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 Wednesday, September 1, 2021.

Walt Disney World

Magic Kingdom

• The loading area at “it’s a small world” continues to get more colorful each day
• We noticed more scored pavement in Adventureland as jungle green walkways are returning
• The scaffolding at Splash Mountain has expanded to cover more of its façade

EPCOT

• Rocket Raccoon and Groot will share a Disney Fab 50 statue at EPCOT
• Be sure to check out our review of the Boston cream donut from The Donut Box
• We visited the temporary Florida Blue Lounge located inside Restaurant Akershus in the Norway Pavilion

Disney’s Hollywood Studios

• Morning Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance boarding groups lasted more than two hours after the 7:00 AM distribution time
• In an example of corporate synergy that works, a new chocolate éclair combines The Muppets with The Haunted Mansion

Disney Springs

• Gideon’s Bakehouse is featuring lemon poppy seed cookies and cake slices throughout September, and we couldn’t resist tasting them

Walt Disney World Resort Hotels

• Monorail station painting is wrapping up at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort
• We reported that feature pools at both Disney’s Contemporary Resort and Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort will close for refurbishment in January 2023
• We headed to Gasparilla Island Grill at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa to try four new Halloween treats, finding them to be of varying quality

Disneyland Resort

• With fall nearly upon us it means that winter isn’t far behind; Disneyland’s winter holiday celebrations will begin November 12
• Some Disneyland Resort theme park hours have been extended on select October days

Tokyo Disney Resort

• Tokyo DisneySea has installed “Time to Shine!” 20th anniversary banners in AquaSphere Plaza

New Merchandise

• We have a first look at the full line of “Time to Shine!” merchandise coming to Tokyo DisneySea September 3
• Just in time for Halloween, a new line of Villains Wishables has made its debut
• An Avengers Loungefly backpack finds Earth’s Mightiest Heroes floating in the cosmos
• “The Nightmare Before Christmas” fans will be saying “What’s this?” to two new Loungefly bags

• EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival 2021 merchandise continues to arrive, this time in the form of a Chef Remy Tervis tumbler
• The R6-W1CH Astromech droid action figure is one of the more unique Halloween items available at Walt Disney World

Entertainment and Media

• Classic Disney songs have been turned into relaxing piano arrangements for the “Magical Meditations” album by Tom Ameen

The Walt Disney Company

• Despite sparring with California Governor Gavin Newsom over theme park closures, Disney donated over $32,000 to Newsom’s reelection campaign
• Disney announced its “Reimagine Tomorrow” diversity initiative

That’s it for today, we hope you enjoyed this Daily Recap. Thanks for stopping by, and we’ll see you tomorrow!