Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away debuted at Magic Kingdom — the park's first daily nighttime parade since the Main Street Electrical Parade's final run in October 2016; led by the Blue Fairy and featuring units for Pinocchio, Wish, Encanto, Frozen, Coco, Moana and Peter Pan, closing with a Mickey-and-Minnie train finale. Preview performances ran July 18-19 ahead of the July 20 official debut.
Everything that changed here
across the land, newest first- 2026
As of May 11, 2026, cast members at Uptown Jewelers no longer wear the turn-of-the-century themed costumes, instead choosing their own workwear within Disney's appearance guidelines.
- 2026
Changedat The Plaza Restaurant
Refreshed its milkshake menu, adding Cookies 'n Cream and Chocolate-Hazelnut shakes as the first phase of a 2026 menu refresh.
- 2026
Updateat Curtain Call Collectibles
As of January 2026, the shop's on-site embroidery menu is priced at $4.99 for basic name stitching and from $7.99 for premium customization (up to two lines, multiple fonts and colors).
- 2025
- 2025
A refurbishment that began in mid-January 2025 was substantially complete, with cash registers relocated to the far north and south ends of the store to open up walking space.
- 2025
Refurbishmentat The Plaza Restaurant
A second round of exterior work, behind construction walls and themed scrim since February, wrapped in mid-March 2025 with no visible changes to the facade; the restaurant remained open.
- 2024
Refurbishmentat The Plaza Restaurant
Completed a roughly three-month exterior refurbishment (begun June 2024) that refreshed the building's paint and lighting and removed the frosted window decals while keeping its historic color scheme; the restaurant stayed open throughout.
- 2024
Changedat Tony's Town Square Restaurant
A menu refresh overhauled the desserts — adding a $9.50 Classic Cannoli and $8.50 Summer Berry Tiramisu while dropping the Spumoni Tart — reworked the House Salad, and lowered the seasonal soup from $10 to $9.
- 2024
Changedat Main Street Cinema
In February 2024 the shop's marquee was updated to 'Now Showing Mickey Mousterpieces,' rebranding the store around Mickey Mouse-themed souvenirs and merchandise.
- 2023
Changedat Tony's Town Square Restaurant
Under a new head chef the menu was revamped, debuting the signature foot-long mozzarella sticks and garlic bread with table-side parmesan fondue, beginning to turn the restaurant's reputation around.
- 2023
Changedat The Plaza Restaurant
Overhauled its menu, adding 14 dishes including a Crab Cake Sandwich ($26) and Pot Roast Stack ($24) while dropping 6 items such as the Plaza Reuben, for a net gain of 8 options.
- 2023
Changedat Casey's Corner
Added a plant-based Chicago-style dog to the menu — a Beyond brat with Chicago-style toppings — priced at $12.29.
- 2023
Nerfat Happily Ever After
The finale laser effects, briefly restored for the 2023 return, were removed; they were last documented working on June 2, 2023.
- 2023
Happily Ever After returned to Magic Kingdom for the Disney100 celebration, replacing Disney Enchantment; the revived version added projection mapping on the facades of Main Street, U.S.A. plus the hub and Main Street ambient sound effects first introduced in Enchantment.
Disney Enchantment→Happily Ever After - 2023
New character projections joined the stained-glass finale — Miguel (Coco), Mirabel and Bruno (Encanto), Elena of Avalor, Mei (Turning Red), Raya, and Luca — first seen during the 2023 return previews.
- 2023
Changedat Box Office Gifts
Box Office Gifts became the new home for all of Magic Kingdom's Art of Disney merchandise, which relocated from Bonjour! Village Gifts in Fantasyland.
- 2022
Winnie the Pooh and Friends character dining returned to the buffet for lunch and dinner, and the price rose from $39 to $59 per adult and from $23 to $38 per child.
- 2022
Changedat Tony's Town Square Restaurant
Overhauled the menu — removing the 50th-anniversary items and pizza and adding new antipasti and entrees — in a refresh reviewed in full by WDW News Today.
- 2022
The parade returned after a roughly two-year COVID-era suspension, running in a slimmed-down, modified form with fewer floats and performers.
- 2022
Returned reimagined as Mickey's Magical Friendship Faire for Walt Disney World's 50th anniversary, adding a new opening and finale, the original anthem 'Where the Magic Feels Like Home,' and EARidescent costumes while reprising the Frozen, Tangled and Princess and the Frog numbers.
Mickey's Royal Friendship Faire→Mickey's Magical Friendship Faire - 2021
The reimagined Confectionery reopened September 29, 2021 (soft-opened Sept 28) for Walt Disney World's 50th anniversary, now hosted by Mars Wrigley with M&M's, Skittles, and Snickers branding added.
- 2021
Happily Ever After played its final original-run performance and went dark, retired to make way for Disney Enchantment ahead of Walt Disney World's 50th anniversary; it stayed off the schedule for about 18 months.
