NEW, NEW UPDATE: Disneyland is happy to announce that Haunted Mansion Holiday will now run year-round.
During the holiday season, it will be temporarily replaced with "Haunted Mansion Classic," featuring no Tim Burton characters, and with the Bride replaced with the Shaman of Songs.
Four skeletons dancing in a circle. Left to right: Deep Roy, Deep Roy, Timothée Chalamet, and Deep Roy.
To forestall the title's release to PD in 2025, Disney Studios is planning a live-action remake of the first Silly Symphonies cartoon, "Skeleton Dance."
Currently attached are Timothée Chalamet as the main skeleton, and Deep Roy as the secondary skeletons.
Dwayne Johnson will be the owl.
The North show building with a big "Spirit Halloween" banner, overlaid with one that reads "Spirit Christmas"
We would have LOVED to move Muppet*Vision3D into the empty North show building in Tomorrowland, but the current leaseholders (Spirit Halloween) have just renewed their lease and reskinned it to Spirit Christmas, so our hands are tied.
(And no, the store does not offer DVC/Passholder discounts)
The Magic Kingdom, abandoned, with no people.
In 1965, it took an entire room of computers just to operate the Tiki Room.
Today, the entire Magic Kingdom — including rides, music, lighting and fireworks — is run by a single iPhone on iOS 13.
In 2020, the phone bricked while updating to iOS 14 — resulting in the closure of WDW for 4 months.
The 2024 "Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade" holiday special will have something new: in the spirit of the season, there'll be NO PROMOS FOR NEW OR UPCOMING DISNEY PROJECTS!
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Just kidding. It's actually going to be ALL promos. Plus one host twisting his ankle on the trolley track.
WDW Resorts Fun Fact™
The coffee, hot cocoa and (to some extent) tea dispensers do not have NFC tag readers, so you can use any cup/mug/third-degeee-burned hand you own. But Always Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide, or you'll end up on Pleasure Island.
Tomorrowland Fun Fact™
Stitch's Great Escape shuttered 6 years ago and the northern show building has not contained an attraction since. Homeless Stitch is now a squatter behind the Purple Wall in the southern show building.
The space that hosted SGE most recently housed a Spirit Halloween store.
Epcot Fun Fact™
After riding "Soarin' Around the World," many have spoken to our Guest Experience CMs mentioning the final scene — flying over Epcot — and pointing out how it's the "old" Epcot, and asking if we're going to update the film.
Well, we have GREAT NEWS!
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Magic Kingdom Fun Fact™
For you, the new Lightning Lanes Premier Pass may cost you $399.
But for Disney, adding in all of the infrastructure requirements, labor and materials, software, support and all other fixed and variable costs, each pass costs the company up to $0.
Disney Fun Fact™:
Our animatronics team does exhaustive research before creating our audio-animatronic characters (except for Trump in the Hall of Presidents, because ew).
Epic Universe, by comparison, seems to feel that the Creature From the Black Lagoon has a huge mouthful of teeth.
Halloween Fun Fact™
Is Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party far too tame for you? Do Universal's Haunted Halloween Nights make you yawn?
You say you want suspense and terror in your park?
The Magic Kingdom is open until 10PM on Election Night, November 5.
#RunDisney Fun Fact™
In order to ensure an on-time opening for our parks following Sunday's Wine & Dine Half Marathon event, this year the Balloon Ladies will be placed in Corral B.
Those in Corrals C through P: May the odds be ever in your favor.
Walt Disney World Fun Fact™
By popular demand, and to steal the thunder from the Epic Universe news, we're thrilled to announce that there WILL be a fourth gate at Walt Disney World!
The gate will be placed at the entrance to the DVC Lounge in Epcot.
Disney Succession-Planning Fun Fact™
Bob Iger's successor as CEO will not be named until early 2026. The late timing is due to the difficulty of scheduling a 10-week period in which all 12 members of the Disney board are available to compete in The Great British Bake Off to determine the winner.
A polar-view map of the northern hemisphere with the Epcot countries connected by a Red line
Epcot Fun Fact™
Walking the countries of the World Showcase from end to end, you are traveling a distance of 38,653 miles (none of it in the southern hemisphere) — or 77,306,000 steps.
This is the equivalent of over three days spent at the Magic Kingdom, including the long slog back to your car.
Animal Kingdom Fun Facts™
Although not on the original list, park planners added Lightning Lanes to "DINOSAUR" out of compassion, because the attraction was lonely and wanted to feel included.
Ahem. We here at Disney Fun Facts™ are the OFFICIAL purveyors of Fun Facts™ — certified a minimum of 78.9% fun, and verified within an inch of their lives as factual .
HOWEVER, since yours is (1) an Octoberfest Fun Fact™, and (2) 100% fun, our lawyers are looking the other way. Probably for beer.
The 2024 Wine & Dine Weekend logo
RunDisney Fun Fact™
#RunDisney, the organization behind next week's Disney Wine & Dine Half Marathon, was founded as an answer to the question, "How can we get people to pay $240 to spend less than a half hour in a park?"
Pirates Of the Caribbean Fun Fact™
To allow for lunch breaks, once a day CMs will arrange the rope barriers in the darkest part of the Pirates Of the Caribbean queue so that guests are unknowingly walking in a loop for a half hour.
Magic Kingdom Fun Fact™
Statistics show that when guests reach the end of Main Street, 94% of Xitter Blue Checks turn right, while an equivalent percentage of BlueSkyers turn left.
We're Team Adventureland, baby
@jasondws.bsky.social Can you please add me to the Disney Starter Pack 2?
I started doing these on the Disney Dream transatlantic Whatsapp group, and I've been asked by too many of the members to continue them on Bluesky
Monorail Fun Fact™
To reduce lines when boarding the monorail, we're installing new tap-and-go POS systems. They will accept MagicBands, MagicBands+, or credit cards.
The fare will be as little as $2.50/ride (value season). A 10% discount for DVC/AP holders is available for an additional 25¢.
Disney Skyliner Fun Fact™
Just as the camera captures your terrified face as you plummet down Tiana's final 52-foot drop, we're thrilled to announce that you will soon be able to purchase a photo taken of you as your Skyliner car approaches to ten feet of the terminal still going at full speed.
Walt Disney World Fun Fact™:
As part of our Green Initiative® to reduce paper use and to encourage guests to move to the app, paper-based park guide maps will now be $3 each.
Also, as part of our App Monetization Initiative®, in-app park guide maps will incur a charge of $3/day.
