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10/01/2026

It’s our birthday! Thank you all so much for an amazing 5 years filled with lots of happy thoughts. 🥳

08/30/2026

joffreyscoffeeandtea has rolled out a delicious assortment of Affogato Cold Brew coffees for this year’s Food and W**e Festival! Be sure to hit all the different locations inside the park to try each one. Marshmallow was our favorite (near Guardians). Which one is yours?

08/29/2026

Have you had a chance to try any of the new Food and W**e Festival treats? We’d love to hear which one you’ve enjoyed the most in the comments!

08/19/2026

Heads up! We are heading into California Adventure to get a head start on the first night of Oogie Boogie Bash. And if we manage to keep out heads on our shoulders, we may even be sharing our first ever Oogie Boogie video on YouTube

08/16/2026

Thank you for an incredible journey this weekend. From a galaxy far, far away to a magical village in the tropics of the Americas to the Pride Lands of Africa, it’s been an unforgettable three days. See you at next year!

08/07/2026

We asked our Patreon Family which Not-So-Scary treats we should at this year’s Halloween Party at Magic Kingdom. Can you guess which treats they picked?

08/02/2026

Extended Evening Hours, After Hours and parties like Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party, Jollywood Nights and Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party all have their own rules and quirks you should know about before you go. And that’s what our most recent podcast episode is all about!

07/20/2026

Thank you to Ben Fritz and The Wall Street Journal for including us in today’s story about Lightning Lane. We’d also like to share the reasons why we love using the service and ways to reduce that feeling of frustration mentioned in the article. https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/disney-parks-lines-lightning-lane-e443865e

While it can be challenging to balance booking rides with enjoying the park, the benefit is that the system is much more affordable and accessible than other services that simply use extremely high pricing to limit access to the shorter queue. Plus, it allows Disney to regulate the length of that shorter queue with far more precision than other parks are able to accomplish by simply pricing people out.

If you’re thinking of using Lightning Lane on your next visit, plan to manage it in those moments in your day when you have downtime - either while waiting in the line for a ride, waiting for a show to begin or waiting for your mobile food order to be prepared. If you aren’t able to snag a Lightning Lane for an attraction you want right away, hop in a standby queue and use that time to optimize your reservations and streamline the next stage of your day. Most importantly, change your perspective and think of Lightning Lane booking as a game where the prize is a super short wait on a great ride. Get help from the rest of your group and turn it into a challenge to see who can “win” the next ride for your family.

Yes, it does take some time if you want to book all the best rides in one day, but it can be done if that’s your goal and it will be more than a hundred dollars per person cheaper than the alternative. And if you would rather not bother, there’s always Premier Pass. Whatever you choose, remember that these services are about adding more fun to your day and giving you the ability to experience more in the park than you otherwise could. We love Lightning Lane and believe it’s the best system out there for spending less time in line and more time enjoying the magic.

To avoid endless lines, one person in every party has to manically book and revise ride reservations on their phone .