Happily Ever After→Disney Enchantment - 2021
The Chapeau did not reopen as a hat shop; part of its former space was absorbed into the expanded Main Street Confectionery (home to the new Kernel Kitchen), which reopened September 28, 2021, a day ahead of its scheduled September 29 date.
- 2021
Changedat The Crystal Palace
The Crystal Palace returned to its all-you-can-eat buffet menu format after operating family-style during the pandemic, though the Winnie the Pooh characters still remained absent at this stage.
- 2021
Changedat Main Street Confectionery
The September 2021 relaunch overhauled the menu with 30+ new treats plus interactive make-your-own stations (Kernel Kitchen popcorn, Color Kitchen candy mixes, Glacier Kitchen frozen drinks) and a candy wall of 38 M&M's and Skittles varieties.
- 2021
Changedat Main Street Cinema
For Walt Disney World's 50th Anniversary, the shop was reconcepted in September 2021 into a retro-themed Vault Collection store selling re-created and re-imagined vintage Disney merchandise.
- 2021
The parlor reopened on July 7, 2021 after being closed since the pandemic-era park shutdown, bringing back scooped ice cream flavors and sundaes on the menu.
- 2021
Curtain Call Collectibles was reconcepted into a Magic Kingdom headwear and on-site embroidery location, absorbing the hats, ears, and personalization offerings after The Chapeau closed in late March 2021 ahead of the 50th anniversary.
- 2021
The shop closed March 29, 2021, for a roughly six-month reimagining refurbishment that expanded and redesigned the interior.
- 2021
The Chapeau closed on March 27, 2021 for a lengthy remodeling and expansion project tied to Magic Kingdom's 50th anniversary, with hat sales and embroidery temporarily relocated to Box Office Gifts and Curtain Call Collectibles.
- 2021
Changedat Box Office Gifts
Box Office Gifts temporarily took over hat sales and Mickey Ear embroidery services while the neighboring shop The Chapeau closed for a lengthy 50th-anniversary remodel.
- 2020
Back Onlineat The Crystal Palace
After its COVID-19 closure The Crystal Palace reopened with a very different menu, dropping the buffet for family-style starters and dessert plus an a la carte entree, and with no characters.
- 2020
Gave its final performance as the original Royal Friendship Faire when Walt Disney World closed for the COVID-19 pandemic; that version of the show did not return when the park reopened in July 2020.
- 2018
The fire-breathing Maleficent dragon float caught fire mid-parade in Liberty Square, destroying its head; no injuries were reported and the float was pulled from the lineup afterward.
- 2017
Happily Ever After debuted at Magic Kingdom, replacing Wishes after nearly 14 years; it added full Cinderella Castle projection mapping, lasers, and dozens of choreographed searchlights atop the pyrotechnics.
Wishes: A Magical Gathering of Disney Dreams→Happily Ever After - 2016
Reintroduced Louis the alligator (The Princess and the Frog) into the show after he had been cut from the June debut, restoring his lines that were temporarily reassigned to an ensemble dancer.
- 2016
Opened as Mickey's Royal Friendship Faire, the Cinderella Castle Forecourt stage show replacing the long-running Dream Along with Mickey, with segments from Frozen, Tangled and The Princess and the Frog.
Dream Along with Mickey→Mickey's Royal Friendship Faire - 2015
Changedat Uptown Jewelers
Uptown Jewelers was redesigned as a Victorian-era collectibles shop with a dedicated PANDORA boutique opening in February 2015 (formally announced April 21, 2015).
- 2014
Disney Festival of Fantasy Parade debuted at Magic Kingdom — nine floats across seven units celebrating New Fantasyland stories, set to an original score by Mark Hammond.
Celebrate A Dream Come True Parade→Disney Festival of Fantasy Parade - 2013
Main Street Bakery reopened June 18, 2013 reconcepted as a Starbucks, with a new menu of Starbucks beverages, breakfast sandwiches and baked goods and all indoor seating removed to enlarge the retail space.
- 2013
With the Starbucks conversion the bakery's signature cinnamon roll was removed from the menu and relocated to New Fantasyland (Gaston's Tavern).
- 2013
The bakery closed on January 13, 2013 for a roughly five-month renovation to reconcept it into a Starbucks location.
- 2011
Box Office Gifts opened as a camera and Disney PhotoPass supply shop inside the newly built Town Square Theater, which replaced the former Town Square Exposition Hall on Main Street, U.S.A.
- 2011
Curtain Call Collectibles opened in spring 2011 as the retail shop and exit of the new Town Square Theater on Main Street, U.S.A., which replaced the former Town Square Exposition Hall (earlier home of The Walt Disney Story).
- 2007
Changedat Main Street Cinema
After VMK Central closed on September 30, 2007, the space reopened in November 2007 as 'The Art of Disney' gift shop selling Disney artwork and collectibles.
