Guests visiting Disney’s Hollywood Studios have another attraction available again, but its return did not happen exactly when Disney’s operating calendar originally suggested it would. Vacation Fun – An Original Animated Short with Mickey & Minnie has officially reopened inside the Mickey Shorts Theater. The attraction welcomed guests back on September 28 after being unavailable for more than a month. ...

For the last two years, guests visiting Disney’s Animal Kingdom have had the chance to watch one of the park’s youngest residents grow up right before their eyes. Now, that chapter is coming to an end. Credit: Lee (myfrozenlife), Flickr Bakso, the Sumatran tiger who was born at Walt Disney World in September 2024, will soon leave Disney’s Animal Kingdom. ...

There are plenty of places around Walt Disney World where guests expect to encounter mice. Usually, though, those mice are wearing costumes, posing for photos, signing autographs, or starring in attractions. One recent EPCOT encounter was very different. Credit: Jesse James, Flickr Guests visiting CommuniCore Hall suddenly found themselves watching a real mouse race through an area where Mickey Mouse ...

EPCOT guests heading to Walt Disney World for the holiday season will need to adjust their evening plans this year. Disney has shifted the schedule for two of EPCOT’s biggest nighttime offerings during the 2026 EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays. Both Candlelight Processional and Luminous The Symphony of Us will begin earlier than guests have become accustomed to seeing ...

Disney’s Hollywood Studios has undergone one of the most dramatic physical transformations in theme park history. Over the past decade, the park shed its legacy as an aging movie studio to become an immersive powerhouse anchored by Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, Toy Story Land, and Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway. Even Animation Courtyard received a major redevelopment into the Magic ...

People bring plenty of unusual things with them on a Walt Disney World vacation. Matching shirts, elaborate Mickey ears, character-inspired outfits and carefully planned photo props have all become part of the experience. But one Magic Kingdom guest recently arrived with something that even Disney Cast Members apparently weren’t prepared to see. Credit: Ian Carroll, Flickr A porch goose! Not ...

For years, Walt Disney World Annual Passholders could decide they wanted to visit a theme park, get in the car and simply go. That freedom has never completely returned. Although Disney has loosened its theme park reservation rules considerably since their introduction, the reservation system remains part of being an Annual Passholder in 2026. Many fans have wondered whether Disney ...

Guests heading to Magic Kingdom tomorrow will find one of the park’s most recognizable attractions missing from the lineup. The Walt Disney World Railroad is preparing to temporarily stop carrying passengers as Disney begins a refurbishment that will keep the attraction closed for more than a month. Credit: Disney For guests visiting today, September 27, this is the final opportunity ...

Disney has quietly filed for a patent on a system that could change how the company catches mechanical problems on its attractions, and the concept is genuinely clever. Rather than waiting for a visible malfunction or relying entirely on Cast Members to notice something sounds off, this new system would use artificial intelligence to listen to ride equipment directly, flagging ...

Taylor Swift’s connection to Walt Disney World keeps growing, and this time it’s showing up in one of Hollywood Studios’ more overlooked attractions. Alien Swirling Saucers debuted a brand new overlay called Lilypad’s Jams on September 25, 2026, complete with a fresh soundtrack that includes an instrumental version of a Swift penned track from Toy Story 5. It’s the latest ...