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Around the World: July news tidbits from WDW

There are a lot of news items that aren't funny enough or long enough for their own article! WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- While you've been lounging in your pajamas enjoying your summer vacation, Uncle Walt's Insider's intrepid reporters have been hard at work, surfing the internet for Disney news we can spoof, or failing that, just making stuff up. Also in your pajamas. (Sorry, we'll give them back eventually.) Here are a few of the stories we're "covering": Rivers of Light Dessert Party Disney's ...

Be Our Guest Restaurant under a blood red sky. Photo by HarshLight [CC BY 2.0] via Wikimedia Commons.

Be Our Guest closes; End Times are near

The Beast in the Book of Revelation may be more literal than we thought. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- The popular Magic Kingdom restaurant Be Our Guest will be closing its doors temporarily in August, leading to a great outcry among the nations and weeping and gnashing of teeth. Various prophecy groups have seized on this news as a sign of the impending Apocalypse. WDWMagic.com reported on Sunday that the Beauty and the Beast-themed eatery will be shuttered for five days, from August ...

July 18, 2018 by Marty in Florida

It's kind of like a stove! Photo by Mark Pellegrini [CC-BY-SA-3.0] via Wikipedia.

Backhead Cuisine dining experience coming to Magic Kingdom

Those steam engine fireboxes generate a lot of heat -- so why not cook with it? MAGIC KINGDOM, FL -- Disney has announced an all-new dining experience coming to the Magic Kingdom: Backhead Cuisine! As everyone in the universe is aware, the Walt Disney World Resort maintains a fleet of authentic, antique steam trains. These trains require large amounts of heat to generate large amounts of steam to not only power the locomotive, but also run the steam press to iron out ...

July 17, 2018 by Walt in Florida

Chip Gaines to join Disney Imagineering

Now every day at Disney can be Demo Day. GLENDALE, CA -- In a joint press release, The Walt Disney Company and Magnolia Inc. have announced a partnership that brings Chip Gaines to the Imagineering team at Disney. Imagineering spokesperson, Xander "X-Ray" Romano, shared the vision behind the partnership, "We're all huge fans of Chip and the work he has done on the hit HGTV series Fixer Upper. During the design phase for Toy Story Land, now open at Disney's Hollywood Studios located ...

July 16, 2018 by Walt in California, Florida, Other

Artist's conception of the “RunDisney 11.9K at the Walt Disney World Resort & Spa Epcot Line on the resort’s Monorail Transportation System Epcot Loop." Photo courtesy TripAdvisor.

RunDisney 11.9K coming to Epcot monorail loop

Finally an event for everyone who ever looked at a the monorail track and thought, "Gee, I'd really like the climb up there and go for a run." WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL -- Coming this fall to the Walt Disney World Resort is the newest RunDisney event, the "RunDisney 11.9K at the Walt Disney World Resort & Spa Epcot Line on the resort's Monorail Transportation System Epcot Loop." [Ed.: T-shirts with the full event title will only come in 3XL or larger.] Guests will ...

July 14, 2018 by Walt in Florida