VIDEO: Sleeping Beauty Castle Lights Up to Celebrate Disneyland’s Historic Reopening!

Can you believe that Disneyland opens this week?

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On April 30th the theme park will reopen to California residents, and we couldn’t be more excited to see the park after over a year of closures! Tonight, Disneyland hosted a live stream to celebrate the historic reopening!

The live stream featured Josh D’Amaro (Chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products) and Ken Potrock (president of Disneyland Resort), and they talked about their excitement for the reopening. After a heartfelt speech from Potrock about his appreciation for the Cast Members, we got to see Sleeping Beauty Castle light up for the first time in what feels like forever!

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BRB, we can’t stop CRYING!

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The gorgeous lighting + When You Wish Upon a Star = tears. It’s been SO long since we’ve seen this beauty in all her glory! You can watch the full video below.

We can’t wait to give you a look at Disneyland when it reopens, so stay tuned to DFB for a first look at the reopened park later this week!

Learn more about Disneyland’s reopening here!

Are you excited for Disneyland to reopen? Let us know in the comments!

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WDWNT Daily Recap (4/26/21): “Trader Sam’s Gift Shop” Coming to Jungle Cruise, Disney Announces Changes to Park Pass System, New Captain America Photo Op at Disneyland, and More

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We bring you a lot of stories every single day. Sometimes it’s hard to keep up. So in case you missed anything from our feed, we have rounded up all our stories in one place to get the news at a glance. Here is your Daily Recap for Monday, April 26, 2021. Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom We found out today what will be replacing the iconic Trader Sam animatronic at the end of Jungle Cruise: “Trader Sam’s Gift Shop” […]

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PHOTOS, VIDEO: Sleeping Beauty Castle Illuminated for the First Time Since March 2020 Ahead of Disneyland Reopening

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Tonight as part of a special broadcast live from Disneyland, Sleeping Beauty Castle was ceremoniously re-lit for the first time since March 2020. The broadcast included presentations from Josh D’Amaro, chairman of Disney Parks, and Ken Potrock, President of the Disneyland Resort. Views of a “reawakened” Sleeping Beauty Castle were shown. After more than a year of closure, Disneyland and Disney California Adventure are set to reopen this Friday, April 30th.

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PHOTOS, VIDEO: Disneyland Unveils Humorous Billboard to “Hide” Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway Show Building in Toontown

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Disney Parks shared a TikTok tonight highlighting the show building for Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway looming over Mickey’s Toontown. The building now hosts a tongue-in-cheek sign alluding to the currently unthemed structure. The sign features Mickey and Minnie in construction helmets. It declares, “What big building? There’s no big building here! Paid for by the Toontown Department of Implausible Deniability.” We hope this is temporary and will be replaced with cartoon hills like the ones removed before construction began, […]

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Disneyland Shares Video of Runaway Railway Show Building Looming of Toontown

As the Disneyland Resort gets ready to reopen this week, Disney Park shared a look at the show building of Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway which is currently under construction at Mickey’s Toontown @disneyparks What big building? That’s just Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway, opening 2023! 🚂 #Disneyland #Disney #HowWillTheyKnow #Toontown #California #Anaheim ♬ original […]

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WATCH/LISTEN: WDWNT: Nerd Alert – Season Seven – Episode 14 Is Now Available

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On this week’s episode: We review the final episode of “The Falcon And The Winter Soldier” and share our thoughts on the series. The latest news. And much, much more! Join hosts Joe Hogarty, Jack McCarthy and Charlie Hunter! Watch: Listen: WDWNT: Nerd Alert – Season Seven – Episode 14 is now available for download and streaming through WDW News Today: Original Programming, iTunes, iHeart Radio and Spotify. And be sure to subscribe to WDWNT Entertainment.

