I have so many exciting things to share with you from my latest Disney trip! Â There were lots of fun times, a few new things I got to experience and some old favorites too. Â I’ve already posted about some of them, like the Epcot Flower and Garden Festival. Â You can check out the highlights overview of my trip to see what else in store. Â But plenty more posts will be coming this month!
Disney News
New area of Disney Springs.
- A couple of new things at Animal Kingdom opened this past weekend, including a new Jungle Book night show and Tiffins signature restaurant.
- Disney Springs Town Center has officially opened with lots of new shops and restaurants! Â New eateries include D-Luxe Burgers, Sprinkles cupcakes, a number of stands (like the Daily Poutine!), STK steakhouse, and a couple more coming soon (including a pizza place and Fulton’s transformation into a new restaurant called Paddlefish).
- Who knows if/when I’ll ever get to Tokyo, but they’ve announced some new attractions based on Beauty and the Beast and Big Hero 6 which look awesome from the concept art.
- Headed to a Disney water park this summer? Â Visit Blizzard Beach and take part in the Frozen summer games!
- Disney has announced that they will cease making Disney Infinity games – it seems it didn’t perform as well as expected.
- Disney World attendance is down compared to last year – but revenue is still up, so does Disney even care?
Disney Rumors
Hollywood Studios //  It hasn’t been officially announced by Disney, but a number of sources are reporting that the Pizza Planet restaurant will re-open with a Muppets theme called Pizza Rizzo!
Disney World  //  Another thing Disney hasn’t stated anything on officially, but it seems likely that they will not be continuing the overpriced Disney After Hours event (paying $149 per person to get into Magic Kingdom for some extra hours).
Animal Kingdom  //  Rivers of Light, originally set to open April 22nd, has been delayed without any announcement of a possible opening date.  Most speculation for why is technical issues with the show.
Other Disney blog posts
A really fascinating read from Rachel over at Reviewing all 54 Animated Disney Films called In Defense of Disney Women.  She makes some great arguments for why some of the characters are admirable women despite their flaws, though I personally disagree with some of her criticisms against characters like Pocahontas, Megara, and Esmeralda. 🙂
I’m in love with this Avengers themed dinner and movie night from Angie at Chasing my Halo – especially the Iron Man cheeseburgers!
Over at Mouse on the Mind, Melissa Sue reviews the Narcoossee’s brunch – and it looks great!
A Monkey and His Mama share a great way to get and display Disney character autographs.
Josh from EasyWDWÂ has a very detailed review of the Nomad Lounge that just opened in Animal Kingdom, including trying almost every food item and drink on the menu, with plenty of photos!
Over here at Disneyland, they just released a new Frozen show in replacement of the Aladdin production over at California Adventure. I’m curious to see what that is like!
I heard about that – I’ll be very curious as well to hear what people think. I loved the Aladdin show!
I’m so excited for the new Tokyo rides! Have you seen the new costumes fro Mulan and Pocahontas? I’m not a fan!
Ooh, I haven’t seen these! Do you have a link, Adriana? 🙂
— LisaLDN.com
Here you go! https://twitter.com/disworld_addict/status/736995761683091456
I’m actually not much of a fan, especially since Mulan is my favorite.
Thank you! Pocahontas is my favourite, and all though I don’t mind the dress I don’t get what the bag is for? And why isn’t her necklace blue?? 😛
Right!? I thought it was so weird they changed the necklace since it meant so much to her!
Exactly!! It’s the last thing they should’ve changed!
Oh wow those are really interesting! Not sure why they changed them like that…
I love all the insider scoop you always have! Tokyo Disney sounds so cool…especially with Big Hero 6. I also loved that Avengers post by Angie.
I know, it would be amazing to visit Tokyo someday!
Thanks so much for the shout-out!
Of course, I really enjoyed reading your post!
I love how you add related links at the end. I can’t get enough of Disney and that is perfect for the fanatic who can’t stop reading. The new area at Disney also looks pretty cool, too!
I agree – I follow a bunch of Disney blogs so when I find a post that especially interests me or I think it particularly different, I try to share it!
I love reading your posts about what’s new and rumors at Disney – you’re my inside scoop!
Thanks – I’m happy to keep you up to date! 😉
I love Disney and your posts always make me long to go again. We just spent 4 days at Disneyland and while its a great place, it doesn’t compare to Disney World!
That sounds great – I would like to go back to Disneyland, even though Disney World will always be my “home” 🙂
Thanks for including me in your post!
Of course!
I highly doubt they will bring back Disney After Dark. It really wasn’t worth it, and Disney lost so much money from it!
That’s what I was thinking. Didn’t seem like it worked out for them!