Tree of Life

Animal Kingdom Food Updates

Kusafiri Coffee Shop and Bakery

Lunch items are now available at Kusafiri! The bakery recently reopened and is usually known for serving breakfast items and sweet treats, but now you can get lunch.

Kusafiri Menu

The new items include the Spiced Potato Hand Pies for $9.99, which are Fried Pastries with a mix of Seasonal Vegetables and Potatoes inside, served with Harissa Aioli and a Coriander Chutney…

Sweet Potato Hand Pies

…the Marinated Chicken Flatbread Sandwich for $10.49, which is a flatbread topped with Marinated Chicken, Cucumber Tomato Salad, Tahini Sauce, and Greens and served with chips…

Marinated Chicken Flatbread Sandwich

and the Red Chili Hot Dog for $9.49, which is a Spiced Hot Dog topped with Cucumber Tomato Salad and Harissa Aioli. This also came with a side of chips!

Hot Dog!

These are NOT your basic theme park snacks, so if you’re looking for something different, check these options out!

Click here to read our review of these new items!

Isle of Java

The Rotten Apple drink is still on the menu at Isle of Java for some reason!

Rotten Apple Drink

This drink is Apple Orchard Crisp Apple Hard Cider and Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey served over ice with gummy worms for $11. It first appeared in fall of 2020, but it actually came with the garnishes, unlike ours!

Where are our gummies?!

Yeah, we didn’t get any gummy worms! Very lame, Disney.

Check out our review of the Rotten Apple here

Animal Kingdom Construction Updates

Statues

Golden character statues have appeared at Animal Kingdom! We have Simba with Timon and Pumbaa…

Timone, Pumbaa, and Simba

…Bambi and Thumper…

Bambi and Thumper

…and Nemo and Dory!

Nemo and Dory

These statues are looking so festive for the 50th anniversary.

Click here to see ALL of the 50th anniversary statues!

Lightning Lanes

Lightning Lanes have been installed at new rides in Animal Kingdom! We found one at DINOSAUR…

DINOSAUR

…It’s Tough to be a Bug…

It’s Tough to be a Bug

…and Festival of the Lion King!

Festival of the Lion King

With more Lightning Lanes going up around the parks, we might be getting closer to Disney Genie launching!

Click here to learn more about Disney Genie

KiteTails

Animal Kingdom is getting a new show for the 50th anniversary — Disney KiteTails! The show will take place in the day at  Discovery River Amphitheater in the Asia section of the park.

©Disney

As Disney gets ready for the first show on October 1st, they have been working on platforms on the lake for the show.

KiteTails Construction

You can see two large platforms being worked on.

Getting ready!

It looks like things are moving along swiftly!

KiteTails platforms

We can’t wait to see the show for the first time!

Click here to read more about KiteTails!

Primeval Whirl

Primeval Whirl has been closed since the Disney Parks shut down in March of 2020, and Disney later announced it would be remaining closed permanently. For a while, it has just sat there untouched in DinoLand U.S.A., but now there is some movement!

Primeval Whirl

Construction walls went up around the attraction recently, here are some of the latest photos of the work being done:

What’s going on back there?

We don’t know what they’re doing…maybe they’re starting to take down the ride?

Primeval Whirl

If we find out what’s going on, we’ll let you know!

Animal Kingdom Merchandise Updates

Island Mercantile

We spotted a new Mickey hat inside Island Mercantile! It’s an army green color and say’s “Oh Boy!” across the front with a confused Mickey face.

Oh Boy!

The bill of the hat is a leather-like material!

Mickey Hat

You can get the hat for $34.99

Discovery Trading

The Stitch Crashes Snow White Collection has been released in Discovery Trading! We also saw the collection in Star Traders in Magic Kingdom.

The new collection has arrived!

You can get the plush for $29.99…

Stitch Crashes Snow White

…the MagicBand for $39.99…

MagicBand

…and the pin for $24.99!

Pin

If you’re collecting pieces from the Stitch Crashes series, definitely check these out!

Click here to see more about the Stitch Crashes Snow White Collection!

Also newly released over here is the Jerrod Maruyama Disney Parks Dooney and Bourke collection! There are several bags in the collection including the tote for $318…

Tote

…the zip satchel for $268…

Zip Satchel

…the backpack for $268…

Backpack

…the satchel for $198…

Satchel

…and the crossbody bag for $198!

Crossbody

The collection is also available in Magic Kingdom and Hollywoods Studios.

Click here to see more about the collection!

Finally, we found two new limited edition pins! One featuring Sleeping Beauty and the other featuring The Fox and the Hound.

Get them while you can!

The Sleeping Beauty pin is part of the Magic in the Stars series and was released for Virgo, which makes sense, as it is Virgo season right now!

Aurora is a Virgo apparently

The Fox and the Hound pin is part of the Where Fantasy Grows Disney Terrarium Series.

The Fox and the Hound

Look how cute the two best friends are inside their little terrarium! This pin is $19.99.

Best Buds!