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Featured
Disney World Moves Up Fantasmic! Beginning This Month, Cutting Into Park Time
Thirty minutes can disappear surprisingly fast at Disney World. That’s especially true at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, where guests may spend those minutes waiting for one more attraction, grabbing food, or racing across the park before the nighttime entertainment begins. Starting…
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Disney Merchandise
Disney Doubles Down on Culturally Sensitive Pirates of the Caribbean Makeover
Eight years after one of the most debated attraction updates in Disney Parks history, The Walt Disney Company is making clear exactly where it stands on the modernized Pirates of the Caribbean auction scene. From “We Wants the Redhead” to…
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Disney World Guests Have 26 Halloween Party Dates Left After 12 Nights Sell Out
The Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party calendar is starting to look a little different. Disney World has now sold out 12 party nights for 2026, including two more October dates. October 6 and October 29 are the latest nights to disappear,…
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Universal Quietly Restores Express to Hagrid’s Coaster for Select Guests
Long waits have become almost part of the experience when visiting Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure. The popular Islands of Adventure coaster continues to pull large crowds years after its debut, so any opportunity to bypass part of that standby…
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Parks
Halloween Horror Nights Expands Beyond the Park for Its 35th Year
Halloween Horror Nights has always had a hard edge. Buy a ticket, walk through the gates at Universal Studios Florida, get terrorized for five or six hours, and go home. The event stops where the park stops. Now, yes, sometimes…
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Disney's Hollywood Studios
In the Blink of an Eye, Things at Disney’s Hollywood Studios Have Changed
Guests arriving at Disney’s Hollywood Studios this week are walking into a noticeably different park, and the Hollywood Tower Hotel at the center of it all is more covered in construction equipment than it has been at any point this…
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Disney and TikTok Strike Major Deal—Here’s Why Parents Should Pay Attention
Disney and TikTok are teaming up in a deal that could put even more short-form video in front of families. The partnership, announced last week, will bring curated videos from TikTok creators to Verts, Disney+’s vertical-video feed. Select creators will…
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Outside the Disney Bubble
Possible Delay Expected for Universal Studios Expansion After Community Rallies Against It
The sound of a 72-mph roller coaster carries differently when homes sit just beyond the studio backlot. For Toluca Lake residents, testing on Universal Studios Hollywood’s new outdoor thrill ride has brought a very specific complaint: riders’ screams reaching the…
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Business
New Disney World Experience Coming to Tampa Bay Soon
Tampa Bay shoppers have long faced a familiar choice when hunting discounted Disney Parks merchandise: order online, pay full price elsewhere, or take Interstate 4 toward Orlando. That trip can turn a bargain run into an all-day commitment before anyone…
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Disney World Tourist Zone Swarmed by Deputies After Human Remains Found Off I-Drive
A walk near Walt Disney World recently took a disturbing turn after dark. Two people were making their way through the area when they came across something that prompted an immediate law enforcement response. Deputies arrived later that night, and…
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The Walt Disney Company
Bob Iger Buys the Lakers for $12 Billion, Five Months After Leaving Disney
Bob Iger’s basketball obsession was never a secret. Disney Springs was the receipt. For a short while, guests wandering Disney Springs walked past the NBA Experience, a two-story interactive attraction built entirely around basketball. Shooting challenges. A virtual draft. Replica…
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1.21 Gigawatts! Universal Permanently Closes ‘Fast & Furious’ in 5 Days as Retro Rumors Surge
The countdown has officially reached its final days for Fast & Furious – Supercharged. Universal Studios Florida will permanently close the controversial attraction after August 16, bringing an early end to a ride that struggled to win over many guests.…
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Tinker Bell’s Removal From Disneyland Explained, Indefinite Closure Gets Updated
Disneyland’s Pixie Hollow meet-and-greet area continues to operate, but the latest calendar update suggests the recent disruption is far from a short-term fix. The pattern is not without precedent. Pixie Hollow underwent a nine-month closure spanning 2024 into 2025, during…
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Disney Resort Hotels
Disney World Files Mystery Permit for Walt Disney World Resorts
Permit watching became its own hobby in the Disney fan world, and it earned that status honestly. Every real project at Walt Disney World leaves a paper trail long before Disney says a word publicly. Construction permits have exposed attraction…
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Disney Park Stalker Won’t Stop Pursuing Peter Pan After 10 Years
Every online fandom eventually spawns a story big enough to break out into the mainstream, and Disney fans just had their moment. A TikTok account built around years of run-ins with Disneyland’s Peter Pan performers suddenly blew up way past…
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Parks
‘No Overnight Relief’: Extreme Heat Settles Over Walt Disney World
Yesterday brought a heat advisory, with a heat index reaching 110 degrees across Orlando, including Disney World. Today is worse. Worth pausing on that. This is not one bad afternoon that passes and gets forgotten. It is a pattern that…
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Another ‘Star Wars’ Movie Heading to the Trash Compactor Following Dismal Results
Lucasfilm’s Mando-Verse just took another hit, and this time it could cost the franchise an entire movie that fans have been waiting years to see. Star Wars has been in a rough patch for a while now. Projects sit untouched…
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Outside the Disney Bubble
Universal Orlando Is Offering $40 ‘Dining Plans’ for Select Guests
Universal Orlando Resort guests will soon have a new way to control at least one part of their vacation food budget—but it is not the return of Universal’s discontinued dining plan. Select restaurants at Universal Orlando’s hotels are participating in…
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Magic Kingdom
Disney Fans Call for “Lifetime Ban” for Guest Who Preached a Sermon at Magic Kingdom
A TikTok video showing a man delivering a Christian sermon from a raised flowerbed in the Cinderella Castle hub at Magic Kingdom Park has gone viral, and the Disney Parks community is divided over whether Walt Disney World Resort should…
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Magic Kingdom
Woman Sues Disney World Over Injury in ‘Little Mermaid’ Ride, Calling Herself “Business Invitee”
A lawsuit filed against Walt Disney World Resort claims that a queue design flaw at one of Magic Kingdom Park’s most family-friendly attractions left a guest with a fractured bone, permanent injuries, and a legal case demanding $50,000 in damages.…
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