food IS a theme park
Happy Greetings from Magic Kingdom! This visit found sweet treats for your sweetheart, purple treats, savory spring rolls, new chips, the closure of a favorite ride, a pretty sparkly gift card, plus more!
A Beautiful Magic Kingdom Morning
Let’s jump in! Where else do you start a visit to the Magic Kingdom but in the oh-so-sweet Main Street Confectionery!!
Disney World’s Magic Kingdom is busy as they work to build the new Tron attraction opening in 2021 for the park’s 50th anniversary (can’t wait!). This week a popular, and original ride was temporarily closed as they continue construction on the new Tron attraction.
Fantasyland Train Station Closed Sign
That’s right, the Walt Disney Railroad isn’t running as Tron’s construction nears the railroad tracks, but it isn’t all bad news for fans of the train.
Even though Pandora has been open for over a year, Animal Kingdom is still a park undergoing some changes and construction. We spotted quite a few construction walls up around the park this week.
Animal Kingdom Construction
On top of the construction there was the announcement that Rafiki’s Planet Watch is closing October 20 for refurbishment until Spring of 2019.
It’s no secret Hollywood Studios (and all of us) are getting ready for Star Wars Land Galaxy’s Edge to open next fall. And, now it looks like Tatooine Traders, the gift shop attached to the Star Tours ride, is in the middle of a face lift to be ready for the Galaxy’s Edge opening!
Tatooine Traders
Disney has not announced what the refurbishments are or a timeline for the construction.
We found so much on our latest trip to the Magic Kingdom — and we got to celebrate the 47th anniversary of the park! That means we’re just three short years away from all of the festivities and new rides and restaurants planned for the 50th Anniversary! Are they issuing FastPasses for the Tron ride yet? 🙂
Happy 47th Magic Kingdom!
Walt Disney promised us when he opened Disneyland that the park would never be finished. With the amount of changes and construction we see around Disney World that couldn’t be more true today than it was when he said that quote!
The Rivers of America have been undergoing refurbishment that saw a partial drain of the River. This past week when we were in Magic Kingdom the River was refilled. This week we wanted to find out when the Riverboat would set sail again.
Rivers of America Refilled
This is what the Rivers of America looked like last week (above), and just a week before that it looked like this:
When we were at Hollywood Studios we saw something you don’t see very often — a clear view from the entrance of the park to the Chinese Theater.
Hollywood Studios Chinese Theater
Usually, during the day, the stage for the show A Galaxy Far Far Away is sitting in front of the theater.
Wow.
We’ve just heard that Sweet Spells will be closing permanently later this month to make way for a Pixar merchandise location.
Quoi?!?
Sweet Spells in Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Sweet Spells has served traditional Disney park snacks such as Mickey-shaped Krispy Treats, Cake Pops, Fudge, and more over the years. It’s one of the spots where you can see specialty Caramel Apples being decorated, and it added a line of Whoopie Pies unique to the location a couple of years ago.
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