A new “The Black Cauldron” MagicBand+ has joined the 1980s Disney100 Decades Collection at Walt Disney World.

We found it at Riverside Depot in Disney’s Animal Kingdom.

Limited Edition ‘The Black Cauldron’ MagicBand+ – $64.99

This MagicBand+ comes packaged in a special Disney100 Decades box.

The MagicBand+ is white and features sketches of The Horned King and Gurgi. One sketch of the film’s villain is also on the puck.

This has a limited edition size of 3,240. The MagicBand+ is rechargeable and includes its own charging cable in the box. The rest of the 1980s collection features merch inspired by “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” “Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers,” and “Oliver & Company.”

Disney100 Decades Collection So Far

The Disney100 Decades Collection is making its way from Disney’s beginnings in the 1920s all the way to the 2010s. New merchandise for the line is released on the third Monday of each month.

The first of the Disney100 Decades Collections was the 1920s series inspired by “Steamboat Willie.”

The 1930s Disney100 Decades Collection featured merch inspired by “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” “The Band Concert,” the Three Little Pigs, and Clarabelle Cow and Horace Horsecollar.

The 1940s collection was inspired by “Pinocchio,” “Fantasia,” “Dumbo,” and Scrooge McDuck.

The 1950s collection focused on Goofy, “Alice in Wonderland,” “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” and of course, “Cinderella.”

The 1960s collection included “The Jungle Book,” “101 Dalmatians,” and “The Sword in the Stone” merch.

The 1970s collection had items featuring The Muppets, “The Aristocats,” “The Rescuers,” “Robin Hood,” and “Pete’s Dragon.”

Upcoming Disney100 Decades Collection

The 1990s collection will include the “A Goofy Movie” Loungefly mini backpack, as well as items inspired by “Darkwing Duck” and “Beauty and the Beast.”

Bolt and Princess Tiana from “The Princess and the Frog” will be featured for the 2000s line.

The last Disney100 Decades collection line will cover the 2010s. The preview image features “Frozen” and “Toy Story 4.”

What do you think of this new MagicBand+? Are you a fan of “The Black Cauldron”? Let us know in the comments.

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The Frozone meet and greet has moved slightly at the recently reopened Pixar Place in Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Frozone, Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, and Sully all appear in Pixar Place, while guests can visit Edna Mode at The Edna Mode Experience.

Frozone Meet and Greet

In early 2023, Frozone from “The Incredibles” was greeting guests near the front of Disney’s Hollywood Studios. When Pixar Place reopened, he was meeting in front of a plain brick wall. He’s now in front of a painted mural near the front of Pixar Place, not far from the Neighborhood Bakery food cart.

Frozone’s backdrop is dark blue with overlapping circles of light blue, red, and yellow.

A Disney PhotoPass photographer is on hand with these characters, but you can also take pictures with your own phone or camera.

Pixar Place History and Closure

Before Toy Story Land was added to Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Pixar Place was an area of the park where guests could enter the queue for Toy Story Midway Mania and also find meet-and-greet photo ops with Buzz and Woody. Then when construction on Toy Story Land was finally complete, both the entrance to Toy Story Midway Mania and photo ops with Toy Story characters were moved over into that land.

After the Toy Story characters left, the Pixar Place location was turned into a Municiberg city block from the Pixar film “The Incredibles”. Here you could find a meet-and-greet with Edna Mode, purchase Jack-Jack’s Num Num Cookies, and even occasionally get a glimpse of popular characters from the film like Mr. and Mrs. Incredible or Frozone.

After the park closed in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, the area became devoid of characters and attractions. Even after nearly three years had passed since the rest of the park reopened, Pixar Place remained a dead-end area. It finally reopened with some updates in May 2023.

Watch our video from the reopening of Pixar Place below.

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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 Friday, August 25, 2023.

Walt Disney World

EPCOT

• An EPCOT Cast Member escaped from an attempted kidnapping in the park’s parking lot, according to an Orange County Sheriff’s report released this week.

Disney’s Hollywood Studios

• Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance experienced extended downtime today, and had not opened from the opening of Disney’s Hollywood Studios throughout the day until nearly 6:00 pm in the evening ET. Over in Magic Kingdom, Pirates of the Caribbean was also down for most of the day, only opening for the last hour of today’s regular operating hours.

