It was quite the busy weekend at Walt Disney World, so I managed to visit all 4 parks to see what was new and have a ton of newsworthy photos to share with you in today’s report:
The Studio Backlot Tour closed forever on Saturday
A Big Hero 6 exhibit can now be found at the Magic of Disney Animation
Moving over to Epcot, menu changes have been made a the Electric Umbrella
I decided to try the French Dip burger
It was surprisingly good!
I also tried the Pumpkin Macaroon from the France ice cream parlor and it was amazing.
Over at the Magic Kingdom, this low clearance was added in the bus stop to ensure busses go the right way through the loop
The awning on the boat dock at the entrance was replaced, it’s now red instead of green
The latest progress on the hub at the Magic Kingdom
The Astro Orbiter reopened this weekend, but you can read more about that here
The leave-your-phone charging stations in Tomorrowland have all been closed, the test period came to an end and we’ll now have to wait to see if it was a success and is brought back
New Space Mountain ladies’ shirt
New men’s “I conquered Space Mountain” shirt
This artwork was previously on a black t-shirt and slightly different
Dumbo character sketches are now being sold at Big Top Souvenirs
New Beast plush for sale at Bonjour Village Gifts
Instead of selling generic items, there is a now a Beauty and the Beast shield toy
If you don’t have a FastPass for it, prepare to arrive at Be Our Guest at park opening to get a return time to eat lunch there or you’ll be turned away
Even more of Sir Mickey’s has been taken over by Frozen merchandise, even Ariel merchandise got pushed out
Some new Frozen artwork for sale
A two-sided Olaf ceramic ornament was just released
Queue work continues at Peter Pan’s Flight
We thought it would only be at Disneyland, but the Zero popcorn bucket was released at the Magic Kingdom! It costs over $13 but has a light-up nose feature
Strange new t-shirts…
LOVE this new sweatshirt!
Odd new Magic Kingdom shirt
Simple, but nice
Halloween 2014 Duffy
Some of the Haunted Mansion 45th anniversary lithographs have made it to Florida
An awesome new print by Alex Maher
In preparation for “Move It! Shake It! Dance and Play It!”, video screens are being installed on the floats
Moving over to animal Kingdom, it’s still a mess
At least all of the construction walls are decorated now
The UP meet and greet has seen better days
“it’s tough to be a bug” re-opened this weekend
Most of the nets installed to protect guests from falling particles have finally been removed from the queue
There are still nets by the base of the tree, not sure if these will stay here
work is picking up on the new nighttime show, Rivers of Light
The Everest shrine is behind walls and probably will be until the construction is done in late 2015/early 2016
Since one of the Wilderness Explorers’ answers is behind walls, they made a copy and placed it on the walls
The walls wrap around most of the river
We can peek through and see that the construction vehicles are already in place, ready to start working on the show and viewing area
Some sort of new structure is going up by Flame Tree Barbecue
An Oswald Christmas ornament was released
