What's New in Disney's Animal Kingdom: A Popcorn Bucket (FINALLY), A Few Sales, AND Beer Updates!

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Tree of Life — it’s so magnificent!

Guess where we’ve been? Disney’s Animal Kingdom! And we’ve been looking for all the new stuff that’s popped up since we were last there, so you can stay updated! So let’s go!

Disney’s Animal Kingdom Food Updates

Anadapur Ice Cream Truck, Thirsty River Bar. and Trek Snacks

There’s a new beer in town…err…in the Animal Kingdom. The Tiger Pale is now gone. Replacing it is the Longboard and SN Pale Ale.

Anandapur Ice Cream Truck beer offerings

Both are $10 per can.

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Drinkwallah

The beer offerings here are the same, except we did find a new beer on the menu: Flat Tire.

Beer!

You can get this one for $10 per can, too.

Read Our Review of PINEAPPLE Beer

Dino-Whamma

It’s kind of odd finding a NEW Popcorn Bucket in Animal Kingdom’s DinoLand, U.S.A. that’s all about Magic Kingdom, but that’s exactly what we found! This IS the first NEW popcorn bucket we’ve seen in a hot minute, though!

Magic Kingdom everywhere!

The popcorn bucket is $12.

See More Photos of The New Popcorn Bucket

Dino Bite Snacks

The St. Patrick’s Day Ice Cream Sandwich is officially gone, and the Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Sandwich is back, and we’re not mad about it!

It’s BACK!!!

Although we wouldn’t have an issue with them bringing the Chocolate Strawberry Ice Cream Sandwich back, which was the Valentine’s Day treat there.

See our review of the Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream here!

Joffrey’s Royal Anandapur Tea Company

We found a lovely little Lemon Cake over at Joffrey’s Royal Anandapur Tea Company in Asia. The mini loaf cake with an icing glaze on top made for a nice light snack!

Lemon cake!

You can grab one for $4.99.

Trek Snacks

The Simba Pretzel is back!

It’s the circle of life…in a pretzel

This was previously a Mickey pretzel. We have seen this offering comes and go quite a few times. It’s likely repaced with a Mickey pretzel when the Simba pretzels are low or out of stock.

Learn More About The Simba Pretzel

Disney’s Animal Kingdom Merchandise Updates

Discovery Trading Company

We found the Baby Yoda Plush on sale for $10! This is the way!

Baby Yoda for $10!

If you’re looking to get your hands on that new Dooney & Bourke Disney Sidekicks collection, it’s available at Discovery Trading Company.

Lots of rare characters on these!

We expect that these bags might go fast, so if you want to get your hands on any of them, here’s your chance!

See more photos of this collection here!

Island Mercantile

The weather’s been a little chilly here in Florida, and you know what that means — the shops are putting out their rolling racks of jackets and cold weather gear.

How you know it’s chilly in Florida…

We guess this is winter’s last hurrah before summer brings the heat!

Here’s The Perfect Mug For Chilly Mornings

Serka Zong Bazaar

The Expedition Everest Gift Shop has LOADS of new shirts! This shirt reps the Yeti and tells the world you conquered Everest! And it’s available now for $24.99.

How is the Yeti so cute here?

That adorable yeti is even cuter on this Yeti, Set, Go! shirt! This one is covered in snowflake patterns! It’s $29.99.

Um…again…cute!

This kids’ shirt with the Yeti as a popsicle is $29.99.

Yetisicle

There’s also this Everest Summit Gear Shirt for $24.99.

Adventure is out there.

This one has a cool fade effect with a graphic for A. Bominable’s Everest Summit Tours. This t-shirt is $36.99.

A. Bomanable — oh, we see what you did there, Disney

But wait, because your kid will need this Expedition Everest Adventure Kit! The kit is $14.99.

Gotta’ have the right supplies for adventuring!

Oh, did we happen to mention that we spotted a 30% off sale here, too!

30% off!

It’s only select merchandise, but a sale is a sale!

See Photos of the NEW Yeti Spirit Jersey!

Riverside Depot

There’s a NEW Chip ‘n’ Dale Magical Comics Pin out! It’s $19.99.

Chip ‘n’ Dale!

We also spotted a brand new Water Bottle with the Kingdom of Cute icons on it!

NEW Water bottle!

The water bottle is $22.99.

Check Out Photos Of A Water Bottle That’s a TOTAL Scream!

Windtraders

The Blueberry Almond Popcorn has returned, and it’s $6.99 a bag.

Blueberry Almond Popcorn – yum.

But the other snacks and candy, except the Sour Gummy Candy are missing now!

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Animal Kingdom Attraction Updates

Na’vi River Journey

Every Na’vi River Journey boat now has Plexiglass between the rows.

Plexiglass

Cast Members are now loading every row on this ride.

See More Photos of the New Plexiglass on Na’vi River Journey

Animal Kingdom Character Updates

The character flotillas had their tops on because of the weather. Hey, Mickey!

MICKEY!

They were also limiting each flotilla to just one character at a time.

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That does it for our time at Animal Kingdom, but don’t you worry because we’ll be back soon with even more updates!

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