Animal Kingdom Archive
Our Disney restaurant reviews offer food photos, menus, info & tips, and thoughts on 300+ counter and table service dining spots at Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Tokyo, Paris, and beyond. We cover best & worst meals, value for money, and more to help you choose where to eat based upon theme, ambiance, cuisine & cost.
New rides, restaurants, entertainment, and more is coming to Walt Disney World in 2023. Here’s what’s next after the 50th Anniversary celebration concludes next year–construction info, expansion plans, and opening dates so you know what to expect when planning your WDW vacation. (Updated October 1, 2022.) According to Walt Disney World, the “big” thing happening
Animal Kingdom has 11 attractions with Genie+ access, which is the fewest of any park at Walt Disney World. On top of that, only a handful of those are actually worth using the Lightning Lane to skip the line. This guide ranks the rides in terms of time-saved and how quickly each reservation books up.
Walt Disney World has announced that KiteTails at Animal Kingdom is ending. In this post, we’ll share details & dates, commentary about the news, entertainment in the new fiscal year, and our thoughts on this daytime kite show. Here’s Walt Disney World’s official announcement: As you know, Disney KiteTails debuted at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme
Halloween food is finally coming to Walt Disney World! EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, and Disney Springs will all have fall-themed snacks, drinks and desserts through October 31, 2022. In this food guide, we’ll take a sneak peek at the spook season treats. This comes over a month after fall food season started at Magic
A lot was announced or revealed for Walt Disney World during the 2022 D23 Expo. For all of the most important news, we’ve already shared dedicated posts containing details plus our commentary with speculation about what went unsaid. However, there’s a lot that we have yet to tackle. During his ~90 minute “A Boundless Future:
Disney announced at the D23 Expo that Moana is another “potential expansion” opportunity and “early concept exploration” for Dinoland USA at Animal Kingdom. This post will share all of the details, concept art, and everything we know about the possible expansion, plus a bit of commentary. The Animal Kingdom expansion news was announced during the “A
At the D23 Expo, Disney announced that Zootopia is “potential expansion” opportunity and “early concept exploration” for Dinoland USA at Animal Kingdom. This post will share all of the details, concept art, and everything we know about the possible expansion–plus a bit of commentary about the rumored concepts for an Excavator roller coaster and Indiana
Walt Disney World is once again tweaking the lineup for its paid FastPass service, reallocating attractions from the Individual Lightning Lane lineup to Genie+ for each park–making permanent changes that were previously only through summer. This post takes a look at the changes, reasons why, and offers speculation for the future. This change was actually
There’s good and potentially bad news about Walt Disney World entertainment–especially characters and streetmosphere–as performers return to Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios while others have been quietly removed from WDW’s website. In this post, we’ll cover what’s returning and presumably ending, plus commentary about the likely motivations for the changes. Let’s start with the good
Despite higher crowds and growing wait times, there are more options for saving time waiting in lines at Walt Disney World. This compares the best & worst options: Genie+, Lightning Lanes, extra hours & savvy standby to beat high wait times at Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, EPCOT and Animal Kingdom. (Updated July 10, 2022.) Now
