food IS a theme park
There is a new Pirates-themed lounge coming to Magic Kingdom!
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It’s called The Beak and Barrel, and it officially opens on August 29th, 2025! We are itching to check out the new drinks, menu, and more coming to the new lounge. As we eagerly await its opening, Disney has just given us a sneak peek at the brand-new merchandise for the new dining spot.
Disney just shared a NEW look inside The Beak and Barrel! This brand-new lounge, themed to the classic Pirates of the Caribbean attraction, is coming to Adventureland in Magic Kingdom.
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We have been eagerly awaiting more information about this new lounge, and now we are getting a chance to see inside The Beak and Barrel with some Disney Imagineers!
Disney Imagineering just shared a close-up look at the Cars area ride testing! This new Cars area will be coming to Magic Kingdom and will feature two attractions.
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While we are still waiting for more details on the timeline for this new area that will replace Tom Sawyer Island and the Rivers of America, it is always cool to get a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into creating a new area.
It’s a darn good time to be a Disney fan — there are just SO many incredible additions coming to the parks!
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A Cars expansion with two new rides is coming to Magic Kingdom, along with a new Villains land. Pueblo Esperanza will be taking over DinoLand, U.S.A. in Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and the Muppets are moving over to Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster to make way for a Monsters, Inc. land. Over at Disneyland, Avengers Campus is getting two new rides — and we just got even more details about some of them!
What is going on with the theme park that previous Disney Imagineers are building?
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We have been keeping an eye out for any updates about American Heartland, a theme park being built in Oklahoma. This new theme park, which has a team of former Disney Imagineers working on it, has been dubbed the Disneyland of Oklahoma. It is set to cost around $2 billion and will span 1,000 acres, including a 125-acre theme park, a water park, a large RV park with cabins, a dinner theatre, an amphitheater, a swimming pool, and a clubhouse. The park was expected to open in 2026, but it seems that the opening date will be pushed back.
Pretty sure y’all have been waiting for this one…because I definitely have!! You might discount Disney’s Animal Kingdom, but I am here to tell you that YOU SHOULD NOT. This park is magical, y’all, and I’m going to prove it to you today!
Animal Kingdom
I’ve always known that Disney’s Animal Kingdom is amazing, stupendous, incredible, insert-other-great-adjectives here. But now, I wanna make sure YOU know it, too! While many folks tend to write this park off as a half-day-er (which can be understandable, since it has fewer attractions than its three older sibling parks), you can EASILY fill a full day here, just by tracking down the AWESOME things we’re gonna talk about today!
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There are a lot of new things coming to the Magic Kingdom in Disney World. We are expecting the debut of Country Bear Musical Jamboree, as well as a new experience in Storybook Circus called “Smellephants on Parade.”
We are getting closer to opening day!
And of course, we can’t forget the opening of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. We have been seeing lots of progress recently, including lots of construction walls coming down, and cast members riding the attraction! But what is really going on behind-the-scenes to get ready for the grand opening?
We LOVE learning secrets from Disney Imagineers — but sometimes it leaves us longing for what could have been.
Imagineers in Disney World | Photo: Shared by Jeff Vahle via Instagram (@jeffvahle)
Imagineers are the creative Disney engineers who bring the Disney Parks to life and they sometimes gift us insight into how beloved attractions have been and will be made. On rare occasions, however, an Imagineer will spill the details on attractions that almost were but never came to be. Recently, a former Disney Imagineer revealed details on a scrapped Star Wars attraction that promised to be another great Disney Park addition!
“Do you wanna build a snowman?” Yes, WE wanna build a snowman. In a whole LAND themed to the Frozen movies. Right at our home park in sunny Florida!
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However, we aren’t as lucky as some of the other folks around the world. Over at Hong Kong Disneyland, things are really progressing as we grow nearer to the completion of World of Frozen — the park’s Frozen-themed land. World of Frozen will feature character meet and greets, an attraction similar to Frozen Ever After, and the first Frozen-themed roller coaster, Wandering Oaken’s Sliding Sleighs. Disney just shared some NEW details regarding the land, and we are SO excited!
It’s a great time to be a Frozen fan!
Anna and Elsa
Not only is a NEW Frozen movie on the way, but several international Disney parks are getting Frozen-themed lands! Hong Kong Disneyland Resort’s World of Frozen will is set to open later this year. We’ve been getting some sneak peeks at the land recently, and Disney just released ANOTHER look at the project.
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