Disney Parks has released an Annual Passholder magnet that combines characters from the Toy Story franchise with a visual style associated with animator Paul Rudish. The design reflects a broader pattern in Disney Parks merchandise, where known characters appear in...
Disneyland Abu Dhabi has been making global headlines ever since Bob Iger announced it as Disney’s first park in the Middle East alongside the Miral company. But behind the glittering promise of a new Disney destination lies a reality that many fans may find startling: this isn’t really Disney’s project.
According to a deeply reported piece by Caroline Reid at Forbes, Abu Dhabi’s Miral is firmly in the driver’s seat.
Cracker Barrel has been in the headlines for weeks—first over a botched logo redesign, then for quietly removing DEI and PRIDE content from its website. Now, the Cracker Barrel co-founder is speaking out, and he isn’t pulling any punches. In a blistering interview, 93-year-old Tommy Lowe slammed the redesign, blasted the company’s direction, and even took a direct shot at current CEO Julie Felss Masino’s background as a Taco Bell executive.
Cracker Barrel has made another major reversal, and this one goes deeper than logos and branding. After outrage over its abandoned logo redesign, Cracker Barrel has now removed all DEI and PRIDE-related pages from its website.
It’s looking increasingly likely that September 2025 will deliver the lightest Walt Disney World (WDW) crowds since the post-reopening doldrums of 2021. Several hard signals point the same way: multi-month wait-time trends, aggressive late-summer discounts, school calendars, hurricane-season risk, and new competition across town. Put together, they suggest a “Slowtember” that could rival any month since the pandemic period.
Universal Orlando Resort has announced the return of Volcano Bay Nights, a limited-capacity, after-hours event at its Volcano Bay water theme park. The event will be held each Friday from September 5 through October 31, 2025, and features access to select attractions, food and beverage offerings, and live entertainment.
It turns out the Cracker Barrel logo debacle wasn’t just a branding disaster—it was a preventable one. New revelations show that Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Felss Masino and the company’s board dismissed explicit warnings from a top investor who predicted the chain’s “strategic transformation plan” would be an “obvious folly.”