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 Several major live entertainment experiences will be returning to Walt Disney World Resort during The World’s Most Magical Celebration, and some of the shows are retruning with new additions and enhancements!  Walt Disney World will be bringing a reimagined version of “Finding Nemo: The Musical” to Theater in the Wild at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park. This newly updated show will be called “Finding Nemo: The Big Blue… and Beyond!” This new show is set in the timeline of the movie “Finding Dory.” When Guests take a seat in the theater, they’ll find themselves at the Marine Life Institute. As the show begins, you will catch up with the fish from Dr. P. Sherman’s office in “Finding Nemo,” who have made their way across the ocean to California. They tell the story of Nemo and how they all got there, incorporating many of the beloved songs and production numbers from the original show. “Finding Nemo: The Big Blue… and Beyond!” is getting ready to open in 2022.  “Fantasmic!” will also be returning to Disney’s Hollywood Studios in 2022. When this incredible spectacular reopens next year, it will incorporate an all-new sequence featuring live performers, stunts, special effects and more! DISNEY ON BROADWAY Concert Series, along with the 2022 EPCOT International Festival of the Arts, will take place January 14 – February 21. Expect a fantastic lineup of talented artists like Arielle Jacobs (Aladdin); Adam Jacobs (Aladdin); Kerry Butler (Beauty and the Beast); Telly Leung (Aladdin); Heidi Blickenstaff (Freaky Friday, The Little Mermaid) and Robert Creighton (Frozen); Kara Lindsay (Newsies) and Dan DeLuca (Newsies); Ashley Brown (Mary Poppins) and Josh Strickland (Tarzan); Kissy Simmons (The Lion King) and Michael James Scott (Aladdin) who will be performing during the Festival.  Live entertainment will return to the Cinderella Castle Forecourt Stage at the Magic Kingdom early next year, with a show newly enhanced for the 50th Anniversary celebration. “Mickey’s Magical Friendship Faire” will incorporate favorite scenes from the previous version of the show – with sequences inspired by “Frozen,” “Tangled,” and “The Princess and the Frog” – plus a new opening and a new finale with Mickey Mouse and all his friends in their sparkling, EARidescent fashions. The show will also include an all-new, original song entitled “Where the Magic Feels Like Home.” “Mickey’s Magical Friendship Faire” will be a wonderful addition to our live entertainment lineup for the 50th Anniversary celebration.  Since the parks reopened last year, favorite Disney characters have been appearing in cavalcades that travel the parade route at Magic Kingdom Park. These cavalcades have been very popular and will continue to be part of the park entertainment experience into the future. Mickey’s Celebration Cavalcade debuted October 1st as part of the 50th Anniversary, and later this winter, a new cavalcade, the Disney Adventure Friends Cavalcade will join the fun. The Disney Adventure Friends Cavalcade will feature the most characters of any cavalcade to date and will include Nick and Judy from “Zootopia,” Baloo and King Louie from “The Jungle Book,” José Carioca and Panchito from “The Three Caballeros,” Miguel from “Coco,” plus Merida, Moana, The Incredibles, and so many more!  And in early 2022, these cavalcades will be joined by the return of the Disney “Festival of Fantasy” Parade. This vibrant and joyous celebration of Fantasyland brings to the streets of Magic Kingdom Park dozens of beloved Disney characters and stories, from the Disney Princess Garden to a carnival of color presided over by none other than Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.
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 The virtual queue for Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is ending on September 23rd. Guests at Disney’s Hollywood Studios may experience this Star Wars attraction using a traditional standby queue.
