Easter and Mother’s Day Weekend Brunch Coming to Whispering Canyon Cafe at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge

Whispering Canyon Cafe will be offering a scrumptious brunch during Easter and Mother’s Day weekends.

The delicious “Holiday Brunch-B-Q Menu” will include the All-You-Care-To-Enjoy Brunch Skillet, featuring mini pastries, house-made buttermilk-cheddar biscuits with sausage gravy, scrambled eggs, country potatoes, hickory-smoked bacon, sausage, smoked salmon and pulled pork, Mickey Mouse waffles, and green asparagus with Hollandaise sauce.

Plant-based options are available upon request.

A selection of brunch cocktails, juices, and press pot coffee will be available as well.

Dates:

  • Easter Weekend dates: Saturday, April 3rd and Sunday, April 4th
  • Mother’s Day Weekend dates: Saturday, May 8th and Sunday, May 9th

The price for this brunch is $25 for adults and $14 for children ages 3-9.

Advance Dining Reservations are highly recommended and can be made on the Disney website.

Pixar’s “Soul” Wins Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature

Pixar’s newest film Soul debuted on Disney+ on Christmas Day last year. The animated film was the most-streamed title for its opening week. Now, Soul can add another accolade to its list: a Golden Globe!

Soul has won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature! The original Pixar film is a heartwarming and humorous story about human connection and finding one’s place in the world.

Disney Updates Face Covering Policy While Dining

With Walt Disney World’s phased reopening and constant evaluation of social distancing and procedures due to the pandemic, there has been an update to the Face Covering Policy associated with dining that you’ll want to take note of.

New measures are in place to promote health and well-being in table-service restaurants at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Cast members wear appropriate face coverings at all times, while guests can only remove their face coverings while sitting at their table. (Matt Stroshane, photographer)

Walt Disney World has updated their website with the following:

“Face coverings for each Guest age 2 and up, which must be worn in all public areas and can only be removed while actively eating or drinking. Face coverings must be worn while standing, waiting or sitting in dining locations.”

As first reported by Brooke Geiger McDonald in via Twitter:

Brooke goes on to say: “Note that this change includes while sitting at dining locations, suggesting that masks may now be required while seated at one’s table except when actively eating or drinking.”

We’ll keep you posted as we learn more about this policy change in the coming days. In the meantime, be prepare to keep that mask on while dining, until your food arrives.

Disney Releases Update, Video and Photos of Harmonious At EPCOT

Work is continuing on Harmonious, one of the largest nighttime spectaculars ever created for a Disney park. Zach Riddley, Walt Disney World Site Portfolio Executive, Walt Disney Imagineering, shares an update.

EPCOT has always been a special place where the world comes together to celebrate human achievement. Nothing has embodied this spirit more over the years than the park’s lineup of original nighttime spectaculars.

Although we have not yet determined when our next spectacular will debut, our Walt Disney Imagineering and Disney Live Entertainment teams are hard at work building on that legacy with “Harmonious.” Early in our plans for the transformation of EPCOT, we recognized the power and potential this new show has to tell a story of global connection and celebration. This grand, original spectacular is a tribute to the power of story and song that unite us, leveraging music and visuals from across Disney and artists around the world.

“Harmonious” is a global effort, truly embracing the magic of possibility. In recent weeks, Disney Live Entertainment technical designers across the country have been programming various elements of the show, from media and fountains to lighting and pyrotechnics, working in a completely virtual environment. Our music producers at Walt Disney Imagineering have been remotely directing recording sessions with an incredibly diverse array of musical artists, performing in studios around the world.

Once complete, “Harmonious” will be one of the largest nighttime spectaculars we’ve ever produced. We’re busy setting the stage of this innovative toolkit, preparing each of the show’s five floating platforms to take its place on World Showcase Lagoon. Positioned like a compass, these platforms house the primary show equipment for “Harmonious,” and on the recently-placed center platform stands an iconic six-story-tall central ring structure, supporting a high-density water curtain, moving lights, fountains and more.

While the show is still in the early stages of development with more finishing details to come, I’m excited to share some recent progress.