Well if you ever wanted a career with Disney, there's been a handful of folks with music degrees who made it high up in the company... So a pretty good idea.
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TheCoasterNerd
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Room reservations have just been added to our accounts. Village Standard rooms - basic motel-style rooms with exterior access but still definitely nice rooms
TheCoasterNerd
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And now tickets have been added to the app. Not sharing a screenshot for obvious reasons, but they’re described as “05-Day Magic Your Way Ticket with Park Hopper Option - Variable Expiration Comp”
TheCoasterNerd
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Lightning lanes and MEPs (which tell us the order of parks) have been added to the account now.
This is the order of the parks:
Arrival day (March 26): Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Day One (March 27): Magic Kingdom
Day Two (March 28): Epcot
Day Three (March 29): Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Departure Day (March 30): no reservation booked yet
We also have park hopper.
This is the order of the parks:
Arrival day (March 26): Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Day One (March 27): Magic Kingdom
Day Two (March 28): Epcot
Day Three (March 29): Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Departure Day (March 30): no reservation booked yet
We also have park hopper.
TheCoasterNerd
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BIG update: a whole bunch of new information (including dreamer itineraries and chaperone itineraries) has been posted on disneyevent.com/dreamers2025
Also, for those interested, the parade featuring all 100 dreamers will be on March 27th at 2:30 PM
Also, for those interested, the parade featuring all 100 dreamers will be on March 27th at 2:30 PM
TheCoasterNerd
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I have been told the park president will be there... I'll see what I can doFind the person highest in power and force them to watch a presentation on why we need Imagination 4. The mission is in your hands now. Lead the cause.
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DDA has announced Sprite as the first presenting sponsor for the event
TheCoasterNerd
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And Delta has been announced as sponsor number two
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I’ll warn you all - I’ll be very active in this thread from now through the end of the event, so if you don’t want the flood of notifications, I’d recommend unwatching it
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Hey @wdwmagic, @DCBaker, or someone else who can do on the ground reporting, would you mind going over to the convention center and checking out as much of the ballrooms as you can? Fantasia (J, H, and G) and Sorcerer's Apprentice Ballroom 2. That's where most of our events are gonna be and I'd just be interested to see what they've set up so far. Apparently the stage is up already
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I'll see what I can do, but usually the ballrooms are closed off to guest access during setup and actual events.
TheCoasterNerd
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Ok thank you! That makes sense. I'm honestly more wondering if there's any interior windows or anything, or if there's any visible DDA banners as in the past those have been scattered throughout the convention center
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You do realize that the ballrooms are in the Contemporary and not BLT, correct?
TheCoasterNerd
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Oh you're right my bad, the map we were provided shows it as this side building and I've never been at the contemporary for anything more than a few minutes so I didn't know... if the map was zoomed out just a little bit more I would have seen it lol
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Many thanks to the participating sponsors of DDA 2025 - AdventHealth, Dolby, Zero-G, and the Orlando Magic basketball team
Golden Globe-winning actor Tyler James Williams, along with Grammy Award-winning artists Tamela Mann and Adam Blackstone, will serve as magical mentors for this year’s Disney Dreamers Academy, the popular Walt Disney World Resort mentoring program that supercharges the career dreams of high school students nationwide and kicks off in Florida this week.
Williams, who first gained fame for his role in the hit sitcom “Everybody Hates Chris” and now plays Gregory Eddie in ABC’s Emmy Award winning comedy “Abbott Elementary,” will be the program’s “DREAMbassador,’’ meaning he will spend significant time during the March 26-30 event interacting with the 100 Disney Dreamers by sharing his career journey, participating in several career focused workshops and serving as a key figure at the always emotional commencement ceremony. He’ll be joined by an extensive list of other celebrity mentors which include celebrated musicians, actors, aerospace engineers, fashion stylists, renowned educators, designers, producers and Disney executives.
Blackstone, a renowned musician, bassist, musical director and producer known for his work with top R&B musical artists, will offer students insights into the urgency and tenacity that fueled his rise from playing drums as a toddler in his local church to collaborating with some of the biggest names in music and television. Blackstone won his first Grammy Award for best musical theater album for “Hell’s Kitchen.”
Mann, who won a Grammy Award for best gospel performance/song, will participate in the event along with her well-known husband David, an actor and comedian famous for portraying “Mr. Brown” in Tyler Perry’s Madea films and “House of Payne.”.
Other celebrity participants include comedian and radio host Rickey Smiley; soft rock band Infinity Song; fashion influencer Jerome Lamar; and New York’s Hot 97 radio personality DJ Suss One, among others.
Williams, who first gained fame for his role in the hit sitcom “Everybody Hates Chris” and now plays Gregory Eddie in ABC’s Emmy Award winning comedy “Abbott Elementary,” will be the program’s “DREAMbassador,’’ meaning he will spend significant time during the March 26-30 event interacting with the 100 Disney Dreamers by sharing his career journey, participating in several career focused workshops and serving as a key figure at the always emotional commencement ceremony. He’ll be joined by an extensive list of other celebrity mentors which include celebrated musicians, actors, aerospace engineers, fashion stylists, renowned educators, designers, producers and Disney executives.
Blackstone, a renowned musician, bassist, musical director and producer known for his work with top R&B musical artists, will offer students insights into the urgency and tenacity that fueled his rise from playing drums as a toddler in his local church to collaborating with some of the biggest names in music and television. Blackstone won his first Grammy Award for best musical theater album for “Hell’s Kitchen.”
Mann, who won a Grammy Award for best gospel performance/song, will participate in the event along with her well-known husband David, an actor and comedian famous for portraying “Mr. Brown” in Tyler Perry’s Madea films and “House of Payne.”.
Other celebrity participants include comedian and radio host Rickey Smiley; soft rock band Infinity Song; fashion influencer Jerome Lamar; and New York’s Hot 97 radio personality DJ Suss One, among others.
TheCoasterNerd
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WHATTTTT
Ok so Tyler James Williams, Tamela Mann, Adam Blackstone, Rickey Smiley, Infinity Song, Jerome Lamar, DJ Suss One!! I'm gonna meet all of them??????? In 2 days????
That's so exciting!
TheCoasterNerd
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Ok y'all - it's really happening. 12 hours to go!
Final reminder - There's gonna be a very high frequency of posts here. If you want to unwatch the thread, do it now.
Thank y'all for the support through this, let's do it! Orlando here I come
Final reminder - There's gonna be a very high frequency of posts here. If you want to unwatch the thread, do it now.
Thank y'all for the support through this, let's do it! Orlando here I come
Safe travels, and have an awesome time. Congrats again!