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Disneyland Updates Dining Search: Multi-Day Availability Calendar, Granular Time Search, and More

The Disneyland Resort has rolled out new dining search updates to its website, giving guests even more control over finding the right restaurant option. The update was first spotted by ThemeParkIQ. The update greatly improves dining availability information, offers a more granular time of day search, and more! In this article, we’ll take a look at the changes. Dining Availability Calendar Disney has wisely leveraged its theme park reservation calendar to now display dining availability for individual restaurants. In our screenshot below, you can see availability for the Blue Bayou Restaurant by date. A green dot indicates that there is availability, whereas the greyed-out circle indicates that no reservations are available. Time Slider for Granular Searching Another update made to the dining search page for the Disneyland website is a slider that allows you to pick a more specific time range for your dining reservation search. Previously, you would either by able to pick “all day” availability, or “morning”, “afternoon”, or “evening”. Now, you can pick specific hours that you’d like to search. Date Range Searching This is a feature that has been available for individual restaurants, but I’m not sure that it has previously been available for multiple restaurants at a time. Now, if you choose a date range and you don’t choose a specific restaurant, you will be presented with all relevant restaurants that match the date range and any other search criteria you may have entered.

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R-Rated TMNT Movie Could Be a Sequel to ‘Mutant Mayhem’

While Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) was a mixed bag for lifelong TMNT fans, there’s no denying that the 3D-animated reboot put the franchise well and truly back on the map where the theatrical side of things are concerned, after taking a huge slice out of the global box office in the form of $180.5 million (against its $70 million budget). Mutant Mayhem was yet another reboot for the long-running TMNT franchise, most recently following the two Michael Bay-produced films, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016). The latter, despite being superior to its predecessor, grossed only $245.6 million worldwide against its $135 million budget, which was viewed by the studio as a financial failure. Consequently, Out of the Shadows‘ underwhelming box office performance rendered that live-action series as defunct as the original series that’s made up of the cult-classic 1990 film and its two sequels, The Secret of the Ooze (1991) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993). Credit: Paramount Pictures But while it seems that Mutant Mayhem has replaced those previous timelines, with its untitled sequel set for release on September 17, 2027 (after recently being delayed by a year), there’s another TMNT film in the works (yes, it’s a great time to be a Turtles fan). If you’ve been keeping up to date with “the world’s most fearsome fighting team,” you’ll know that a live-action adaptation of the hugely popular and ongoing IDW Publishing comic book series

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