The 7 best AND worst 2024 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival menu items, Disney Vacation Club announces details of refurbished EPCOT lounge, and The Walt Disney Company releases a statement regarding the contract dispute with DirecTV — all this and more in today’s daily recap for Wednesday, September 4, 2024.
Walt Disney World
Magic Kingdom
- TRON Lightcycle / Run at Magic Kingdom will offer a standby queue to day guests for the first time beginning next week.
EPCOT
- We ranked the 7 best AND worst menu items from the 2024 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival.
- Disney Vacation Club has officially announced details of the refurbished member lounge in the Imagination! Pavilion of EPCOT.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios
- Jazzy Holidays at The Hollywood Brown Derby is returning for Disney Jollywood Nights, with reservations opening soon.
New Merchandise
- New Haunted Mansion-inspired designs for phone cases, magnets, and more are now available from D-Tech kiosks at Walt Disney World.
- New magnet designs celebrating 70 years of The Muppets have arrived in D-Tech kiosks at Walt Disney World.
Other Walt Disney World News
- Walt Disney World Resort is once again offering a Water Park Seasonal Pass, valid now through May 23, 2025.
- Disney has extended the time for the Walt Disney World Annual Passholder discount at Disney’s Character Warehouse.
- A digital outage on both coasts caused issues at Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort.
Disneyland Resort
- We saw logs testing on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Disneyland this week while construction continues.
- Disneyland has announced the new Skyline Retro Box, a bento box full of snacks coming soon to the Tomorrowland Skyline Terrace.
- The podcast Unbuilt: An Unrealized Theme Park Podcast revealed that a DuckTales attraction was once set to replace Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin at Disneyland.
- We ranked the 7 best and worst Halloween menu items available at Disneyland Resort this year.
Hong Kong Disneyland
- Managing Director of Hong Kong Disneyland Resort Michael Moriarty has shared new concept art of World of Frozen decked out in Christmas decorations.
- Hong Kong Disneyland posted a weather advisory on its website indicating outdoor attractions were closed due to Typhoon Yagi.
The Walt Disney Company
- The Walt Disney Company has released a statement regarding their ongoing contract dispute with DirecTV.
Universal Studios
- DJ Pikachu and DJ Gengar are back at Universal Studios Japan for another year of Pokémon Halloween celebrations, including a merchandise collection.
- During Halloween Horror Nights 2024 at Universal Studios Japan, guests can experience the world of “Resident Evil” with “Resident Evil: Night of Heroes,” a new immersive outdoor show.
- Halloween Horror Nights 2024 has begun at Universal Studios Japan and Chucky’s Carnival of Chaos is back.
- “HaHaHa! Halloween Party,” a seasonal daytime event featuring Pokémon characters, is underway at Universal Studios Japan.
- The manga series “Chainsaw Man” gets another adaptation as the new show “Chainsaw Man: The Chaos 4-D” at Halloween Horror Nights 2024 in Universal Studios Japan.
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