Bacon
Well-Known Member
She's not @KATIEBUG101Can't wait to read your "How Disney World has gone downhill in 6 years" post when you get back.
She's not @KATIEBUG101Can't wait to read your "How Disney World has gone downhill in 6 years" post when you get back.
To add a little more onto this list..So much to tell. Here are the "bullet points" (I'm continuing to edit as I remember things)
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MK
- MyMagic+ to include MyDisneyExperience, Magic Bands, and FastPass+ ("FP+")
Epcot
- 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)
Animal Kingdom
- 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.
HS (where to start?)
- 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
- 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)
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