Tampa Bay Rays may play 2025 Season at Walt Disney World, performances of ‘Fantasmic!’ will be greatly reduced for Disneyland holiday season, and we rode Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Disneyland — all this and more in today’s daily recap for Monday, October 21, 2024.
Walt Disney World
Magic Kingdom
- The themed Adventureland pavement continues to expand, now filling out the sides of the walkway, and making the remaining gray pavement much less appealing.
EPCOT
- Walt Disney World has announced the dates for the 2025 EPCOT International Festival of the Arts.
Walt Disney World Resort Hotels
- Of the many Walt Disney World hotels to choose from, Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort often falls to the wayside in favor of more well-known resorts. This begs the question: should you stay at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort?
- Refurbishment work has started at Bay Lake Tower near Disney’s Contemporary Resort with some of the top-floor rooms being cleared of all furniture.
- Disney has announced that the room refurbishments that began at Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – French Quarter in May have been extended into early 2025.
New Merchandise
- The Mickey Mouse Family Christmas Dooney & Bourke Collection recently debuted on DisneyStore.com, and the crossbody bag is now available in Magic Kingdom.
Other Walt Disney World News
- With Tropicana Field sustaining damage from Hurricane Milton, the Tampa Bay Rays are searching for a field where they can play their 2025 season — and Walt Disney World is on the shortlist.
- Lightning Lane Multi Pass prices will hit new highs at two of the four Walt Disney World theme parks this week.
Disneyland Resort
- Join us, as we experience Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Disneyland Resort ahead of the attraction’s official opening in November.
- Today’s virtual queue spots for Tiana’s Bayou Adventure Magic Key previews at Disneyland Park were fully booked within seconds of both distribution times.
- Disneyland Resort has cut back “Fantasmic!” performances to weekends only moving into the holiday season, in a possible response to the unionization of performers.
- Starting tonight, October 21, the Broken Spell Lounge, inspired by “Sleeping Beauty,” will open at Disneyland Hotel.
- More construction walls have come down around Tiana’s Bayou Adventure as the first day of Magic Key previews begins, offering guests a look at the attraction’s sign and the entrance to the Ray’s Berets merchandise location.
- The Disney Parks Blog has revealed a first look at the finisher runDisney medals for the 2025 Disneyland Half Marathon Weekend.
Entertainment and Media
- D23 has shared new updates and details regarding D23 Brazil and its exhibit pavilions, less than a month ahead of the fan event.
The Walt Disney Company
- The Walt Disney Company has named James Gorman, leader of the committee to identify CEO Bob Iger’s successor, as chairman of the board, effective January 2, 2025.
- Following the announcement of James P. Gorman as the new Chairman of the Board, it has been confirmed when the new Disney CEO will be announced.
Universal Studios
- Universal Studios Hollywood has shared more details about what “Back to the Future” offerings fans can expect at the upcoming Universal Fan Fest Nights event coming in 2025.
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Disneyland Park – Full Ride POV
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That’s it for today; we hope you enjoyed this Daily Recap. Thanks for stopping by, and we’ll see you tomorrow!
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