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Calling All Demigods: An April Update from Rick Riordan

In Rick Riordan’s world there is a lot to talk about, and the author has recently updated his fans about upcoming projects ranging from the Rick Riordan Presents banner, his own writing, and the production of the Percy Jackson series on Disney+. Rick Riordan Presents 2021 has seen the successful publication of Sarwat Chadda’s City of […]

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PHOTO REPORT: Magic Kingdom 4/26/21 (New MaDe Kiosk Designs Arrive, LR “The Little Mermaid” “Stitch Crashes Disney” Series Available, Lots of New Mugs, and More)

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Hello from a warm but beautiful day here at the Magic Kingdom! It was a quiet day at the park today, but we still found some fun new things to show you. Let’s get started! Starting with construction, as we always do, we found pavement work in Town Square in the trolley track closest to City Hall. Crown barriers were set up around it with “Wet Paint” signs posted. We found more pavement work in Tomorrowland, with one whole side […]

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Universal Orlando Crowd Calendar Update For April 2021

Locals are still heading to Universal Orlando Parks at record numbers even though the spring break and Easter season is over. So, a short Universal Crowd Calendar update is needed.

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Universal Studios continues to be the busier park with crowd level ’10’s nearly every day. It is April and this year has already seen more crowd level ’10’s than we usually see by the end of the year. Crowd Levels at Universal Studios are going up a point or two most days between now and the end of June.

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Islands of Adventure isn’t lagging far behind with mostly ‘7’s and ‘8’s and the occasional ‘4’ or ‘5’. There are no major holidays on the calendar until Memorial Day at the end of May so we expect crowd levels at IOA to remain in that range. Our pattern lately is to underestimate crowd levels so most of the updates for this park are increases of a point or two, although not as much as Universal Studios.

Impact of Disney Park Reservations

It is likely that Universal Orlando Resort is benefitting from limited park ticket availability at Disney parks. We may not see Universal return to historical crowd levels until Disney parks increase their park capacity.

Have any questions about the Crowd Calendar update? Let us know in the comments.

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REVIEW: An EPCOT Bakery is Stepping Up Its Sweets Game With A New Mickey-Shaped Snack!

Did you even go to Disney World if you didn’t eat SOMETHING Mickey-shaped?!

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Whether you go for something classic like the Mickey Pretzel or something more unique like the hidden Mickey cupcake, it is a right of passage to have a Mickey-shaped snack at some point during your visit to Disney World. Today we stopped by Kringla Bakeri Og Kafe in EPCOT’s Norway pavilion to try a couple of new menu items!

We were strolling around World Showcase bringing you the latest updates from EPCOT when we noticed a menu item we hadn’t seen before: the Chocolate Mickey Tart. Then, we peeked at the drink menu where we saw a FROZEN Viking Coffee, and we were very intrigued!

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Okay, this bakery is known for some pretty amazing sweets from the iconic School Bread and Pretzels, but the two menu items we tried today REALLY impressed us! They were both sweet, but not too sweet which is hard to find in Disney World sometimes.

We started with the Chocolate Mickey Tart and it was NOT what we were expecting at all! At first glance, we thought it would have more of a brownie-like texture, but it was more dry like a biscuit.

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Disney treats are known for being overly sweet a lot of the time, but this tart was not and it was SO refreshing. Chocolate desserts in particular can be very rich and hard to finish by yourself, but this treat did not give us that issue!

Another Mickey-Shaped Treat!

The top layer reminded us of mousse except it was a bit thicker. It had the same cocoa powder taste as the tart, and we thought the sprinkles added a cute and crunchy touch to the tart as a whole. We’ve seen our fair share of Mickey-shaped tarts in Disney World, but we loved this one and its texture is pretty unique!

Biscuit-like texture

Onto the Frozen Viking Coffee — we absolutely LOVED this drink! The hot Viking Coffee has been around for a long time, but we have been longing for a frozen version for a while! We had to pose our Viking Coffee by the Viking statue of course!

Frozen Viking Coffee by the Viking Statue!

This coffee is made with Baileys Irish Cream and Kamora Coffee Liqueur with Coffee-Chocolate Sauce and is garnished with Coffee-Chocolate Crunch. YUM!

BOOZY frozen coffee!

Our coffee was pretty strong and we could taste the booze a lot. For being boozy coffee, this was not overly sweet at all which (like we said for the tart) is a nice change! The coffee-chocolate crunch garnish had a wafer-like consistency and it added a nice crunch. Our reporter said she would absolutely buy this again on another visit to EPCOT.

 

The tart is $4.29 making it a great deal for what you get, and the coffee is available boozy for $13 or non-alcoholic for $5.99. If you are looking for a break from the overly sweet treats in Disney World, head to Kringla Bakeri og Kafe in EPCOT! We’ll continue to bring you the latest Disney food news so stay tuned!

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