Walt Disney World Resort Hotels

• The Boulder Ridge Cove Pool at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge will close for a brief refurbishment in September.
• Starting August 27, Florida Fresh Floral will begin providing floral and gift services for Walt Disney World Resort guests.

New Merchandise

• A new sweatshirt that showcases the iconic wallpaper design from the Haunted Mansion is now available at Memento Mori in Magic Kingdom.
• Walt Disney World has a unique new “Star Wars” Loungefly purse inspired by McDonald’s Happy Meal boxes.
• A new “Star Wars” activewear collection features the full Aurebesh alphabet.
• We spotted a few new pins today, featuring “Big Hero 6”, “A Goofy Movie,” and the head mouse himself.

Other Walt Disney World News

• David Duffy, the Vice President of Entertainment for Disneyland Paris, is leaving the resort to become Live Entertainment Vice President for Walt Disney World Resort.

Disneyland Resort

• Judge Doom from “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” and Yokai from “Big Hero 6” will be added to this year’s Disney Villains lineup at Oogie Boogie Bash.
•  A new “Cinderella”-inspired wedding carriage is coming soon to Disneyland Resort.
• Disney Parks has provided another look inside Tiana’s Palace ahead of its grand opening on September 7, 2023.
• Pacific Wharf at Disney California Adventure is poised to officially become San Fransokyo Square on August 31, 2023, and we scoped out all the newly finished details guests can already see.
• We shared some new photos of the Luxo ball lights and other decor being added to the Paradise Pier Hotel as it transforms into the Pixar Place Hotel.
• A new Ahsoka MagicBand+ is available at Disneyland Resort.
• Disney is honoring one of their long-forgotten classics, “The Black Cauldron, “with a MagicBand+ in the 1980s Disney100 Decades Collection.
• We got a bird’s eye view of the Paseo & Centrico Mexican Restaurant construction at Downtown Disney District.
• The Magic Key Holder exclusive mirrored Mickey-shaped sipper is now available. 

Tokyo Disney Resort

• You might want to invite this dragon to the party, as a new Maleficent Dragon shoulder plush is coming soon to Tokyo Disney Resort.
• Tokyo Disney Resort will also debut a new Autumn Storybook Collection featuring Gelatoni merchandise on September 7.

Entertainment and Media

Disney+

• “Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.”, the Disney+ original series, has been canceled after just two seasons.

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To commemorate Halloween Horror Nights 32, a voice-activated talking Chucky popcorn bucket will soon be available for guests to purchase and use during their frightful excursions to Universal Studios Florida.

Chucky Popcorn Bucket

The latest Halloween popcorn bucket was shown on an Instagram post from socalpals323.

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Exact audio was not revealed in the video, instead playing sounds from the Chucky films, including the classic line: “Hi, I’m Chucky — wanna play?”

The eyes of the doll glow red when activated, as the head rotates, looking back and forth.

He is also clutching a knife, wearing his classic “Good Guys” overalls on a colorful striped shirt.

The price is currently unknown, as well as whether or not this souvenir will also be available at Universal Studios Hollywood. Last year, for HHN 31, a popcorn bucket inspired by Día de los Muertos and another emulating Frankenstein appeared for the popular Halloween event.

Halloween Horror Nights 32

Universal Orlando Resort celebrates Halloween with the annual Halloween Horror Nights event. HHN 32 commences on September 1, 2023, and runs on select nights through November 4. There will be 10 haunted houses in Orlando, including:

• Stranger Things 4
• The Exorcist: Believer
• The Last of Us
• Chucky: Ultimate Kill Count
• Universal Monsters: Unmasked
• Dr. Oddfellow’s Twisted Origins
• Dueling Dragons: Choose Thy Fate
• YETI: Campground Kills
• The Darkest Deal
• Bloodmoon: Dark Offerings

There will also be five scare zones:

• Dr. Oddfellow’s Collection of Horror
• Dark Zodiac
• Jungle of Doom: Expedition Horror
• Vamp ’69: Summer of Blood
• Shipyard 32: Horrors Unhinged

Halloween Horror Nights is also offered at Universal Studios Hollywood.

