The Candlelight Processional is a celebrity narrator reading the Christmas story, backed by a mass choir and a full orchestra, at the America Gardens Theatre in EPCOT’s World Showcase. It
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EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays runs from 27 November to 30 December 2026, opening the day after Thanksgiving and finishing the day before New Year’s Eve. It is included
Expedition Everest opened at Animal Kingdom on 7 April 2006 with the most ambitious Audio-Animatronic Disney had ever built: a Yeti, nearly five metres tall, lunging at riders in the
Monstropolis is the Monsters, Inc. land coming to Hollywood Studios, on the site of the former Muppets Courtyard. Parts of it open in 2027, which makes it the nearest-term of
Tropical Americas is an eleven-acre land replacing DinoLand at Animal Kingdom. It got its fullest reveal yet at D23 2026, and it is the most detailed of Disney World’s announced
Disney World is getting a Cars land, and it is not a copy of the one in California. It is called Piston Peak National Park, it sits in Frontierland, and
Disney has wanted a villains land for decades. At D23 2026 it finally got a name, a premise and two confirmed rides. It is coming to Magic Kingdom. Beyond that,
D23, Disney’s fan convention, ran from 14 to 16 August 2026 in Anaheim. It is where Disney announces what it is building, and this year Walt Disney World got the
EPCOT International Festival of the Arts runs through January and February, which are the quietest weeks of the Disney World year. That timing is the real reason to care about
Disney After Hours is the opposite of a party. No parade, no fireworks, no theming. You pay to be one of a few thousand people in a park that has
