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Shall we book a vacation?   Today, Disney Cruise Line released TWO seasons of thrilling itineraries, spanning sailings from fall 2025 to spring 2026.   Four beautiful ships, the Disney Fantasy, Disney Wish, Disney Treasure and Disney Dream, will regularly sail to one or both of Disney Cruise Line’s signature island destinations, Disney Castaway Cay and Disney Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Point. You’ll discover even more Disney magic on any of these voyages!   If you’re looking for a tropical escape, imagine sailing away from the Pacific Coast and Gulf of Mexico in late 2025 and early 2026. Plus, a third season of sailings will embark across Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific on the Disney Wonder from October 2025 to February 2026.   Are you feeling merry? Are you feeling scary?! With Disney Cruise Line’s collection of themed sailings, prepare to bring your most festive ‘fits on any of the beloved holiday cruises with Halloween on the High Seas and Very Merrytime sailings in September, October, November and December 2025.  Bookings for the fall 2025 and spring 2026 seasons open to the public on June 28. For more details, guests can visit the itineraries page of disneycruise.com.  The post 2 Seasons of Disney Cruise Line Itineraries Revealed!   appeared first on Disney Parks Blog.

Big news – the 50th Disney Fun House – the very first themed to Zootopia – is now open and ready to bring young patients and their families some much-needed moments of happiness during their hospital stays!  To celebrate the grand opening of Shanghai Disney Resort back in June 2016, Disney announced a donation of $3.1 million USD (RMB 20 million) to fund Disney-themed play spaces and therapeutic play activities – called Disney Fun Houses – at 50 children’s hospitals across China.   Featuring Disney characters and infused with storytelling from our beloved films, Disney Fun Houses provide young patients and their families a space for interactive play activities hosted by Disney VoluntEARS and hospital staff.  This month, as we celebrate the 8th anniversary of the opening of Shanghai Disney Resort, we’ve hit a major milestone – the 50th Disney Fun House is officially open!  Located at the Children’s Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine in Hangzhou, this is the very first Fun House to be themed to the Walt Disney Animation Studios film “Zootopia.”  The space in the hospital has been transformed with murals featuring Zootopia’s diverse landscapes, including the iconic Zootopia skyline and a one-of-a-kind Zootopia-themed mobile movie theater where young patients and their families can watch favorite cartoons, short movie clips and documentaries during their stay at the hospital.  

We recently visited Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California alongside our friends at Blue Star Families to make magic for some military families there by sharing the joy of reading and making meaningful family connections. Disney has enduring gratitude for those who serve in uniform and their families, and our collaboration with this nonprofit and their Blue Star Books program is among the many ways we honor those who serve. During the event at Camp Pendleton on June 8, U.S. military children and their families received free Disney books and enjoyed other activities, including hearing a story read by a military service member and Disney VoluntEAR from Disneyland Resort and reading-themed crafts. Mickey Mouse also made a special appearance to the delight of the families there. “The Walt Disney Company is honored to have worked with Blue Star Families for more than a decade to celebrate military and veteran families,” said Jessica Moore, vice president of government relations for The Walt Disney Company. “This collaboration shares the magic of our stories with the hope it inspires these military children to become the next generation of storytellers.”  For retired Marine Corps Warrant Officer and current Disneyland cast member Ariel Elias, returning to Camp Pendleton to make magic for military families was extra special. “Military family life is both exciting and challenging so it’s special being able

