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Latest News Disney's Food and Wine guessing game confirms five 2026 EPCOT dishes and the booths serving them — Disney Parks has posted a first look at the 2026 EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival menu as a Disney Eats Name It episode, with Brook Lopez, Robin Lope…EPCOT lists every Food & Wine Global Marketplace, with three opening waves to know — Disney has published the full Global Marketplace lineup for the EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival: 28 booths spanning World Showcase, the Creations Shop…Emile's Fromage Montage returns with 14 cheese dishes, and only six open August 27 — EPCOT's cheese stroll is back for the 2026 Food & Wine Festival, running August 27 through November 21. Buy five qualifying dishes, collect five Festival Passp…Welcome, Foolish Gourds: Disney's Pumpkin Pals Tour a Not-So-Scary Party Night — Disney Parks has released a new short film starring pumpkin pals Gourdo, Lil Jack and Slushie, who decide that more friends means more candy and set out to pro…Hollywood Studios Takes Over Extended Evening Hours This Fall, Starting September 16 — Extended Evening Theme Park Hours move from Magic Kingdom to Disney's Hollywood Studios this fall, with five dates published so far: September 16, 23 and 30 an…Disney names Villains Land and confirms Expedition Everest's Yeti will move again — At the D23 Experiences panel, Disney confirmed the official name of Magic Kingdom's Villains Land, named both Piston Peak attractions, revealed Harrison Ford w…Heat advisory covers Walt Disney World as afternoon storms pack 55 mph gusts — A heat advisory is in effect across East Central Florida, including Walt Disney World, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, with mid-90s highs and dangerous heat…Big Top Souvenirs reopens at Magic Kingdom on August 21 — Big Top Souvenirs, the circus tent shop in Storybook Circus at Magic Kingdom, reopens Friday, August 21 after closing for refurbishment on February 20. Disney…Nearly 80 cast members install Walt Disney World's Halloween decor overnight — Disney's Holiday Services put nearly 80 cast members on overnight shifts to turn Magic Kingdom and Disney Springs over to Halloween, including the second year…Airport Luggage Transfer reaches its first Moderate resort as Caribbean Beach joins the list — Walt Disney World's free Airport Luggage Transfer service added Disney's Caribbean Beach Resort effective August 18, 2026, making it the first Moderate resort…Animal Kingdom's solar-powered trash cans reach Asia and the Discovery Island Trails — Two more sets of solar-powered trash cans and recycling bins have been installed in Asia at Disney's Animal Kingdom, carrying a red triangle with a tiger, alon…The Muppet Show 50th anniversary collection lands at Hollywood Studios with a plush-trimmed cardigan — Three pieces marking the 50th anniversary of The Muppet Show are now available at Rock Around the Shop at Disney's Hollywood Studios: a $99.99 sage green satin…Waterview Park reopens at Disney Springs with shade canopies over its stage and seating — Construction walls have come down at Waterview Park in The Landing at Disney Springs, revealing permanent shade canopies over the arched wood pillars that fram…EPCOT's Food and Wine booth signs reveal which marketplaces get the 30th anniversary treatment — Global Marketplace signage is up across EPCOT ahead of the 2026 EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival, confirming booth names and positions. A teal Cheers…EPCOT's Harvest Hollow playground gets its fall theming back ahead of Food and Wine — The EPCOT playground behind Refreshment Port has been re-dressed for the 2026 EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival, with pillars wrapped as tree trunks,…EPCOT's 2026 Food and Wine Festival menus bring back 30 items from past festivals, including a 1996 Poland pierogi — The 2026 EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival runs August 27 to November 21 and marks the event's 30th year with 30 returning or reimagined items, some p…Walt Disney World brings a Disney Princess celebration to Give Kids The World for World Princess Week — Walt Disney World hosted a Disney Princess celebration for wish kids at Give Kids The World Village during World Princess Week, with lantern crafting led by Ra…Disney puts names on four Walt Disney World expansions and a 2027 date on Monstropolis — D23 turned into the biggest Walt Disney World information dump in two years: Villains Land is the confirmed name at Magic Kingdom, Piston Peak National Park re…Disney's Airport Luggage Transfer sends your bags between Orlando International and your resort — Walt Disney World's Airport Luggage Transfer service moves checked bags between Orlando International Airport and participating Disney Resorts Collection hotel…D23 Showcase Puts Walt Disney World Front and Center: Yeti Revival, Monstropolis in 2027, and a New Journey Into Imagination — The Horizons: Disney Experiences Showcase at D23 delivered a run of Walt Disney World announcements, including the return of a fully animated Yeti inside Exped…A hanging coaster and a Randy Newman original: Monstropolis details have Hollywood Studios fans buzzing — Walt Disney Imagineering's Michael Hundgen shared new details about Monstropolis, the Monsters, Inc. land opening at Disney's Hollywood Studios in 2027, includ…Every D23 2026 announcement that matters for Walt Disney World and Disney Cruise Line — Disney's Horizons: A Carousel of Progress showcase at D23 2026 delivered updates across every Walt Disney World park and the Disney Cruise Line fleet: new Caro…Thomas Mazloum on his first D23 as chairman: the Yeti, Figment and Villains Land drew the loudest cheers — After his first D23 as Disney Experiences Chairman, Thomas Mazloum told the Disney Parks Blog which announcements hit hardest in the room: the reanimated Yeti…Dreamfinder returns: a new Journey Into Imagination is coming to EPCOT — Disney closed its D23 Experiences showcase by confirming a new Journey Into Imagination for EPCOT's Imagination Pavilion, reuniting Figment with Dreamfinder. H…Spaceship Earth is getting a new chapter that reaches the present day — Disney announced at D23 that Spaceship Earth will receive an update built around a broadened vision of human connection, carrying EPCOT's icon into the present…Disney says it is bringing the Expedition Everest Yeti back to life — After nearly two decades frozen in place, the Yeti inside Expedition Everest is getting fixed. Disney confirmed the news at D23 with a comedy video in which pa…Monstropolis opens its doors in 2027: new show, restaurants, and shop detailed for Hollywood Studios — Disney used D23 to detail the Monsters Inc. land coming to Hollywood Studios: the rest of Monstropolis opens in 2027 with a new Globe Theatre show, Archie's Sc…Jamie Lee Curtis and Bryan Cranston will voice Mom and Dad in the new Carousel of Progress — Disney revealed at D23 that Bryan Cranston and Jamie Lee Curtis will voice the father and mother in Magic Kingdom's updated Carousel of Progress. Both actors s…Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run Now Connects to Fortnite at Disney's Hollywood Studios — Disney announced at D23 that Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run at Disney's Hollywood Studios now links to Smugglers Gambit, a new Star Wars island in Fortnite,…Spaceship Earth reimagining announced at D23, its first update in nearly 20 years — Disney announced at D23 that Spaceship Earth at EPCOT will be reimagined for the first time in nearly two decades. Imagineer Ali Rubinstein, joined onstage by…