It was also mentioned that the virtual queue may be brought back from "time to time" on a "as needed basis". Simply Perfect Vacations is a travel agency specializing in Disney Destinations; Universal Orlando vacations and beyond. When you book your vacation package with Simply Perfect Vacations you will receive our complimentary concierge services from the day you contact us to the day you get home, and everything in between. Contact a Simply Perfect Vacations agent today for more information or request a Walt Disney World resort quote or a Universal quote today! To get Disney vacation news this and other travel news and highlights delivered straight to your email inbox, sign up for our newsletter. As a thank you for signing up, you'll get our mini-guide to the Walt Disney World theme parks AND Universal Orlando parks for FREE!  More entertainment favorite are returning to the Walt Disney World theme parks this summer! Guests can expect the following to return:
There’s more coming to the theme parks as we get closer to the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney World Resort including the all-new nighttime spectaculars “Disney Enchantment” at the Magic Kingdom and “Harmonious” at EPCOT. These new shows will be debuting October 1 as part of The World’s Most Magical Celebration.  “Disney Enchantment” will be evening extravaganza at the Magic Kingdom that will take you on a journey filled with adventure, wonder and empowerment. Inspiring everyone to believe in magic, “Disney Enchantment” will feature music, enhanced lighting, stunning fireworks and, for the first time, immersive projection effects that extend from Cinderella Castle down Main Street, U.S.A.  “Harmonious” at EPCOT, one of the largest nighttime spectaculars ever created for a Disney park. This new show will bring the globe together at World Showcase Lagoon in a celebration of Disney music that inspires people worldwide. It’s a grand, powerful tribute to the stories and songs that unite us, embracing new technical magic that incorporates pyrotechnics, choreographed moving fountains, lighting and media in new ways. “Harmonious” will invite you to travel the globe through new interpretations of classic Disney songs as you’ve never heard them before, reimagined in more than a dozen languages by a diverse group of 240 artists from around the world. That means this summer is also your last chance to watch the current fireworks shows before they sparkle into Disney history. “EPCOT Forever” will show for the last time on September 28, and “Happily Ever After” will end on September 29 at Magic Kingdom Park. Simply Perfect Vacations is a travel agency specializing in Disney Destinations; Universal Orlando vacations and beyond. When you book your vacation package with Simply Perfect Vacations you will receive our complimentary concierge services from the day you contact us to the day you get home, and everything in between. Contact a Simply Perfect Vacations agent today for more information or request a complimentary, no-obligation Walt Disney World resort quote or a Universal quote today! To get Disney vacation news this and other travel news and highlights delivered straight to your email inbox, sign up for our newsletter. As a thank you for signing up, you'll get our mini-guide to the four Walt Disney World theme parks AND Universal Orlando parks for FREE!  Simply Perfect Vacations is giving you our best park tip: how to get a boarding pass for Rise of the Resistance. This step by step goes into great detail to give you the best chance at riding this new attraction! Rise of the Resistance is the newest attraction at Walt Disney World Resort. It is in Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge in Disney's Hollywood Studios. It is an amazing attraction. It incorporates state of the art technology and an experience unlike any other attraction that makes it a must do (even if you’re not a fan of Star Wars). The only way to ride this attraction is to get a Boarding Group. A Boarding Group is a virtual queue for the attraction so you don’t have to physically wait in line, you can enjoy the rest of the park while you wait. Sounds too good to be true, right? There is a catch. There is an extremely limited amount of Boarding Passes available each day. This limited amount of boarding passes go very quickly. This is where Simply Perfect Vacations is stepping in to help you out. We are giving you our detailed guide, with step by step instructions, so you can get in a Boarding Group on your next visit to Disney’s Hollywood Studios.  Boarding Groups have two openings. The first opens at 7:00AM EST, the second one opens at 1:00PM EST. You need to try for the 7:00AM opening first; the 1:00PM opening is only if there is extra availability in the queue at the end of the day. The day before you visit Disney’s Hollywood Studios, make sure that you have the latest version of the My Disney Experience app. If you’re trying to working with an older version of the app, it may be glitchy and ruin your already narrow chances of getting into a group. Check the night before you go to Disney’s Hollywood Studios to see if there was an update, if there is one, go ahead and update it. Also, make sure you have notifications turned on for the My Disney Experience app. You will either need to recruit someone else in your party to join you or convince someone else in your party to lend them their cell phone. You will need to watch a world clock to find out when it is 7:00AM exactly. I recommend the site time.is - I found out the my phone ran a few minutes slow so without the world clock I would have missed the opening completely. Your recruit’s job is very important. They have to watch the world clock for you to tell you when it is 7AM. You don’t want to waste precious time toggling between screens. The virtual queue for boarding groups opens exactly at 7:00AM. The day you plan to visit Disney’s Hollywood Studios, you will need to be ready to go before 7:00AM. The good news is, you do not have to be in the park for this opening, you can do it from your Disney Resort room! It is crucial you are ready to go before 7AM as boarding groups fill up with in seconds. Set an alarm on your phone for 6:50AM so you're ready to go when 7:00 arrives. Set one even earlier if you need some time to wake up, time to wake up your recruit, get coffee to function, etc. At this time turn OFF your phone's WiFi. The free WiFi at Disney gets overloaded with the large amount of people trying to use it at once. You'll have much greater success using your carrier's data instead. Make sure your phone has a good signal for your carrier’s data to work the best. You may need to head outside to an open area if you need to (and don’t be surprised if you see other people in the parking lot in their pajamas).  