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Main Street Electrical Parade made its Disneyland homecoming earlier this year for what has been billed as a nostalgic, farewell run for the parade that ran down Main Street in Disneyland from 1972 until 1996. The parade was replaced by Light Magic, which quickly became known among fans as “Light Tragic.” (If you’ve never heard
Yesterday, we headed back to Disneyland for the first time since the Disneyland Railroad and Rivers of America had full reopened. Wow. That’s really all I have to say. Okay, that’s not really all…I’ll probably manage to ramble on for dozens of paragraphs despite “wow” being my initial reaction. Our last couple of visits to
There were a ton of attraction announcements at the recent D23 Expo that will impact visits to Walt Disney World. In this post, we’ll share the expected implications these projects will have on future WDW vacations between now and 2021, which is the year when the last of the work will be completed. That’s right:
A lot of announcements for Walt Disney World, Disneyland, and beyond were made at the Parks & Resorts panel of the 2017 D23 Expo. By our count, there were 13 announcements, which is a pretty staggering number–easily the biggest D23 Expo in terms of news. We’ve covered most of these with individual posts, but I
The new gondola system at Walt Disney World connecting Art of Animation, Pop Century, Caribbean Beach, and Riviera Resorts with Disney’s Hollywood Studios and the International Gateway at Epcot was Disney’s worst kept secret…and it’s now official! Bob Chapek, Chairman of Walt Disney Parks & Resorts announced that this gondola network will be called Disney
EPCOT Center has been dead for 23 years. Arguably, the original concept started disappearing with the name change, and has been gone 20 years ago, give or take. The current, disjointed incarnation of the park has now existed for longer than EPCOT Center did. Let that sink in for a second. Despite this, so many
Today is Shanghai Disneyland’s 1st Anniversary, and in honor of the occasion, I figured I’d write about the one topic that interests you all when it comes to the newest Disney park in mainland China. No, not Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure, which is the most revolutionary attraction in decades–better than
“I hated Disneyland Paris. The park was awful and people were rude…” Comments like this are not uncommon from guests who have visited, and been disappointed by, Disneyland Paris. If our reader reaction is any indication, it’s the most divisive Disney park on the planet. It’s certainly not a place for everyone, and in this
Greetings from Norway! We are in the midst of Disney Cruise Line’s 7-night Norwegian Fjords sailing aboard the Disney Magic, and thought we’d drop in with a quick update. Today we were in Stavanger, one of Norway’s most beautiful cities (albeit the only one we’ve seen thus far) and supposedly the most expensive city in
It’s the end of an era for Walt Disney World. Wishes – A Magical Gathering of Disney Dreams, the long-running Magic Kingdom fireworks show will be retired on May 11, 2017. Since Sarah and I have been going to Walt Disney World together, Wishes has been the primary Magic Kingdom fireworks spectacular, and I thought
In case you missed the news earlier this week, Walt Disney World announced that guests will now be allowed to enter the Main Street, U.S.A. area of the park before the park’s scheduled opening time. At Magic Kingdom park opening, a new welcome show will officially open the park for the day on the Castle
