It’s really a blast in Hong Kong it’s really fun to see it for the first time!

First of all, I must address a few things. I am aware Disneyland and other parks are a privilege to attend. 9/10 times I go I pay for the bulk of my friends/family passes or food, cause they want to go, but it’s spendy and Disney is not *their* budget priority but it’s one of mine. I happily take that on if it means going to my favorite place with favorite people.

That being said, it has gotten to a point where I can no longer reasonably take on that expense. I have had an annual pass for 11 months now, and I don’t think I will renew.

I have been going 1-2 times a year for 15+ years and finally committed to an AP. Best year ever! I went to the park 17 times over the year, making the cost well worth it in terms of ticket prices. I am always able to get really good flights (I’m in Utah) and hotel costs. $140 to fly to Santa Ana and uber is much cheaper than driving and parking. Easy! Hotels are give and take, it really depends on what amenities I’m willing to splurge on or pass on.

I stayed at the Pixar Place with my sisters last month and had a delightful time. Amazing service, love being close to the park. Expensive? Yeah, but it makes sense for proximity and the Disney bubble perks.

What is making me rethink my frequency is honestly the food prices, dynamic pricing, and lightning lane cost. It was almost $80 for my boyfriend and I to have lightning lane on a really busy day, when less than a decade ago there were fast passes for free.

I go for the snacks, not the regular food. Breakfast options are all really heavy and often greasy (yum but not how I want to spend my morning every morning there), lunch/dinner has decent choices but the cost for the quality has been so nuts! I understand costs increase and I could bring my own options. But stagnant wages for amazing cast members, lower quality food, and paying out the booty for things like lightning lane has gotten too much.

I’ve been tracking costs of things from last December and I’m surprised at the jump in one year, compared to some jumps over 3-4 years.

Is anyone else getting jaded about it because of the cost? I never thought I’d see the day that I consider not going or spending my money on Disney related things for a few years, but for the cost of two day tickets, food, one day of lightning lane, and such could’ve gone toward a vacation twice as long somewhere else. I love Disney with my whole heart but I’m sad it’s getting further out of reach. Anyone else? Or of other opinions? Would love to hear!

hi! lookin for recs for something fun, unique, (or your own tradition), to do with my mom in disney/CA Adventure!
i think theres a place to get portrait silhouettes of us, but i wanna know more things i can show her, and more things to do while waiting for rides
(i have a disability and wait in an alternative queue virtually so i am able to rest or peruse the park instead of physically stand in the line)

anything helps!!! :)

Disneyland, EPCOT (preferably its 80’s-90’s iteration), and Tokyo DisneySea.

These are commonly considered the best among fans of both theme park and Disney fans. A score grid on this sub had them all tied for most spots. And they are very different so its hard to pick which one is objectively the best. But which is your favorite?

I’m from SoCal so I’m biased but I’ll love the OG the most.

Disneyland, EPCOT (preferably its 80’s-90’s iteration), and Tokyo DisneySea.

These are commonly considered the best among fans of both theme park and Disney fans. A score grid on this sub had them all tied for most spots. And they are very different so its hard to pick which one is objectively the best. But which is your favorite?

I’m from SoCal so I’m biased but I’ll love the OG the most.

Before I start, I would just like to outline what I intend with this buildout. This is BLUE SKY!!! Not all of these ideas are strictly accomplishable or will happen but I thought that they would be fun to implement. Despite my blue sky buildout, most of this will be fairly reasonable when it comes to attractions I will design.

World Celebration

Spaceship Earth would get a refurb that is long overdue. The attraction would focus on how stories/myths were communicated throughout the age of human history. There would be refurbished animatronics, sets, and projections spread throughout and the ending scene would be changed. The main spine of the park would be built alongside a singular large path with trees and fountains alongside it. There would be a main fountain that would operate throughout the entire day and would be synchronised with music. A small bakery would be built to the left of Spaceship Earth.

Musicana is a traditional omnimover ride that would explore and celebrate the genres and history of music. Scenes would be about jazz, rock, classical, and almost every major music genre in the world. A waterfall mural of the most iconic musical artists would be placed outside. Connections Cafe would be renamed and have more striking interior architecture and would showcase new ways on how food is being prepared as well as celebrating cuisine. Creations wouldn’t look like a suburban mall and would have more striking architecture. A new House of Tomorrow is built alongside it and showcases the future of the house.

