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7 NEW Disney Souvenirs Are Coming to ALDI This Week! 😱

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While the Disney Parks are one of the best places to find Disney merchandise, there are so many other places where you can find some great Disney souvenirs. You can shop online at The Disney Store if you aren’t able to make it into the parks. Or you check out Target, Amazon, and Costco for additional products and some great deals.

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We have also been noticing that Aldi has joined the Disney merchandise game and has been having some great finds! We have seen everything from Disney water bottles to ears, and we found even more items that will be available soon at Aldi! 

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One Disney World Park Got a NEW Map With Some Character CHANGES!

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Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park has made some big changes recently, specifically when it comes to characters!

Animal Kingdom

Russell and Dug from Up recently got their old meet-and-greet back in Discovery Island, and just a few days ago, Pocahontas, Goofy, and Pluto started meeting in the park again as well. However, with the return of all these character meet and greets, we’ve been mourning the loss of the old character flotillas that sailed the Discovery River. Because of all these changes, Animal Kingdom had to update its park map for the first time in over a YEAR!

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NEWS: Disney Quietly CHANGES a Magic Kingdom Character Meet-and-Greet

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Things are always changing at Disney World, and today, we have news about an important character meet and greet update in Magic Kingdom. 

Cinderella Castle at Magic Kingdom

And don’t worry, this character meet and greet isn’t gone, but the location has changed! Chip and Dale have been meeting in Tomorrowland recently, but if you are headed to Magic Kingdom, be prepared to find them in a new spot. 

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A Popular Character Has Gone MISSING from EPCOT

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We love pretty much everything about Disney World (okay except maybe the crowds, lines, and prices) but characters make the experience all the better!

We love Disney characters!

Earlier this year, Disney announced that new character meet-and-greets would be coming to some of the parks this summer and we’ve been excited to check them out ever since. But, just like most Disney World changes, bringing in something new means having to say goodbye to something else — and it looks like we may have missed our chance to say goodbye to a popular character at EPCOT!

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We Dare You Not To Laugh at This HILARIOUS New Disney Meet and Greet

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NOW is the time to head to Disneyland Resort!

Gang’s all here for PIXAR FEST!

Why is that? Because it’s Pixar Fest! The beloved celebration has returned this spring/summer with new character meets, special parades, fireworks shows, and so much more. As part of the celebrations, there’s an exciting new character update…and we just HAD to share it with you!

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A NEW Character Meet-and-Greet Is Coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios SOON

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It’s time to break out your autograph books, y’all!

Mickey and Friends photo autograph book and pen

We have some BIG character news coming at y’all. We’ve already gotten so many BIG announcements from Disney, and they are continuing to bless us with even more news as the day goes on. We’ve already heard about the opening of CommuniCore Hall, and a NEW limited-time experience that will be coming to EPCOT — but what about Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Disney’s Animal Kingdom? Well, we have some fun news for those parks too, so let’s talk about it! [Read more…]

NEW Main Street, U.S.A., Addition Announced for Disney’s Pixar Fest

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Disney dropped a sneak peek at changes to their upcoming Pixar Fest celebration, and we’ve got to talk about it!

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While we already knew popular entertainment was returning for Disney’s Pixar Fest this year, we’re now learning MORE details about other brand-new offerings and changes to what’s been offered in the past for Pixar Fest at Disneyland. Let’s take a closer look at what’s in store! [Read more…]

The NEWEST Character Meet and Greet Is NOW Open at EPCOT

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Today is the day! We get to meet a new character at EPCOT.

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It has been an exciting time at EPCOT this year. We have added some friendly faces that you can see around the park. For example, Mickey and Minnie have been meeting in their Disney100 costumes. We got to welcome Moana’s meet and greet beside her new attraction. Now, we get to meet Asha today from Disney’s newest film, Wish, and we’re taking you along with us.

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BREAKING: A NEW Character Just Arrived in EPCOT!

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The best part of visiting Disney World and Disneyland is seeing ALL the characters. There are meet and greets, character dining experiences, roaming characters, rare characters, and more.

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Of course, you never know exactly WHO you’ll run into in the parks, but there’s one character we’ve been anticipating — Asha from Disney’s new movie, Wish! Disney announced a while back that she would be coming to meet at EPCOT and Disneyland, and now we have some exciting news about her arrival.

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NEWS: Disney Announces NEW Character Coming to EPCOT!

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We’ve got BIG news character fans!

Destination D23 stage

We’re still mourning the closure of Vanellope’s meet and greet spot at the Imagination Pavilion in EPCOT, but also still anxiously anticipating the arrival of Figment later this year, however, it seems we’ve got more characters to be excited for sooner rather than later! [Read more…]

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