Walt Disney World Holiday Season 2024

[Tony the Tigger]

based on the last 4 years other than sometimes being used as an activity space it’ll sit roped off 95% of the time

Still, the last 4 years are irrelevant, and you have no idea what is in the works. It could be decorated for one private party for all you know. It’s really none of your concern either way.

We know exactly what spaces like Whispering Canyon Cafe and Grand Floridian Cafe are going to be used for and we know they can’t be bothered to decorate them anymore.

So what?

 

[peter11435]

Still, the last 4 years are irrelevant, and you have no idea what is in the works. It could be decorated for one private party for all you know. It’s really none of your concern either way.

So what?

I’m not sure I understand your desire to defend blatant and unnecessary cutbacks.

You’re right. It could be decorated for just one private party. And dozens of restaurants across property should be decorated too. They will serve thousands of paying guests every single night while their decor sits collecting dust in the warehouse.

 

[monothingie]

Still, the last 4 years are irrelevant, and you have no idea what is in the works. It could be decorated for one private party for all you know. It’s really none of your concern either way.

That makes perfect sense. If you want the Disney Difference it will cost you extra.

So what?

You're right, all the guests are distracted with buying their premier passes to notice the cutbacks.

 

[Bocabear]

That makes perfect sense. If you want the Disney Difference it will cost you extra.

You're right, all the guests are distracted with buying their premier passes to notice the cutbacks.

Hard to notice anything with your head buried in your phone making reservations and checking ride appointments... They are counting on that....When you are in a race to get a lightning lane pass for Guardians of the Galaxy, who has time to notice the lights burned out on the Ladybits tm Planter?

 

[castlecake2.0]

I’m not sure I understand your desire to defend blatant and unnecessary cutbacks.

You’re right. It could be decorated for just one private party. And dozens of restaurants across property should be decorated too. They will serve thousands of paying guests every single night while their decor sits collecting dust in the warehouse.

Yah I’m not sure the angle they’re going for here. No cast have been recalled for that location since Covid so we know it’s not miraculously going to become a restaurant anytime soon. And it sits roped off so people can’t even just use it as a seating area. But sure yah it’s none of my business lol

 

[DCBaker]

Disney sent out recipe cards and stencils to Annual Passholders in the mail as a holiday gift and Disney says there there will be one more recipe card and two silicone stencils available at EPCOT starting December 8:

Hey, Passholders! Receive anything sweet in the mail lately? Well keep those cookie trays out, because we’ve got one more piece of the pie to make all your dessert dreams come true.

As a thank you for spending the holiday season with us, we invite you to stop by Creations Shop December 8 through December 18, 2024 to pick up this Passholder-exclusive recipe card and two silicone baking stencils—available exclusively at EPCOT anytime from Park open to Park close.

Taking inspiration from the brilliant jewels and beloved Characters in Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, we whipped up an apple pie recipe as enticing as a cavern full of diamonds. (Poison apples not included.)

Add a dash of Disney magic to your creation with the accompanying diamond-shaped and Mickey-shaped stencils and you’ve got a pie so good it would make even Grumpy smile.

The icing on the cake? You can save this baking set to use all year long. Be it holiday gatherings or just-cause celebrations, delicious Disney-inspired desserts are always in season.

So, pastry chefs, what are you waiting for? Head on over to Creations Shop at EPCOT starting December 8 and let the holiday baking begin.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Disney sent out recipe cards and stencils to Annual Passholders in the mail as a holiday gift and Disney says there there will be one more recipe card and two silicone stencils available at EPCOT starting December 8:

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Hey, Passholders! Receive anything sweet in the mail lately? Well keep those cookie trays out, because we’ve got one more piece of the pie to make all your dessert dreams come true.

As a thank you for spending the holiday season with us, we invite you to stop by Creations Shop December 8 through December 18, 2024 to pick up this Passholder-exclusive recipe card and two silicone baking stencils—available exclusively at EPCOT anytime from Park open to Park close.