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Zone Updateat The Chapeau
The original 1971 'party line' telephone, on which guests could eavesdrop on a scripted conversation, was relocated to the far end of The Chapeau in 2007 after the Main Street Market House closed.
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Changedat Crystal Arts
In 2007, Crystal Arts relocated into the Main Street, U.S.A. space formerly occupied by the Market House.
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Changedat Emporium
A major 2001 expansion filled in West Center Street, connecting the Emporium into one continuous store spanning nearly the entire west side of Main Street, U.S.A.
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Changedat Disney Clothiers
In 2001 the Emporium's West Center Street expansion absorbed Disney Clothiers into the larger Emporium complex, so it ceased to be listed as an independent shop while keeping its distinctive yellow storefront facade.
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Refurbishmentat Main Street Cinema
In early 1998, the Main Street Cinema closed as a film attraction.
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Changedat The Crystal Palace
The restaurant was reconcepted from a cafeteria into an all-you-can-eat character buffet, 'The Crystal Palace: A Buffet with Character,' featuring visits from Winnie the Pooh and friends.
- 1995
Rethemed and renamed from the Refreshment Corner to Casey's Corner, adopting a vintage baseball motif based on the poem "Casey at the Bat."
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Changedat Main Street Bakery
After Sara Lee ended its sponsorship in the mid-1980s and the venue cycled through names as the Main Street Bake Shop, Nestle Toll House assumed sponsorship in 1993 before the name reverted to Main Street Bakery in 2001.
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Changedat The Plaza Ice Cream Parlor
In 1993 the location's name was changed to the Plaza Ice Cream Parlor after Sealtest ended its sponsorship.
- 1989
Reconcepted and renamed Tony's Town Square Restaurant — the open-air courtyard was enclosed and the space took on a 'Lady and the Tramp' Italian, table-service theme.
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Changedat Main Street Cinema
By 1988, coinciding with Mickey Mouse's 60th Birthday, the cinema switched exclusively to showing classic Disney animated shorts.
- 1986
On May 5, 1986, Uptown Jewelers expanded by taking over the neighboring Cup 'n Saucer and New Century Clock Shop spaces.
- 1985
Disney Clothiers opened February 24, 1985 on Main Street U.S.A. at Magic Kingdom, taking over the former Hallmark Card Shop space and selling Disney character apparel, accessories, higher-end fashions, and jewelry.
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Changedat Emporium
The Emporium's first major expansion took over the adjacent space that had housed The Greenhouse flower shop.
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Changedat The Plaza Ice Cream Parlor
In 1981 Borden did not renew its sponsorship and Sealtest took over, renaming the location the Sealtest Ice Cream Parlor.
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Newat The Plaza Restaurant
The Plaza Restaurant was created as its own table-service dining room when the adjacent ice cream parlor's large seating area was walled off.
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Changedat The Plaza Ice Cream Parlor
In 1977 a large portion of the parlor's seating area was walled off to create a separate sit-down eatery, The Plaza Restaurant.
- 1971
Borden's Ice Cream Parlor opened on Main Street, U.S.A. with Magic Kingdom on opening day; The Plaza Restaurant would later be carved out of this location.
- 1971
The Crystal Palace opened on Magic Kingdom's first day as a cafeteria-style restaurant, its Victorian glass-and-iron building patterned after a conservatory Prince Albert built in honor of Queen Victoria.
- 1971
Opened as the Coca-Cola-sponsored "Refreshment Corner" on Main Street, U.S.A. with the rest of Magic Kingdom.
- 1971
Main Street Bakery opened with Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971, themed as a turn-of-the-century tearoom and originally sponsored by Sara Lee.
- 1971
The venue opened with Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971 as Borden's Ice Cream Parlor on Main Street, U.S.A.
- 1971
Main Street Confectionery opened October 1, 1971, as an original opening-day candy shop on Main Street, U.S.A. at Magic Kingdom.
- 1971
The Emporium opened with Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971 as a single corner shop at Town Square, becoming Main Street, U.S.A.'s flagship store.
- 1971
The Chapeau, a hat shop selling personalized Mickey Mouse ear hats and other headwear, opened on Main Street, U.S.A. at Magic Kingdom on the park's opening day.
- 1971
Main Street Cinema opened with Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971, as a theater showing classic silent films.
- 1971
Opened with Magic Kingdom on Main Street, U.S.A. as the open-air, Oscar Mayer-sponsored Town Square Cafe, serving counter-service fare such as hot dogs and soda.
- 1971
Newat Uptown Jewelers
Uptown Jewelers opened as a turn-of-the-century jewelry shop on Main Street, U.S.A. when Magic Kingdom debuted in October 1971.
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Newat Crystal Arts
Crystal Arts opened on Main Street, U.S.A. at Magic Kingdom when the park debuted in 1971, presented by the Arribas Brothers (Alfonso and Tomas Arribas) as a handblown glass and crystal shop.