Back to Disney World after 6 years, fill me in please

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So much to tell. Here are the "bullet points" (I'm continuing to edit as I remember things)

All
  • MyMagic+ to include MyDisneyExperience, Magic Bands, and FastPass+ ("FP+")
MK
  • New Fantasyland including Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, Princess Fairytale Hall, Winnie the Pooh, Be Our Guest Restaurant, Belle and Ariel M&Gs, Gaston's Tavern, Little Mermaid ride, and Casey's Corner Big Top area with Dumbo move to this area.
  • New queue for Peter Pans Flight, themed to children's flat in London, added (replacing bathrooms)
  • Old Fantasyland skyway boarding rethemed to bathrooms from Tangled (i.e. "Tangled Toilets")
  • Gift shop in Liberty Square is now Memento Mori's, a HM gift shop
  • Skipper Canteen restaurant opened in Adventureland
  • Festival of Fantasy 3pm parade
  • New Mickey's Friendship Faire castle show
  • NO nighttime Main Street Electrical Parade (as of October 10)
Epcot
  • Tiered FP+ system
  • Maelstrom replaced with Frozen Ever After
  • Anna and Elsa Meet and Greet added to "Norway"
  • Spice Road Table lagoon-adjacent restaurant added to Morocco.
  • Most of Innoventions closed
  • New version of Soarin' ("Around the World")
  • Candlelight Processional is the Gospel story of the Birth of Jesus. It has a celebrity narrator and a gospel choir. You can book a dining package to go along with it. Or wait standby.
Animal Kingdom
  • Camp Minnie Mickey closed. Avatarland to open in its place next year
  • Festival of the Lion King moved to Africa
  • No Jammin' Jungle Parade
  • New Harambe Market counter service area opened (with shortcut)
  • New Asia shortcut opened
  • Tiffins Restaurant opened on Discovery Island
  • Rivers of Light show to be running (we hope) before you arrive
HS (where to start?)
  • No Sorcerer Mickey Hat (aka "Big A** Hat (BAH)")
  • Earfell Tower torn down
  • Lights, Motor, Action, Backlot Tour, "Honey, I shrunk the kids" playground, and Streets of America CLOSED to make way for Star Wars and Toy Story Lands
  • Because of SOA already closed, no more Osborne Lights during the Christmas season
  • Tiered FP+ system.
  • Walt's office removed from Walt Disney: One Man's Dream (moved to his actual office in Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, CA)
  • American Idol show closed. Replaced with Frozen show moved from closed theatre in back of park
  • Area around Muppets 3D show now called Muppets Courtyard
  • Pizza Planet (now in Muppets Courtyard) rethemed as PizzeRizzo (opening soon)
  • Bigger focus on Star Wars
  • Animation Academy (or whatever it was called) closed and is now Star Wars Launch Bay
  • Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular Projection/Fireworks show
  • No more Star Wars weekends (on the premise that you're exposed to SW with every visit to HS)
To add a little more onto this list..


MK
  • Enchanted Tiki Room: Under New Management closed, reverted back to the original version.
  • Country Bear Jamboree show shortened, cutting a few lines and the two songs "Devilish Mary" and "Fractured Folk Song"
EPCOT
  • Captain EO closed, replaced with Disney & Pixar Short Film Festival
  • Re-imagined Test Track
  • 3rd theatre added to Soarin'
Hollywood Studios
  • Star Tours: The Adventures Continue opened
  • Changes added to The Great Movie Ride as a result from TCM sponsorship
  • 3rd track added to Toy Story Mania
 

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