Open the My Disney Experience App and find where the "Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance - Request Access with Virtual Queue" prompt is located. You will also see the "Join" button. I highly recommend finding out where this is before 7AM. Have your recruit start watching the clock around 6:55AM and to let you know when the minutes tick down. When the time hits 6:59AM, have your recruit notify you of the seconds. When they tell you it is precisely 7:00AM, hit the "Join" button! Then select your party - only guests with valid theme park admission and a valid park pass reservation to Hollywood Studios that day will be able to join. Don’t select anyone in your group that is under 2 as they don’t have theme park tickets! Don’t select anyone extra. You will either get a message that you’ve been able to secure a group or that the boarding groups are full. For more chances of success have everyone in your party with a mobile device to try and secure a boarding group (even your recruit can toggle over after the 7:00AM announcement, but they should be the only one to try this gamble). The system will only let one person actually secure the reservation, everyone else trying in your party will get a message that a boarding group has already been secured or that boarding groups are no longer available. If you're successful you'll get a message with your group number and estimated wait time. The app will notify you when your boarding group has been called. I still recommend checking this section of the Disney App to make sure things are progressing and boarding groups are being called. There are also signs throughout the park that notify guests of which boarding group is being called to ride. Once your boarding group is called to board, you'll have 1 hour to get to the attraction to check-in. If you don't check-in within this hour window of being called, you miss your chance to ride. If you weren't successful at getting a boarding group at 7:00AM, try again at 1:00PM. For the 1:00PM opening you MUST be in the park; have theme park tickets; have a park reservation to Disney’s Hollywood Studios. This part means that you can’t park hop over to Disney’s Hollywood Studios from another park and try to get a boarding group. Our clients who followed these steps exactly have reported back that they got into a Boarding Group at 7:00AM AND they they were in a low numbered boarding group! Hopefully these steps help you secure a much coveted spot into a Boarding Group for Rise of the Resistance as well! If you have any questions, please reach out to Simply Perfect Vacations! To book your vacation to Disney and beyond, contact your Simply Perfect Vacations agent today. Or you can request a free, no obligation quote here. To stay up to date on Disney vacation news like this delivered straight to your email inbox, sign up for our newsletter and you'll get our mini-guide to the four Walt Disney World theme parks for FREE - helping you kick-start the planning for your 2021 Walt Disney World vacation!   Breakfast at Table Service restaurants in the Walt Disney World theme parks have been nonexistant ever since the parks reopened last July. Until now. It has been announced that breakfast is returning to a Table Service restaurant located in a theme park AND it is character dining favorite - Hollywood & Vine! Starting on March 22, 2021 guests will be able to wave at and snap photos of their favorite Disney Junior Characters while dining on a delicious and hearty à la carte breakfast at Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.
The meal will start with a sharable pastry basket for the table which will include caramel monkey bread and mini muffins. Guests will be able to choose an individually plated breakfast entrée, such as the delicious French toast stuffed with chocolate-hazelnut spread or all-you-care-to-enjoy pancakes made with a signature house-made batter. Here are the à la carte menu options:
Hollywood and Vine is also open for character dining at lunch and dinner as well! At Minnie's Seasonal Dining lunch and dinner guests can wave at and snap photos of Minnie Mouse and her friends in their seasonal outfits! Lunch and dinner offers shared starters along with a choice of individual plated entrees and desserts. Springtime Dine will be offered from March 2 - May 30th and Summertime Dine will start May 31st. Reservations for breakfast will open for booking starting on February 26, 2021. Reservations are currently open for lunch and dinner. Advanced Reservations are highly recommend for this popular character dining experience restaurant. To stay up to date on Disney vacation news, be sure to sign up for our newsletter and you'll get our Walt Disney World four park mini-guide for FREE to help you kick-start planning your 2021 Walt Disney World vacation! If you're ready to book your trip to Walt Disney World Resort, contact your Simply Perfect Vacations agent today. Or you can request a free, no obligation quote here. |
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