Disney Hollywood Studios
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Aug- 2026 -20 August
Disney World Confirms New Look for 32-Year-Old Tower of Terror Ride
Guests walking past Disney's Hollywood Studios are getting less and less of a glimpse at one of the park's most iconic silhouettes, as the ongoing refurbishment of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror reaches its most intensive stage yet. A Refurbishment Months in the Making Work on the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror first became visible back in early May, when Walt Disney World Resort began refurbish
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19 August
After Decades, Disney Confirms Major Hollywood Studios Change for September 14
The countdown has officially started for another major change at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. On September 14, 2026, guests walking into Animation Courtyard will have something entirely new waiting for them. Disney is preparing to open The Magic of Disney Animation, marking the next major phase of a transformation that has already changed this longtime corner of the park. Disney now lists September
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17 August
Disney’s Hollywood Studios Area Blocked Off, Disney World Confirms Closure
Echo Lake at Disney's Hollywood Studios is undergoing a significant refurbishment. Guests arriving at the third Central Florida Disney park on Monday found scaffolding surrounding one of the area's busy dining locations. Dockside Diner Gets Wrapped in Scaffolding WDWNT reported on August 17 that metal scaffolding had been installed completely around the Dockside Diner, the Quick-Service dining loc
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16 August
Disney World Reveals Monsters Inc. Land Restaurants, Show and Early Opening
Disney just gave us our biggest look yet at what’s coming to Monstropolis at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. During its D23 presentation, Disney revealed several new locations planned for the Monsters, Inc. (2001)-themed land, including restaurants, a new show, shopping, and more. But perhaps the biggest announcement involves when guests can actually step inside. Disney confirmed that parts of Monstro
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12 August
Disney World Confirms Major Fantasmic! Change, Starting August 23
A Disney's Hollywood Studios tradition is getting a notable scheduling change later this month. Starting August 23, Disney World will move Fantasmic! to an earlier start time, changing how guests may need to plan the final hours of their park day. The adjustment is only 30 minutes on paper. But when you're trying to fit another attraction, dinner, or shopping into a packed Hollywood Studios visit,
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12 August
Twilight Zone Tower of Terror Attraction Suddenly Covered at Disney World
The scaffolding surrounding the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney's Hollywood Studios has expanded again. The Hollywood Tower Hotel facade is now more covered than at any point since the exterior refurbishment began this summer. The Scaffolding Reaches the Left Side On Wednesday, WDWNT reported that construction equipment had extended across the left side of the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
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11 August
Avoid Magic Kingdom on This October Date, Crowds Are Shifting at Disney World
Disney's Hollywood Studios is closing at 5 p.m. on October 20. Most guests will avoid it like the plague. That is exactly why you should be there. Let me explain. Look, crowds are the number one thing people stress about before a Walt Disney World trip, and it has gotten worse. There used to be a really slow season. Late January. Early September. That post-Labor Day stretch when the parks felt lik
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11 August
Disney Just Dropped the First-Ever Muppets Passholder Magnet … Get It Before It’s Gone
The Kermit magnet is out today at Hollywood Studios. And if history is any guide, the magent not survive six weeks. Quick context. Look, Annual Passholder magnets stopped being a throwaway freebie a long time ago. They started that way, sure, something you grabbed if you happened to walk past the right spot. Now, Passholders track drop dates, schedule park days around pickups, and line the whole c
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10 August
Disney World Guests, Get Ready for This New Tower of Terror
The Hollywood Tower Hotel is getting a new face, as the scaffolding that has been methodically working its way across the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror facade all summer has now arrived at the Walt Disney World Resort attraction's most iconic feature. The Front of the Building Is Next WDWNT reported last week that the construction equipment surrounding the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney's
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8 August
Disney World Restricts Lane Switching at Another Theme Park Entrance
Arriving at a Walt Disney World theme park by car involves one small decision before the day’s larger choices begin: selecting a lane at the parking entrance. At Disney’s Hollywood Studios, that decision has become considerably harder to reverse. New white lane dividers have appeared along several approaches to the park’s Auto Plaza, according to photographs published by WDW News Today on August 8
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