Walt Disney World announced details and dates for their 2025 holiday offerings, Disney confirmed the dates and some details of the 2025 EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays, and we reviewed a new snack trio at EPCOT — all this and more in today’s daily recap for Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
Daily Recap (7/8/25)
Walt Disney World
Magic Kingdom
- Disney confirmed among holiday announcements that “Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away” will not perform at Magic Kingdom on the same evenings as Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party.
- Disney confirmed the return of annual holiday entertainment and offerings at Magic Kingdom this year.
- Prior to the permanent closure of the Liberty Square Riverboat and the adjustments to the Walt Disney World Railroad, we took one more look at the ongoing Big Thunder Mountain Railroad construction progress.
EPCOT
- Disney confirmed the dates and some details of the 2025 EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays presented by AdventHealth.
- We have a new Photo Report from EPCOT including new pins to be purchased, new snacks to devour, and Figment being the ultimate drama queen.
- Three new snacks have arrived at EPCOT — a Mickey-shaped Pistachio Macaron, a new Obatzda cheese offered with the Germany pavilion jumbo pretzel, and the Mochi-Gori from the Japan pavilion — and we reviewed them all!
Disney’s Hollywood Studios
- Walt Disney World has rolled out the initial dates and details for their 2025 holiday season, which includes several returning offerings for Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
- The fan-favorite Merry Menagerie will be back at Disney’s Animal Kingdom this holiday season, alongside “Tree of Life Awakenings Holiday Edition” and Mickey and Minnie in holiday attire.
Disney Springs
- In addition to Christmas shopping, Disney Springs at Walt Disney World will have its returning Christmas Tree Stroll, nightly snowfall, live entertainment, and a Santa Claus meet and greet.
Walt Disney World Resort Hotels
- Walt Disney World announced a plethora of 2025 holiday offerings on Tuesday morning, teasing the return of gingerbread displays and Christmas trees to resort hotels.
New Merchandise
- The new Haunted Mansion Starbucks tumbler featuring the ride’s famous wallpaper design has arrived at Walt Disney World.
- The Orange Bird ear headband that matches the previously released Loungefly mini backpack has arrived at Walt Disney World.
- Some of the new Star Wars x Coca-Cola collection has arrived at Walt Disney World as part of the “Refresh Your Galaxy” campaign.
- Droid Depot in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disney’s Hollywood Studios has a new series of merchandise with retro-style R-Series artwork.
- Several new limited edition, limited release, and mystery pins were released at Walt Disney World Resort this Pin Tuesday.
- Following the arrival of several Halloween-themed items, EPCOT has a new MagicBand+ styled with characters and icons from “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”
Other Walt Disney World News
- Walt Disney World announced details and dates for their 2025 holiday offerings, including Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party, Disney Jollywood Nights, and EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays.
- Guests visiting Walt Disney World for the holiday season this year can save up to 20% on hotel rooms at select Disney Resort hotels, as well as have the opportunity to get a $100 Dining & Shopping card.
Disneyland Resort
Disneyland Park
- Disney shared a first look at the new attraction poster for “Walt Disney – A Magical Life,” which debuts at Disneyland Park later this month.
New Merchandise
- Disneyland Resort released the new Celebrate Happy Collection on Tuesday, the latest in a series of merchandise collections honoring 70 years of Disneyland.
- New pins at Disneyland Resort this week are inspired by “The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” “The Black Cauldron,” “Ant-Man,” the Disneyland 70th anniversary celebration, and more.
- A trio of new Halloween and Disney Villains shirts has arrived at Disneyland Resort as it continues to receive more spooky merchandise for the season.
Disney Store Merchandise
- With Amazon Prime Day 2025 underway from July 8-11, 2025, WDWNT has compiled a few of our favorite theme park essentials that are on sale now!
Universal Studios Japan
- In an online post, Universal Studios Japan has confirmed the arrival of a new sipper in Super Nintendo World that is shaped like Yoshi and a Yoshi Egg.
Entertainment and Media
- “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” could be the last major film for both Michael Douglas and Evangeline Lily, as they have both reportedly retired from acting.
That’s it for today; we hope you enjoyed this Daily Recap. Thanks for stopping by, and we’ll see you tomorrow!