🚝 Dad at Disney Weekly #043 ✨

January 24, 2025

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Hi All,

Here is your weekly dose of the top Disney news, tips, tricks, new products, and more! Hope everyone had a great week, LOTS of news this week! Let’s get to it:

LATEST NEWS

Festival of the Arts is in full swing 😍 …. Epcot’s latest festival started on the 17th and runs through February 24th! It of course brings lots of food 😄 Check out the full foodie guide

Dinoland is no more…. Phase One of construction has begun in Animal Kingdom, and Dinoland is officially closed 😢 The walls are up and ready to begin building the new Tropical Americas area!

New Villains Show and Nighttime Parade Announced… “Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After” is a new show that is being developed for Hollywood Studios and will open this summer alongside The Little Mermaid reopening. At Magic Kingdom, a new nighttime parade will debut this summer, “Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away”! details

Lightning Lane Premier Pass updates…. this new Premier Pass option is now available for ALL Disney World guests. Originally it was limited to just resort and Disney hotel guests, but now anyone can purchase these passes. As a reminder, with Lightning Lane Premier Pass, guests will be allowed one-time access to each Lightning Lane entrance at attractions in a single theme park per day. details

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DISNEY DEALS

40% off Select Disney items going on over at Disney Store….

Looking for more space when you stay at Disney?… these VRBO properties just outside of Disney offer some great savings compared to the Disney resorts and much more room than your standard hotel room 💯 

The Disney x Lululemon collab is still 🔥 Check it

DFB has 81% off of their guides this week including some of the holiday versions if you are going to Mickey’s Very Merry, a must have!

Our Teepublic store has a $17 tshirt sale going right now 💯 

Maxie and Nova…. this theme park bag has everything you could possibly need for a day at the parks including a mini USB fan, collapsible water bottle, ponchos, cooling towel and more! 20% off right now

Vacation Patches new minimal collection looks great….Very simple designs that look great (image below and link here for more!) Use code DADATDISNEY for 15% off!

P.S. If you are looking to start planning your 2025 vacations we have Certified Disney Planners ready to go and completely FREE to you to help plan! They can help you with hotel, tickets, meal plans, Genie+, all the good stuff and no worries for you! Click the link HERE to submit your info and they will reach out ASAP!

I hope everyone has a great weekend (maybe at the parks?! 😊)

UPCOMING EVENTS

Jan 17th- Feb 24th: EPCOT Festival of the Arts

March 5th-June 2nd: EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival

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