CommuniCore Plaza would be much different compared to the current iteration. The original concept art would be brought back to life with a park on the first level and an event space on the 2nd with firework viewing as well.The indoor portion of the 1st floor will be dedicated to a museum for Walt Disney Imagineering and robotics in general with many exhibits going over the history of the practice.

Journey into Imagination is given a whole refurb, returning the purple paint to the outside and new crystal shaped rocks spread throughout the area. The attraction is now focused on celebrating imagination and what imagination could do while including Dreamfinder and Figment a lot. The Pixar Shorts theatre would be replaced with an Inside Out show centered around Dream Production. Figment helps Joy and the others create the best possible dream for Riley by using imagination. Imageworks is also brought back in its full glory. A new garden area themed to imagination is built below the Land pavilion.

World Nature

Journey of Water would ditch the Moana theming and instead focus on the stages of the water cycle. The Seas would get a new facade that resembles a sea base and would get a refreshed interior that is more modern. Most of the Nemo theming is discarded with Turtletalk with Crush being the only remaining holdout. Oceanus takes guests through the oceans of the earth and discovers many wonders that are hidden below the waves. The dive chamber is also back.

A new pavilion is constructed between the Land and Sea pavilion and focuses on air and weather in general. This pavilion would educate guests on weather patterns, natural disasters such as tornados and hurricanes, and how to be safe during these events. The pavilion holds 2 attractions: the 1st is a dome simulator with you being in the eye of the storm and how that looks inside, the 2nd is a simulator with guests being sent out to track tornados and eventually being sucked up by one.

The Land Pavilion gets a whole new exterior similar to the original Tony Baxter concept art with several glass structures being constructed with simulated biomes within them. The inside would look less like a mall and instead a greenhouse with the theming reflecting that. A new Soarin film would focus instead on more natural wonders rather than those constructed by humans. Foodanaia is an animatronic show with sentient foods that inform guests on the benefits of eating healthy in a fun, edutainment sort of way.

World Discovery

 Cosmic Rewind is given a refurb with the preshows being more cohesive and elaborate. The story is changed when the guardians are trying out a new Xandarian flight system that takes them through many different times of space. The showbuilding is also themed to the Novacorp HQ found on Xandar. The Novacorp ship at the entrance is also more ambitious and resembles the concept art more.

The Wonders of Life pavilion and the Space pavilion will be combined into one big space pavilion. Mission Space is removed and is replaced with a family-friendly kuka dark ride that takes guests to one of Jupiter's moon Europa and explores the moon and its underground ocean. The WoL pavilion is transformed into a base on Europa with several exhibits on space travel. 2 new attractions are added: the 1st is a theater show going over the history of the Cosmos and hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson, the 2nd is a simulator that takes guests through the most far off planets and have to escape a black hole.

Test Track is given a more elaborate exterior and the canopy is removed to further open up the space. More theming is added to the outside track to better hide the backstage areas of the park. The Odyssey building is removed and in probably one of my biggest blue sky decisions, I have decided it would work better as a transition into world showcase with guests walking through a Mexican themed landscape along with a waterfall.

Do you know when the last time there was a rollback on Guardians? We went on Sunday afternoon and got September. As we were going up the hill before spinning around the planet, our car slowed down and didn’t make the hill. We stayed on the track for a good 5 minutes in silence and darkness. No announcement was made before or after we slowed down and all of a sudden we sped up the hill and made it back. The cast member gave us a free fast pass for later in the day. I was just curious if this is common or not!

As far as we know the 3D show at Animal Kingdom after only being released in November of 2025 a few weeks before Zootopia 2, later got at revised version in July 2026 with Mayor Winddancer getting a prologue and new dialogue being added/replaced. If it were to get another revision (Similar to Zootopia: Hot Pursuit from DisneyLand, Shanghai in 2026.) here are the five changes I want it to make, while the story pretty much remains the same.

1) The Lynxley family are changed to the main antagonists instead of Dawn Bellwether and her sheep rams, in terms of the Nile Crocodile Neal Croco and American alligator Albert Gator(Actually PawBert and Milton Lynxley in disguise) hosting Zoogether Day instead of Heidi Howler (Actually Bellwether in disguise) and Cattrick and Kitty in their prison orange sabotage the Shrew Angels instead of Bellwether’s rams (Cattrick also tries to eat a innocent mouse before finding out that Nick and Judy busted them.) and reptiles are mentioned alongside mammals.

