The much-loved Star Wars Holiday Special will live on in Galaxy’s Edge. ANAHEIM, CA — Following the arrival of Jar Jar Binks and a half-frozen old Leia, another character has made it to the new Star Wars-themed land at Disneyland Park: Ackmena, the beloved owner and bartender at the Mos Eisley Spaceport Cantina, as portrayed…
“Former friends” got a bit too competitive in the Magic Kingdom. WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — Leonard “Len” Henry, 69, and Webster Pryor, 71, are lifelong friends from Waterloo, Iowa. Or at, least they were friends, until they found themselves kicked out of the Magic Kingdom on Tuesday for “racing” their electric scooters down Main…
Last heard saying, “Some people are worth mel-glblblb…” WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — The Norway Pavilion in Epcot’s World Showcase experienced an air conditioning outage on Sunday. But what would have been a mere inconvenience in most places quickly turned to tragedy as beloved snowman Olaf has disappeared. The Norway Pavilion is home to the…
![Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor at the Magic Kingdom Park, plus Stitch. Photo by Michael Gray [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Flickr, plus Stitch.](https://unclewalts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/monsters-inc-laugh-floor-stitch-768x432.jpg)
Why let a perfectly good animatronic go to waste? WALT DISNEY WORLD, FL — Rumors continue to fly around major changes coming to the Walt Disney World Resort — from gifts shops in the new Skyliner gondola cars and attraction queues, to a Tron retheming of the steam trains, to changing sky colors on the…
The historic Bavarian landmark will look even more familiar when Disney is done. BAVARIA, GERMANY — Everything seems to come full circle eventually! The Magic Kingdom’s Cinderella Castle was inspired by Germany’s Neuschwanstein Castle, and now Neuschwanstein will get a makeover — inspired by Cinderella Castle! In April, Uncle Walt’s Insider reported that the Walt…