the Grand Floridian beach area, was taken underwater by an alligator.  After this event, the resorts started making quick changes to block off beach access areas to help put a barrier between guests and the water.  The changes started at ...

Disney Park’s Blog has announced that the House of Blues in Disney Springs will host 2 craft beer events during the month of September.  Here are details about each event: [google_ad] “Local Brews, Local Grooves”:  This event will occur on Saturday, September 10 from 4PM – 10:30PM.  This will be a mix of Florida musicians as well as Florida breweries. ...

Star Wars – A Galactic Spectacular debuted in June and has performed nightly at Disney’s Hollywood Studios since it first opened.   Disney has recently updated the schedule starting in October to only perform the show 4 nights per week instead of every night and the time is moving up around 8PM each night.  This is typically to be expected ...

Starting at the first Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party of the season on September 2nd, Aladdin and Jasmine debuted in a new outfits.  Jasmine’s outfits no longer shows midriff or leaves her arms bare.  It is almost fully covering, similar to other princess dresses.  Aladdin’s outfit is more detailed and looks even more royal and fancier than his original ...

Last night, September 3rd, there was a firework misfire that shot across the street and almost hit a car.  The firework was from the Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular show that is shown nightly at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.  No one was injured and the event didn’t appear to do any damage, but definitely could have been a lot worse.  The ...