![Toy Story Land in Hong Kong, which is also being shipped to Florida. Photo by Laika ac from UK [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/toy-story-land-hong-kong-shanghai-whatever-768x432.jpg)
“Disney wants things to seem real, and toys are made in China.” Disney fans in the United States are celebrating the recent announcement of the opening day of the new Toy Story Land at Disney’s Hollywood Studios (June 31, 2018), but international fans are not so excited. For months, guests at Shanghai Disneyland have been…
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‘Be Our Guest’ was just the first to be announced. Disney foodies and fans of dining at the Walt Disney World Resort are still adjusting to the news that the Beauty and the Beast themed Be Our Guest Restaurant will become a prix-fixe, deluxe dining restaurant (requiring two table-service credits on the Disney Dining Plan)….
Disney tries to repeat the success of Pandora’s grilled Banshee in the new Star Wars area. As workers at the Walt Disney World and Disneyland Resorts continue construction on Star Wars: Galaxy Edge, chefs in the Disney test kitchen are also hard at work constructing the menu that will offer out of this world delicacies….
Local fan club leader and self-described “Potterhead” has no magical abilities. ORLANDO, FL — Roland Fleestrom of Cross Plains, Wisconsin, was greatly disappointed to learn this week that he was a Muggle [Ed.: or “No-Maj” in the U.S; that is, having no magical ability] on his first visit to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal…
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There’s a(nother) new (Iron) Chef in town. ‘Iron Chef’ Bobby Flay announced recently that he would be opening a new restaurant at Disney Springs. His yet-unnamed restaurant is scheduled to open in early 2019. The new restaurant will rekindle a decades-old battle with Iron Chefs Masaharu Morimoto and Wolfgang Puck. “Not a Chef” The feud…