Patch Notes // latest change 2026.07.14
Art of Animation · Walt Disney World Resort Hotels · Walt Disney World
Shop · tracked since 2012 · Walt Disney World Resort Hotels · 4 changes on record
Kid-sized shopping carts introduced at Ink & Paint Shop for Cool Kids' Summer.
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The Ink & Paint Shop opened May 31, 2012 as the gift shop in Animation Hall (the main lobby building) during the first (Finding Nemo) phase of Disney's Art of Animation Resort, themed to the animation ink-and-paint process with wall spaces resembling oversized paint jars.
No operating venue preceded the shop; the Animation Hall building that houses it was repurposed from the never-completed 'Legendary Hall' shell of Pop Century's 'Legendary Years' second phase, whose construction began in 1999 and was suspended after the post-9/11 tourism decline, then sat abandoned before being renamed Animation Hall and reopening as part of Art of Animation in 2012.
That's every change on the record at Ink & Paint Shop since 2012.
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Per the documented record, Ink & Paint Shop at Walt Disney World Resort Hotels opened on May 31, 2012.
The latest documented change (documented Jul 14, 2026): Kid-sized shopping carts introduced at Ink & Paint Shop for Cool Kids' Summer.
4 documented changes, dating back to 2012 — the fan-kept shop changelog nobody else keeps.
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