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It’s the most wonderful time of the year — the holiday season at Disney World!
The EPCOT tree has arrived!
The parks have all been decked out in gorgeous decor, festive eats and treats have popped up all around, and in just a few short days, the EPCOT Festival of the Holidays will begin. We can’t wait to eat and drink our way around the festival while taking in all the entertainment and more. Speaking of which, it looks like something exciting has popped up ahead of the festival!
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Recently, Disney World announced that a classic Hollywood Studios attraction is CLOSING.
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That’s right, we’ll soon be saying goodbye to Muppet*Vision 3D and all of Muppets Courtyard as the area gets replaced with a Monsters, Inc.-themed land. As a consolation, Disney will be replacing Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster with a Muppets coaster. But even with that change, the loss of Muppet*Vision is pretty controversial — and fans have a lot of questions and concerns!
Disney World’s Lightning Lane Premier Pass may still be new, but it’s already proven to be incredibly popular.
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The new skip-the-line service allows each guest who purchases it one one-time entry to each Lightning Lane experience in the selected theme park — but at a pretty hefty price. Still, that hasn’t stopped folks from selling the service out in some parks over the week of Thanksgiving — and on Monday, Lightning Lane Premier Pass sold out in every single Disney World park.
Disney will unveil a brand-new take on a classic EPCOT ride in 2025!
Test Track
In June 2024, Test Track closed to be reimagined as a new, third version of the ride. The new iteration of the attraction will take inspiration from its predecessor, World of Motion, and is currently scheduled to debut in 2025. And, if that isn’t enough to get you hyped for the revamp, there are also 6 BIG additions coming to Test Track 3.0!
There are plenty of changes going on at Disney World right now — and we’re pretty darn excited about them!
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Over at Animal Kingdom, the new Tropical Americas Land is already underway, and Villains Land and Cars attractions in Magic Kingdom are coming in the future, too. Now that we officially know where the new Monsters, Inc. Land coming to Hollywood Studios will be located, we’re diving into the concept art to see what we can decode.
We’ve got a new update in EPCOT to share with you and it’s quite a notable change!
Spaceship Earth
EPCOT at Disney World has seen many changes recently, with extending its popular Encanto sing-along show, getting ready for the Festival of the Holidays to start soon, and even updating ride scenes in one of our favorite attractions. While this change might be a little more subtle than the last, it’s one we’re very excited about and it seems a lot of other folks are already, too!
Disney rides are Imagineering wonders — and Imagineering wonders take a lot of work to keep them running in tip-top shape.
Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
Every once in a while, though, something can cause a ride to suddenly stop. Maybe a rider dropped something when they were getting out and Cast Members needed to retrieve it for safety reasons, or maybe something mechanical happened. It’s typically a quick fix and rides will often start back up within a few minutes, but sometimes — a ride needs to be evacuated!
The Christmas trees are up, the halls are decked, Gertie is wearing her Santa hat, and Disney World is in full swing for the holiday season.
Gingerbread Cheesecake from Backlot Express at Hollywood Studios
It really is the most wonderful time of the year in Disney World, and that’s mostly because we get to try ALL the holiday snacks (seriously, they’re our favorite seasonal snacks). But while we’re munching on things flavored with peppermint and gingerbread, we’re also keeping an eye on Disney World restaurant menus — and yep, we’ve got some menu updates to share with you this week!
Let’s grab some grub at Disneyland!
Disneyland Tomorrowland
Disneyland is often regarded as having some of the best theme park food in the industry, but that doesn’t mean every restaurant is a hit. Over in Tomorrowland, Alien Pizza Planet has divided Disney food fans. With the quality called into question in addition to some concern over prices, Alien Pizza Planet currently holds a modest 3.2 out of 5.0 stars on Yelp. With all that in mind, we visited the controversial restaurant to see how it holds up heading into 2025!
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