Characters Archive
Meet & greets are a popular thing to do during the 2023 Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party. However, characters can be difficult to find and incredibly time-consuming experiences, with long lines for rare characters wasting (literally) hours of the event. This character hunting guide for MNSSHP covers where to find each spot, average wait times,
Chef Mickey’s is a character dining experience in Contemporary Resort at Walt Disney World. This restaurant review includes food photos from the dinner buffet, menu info & pricing, whether it’s worth the money, recent changes, and more. Let’s start with the latest change to Chef Mickey’s at Walt Disney World–buffets are back for both breakfast
Story Book Dining at Artist Point is a Snow White & Seven Dwarfs character meal in Wilderness Lodge at Walt Disney World that serves a prix fixe menu. This restaurant review shares food photos, pros & cons of this princess dinner near Magic Kingdom, whether it’s worth the money & time, and how to score
Ariel from the new live-action version of The Little Mermaid movie is now appearances at Walt Disney World, Disneyland, and Paris as a meet & greet character as of today (May 26, 2023). This post covers the photos, details, plus our commentary about this somewhat unprecedented occurrence. According to Disney, Ariel is trading her fins for
Walt Disney World has announced more character meet & greets returning to Hollywood Studios with the reopening of the reimagined Pixar Place back by Toy Story Land and the old entrance to Toy Story Mania. This post shares timeframes, details, locations, and commentary. This follows a lot of character news in the last couple of
Garden Grill is home to Chip ‘n’ Dale’s Harvest Feast, a family-style character meal in EPCOT’s Land pavilion. This Walt Disney World dining review features food photos plus our opinion of this all-you-can-eat, rotating restaurant offering views into the Living with the Land ride. (Updated April 12, 2023.) Just to make sure you caught all
Walt Disney World has announced new and returning character meet & greets throughout 2023 in Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, and EPCOT. This post shares timeframes, details, locations, and commentary. This follows the other news about EPCOT’s New Nighttime Spectacular & Disney100 Anniversary Celebration in Late 2023. With EPCOT wrapping up its overhaul, the park will
It’s the start of Walt Disney World’s new fiscal year, which means one thing: PRICE INCREASES. These have included Droid Depot and Savi’s Workshop for Handbuilt Lightsabers in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, PhotoPass ‘Capture Your Moment’ service, and more. Most notably, Disney rolled out a new (more expensive) date-based pricing for the Genie+ service. On the dining front, Walt Disney
Akershus Royal Banquet Hall is a character dining experience in the Norway pavilion of World Showcase in Walt Disney World. This review covers breakfast at the restaurant, with food photos, a look around inside, and thoughts on the Disney Princess Storybook Dining adjacent to Frozen Ever After at EPCOT. Let’s start on that last note.
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
More characters are debuting and returning to Walt Disney World! This post covers dates, details, and everything you need to know about the friends from Encanto, Star Wars, and other movies that’ll soon begin appearing at Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, Fort Wilderness, and beyond. Prior to the start of summer, traditional character meet & greets with hugs,
