![The Sorceror Mickey Hat in its new Animal Kingdom home. Photo credit Mfwills [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons and Katie Harbath [CC BY-NC-SA 2.0] via Flikr.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/WDWAK_Tree_of_Life_plus_Hat-768x432.png)
Ah, giant Sorcerer Mickey hat. How we’ve missed you! WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — It’s back! Removed from Disney’s Hollywood Studios in 2015, the giant Sorcerer Mickey Hat has returned to the Walt Disney World Resort and Spa, this time at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park. Although criticized by many during its time at the Studios…
![Free food and a monorail. Photo by Eric Marshall [CC BY 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Epcot_Flower_and_Garden_Festival_with_monorail-768x432.jpg)
All that beautiful landscaping? Just a free buffet. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — The Epcot Center Resort and Spa is known for its many amazing international festivals, and one of the most popular is the International Flower and Garden and Spa Festival, which is going on now. Apart from the beautiful flowers, gardens, and spas…
Apparently a lava fissure opened under Maleficent’s head. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — The ongoing eruption of Mount Kilauea in Hawaii has claimed a new victim — Maleficent the fire-breathing dragon, until now a fixture in the Magic Kingdom Park’s Festival of Fantasy Parade. A spokesperson for Disney Parks and Resorts and Spas tells Uncle…
![A few of the remaining functional cars at Tomorrowland Speedway. Photo by Theme Park Tourist [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/wdw-tomorrowland-speedway-cars-768x432.jpg)
Is this a sign of maintenance issues at the parks? ANAHEIM, CA and WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — Uncle Walt’s Insider has learned that Car #19 at the Tomorrowland Speedway in Magic Kingdom, and Car #19 at the Autopia in Disneyland Park recently broke down on the same day. Although the two attractions are run…
People want to hear hits, ok? WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — Following a recent “Garden Rocks” concert at Epcot Centre’s International Festivus of Pollen and Allergies [Ed.: I think that’s suppose to be “EPCOT’s International Flower and Garden Festival“], one irate guest went to Guest Relations to complain that the featured band had performed many of…