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Summer is almost here and “Inside Out 2” just premiered, so it was only fitting that the cast of the Disney+ Original series Percy Jackson and the Olympians, who happen to be huge fans of the film, popped over to Disneyland Resort to experience the coolest event of the summer: Pixar Fest!   Walker Scobell (Percy), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth), and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) visited Disney California Adventure Park during Pixar Fest, a celebration of friendship and beyond happening throughout Disneyland Resort through August 4. And if you ever wanted to know what the trio’s favorite emotions are from the film, Walker is partial to Anger, Leah loves Joy, and Aryan is a fan of Riley’s newest emotion, Anxiety.  Leah, Aryan, and Walker couldn’t do a day at Disney California Adventure without taking a dash around Pixar Pier on the Incredicoaster! It was a thrilling start to their day before heading over to meet a duo nearby.  The timing of Pixar Fest is perfectly aligned with the release of one of the biggest movies of the summer: “Inside Out 2”! The trio got a chance to enjoy some of the animated magic IRL with iconic characters Joy & Sadness!  After spending some time with Joy & Sadness, the group was feeling all the feels. Some might say they were experiencing a bit of an…Emotional Whirlwind.   To get their energy back up, the trio took

Last week, cast members across the world made a splash competing in what could be the quackiest Disney cast member tradition in history. To celebrate 90 years of Donald Duck, cast at Disneyland Resort, Hong Kong Disneyland and Disneyland Paris went beak-to-beak reimagining a rubber duck into beloved Disney characters, attractions and more! What started as a race through the iconic Disneyland “it’s a small world” attraction has now migrated across the globe uniting hundreds of cast members. Teams over in Hong Kong Disneyland took a different approach to the event by creating a duck scavenger hunt and rubber duck fashion contest in honor of Donald’s 90th anniversary. Cast were encouraged to search for ducks and then take them home to create a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.  This hand-knit Snow White rubber duck designed by Winnie Lo is the craftiest of them all! Winnie, a cast member at Hong Kong Disneyland, was inspired by her love of handmade crafts and knitting and loved seeing all the cast members’ creativity come to life at this event. She shared, “It was great getting to make new friends through this fun event!”

Get ready for the “feel everything movie of the year” with special, limited-time offerings across Disney Parks in celebration of “Inside Out 2,” now playing only in theaters! You can also make room for some new Emotions with exciting products inspired by the film including toys, apparel, and more!   Pixar Animation Studios’ “Inside Out 2” returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley just as Headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions. Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety, Envy, Ennui, and Embarrassment show up. The voice cast includes Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, Kensington Tallman, Liza Lapira, Tony Hale, Lewis Black, Phyllis Smith, Ayo Edebiri, Lilimar, Grace Lu, Sumayyah Nuriddin-Green, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan, Paul Walter Hauser and Yvette Nicole Brown. “Inside Out 2” is directed by Kelsey Mann, produced by Mark Nielsen and executive produced by Pete Docter, Jonas Rivera and Dan Scanlon.  Disneyland Resort  Talent and Creators of “Inside Out 2” visit Disneyland Resort  Stars and filmmakers from Pixar’s “Inside Out 2” recently visited Disneyland Resort and the newly reimagined Pixar Place Hotel to celebrate the film’s release. See how some of the cast spent their day at Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park experiencing Pixar Fest at the resort, a celebration of friendship and beyond happening now through August 4, 2024. 

As part of Disney’s enduring admiration for the military and veteran community, we are building upon our relationship with Fisher House Foundation by delivering special care packages filled with toys, games, books, and household goods to the nearly 100 Fisher Houses nationwide throughout June. Fisher Houses offer free, temporary lodging to military and veteran families, allowing them to be close to their loved ones receiving medical care at a nearby military medical center or VA Hospitals. And today, we visited the very first Fisher House located at the legendary Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. with our pal Mickey Mouse to deliver some care packages in person. Disney VoluntEARS deliver care packages for the guests of the Bethesda Fisher House  Disney Magic at Fisher Houses Across the Country Today’s visit was part of an initiative to deliver care packages of Disney-themed products to nearly 100 Fisher Houses across the country from Anchorage to Miami. Our goal is to help each Fisher House team bring some joy to the military and veteran families staying there during a difficult time. Several Fisher Houses located in areas near Disney businesses received personal visits from Disney VoluntEARS including Disney Store cast members, carrying packages topped with giant red bows to deliver to Fisher House employees. Disney VoluntEARS deliver care packages to the guests of the Long Beach Fisher House  Disney VoluntEARS deliver care packages to the guests of the