With an empire revolving around travel, movies, and large crowds descending upon crowded theme park attraction openings, the Walt Disney Company has been among the most impacted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. However, despite initial Phase 1 reopenings taking place across Florida today, Walt Disney World remains shuttered with no reopening date in sight. As we … Read more
The Orange County Economic Recovery Task Force met once again today to finalize parameters for each business sector in order to present to Mayor Demings, who then held a press conference to announce their findings. During the press conference, the Mayor announced that the existing curfew would be extended for another week. Given that Theme … Read more
The My Disney Experience app has just submitted a push notification to all users reminding them of the ongoing parks closures, with new verbiage to reinforce the fact that Disney Springs will, in fact, remain closed, despite the upcoming Phase 1 reopening going into effect this upcoming Monday, May 4th  across Florida. Temporary Closures at … Read more
As evidenced by ever-increasing testing of new queues, theater seating, and more, Disney Parks in Asia are now well on their way to reopening given the drop in COVID-19 cases throughout. While character dining reopened earlier at Shanghai Disneyland Hotel’s Lumiere’s Kitchen back in March, Mickey and friends have now returned to the Enchanted Garden Restaurant … Read more
Unless you travel for business, if you’re a Disney fan, chances are most of your flights end up at MCO (or LAX), and there’s a reason why the long-standing joke of calling MCO the “Mouse’s Corporate Office” still exists: families and groups traveling to Walt Disney World comprise a huge portion of flights. With passenger … Read more
The Orange County Economic Recovery Task Force met once again early today to discuss further parameters for each business sector, including a brief conversation on how to move forward with theme parks and large public facilities with Mayor Demings. The Mayor had previously commented on how Disney’s closure was responsibly done, given that no outbreaks … Read more
Hong Kong Disneyland is now testing new queue setups just outside the park in order to promote social distancing. Previously, we’d only seen this sort of testing at Shanghai Disneyland, but it appears that the Disney Parks in Asia are now well on their way to reopening given the drop in COVID-19 cases throughout the … Read more
The Orange County Economic Recovery Task Force met early today to discuss the initial guidelines for reopening Orlando’s theme parks, including Walt Disney World Resort. Other industries covered include hotels, bars, and restaurants, with a distinction set up between smaller theme parks (like Gatorland, for example) and larger theme parks like Walt Disney World and … Read more
As data surrounding the ongoing health crisis is continuously updated, the situation surrounding COVID-19 keeps changing, with the latest projection models now stating that the earliest date social distancing may be possible in Florida is June 21. This is a marked delay from the previous June 14 estimations. By now, many states have chosen to … Read more
The Walt Disney Company has seen a whirlwind month within the market, getting out-performed by Netflix only to gain advantage shortly after with the White House’s announcement for a phased reopening of businesses to potentially begin in May. However, investors haven’t fully regained hope in the company, and more news coming out regarding the future … Read more
The nation is slowly recovering, thankfully, in the near-wake of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic as statistics begin to taper off and government officials look to reopen the nation’s businesses, including Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort. Today, President Trump unveiled new guidelines to help states reopen their businesses in phases through the easing of … Read more
With news circling about the unlikelihood of mass gatherings in California through August, plus the expanded use of QR code checking in Shanghai Disney Resort, further news regarding social distancing protocols in Florida may hint to potential changes across Walt Disney World Resort. According to Florida Surgeon General Scott Rivkees, Floridians should be keeping their distance, … Read more
On March 29th, President Donald Trump announced that the government will be extending the national social distancing mandate through April 30th. In addition, the need to avoid any and all discretionary travel was heavily stressed. In other words, if you’ve been counting down the days till your April Disney parks getaway… it may be time … Read more
Here at WDWNT, we’ve been tracking the distribution of Boarding Groups for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance since the ride debuted here at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and then again after it opened in Disneyland. Recently, we saw the integration of new “My Queues” menus rolled out throughout the Disneyland App, with potential for the … Read more
Here at WDWNT, we’ve been tracking the distribution of Boarding Groups for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance since the ride debuted here at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and then again after it opened in Disneyland. Today, we noticed some tinkering with the Boarding Group system, and as was first reported by Twitter user @Hastin, it … Read more