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Disney World has now released the park operating hours through December 12th!
Magic Kingdom
Last week, we shared that Disney World park hours were available through December 5th. And now, we’ve gotten a peek at the park calendar for the following week as well!
If you’re heading to Disney World over the next few weekends, you’ll have some extra time to enjoy the parks!
Spaceship Earth
In early September, the Disney World parks began regularly operating with shorter hours. However, we have seen the hours extended at select parks on certain days.
UPDATE: Splash Mountain is up and running again in Magic Kingdom.
Even though it’s the most magical place on earth, from time to time, attractions in Disney World do experience issues requiring evacuations or causing them to become temporarily unavailable.
Splash Mountain
Well, it seems guests headed to their “laughing place” on Splash Mountain in Magic Kingdom today couldn’t quite make it through the mountain and into the briar patch.
Since the Walt Disney World theme parks reopened a few months ago, we’ve seen various changes including the introduction of systems like the Park Pass Reservation System and the suspension of Fastpass+.
Christmas At Magic Kingdom
The holiday experience at Disney World has also changed significantly. Just recently, we shared some updates with you about the upcoming Christmastime entertainment and offerings that will be available at Disney World this year, but there’s also quite a few Christmas staples that guests won’t be able to experience.
Walt Disney World has officially been reopened for a little over two months now.
Main Street, USA
Despite reduced park capacity, it hasn’t necessarily been any easier to get reservations at some of Disney World’s most popular dining spots, like Be Our Guest Restaurant, California Grill, or Topolino’s Terrace.
It’s the 40th anniversary of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, and we’ve seen a lot of awesome merch already released. But the coolest and most popular items were part of the Minnie Mouse: The Main Attraction Big Thunder Mountain Railroad Collection.
Minnie Mouse’s Main Attraction Big Thunder Mountain Railroad Ears
And items from that collection are hard to come by: we recently saw a pretty long line in Magic Kingdom when we tried to get our hands on some of that sweet merch at Disney World.
Hello from Magic Kingdom! We’re wandering around this wonderful world that’s all decked out for Halloween and having a blast!
Magic Kingdom Halloween Decorations
It doesn’t seem that long ago when we were here last (it wasn’t), but we still have a lot of updates! So let’s get to it!
Disney World is in a constant state of change.
Liberty Square Riverboat
Sometimes, those changes boil down to refurbishments on beloved and long-standing attractions. We’ve seen permits that might point to some upcoming refurbs in Magic Kingdom and now, Disney has announced that TWO Magic Kingdom attractions will be closing for lengthy refurbishments.
It’s officially SPOOKY season, and that means we can celebrate the Haunted Mansion even more than we normally do! We’ve seen a lot of really cool Haunted Mansion merch in the parks, including Haunted Mansion Crocs (!!!), Haunted Mansion Loungefly bags, and a Haunted Mansion wallpaper mask.
Haunted Mansion Hitchhiking Ghosts Figure
But there’s one specific character in the Haunted Mansion that’s been getting a lot of attention lately!
One reason we adore Halloween at Disney World is that we start seeing a lot of love for Disney villains in the parks! We’ve seen awesome villain spirit jerseys, villains stickers, and even villains fans! And we LOVE the new Villains Cavalcades!!!
The Evil Queen
Right now, we are ALL ABOUT THE BAD GUYS AND GALS of Disney! And we just spotted a new VILLAINOUS item in the parks!
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