Alessia Dunn

Disney World has been moving fast lately. Rock ‘n' Roller Coaster Starring the Muppets opened. Cool Kids' Summer kicked off.

Okay so we need to talk about what just happened to the menus at Disney World because it is a lot. Like, a genuinely significant amount of changes landed this week across the parks and resorts simultaneously, and some of them are exciting and some of them are going to make people sad and at least one of them involves a Churro Shake that we are already thinking about constantly.

Disney Springs has been quietly reinventing itself for years. New restaurants keep arriving. Celebrity chefs have become part of the identity.

We have eaten a lot of things at Disney Springs over the years. The Monte Cristo at Raglan Road before it closed. Every seasonal offering Gideon's Bakehouse has ever produced. More than one açai bowl from GoJuice on a summer afternoon when the heat was genuinely unbearable and a smoothie was the only sensible decision. So when we tell you the food trucks at Exposition Park are closing for good, we are telling you that as people who will actually miss them.

runDisney races sell out. That is not speculation or a general warning about popular events.

We were going to write about the best places to grab breakfast near the ESPN Wide World of Sports complex before a race. That was the plan. Instead, runDisney spent the entire morning issuing one apologetic statement after another before finally confirming that registration for the 2027 Disney Princess Half Marathon Weekend is not happening today and they will have more information by 8:00 PM ET tonight.

Every year we say we are going to be calm about Oogie Boogie Bash announcements. Every year Disney drops the details and we immediately start mapping out which nights have the best snack lineups and whether the Dessert Party treats are worth the add-on cost. So here we are again, not calm, fully invested, and ready to walk you through everything Disney just confirmed for the 2026 event.

There is a specific kind of excitement that comes with Disneyland Halloween season, and it is different from what you feel at any other time of year.

Pin trading has always been one of the more beloved corners of Disney fandom. It is accessible, it is obsessive in exactly the right way, and it

We have covered a lot of Disney Springs news over the years. New restaurants opening, food trucks closing, parking updates, the whole spectrum. But every time Pin Tuesday rolled around and the overnight queue videos started circulating, we kept thinking the same thing: someone is eventually going to have to deal with this.