Disney Starlight: Dream The Night Away Debuts July 20

Disney officially confirmed the opening date of the newest entertainment coming to Magic Kingdom, the night parade known as Disney Starlight: Dream The Night Away.  This parade debuts on July 20.  In this post, we talk a little about the parade, discuss the new park reservation quirk and how the holiday parties impact the viewings of this new offering.

I've only mentioned Starlight once in this blog, as part of the D23 announcements last year.  That's not because I'm not interested in it - quite the contrary, in fact.  I think this will be a fun parade that will draw crowds over the summer.  Disney skeptics would say that this isn't really an "answer" for Universal's Epic Universe, an entirely new theme park in Orlando.  But while Disney has plenty of new attractions debuting in the future, most of them won't appear until at least 2027.  In the meantime, new "smaller" entertainment will have to fill the gap here.

Disney to Open New Theme Park in Abu Dhabi

This blog largely focuses on Walt Disney World, as opposed to the Walt Disney Company at large.  In most cases it's because that's the area that I'm most familiar with, but it also has to do with the fact that corporate Disney news can be so vast and I wanted to keep the focus of this blog more localized.  

However, sometimes big news comes along having nothing directly to do with WDW and it still warrants a post here.  Today's big news is one of these.  Disney dropped a bombshell this morning, announcing a joint venture with the entertainment company Miral to build a new Disney park in Abu Dhabi.  This post will take a look at the announcement and try to figure out the why and why now of this groundbreaking news.