Several decorations have recently appeared around Universal Studios Florida in preparation for Halloween Horror Nights 32. The 2023 Halloween Tribute Store facade was recently installed in the New York section of the park; the store, themed this year to a “mysterious NYC Comic Book Shop,” will open when HHN 32 commences and can be previewed by Annual Passholders on August 30.

Portals have also recently appeared around Universal Studios Florida. They will ultimately indicate the entry points to the haunted houses and will contain house names, wait times, and warnings.

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The sign for Minion Land at Universal Studios Florida has received a small update, in which some of the Minions’ pointy hair has been flattened or shortened and rounded off.

Minion Land Sign Updated

Previously, the Evil Minion’s purple hair was quite pointy, and extended over the edge of the fencing.

Now, the points of its hair have been rounded off, and the hair no longer extends over the fence.

Here’s what the Evil Minion’s hair looked like prior to the sign update. As you can see, the points of the hair are very prickly, and long enough to go over the fence.

The Minion dangling off the ladder on the right also got a hair update.

Previously, its hair was pointing straight up like small spikes, and now the hair is laid flat on its head.

In this photo from when the sign was first unveiled back in May, you can see what this Minion’s hair used to look like on the far left.

Last week, the Minion dangling off of the ladder was covered with yellow tarp.

Presumably, this was to allow for crews to work on the static figure without disrupting guests’ view of the rest of the sign.

What do you think of this update to the Minion Land sign at Universal Studios Florida? Did you ever see it in its previously sharper form? Share your thoughts on this update with us in the comments.

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“Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.”, the Disney+ original series, has been canceled after just two seasons.

“Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.” Canceled on Disney Plus

Five months after the second season of “Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.” premiered on Disney+, multiple sources are reporting that the series has been cancelled.

TVLine and Deadline both report that the series was not renewed for a third season. Disney+ did not provide any comments to TVLine when asked about the cancellation.

Created and executive produced by Kourtney Kang, the series is a coming-of-age live-action medical half-hour dramedy, featuring themes of death, dating, and family dynamics. Set in Hawai’i, the series follows 16-year-old Lahela Kamealoha (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) as she navigates her complex, fast-paced world of a burgeoning medical career and growing up. She is lovingly called “Doogie Kamealoha” by her friends and family.

The series is a reboot of Neil Patrick Harris’s “Doogie Howser, M.D.” television medical drama series from the 1990s. The reboot’s cast also included Jason Scott Lee, Alex Aiono, Al Harrington, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Ronny Chieng, Matthew Sato, Wes Tian, Emma Meisel, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, and Mapuana Makia.

“Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.” featured a star-studded guest list, including Barry Bostwick, Alyson Hannigan, Margaret Cho, Randall Park, Daniel Dae Kim, and Max Greenfield.

Other Recent Disney+ Cancellations

“Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.” isn’t the only show to come under the axe recently. Disney+ canceled “National Treasure: Edge of History” after just one season earlier this year. The series had received positive feedback from viewers despite negative critical reception.

 Disney has canceled multiple other series after one or two seasons, including “Big Shot,” “The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers,” “Mysterious Benedict Society,” “Diary of A Future President,” and “Turner & Hooch.”

Only two months after the end of season one, Willow was also rejected for additional content.

Recent Budget Adjustments to Disney+ Content

Company CEO Bob Iger has recently been considering selling aspects of the streaming service, according to recent comments. The adjustments here may be in line with these shifts to tighten content on the streaming service.

According to Bloomberg, Iger wants to completely sell or restructure Disney’s TV and streaming business in India. This is actually where Disney+ has had the biggest losses. Disney+ Hotstar, the region’s version of Disney+, lost streaming rights to Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket matches, leading to the service losing 3.8 million subscribers in quarter one and 4.6 million subscribers in quarter two.

Iger does plan to hold onto Hulu, and Disney will launch a combined app for Hulu and Disney+ later this year. The streaming services will still have their own separate apps, at least for now. Disney will more than likely buy Comcast’s 33% stake in Hulu in 2024.

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