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Walt Disney World announces new details about coming changes

August 17, 2026 Special to Sightseers’ Delight

During the Disney Experiences showcase, Horizons: A Carousel of Progress, at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event presented by Visa, Disney executives and celebrities took to the stage to share new details about the biggest slate of expansion projects in the history of Walt Disney World.

This week at the Kingdom: Disney theme park headlines for the week of October 27, 2025

October 29, 2025 The Turnaround

This week’s Disney headlines highlight continued popularity for Magic Kingdom, character returns at classic attractions, reopening milestones, and behind-the-scenes operational news across Walt Disney World and Disneyland resorts worldwide.

Disney announces ‘Piston Peak National Park’ Magic Kingdom expansion

June 5, 2025 The Turnaround

Disney has announced a major new addition to Magic Kingdom, Piston Peak National Park, based on the world of Pixar’s Cars and part of the largest expansion in the park’s history.

New Attractions and Experiences in Store for Guests Visiting Walt Disney World Resort in 2024

April 3, 2024 Walt Disney World

With a host of recently opened attractions and experiences – and more on the horizon – 2024 is sure to be a year like no other at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.

An appreciation of Big Thunder Mountain’s theming

March 27, 2024 Todd DeFeo

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Big Thunder Mountain may be Walt Disney World’s best-themed attractions.

My Favorite Scene

September 17, 2009 Todd DeFeo

This is my favorite scene. In part because it plays no real purpose except for the art of storytelling.

What rides would you take?

September 15, 2009 West Center Street

I thought of a question: If I could only experience one attraction in each of the Magic Kingdom’s seven lands, what would they be? Main Street: Main Street Vehicles (the trolley or the fire engine) Tomorrowland: Space Mountain Fantasyland: it’s a small world (strictly for the nostalgia, if nothing else) Liberty Square: The Haunted Mansion Frontierland: Big Thunder Mountain Adventureland: Pirates of the Caribbean Mickey’s Toontown Fair: WDW Railroad (cheating? perhaps) Maybe this was too

The classics: Walt Disney World’s best attractions

April 8, 2009 Todd DeFeo

Walt Disney World is itself a classic. Generation after generation has grown up walking right down the middle of Main Street U.S.A., roamin’ the Wild West and waltzing with storybook characters in Fantasyland.