It appears that two of Walt Disney World Resort’s mountain trifecta will be closing at the start of 2023. First, it was Splash Mountain, closing on January 23, 2023, and now it is also Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Related: Clip: Lightning, Thunder at Big Thunder Mountain But unlike its log-flume counterpart, Big Thunder Mountain is not going away forever. According ...

Let’s be honest, out of all of the “untouchable” yet extremely dated attractions at Magic Kingdom Park, The Country Bear Jamboree is the one that should go the way of the dodo first. But there is no reason to remove such an icon if we do not have another potentially iconic attraction to take its place. So what could replace ...

One of the many sub-sects of Disney Fanatics–and “Disney Adults”–is Disney pin trading. But it seems that some Disney Park Guests are not fans of this hobby. While Disney Parks offer the lanyard-sporting Guests the chance to trade pins with other Cast Members without worrying about rejection, Pin Traders have been known to congregate in certain areas of the Theme ...

Sometimes real people do great deeds, and the stories of those deeds go down in history. Sometimes people create stories of impossible deeds around real people. And sometimes people invent great people to tell stories of impossible deeds. America’s legends contain all of these stories and more. Let’s celebrate America and all that it stands for, as the land of ...

Once upon a time, the existing Mineral King section of today’s Sequoia National Park today was slated to become the site of the Walt Disney Company’s next big venture. Disney had already been vastly successful with its revolutionary Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California, and had additional plans in the works for establishing a larger, similarly minded East Coast follow-up. But ...

The Disneyland Hotel is home to some of the most immersive themed suites of any Disney resort. Disney recently took to TikTok to share a video of the Frontierland-inspired accommodations, and the suite certainly lives up to its namesake attraction, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Take a quick tour of the suite in this video from Disney Parks’ official TikTok account: ...

As many readers of this publication already know, The Walt Disney World Resort was built on farm and swamp land in Central Florida, meaning that The Magic Kingdom had to find a way to co-exist with the animal kingdoms already present there. While work has been done to relocate the animals to other areas of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, ...

The Country Bear Jamboree is a classic Disney attraction, and while it might not have the same draw as an immersive ride like the Haunted Mansion or something more thrilling like Space Mountain, this opening-day Magic Kingdom attraction has a massive following and remains at the top of the must-do list for many Guests visiting Walt Disney World . Recently, ...

What an unexpected roller coaster it has been checking on the status of the Frontierland Shootin’ Arcade on Disney’s official website! Previously we reported that the Frontierland Shootin’ Arcade in the Magic Kingdom had recently open and had become free of charge. The arcade had been closed since the parks closed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in March ...

We recently reported the exciting news that the Frontierland Shootin’ Arcade reopened following its closure during COVID-19 free of charge for Guests hoping to test their skills in the Magic Kingdom. Unfortunately, it seems as though the decision to make this attraction available for free may have been too good to be true. The Frontierland Shootin’ Arcade, which has been ...