2) A snow leopard security guard who formerly served the Lynxleys before having a Change of heart was the one who tattletaled the Lynxleys’ plan to Mayor Winddancer and not the armadillo lawyer to Bellwether. (It’s also unknown if the mouse who piloted the Shrew Angels drone who abandoned ship was also the one who served Bellwether as a coworker and her lawyer, but he will still be appearing in this new version either way.)

Captain HogBottom, Truffler, Chevre, Bucheron and Higgins and Bloats appear in the backgrounds during the show in TundraTown and Marsh Market miserably doing parking duty demotion and community service for the police brutality that they committed in Zootopia 2. (The Zebros still appear as ballerinas at Gazelle’s concert like in the old version of the show.)

3) It features a new scene while Nibbles and Judy were interogatting Russ on who sabotaged the MarshMaids event with Nick running into Gary De’ Snake as well as Sam from Zootopia+ while checking the pipes for their blockage who are doing the exact same thing (Gary and Nick also happily hug each other showing that they became best friends since Zootopia 2, Nick is Gary’s favorite orange dog and Gary is Nick’s favorite pit viper.) and they find the real Albert and Neal tied up and apprehended to a pole and Gary cuts them free with his pocket knife and they explain how Milton and PawBert apprehended and impostered them and show the pipes for the blockage of Marsh Market’s waters in terms of catnip clogging them all up, and working together Nick, Sam and Gary unclog the pipes with the catnip (Sam previously loses her glasses and neck tie and her otter belly gets exposed, when her shirt gets unbuttoned but she buttons it again and puts her neck tie and glasses back on.) and Sam and Gary join Nick and Judy in the rest of their investigation.

4) The song that Gazelle sings at her concert is “Zoo” and not “Try Everything” and Yax asks Nick, Judy, Gary and Sam if they want to strip nude and join him and his naturists in their meditation instead of shedding their inner visions. He also reveals that Sam is Emmitt Otterton’s little sister.

5) When Nick and Judy unmask Albert and Neal in the ending revealing that they were both actually PawBert and Milton both in prison orange in disguise, Nick unmasks PawBert and says, “Hello, PawBert,” while Gary is the one who unmasks Milton and says, “Hello, Milton,” and Judy then says, “Lynxes in crocodilian clothing clever,” and PawBert complains about his defeat to Nick while Milton does so with Gary as the lynxes both talk trash about Zoogether Day before a annoyed Clawhauser or Sam blasts them both away with a confetti cannon and the Lynx father and son get stuck together in a hole sticking out their butts as they groan, “Awww catnip and hairballs!” and an extended version of “We are Zoonited” is sung in the finale.
What you do think? Do you want this new version to come true?

I still can't fully believe it, but I finally booked my first trip to Walt Disney World for September 2027!

I'm from Belgium and have an AP for Disneyland Paris, which I visit almost every month. I love it with all my heart, and it's exciting to think about visiting a completely new Disney resort for a change. I'm used to knowing my way around the parks and having my favourite rides, characters, and places to eat, so being a first-timer at Disney again feels a little strange, but in a good way.

I'll be going on a group trip and staying in a villa in Kissimmee for 15 days. I've always stayed at Disney hotels in Paris, so that's another new experience for me. I'm also used to going solo rather than travelling with a group of around 20 people, so I'm definitely stepping out of my comfort zone here, but I'm very excited about it.

I'm really looking forward to seeing all four parks, experiencing the Halloween season, and hopefully going to MNSSHP. There's so much to discover. To be fair, I do feel a little overwhelmed. But I can't wait!

I'm not entirely sure what I wanted to achieve with this post, but I just wanted to share that I've booked my very first WDW trip with people who understand why this is so exciting to me! 😍

Has anyone had a situation where they felt the harness was loose or it moved during the ride on avengers?

My daughter (9) felt like the restraint came loose and she was going to fall out yesterday, she completely freaked out. She is a kid that loves roller coasters and went on avengers about 10 times last time we where here. She's now completely freaked out by it and won't go on it again.

I will say I alerted the staff of this and they handled it brilliantly, we even got to meet the duty manager of the park who was fantastic about it.

I managed to gst my daughter back in the queue and we got to the staging area before the animatromic and they closed the ride again which didn't help. Thankfully I got her on space mountain so I think she'll be okay.

I just wondered if anyone else had the same feeling because I know they restraints dont hold you super tight on this ride.