Everything You Need to Know About Disney World’s 3 NEW Announcements

Everything You Need to Know About Disney World’s 3 NEW Announcements

The Walt Disney Company had some fun news this week with one major surprise!

EPCOT

The Disney Company is keeping us on our toes in 2025 with major changes like DinoLand’s closure beginning, Muppet Vision 3D signing off soon, and the continued search for the next Disney CEO which will be announced sometime next year. There is always something going on within the Disney brand so we’re wrapping up the three biggest news stories from this week!

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It’s been a busy week for Disney! Of our three new stories this week, 2 of them were exciting and 1 left us baffled! Starting off with the sweetest news, Disney’s newest baby has made his debut! Baby Bakso is the Sumatran tiger cub that was born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom and we can finally go see him ourselves.

Via @drmarkatdisney on Instagram

Bakso arrived at the Maharajah Jungle Trek earlier this week with his mom, Sohni, for guests to enjoy. When we stopped by he was sleeping quietly in the grass so he was hard to spot, but he was there! We promise!

Oh Bakso, where are you?

We’ve been watching Bakso through Disney’s Tiger Tuesday updates online and it has been so exciting to see him grow!

See more about Bakso’s debut here! 

Our next news story takes us over to EPCOT for the Flower and Garden Festival! The next festival begins on March 5th and will run until June 2nd, 2025, and we finally got to see the full lineup for the Garden Rocks Concert Series! 

Garden Rocks 2022

The Garden Rocks Concert Series showcases global and local talent and plays periodically throughout the festival. This year’s line up features several new artists which you can see right here.

  • March 7th-8th – Tommy DeCarlo, former lead singer of Boston
  • March 9th-10th – Air Supply – 50th Anniversary Celebration
  • March 14th-15th – Blue October
  • March 16th-17th – Rick Springfield
  • March 21st-22nd – Herman’s Hermits starring Peter Noone
  • March 23rd-24th – 38 Special
  • March 28th-29th – Jason Scheff, longtime singer of Chicago
  • March 30th-31st – TBD
  • April 4th-5th – THE ORCHESTRA Starring ELO and ELO Part II Former Members
  • April 6th-7th – Sugar Ray
  • April 11th-12th – Simple Plan
  • April 13th-14th – Jo Dee Messina
  • April 18th-19th – Mike DelGuidice
  • April 20th-21st – A Flock of Seagulls
  • April 25th-26th – Taylor Dayne
  • April 27th-28th – 98 Degrees
  • May 2nd-5th – Plain White T’s
  • May 9th-10th – Jon Secada
  • May 11th-12th – Maverick City Music (NEW)
  • May 16th-17th – The Spinners
  • May 18th-19th – The Pointer Sisters
  • May 23rd-24th – The Outlaws (NEW)
  • May 25th-26th – Don Felder, formerly of the Eagles
  • May 30th-31st – The Cat Empire (NEW)
  • June 1st-2nd – We The Kingdom (NEW)

2023 Garden Rocks Concert

We can’t wait to see these artists rock the stage again when the Flower and Garden Festival begins!

Get more information about Garden Rocks Concerts and Dining Package here!

Finally, the news that surprised us the most is we finally know what is happening with the abandoned Star Wars hotel! The Galactic Starcruiser was a Star Wars hotel experience that was only open from March 1st, 2022 until September 30th, 2023.

Star Wars Hotel cabin

The hotel was described as “stepping into your own Star Wars story” and while it was a truly immersive experience it was met with criticism due to the pricing. Since the closure of the hotel, the building has sat empty until now. We found out this week that the hotel is being turned into office space for Walt Disney Imagineering.

©Disney

The space will be used as a hub for many big projects including the new Pueblo Esperanza land coming to Disney’s Animal Kingdom, the Cars and Villains Land in Magic Kingdom, and the Monsters, INC. land in Disney’s Hollywood Studios. According to the report, the office buildings will not be accessible to guests.

Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser

After waiting patiently for the fate of the hotel, we finally know what will happen to one of Disney’s largest projects to date.

If you didn’t get to experience the Galactic Starcruise (or you did and want to reminisce!), you can watch the video of our space cruise right here!

Get every detail on the major change to the Galatic Starcruiser! 

That’s it for the biggest news of the week! We’re ready to say hi to Bakso, rock out in EPCOT, and mourn a hotel that’s been closed for over a year. Don’t forget to keep following DFB for more Disney news.

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