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Disneyville: A Disney World Podcast

What's NEW in 2026 in Disney World + THIS is coming back?!

Disneyville: A Disney World Podcast

Tyler and Jessica Braun

Disney World, Disney Cruise, Disney Parks, Leisure, Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Kids & Family, Places & Travel, Disney, Disney Cruise Line, Disney News, Disney History, Society & Culture

5.0571 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Today we map out every meaningful 2026 change at Walt Disney World, from Big Thunder’s refresh and Buzz’s new blasters to Bluey at Animal Kingdom and the Animation Courtyard overhaul at Hollywood Studios. PLUS what nostalgic items are making their ~kind of~ return! We also share real planning advice on timing your trip, and whether 2026 is a good year to go! We cover: • kids’ free dining and stackable room offers • Frozen animatronic upgrades and Festival of the Arts dates • Disney After Hour...

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Disneyville podcast episode 55 where we talk about the Disney match.

0:29.8

No, Disney, you got, you caught me off guard. I didn't even know you were starting. I can't

0:34.2

get my tagline in. And then I started. And then you started. My eyes were like half open.

0:38.9

Anyway, well, you know what we talk about here. Yeah. What are we talking about today?

0:43.1

Boy, oh boy, are we excited for today's episode. We are going to be talking about everything new that is coming in 2026 to Disney World. And a little splash of Disneyland just because some of them, it's happening at both.

0:54.5

But generally, right, we're focusing on Disney World today. Some of which we're hoping to see later this year. Yeah. I'm so excited. Okay. So I know we mentioned it, I think, in the last one. We had a trip booked. We ended up canceling it because of Jessica's foot, which I think was the right answer anyway. Yeah. But we talked about, oh, maybe we did talk about this.

1:11.9

We talked about how we could maybe we did talk about this.

1:11.9

We talked about how we could have absolutely could have done it and done like a scooter or done.

1:15.2

Yeah. That's right. So maybe we already touched on this. We did end up moving it. Yeah. Officially. I think, I don't know if we had officially moved it then. Yeah, that's fair. We, oh, what was it going to say?

1:23.9

I already lost my train of thought.

1:25.1

We are going.

1:26.6

That's going to be fun.

1:28.3

Oh, I had something I was saying.

1:29.5

Going later this year. what was I going to say? I already lost my train of thought. We are going. That's going to be fun.

1:28.3

Oh, I had something I was saying. Going later this year.

1:29.5

I don't know, but there's a lot of stuff.

1:31.3

Oh, I know what I was going to say.

1:32.7

Sorry, I remember.

1:33.6

I'm glad that we didn't because actually one of my favorite Disney bloggers put out an article that was like,

1:34.8

the wait times are absolutely insane the week that we were going to go.

1:41.7

So it actually kind of worked out.

1:45.4

It was going to be the week between Christmas like over New Year, which we know it's a busy time, but like apparently it was like even worse than normal. But again, we're at the mercy of school schedules now. So it's a lot of you guys can certainly relate. What else? We had a couple of announcements, couple of big announcements.

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