food IS a theme park
The best gifts from EPCOT.
What a fun way to end the night!
Since EPCOT opened some 42 years ago, the park — Walt Disney World’s second gate — has been a fan favorite. Due to this love affair, many guests want to bring home souvenirs and keepsakes for themselves or their loved ones. So, what are the best options to pick up from EPCOT? Well, there are several, and they’re also available online!
The game is ON at EPCOT.
EPCOT
Fall is one of our favorite times of the year at EPCOT, thanks to all the special events associated with the International Food & Wine Festival Festival. One of our favorites in 2024? Pluto’s Pumpkin Pursuit.
Do you like character meet-and-greets at Disney World?
Chip and Dale in Dinoland!
It’s always tons of fun when you get to meet your favorite characters and have a fun conversation with them! Disney brings them from the big screen to real life, and it’s always so exciting. Most recently, we’ve even gotten to meet some of our biggest heroes from Marvel comics and movies. Most of these Marvel characters are over in Disney California Adventure on the West Coast, but now a popular Guardian is dancing his way around EPCOT!
Lightning Lane Multi Pass is about to have a price increase at Disney World!
Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway Lightning Lane
This paid skip-the-line service debuted on July 24th, 2024, replacing Genie+ to allow guests access to Lightning Lanes. The service is about to experience a price hike, and we want to make sure you know about it!
The EPCOT Food & Wine Festival is still going strong and will be hanging around until November 23rd.
EPCOT Food & Wine Festival
We spent the first weekend of the festival trying out a TON of new eats, as well as returning favorites, just to get you reviews of EVERYTHING. We also got to visit a NEW food booth this year, the Macatizers booth, which is — as you may have guessed — all about the Mac and Cheese. Well, Disney just released the recipe for one of our favorite snacks from that booth, and let’s just say we know what we’re having for dinner tonight!
Happy Halloween, DFB friends!
This is one of our favorite times of year to be in Disney World. The spooky — and ADORABLE — Halloween decorations are up in Magic Kingdom. Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party is underway (but completely sold out for the year). Spooky season is the BEST. But the BEST part of spooky season isn’t the decor and parties…oh, no, the best part is THE SNACKS (you knew we’d say that, didn’t you?). Now, even the crêpes in EPCOT are jumping on the Halloween train.
Extra, extra, read all about it! Seriously, we’re sure Disney World hasn’t had a wink of sleep because it has dropped so many new updates this week. If you’ve missed out, this is your chance to catch up!
Cinderella Castle
I’m back again with another round of WHAT’S NEW UPDATES AT DISNEY WORLD, a rundown on all the epic news and updates that happened at Disney World this past week. This week, we got the 4-1-1 on a fan-favorite character coming to EPCOT, a Disney Springs store finally reopening after a month-long closure, and a popular special ticketed event getting completely sold out! Are y’all ready? Okay, let’s go!
It’s been…a week in Disney World. We’ve spent a lot of it tracking Hurricane Helene and staying updated on closures and cancellations at the resort.
Pumpkin ice cream is back.
We did, however, celebrate the reopening of a Starbucks and the return of pumpkin ice cream (even if it left us a little disappointed). We also got the full list of snacks and drinks coming to this year’s Jollywood Nights (and it is a LOT). As always, we also kept a close eye on Disney World restaurant menus, and we’ve got some menu updates to share with you this week.
Two Disney World hotel restaurants have been closed for extended refurbishment.
Everything Pop
The World Premiere Food Court at All-Stars Movies Resort closed on July 1st and was supposed to open later in July; however, the refurbishment was pushed until mid-October. The Everything Pop Shopping and Dining food court closed on July 29th and is set to open this week! As you wander around Disney World this week, be prepared for a few other closures that will affect your vacation.
Listen, we get it. There’s one reason you’re hyped about your upcoming trip to EPCOT — Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind!
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind
We’re here for it too! Getting to save Earth with our favorites Rocket, Groot, Drax, Gamora, and Star-Lord is such a rocking dream come true. But what happens when you’re hyped to experience the ride and you’ve got your Lightning Lane all set, and then the ride goes down? Let’s talk about it!
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