Taking inspiration from the brilliant jewels and beloved Characters in Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, we whipped up an apple pie recipe as enticing as a cavern full of diamonds. (Poison apples not included.)

Add a dash of Disney magic to your creation with the accompanying diamond-shaped and Mickey-shaped stencils and you’ve got a pie so good it would make even Grumpy smile.

The icing on the cake? You can save this baking set to use all year long. Be it holiday gatherings or just-cause celebrations, delicious Disney-inspired desserts are always in season.

So, pastry chefs, what are you waiting for? Head on over to Creations Shop at EPCOT starting December 8 and let the holiday baking begin.

While I appreciate the novelty, I think I’d prefer a magnet. Our stencils have been just sitting on the table for days and will probably end up in the garbage. At least I can put a magnet on my car to gloat to strangers

 

[JohnD]

While I appreciate the novelty, I think I’d prefer a magnet. Our stencils have been just sitting on the table for days and will probably end up in the garbage. At least I can put a magnet on my car to gloat to strangers
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Agree. I wasn't sure what I received when it arrived, though. I could figure out the wrapping paper I received last year (or maybe it was two years ago). I admit I haven't used it.

 

[Squishy]

Disney sent out recipe cards and stencils to Annual Passholders in the mail as a holiday gift and Disney says there there will be one more recipe card and two silicone stencils available at EPCOT starting December 8:

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Hey, Passholders! Receive anything sweet in the mail lately? Well keep those cookie trays out, because we’ve got one more piece of the pie to make all your dessert dreams come true.

As a thank you for spending the holiday season with us, we invite you to stop by Creations Shop December 8 through December 18, 2024 to pick up this Passholder-exclusive recipe card and two silicone baking stencils—available exclusively at EPCOT anytime from Park open to Park close.

Taking inspiration from the brilliant jewels and beloved Characters in Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, we whipped up an apple pie recipe as enticing as a cavern full of diamonds. (Poison apples not included.)

Add a dash of Disney magic to your creation with the accompanying diamond-shaped and Mickey-shaped stencils and you’ve got a pie so good it would make even Grumpy smile.

The icing on the cake? You can save this baking set to use all year long. Be it holiday gatherings or just-cause celebrations, delicious Disney-inspired desserts are always in season.

So, pastry chefs, what are you waiting for? Head on over to Creations Shop at EPCOT starting December 8 and let the holiday baking begin.

So this is why they increased passholder prices a few weeks ago.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Maybe give pass holders a free cookie at Epcot or something? Negligible cost to get bodies in the park.

 

[JohnD]

Maybe give pass holders a free cookie at Epcot or something? Negligible cost to get bodies in the park.

Unlike a magnet, I wouldn't be making a special trip into a park to pick up a cookie.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Unlike a magnet, I wouldn't be making a special trip into a park to pick up a cookie.

Depends on the cookie…

The free ice cream I got as a DVC member (I think) last summer seemed like a popular offering.

 

[Ayla]

Disney sent out recipe cards and stencils to Annual Passholders in the mail as a holiday gift and Disney says there there will be one more recipe card and two silicone stencils available at EPCOT starting December 8:

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Hey, Passholders! Receive anything sweet in the mail lately? Well keep those cookie trays out, because we’ve got one more piece of the pie to make all your dessert dreams come true.

As a thank you for spending the holiday season with us, we invite you to stop by Creations Shop December 8 through December 18, 2024 to pick up this Passholder-exclusive recipe card and two silicone baking stencils—available exclusively at EPCOT anytime from Park open to Park close.

Taking inspiration from the brilliant jewels and beloved Characters in Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, we whipped up an apple pie recipe as enticing as a cavern full of diamonds. (Poison apples not included.)

Add a dash of Disney magic to your creation with the accompanying diamond-shaped and Mickey-shaped stencils and you’ve got a pie so good it would make even Grumpy smile.

