A strong cold front sweeping through Central Florida is setting up what may be one of the coldest wind‐chill episodes in recent memory for the Orlando area. According to the forecast for Walt Disney World Resort, Tuesday morning (November 11, 2025) will see actual...
The details are murky, but reporting from WDWMagic is looking likely to show up sooner rather than later at Walt Disney World. Team Disney Orlando is looking to quickly institute a system of direct cash refunds for Genie+ Lightning Lane reservations when an attraction...
Featured Image Courtesy: The Walt Disney Company / Lucasfilm Rise of the Resistance, at Walt Disney World's Hollywood Studios, is the resort's most popular attraction. Now, with the Lightning Lane (i.e. paid FastPass) available, Disney has decided to stop reserving...
That issue didn't take long to arise... Yesterday, Walt Disney World was met with its first major problem regarding the roll out of the Genie+ app. Guests had paid sometimes more than $100 for their party to ride the popular new attraction, Rise of the Resistance at...
The Genie+ app is now on at The Walt Disney World Resort. The app allows guests to use the previously free FastPass system, not renamed as Lightning Lanes. For $15 per guest per day, visitors can have Lightning Lane access to bypass standby lines throughout their day....
Featured Image Courtesy: Ziggy Knows Disney It's a bizarre little weekend story, but I thought I'd get it out there for anyone currently at the parks. As I've reported in the past, and then experienced last week... Disney is greatly overestimating the queue times for...
Featured Image Courtesy: The Walt Disney Company Various inside sources are claiming that Typhoon Lagoon is likely to reopen in December or January, coinciding with the planned refurbishment of Blizzard Beach. The Walt Disney World water park has been closed since the...
That Park Place has previously covered how the proverbial knives are now out for Bob Chapek as Disney+ subscriptions slow, Bob Iger sends veiled attacks, and Disney talent feels angered by various lawsuits. Now, it would appear that Walt Disney Imagineering is getting...
Good morning, afternoon, or evening to you! I've just arrived home from an extended tour of all things Disney World for the 50th Anniversary Celebration, taking it all in as a guest and as a member of a much larger group. This has allowed me to see the 50th...
Supply chain issues are reportedly causing Disney World and Disney Stores to further restrict sales of merchandise. Currently much of the 50th anniversary merchandise is restricted to 2 of the same item per customer. However, restrictions are growing with new signs...
Something strange is going on behind the scenes at The Walt Disney Company. In addition to relative radio silence on the Kathleen Kennedy contract extension situation at Lucasfilm, it is clear that someone somewhere is gunning for CEO Bob Chapek. A Hollywood Reporter...
The new show at Animal Kingdom, KiteTails, is in dire need of some changes, and insiders say that may just be on the way. The lackluster kite-pull using jet skis has had significant problems with jet ski accidents, kites slamming into empty bleachers, and sometimes...
After Harmonious launched in Epcot, I wrote a scathing review of the lackluster show. The idea that it significantly under-performed a decades-old predecessor was very disappointing. But surely the new fireworks show at Cinderella Castle, celebrating the fiftieth...