Patch Notes // latest change 2025.05
BoardWalk Inn · Walt Disney World Resort Hotels · Walt Disney World
Shop · opened 1996 · Walt Disney World Resort Hotels · 3 changes on record
Biggest recent change: The refurbished space reopened around May 24, 2025 with a lighter, airy sea-green color scheme and lighter wood finishes, consolidating the Character Carnival and Thimbles & Threads sections with Screen Door General Store into one cohesive store; the wider project fully wrapped when the final section, Thimbles & Threads, reopened in late June 2025. (May 2025)
Disney's BoardWalk's three connected shops, including Character Carnival, began a phased, roughly four-month refurbishment in January 2025; Screen Door General Store closed first and the work rotated through the shops so two of the three stayed open at all times, with Character Carnival itself closed for renovation by March 2025.
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Character Carnival is one of the three connected retail shops (with Screen Door General Store and Thimbles & Threads) that make up the BoardWalk shopping area, which opened as an original part of Disney's BoardWalk resort and entertainment district on July 1, 1996.
That's every change on the record at Character Carnival since 1996.
The spotters in our Discord catch the next one first — and the record only grows when someone notices.
Per the documented record, Character Carnival at Walt Disney World Resort Hotels opened on Jul 1, 1996.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for Character Carnival is dated Jan 2025: Disney's BoardWalk's three connected shops, including Character Carnival, began a phased, roughly four-month refurbishment in January 2025; Screen Door General Store closed first and the work rotated through the shops so two of the three stayed open at all times, with Character Carnival itself closed for renovation by March 2025.
The latest documented change (documented May 2025): The refurbished space reopened around May 24, 2025 with a lighter, airy sea-green color scheme and lighter wood finishes, consolidating the Character Carnival and Thimbles & Threads sections with Screen Door General Store into one cohesive store; the wider project fully wrapped when the final section, Thimbles & Threads, reopened in late June 2025.
3 documented changes, dating back to 1996 — the fan-kept shop changelog nobody else keeps.
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