Walt Disney World News

Today, the Disney Parks Blog announced what has long been speculated: a new Muppets restaurant will open at Disney’s Hollywood Studios this Fall. PizzeRizzo, housed in the old location of the Toy Story Pizza Planet was rumored to be an idea for the park in its early days. But now, with massive changes happening at … New Muppets pizzeria named PizzeRizzo announced for Disney’s Hollywood Studios

Club Villain is a specially ticketed event held at Sunset Showcase, an entertainment venue is located just off the Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster courtyard at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.  Hosted by Dr. Facilier, from The Princess and The Frog, guests at Club Villain will enjoy stage-show musical numbers, a house DJ, meet and greets, dancing, drinks from the … Club Villain returns to Disney’s Hollywood Studios to celebrate Halloween

A lawsuit filed on behalf of a former Disney cast member claims that he was fired from his place of employment at Disney’s Shades of Green Resort after refusing to cut his dreadlocks. Courtney Joseph, a Rastafarian cook at the resort, contends he worked for nearly a year without issue until February of 2013, when … Disney employee fired due to dreadlocks?

Tomorrow, July 15th, part of Disney Springs will close at 4:00pm due to a promotional event the company is running. The event, titled “Discover Disney Springs,” will allow invited guests to explore the newly redesigned area. It appears as if the only closures will involve Town Center, with the Marketplace, Landing and West Side remaining … Portion of Disney Springs closing early on Friday for event

Disney Parks Blog has announced the time for the next live stream event – a showing of Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. This show will be live streamed on July 18 and will begin at 9:20pm ET. The show at the park will actually start a few minutes later, but before it … Disney Parks Blog to live stream Star Wars fireworks from Disney’s Hollywood Studios

An update to My Disney Experience, due out today, July 14, will reportedly have a feature called “Get Directions” which will give guests directions anywhere on Walt Disney World property. Universal Orlando already offers a similar feature on their app. This GPS feature will allow guests to input two points of interest and get directions … Update to My Disney Experience to include “Get Directions” option

In the aftermath of a recent alligator attack that killed a young boy at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa in Walt Disney World, a report has surfaced that seems to indicate park officials, at some level, were aware of employees feeding the animals elsewhere on property. According to emails discovered by the Orlando Sentinel … Disney firefighters asked not to feed alligators near their fire station

A post by hiroMYhero on the DISboards reports that Louis, the trumpet-playing crocodile from The Princess and The Frog, will debut in the Mickey’s Royal Friendship Faire stage show today. Louis was in all of the concept art for the new Magic Kingdom show, but did not appear when the show actually began on June … Louis the jazz-playing crocodile to make his debut in Mickey’s Royal Friendship Faire stage show