The icing on the cake? You can save this baking set to use all year long. Be it holiday gatherings or just-cause celebrations, delicious Disney-inspired desserts are always in season.

So, pastry chefs, what are you waiting for? Head on over to Creations Shop at EPCOT starting December 8 and let the holiday baking begin.

God, that artwork is hideous.

 

[C33Mom]

We don’t need the stencils but my kids were extremely enthusiastic about the Num Num cookies and beignet recipes.

 

[HauntedPirate]

While I appreciate the novelty, I think I’d prefer a magnet. Our stencils have been just sitting on the table for days and will probably end up in the garbage. At least I can put a magnet on my car to gloat to strangers
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And how useful is a thin paperboard stencil for making cookies? I think it says something about "reusable" on the envelope but I wonder how reusable they will end up being. At least the silicone stencils are washable.

 

[Bocabear]

And how useful is a thin paperboard stencil for making cookies? I think it says something about "reusable" on the envelope but I wonder how reusable they will end up being. At least the silicone stencils are washable.

It's a freebie...how durable does it need to be? Make a batch of cookies, use it and you are done... I think the days of very nice giveaways are long gone... Magnets, recipe cards...these sort of paper goods will be the new normal...but they don't really have to give away anything...we obviously continue to pay for our passes...

 

[MisterPenguin]

And how useful is a thin paperboard stencil for making cookies? I think it says something about "reusable" on the envelope but I wonder how reusable they will end up being. At least the silicone stencils are washable.

One time use. It's how they get you to renew your AP every year to keep stencils in stock.

 

[Comped]

Disney probably got the best talent of all times between the 80s to the early 2000s but that was for mainstream content. As for show content within the parks that is a different story. It was strongly popular in the 80s but year after year its declined just like the quality of the shows. Rarely do you find any really amazing shows these days and what ones that are there they have to rely on prerecorded audio and special effects. That is why so many of their entertainment venues have closed over time. That is why 1 stage was closed, demolished, and turned into a parking lot and the other one is just glorified dance parties with disney characters. Both of those were in tomorrow land. That is why the encanto show at epcot is more of a glorified distraction instead of an actual show. I had thought it could become a full on show with a proper stage but sadly even that is falling apart faster than hamburger in a blender. Its a shame but disney has realized where the crowds really have their interest but sadly its not in entertainment shows any more. At the most they may have a concert here and there just to distract people but dedicated content is rarely that special to disney any more. Only on rare occasions do they put in significant effort.

History and public sentiment disagrees with you on park based entertainment declining starting in the 1980s... If anything, up until that point non-third-party or atmospheric entertainment on both coasts was rather lacking - for 25+ years if you wanted to see any kind of Disney put on entertainment you were effectively limited to Kids of the Kingdom-style shows, all the way up until, really, MGM opened and things started to get experimented with in terms of stage shows (and even then it took until Dick Tracy in Diamond Double Cross to get anything close to the shows we see still being staged internationally). Things didn't start to decline until 2001 when Eisner shut down the "fiefdom" (his words not mine) that was Walt Disney Entertainment and brought all in park entertainment under operational control within each park instead of having an independent executive level part of the company dedicated to it and other live entertainment ventures.

As someone who has written about this academically and otherwise, some of the only in-depth material really available on the subject of the history of Disney's live entertainment within the parks, I know about this far too much... It's really quite sad because DLE was neutered specifically because folks in park ops were unhappy entertainment was getting a good amount of money out of Eisner and his successors, and it's spiraled from there. And that's about 90% of your issue. If entertainment had priority again, we would see some really good efforts.

 

[DCBaker]

December 12 is the next Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party date that has now sold out.

Dates with tickets still available: November 21 and December 13, 15, 17 and 19.

 

[DisneyDreamer08]

Interesting that tomorrow’s party still has availability. Has there been a Halloween or Christmas party that hasn’t sold out in recent years?