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Ears the News is brought to you courtesy of our friends at  WDWMagic.com . --Epcot's Living with the Land boat ride will be closing for a short refurbishment in September 2015. The closure begins on September 8 and runs through to September 17 2015.   Walt Disney World Resort will once again be celebrating Independence Day with special firework displays, patriotic character meet and greets, and music concerts on July 3 and July 4 2015. Magic Kingdom “Disney’s Celebrate America! A Fourth of July Concert in the Sky” will be performed at 9:00 PM on both July 3 and July 4. Park hours are July 3 – 8:00 AM to 1:00 AM, with Extra Magic Hours 1:00 AM to 3:00 AM. July 4 – 8:00 AM to 1: AM. Disney's Hollywood Studios “Rockin’ Fourth of July Celebration” fireworks show at 10:15 PM on July 4. Park hours are 9:00 AM to midnight, with morning Extra Magic Hours from 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Epcot “Illuminations: Reflections of Earth” with July 4 finale at 10pm on July

Bon voyage! Today, several Kingdom Konsultant agents are setting sail on the Disney Dream for the First Annual Kingdom Konsultant and WDWMagic Family Cruise! Follow Kingdom Konsultants on Instagram to see photos posted live from our adventures at sea.

On June 22, we will be boarding the Disney Dream for the first ever Kingdom Konsultants & WDWMagic Family Cruise.  We'll be spending 4 fun filled nights on our Bahamian cruise that will feature 2 stops at Disney's beautiful private island, Castaway Cay!  Tomorrow, several Kingdom Konsultant agents and members of WDWMagic.com will be on their way to Walt Disney World for a weekend of pre-cruise fun.  Follow Kingdom Konsultants on Instagram to see photos posted live from our adventures. Let's go cruising! 

Ears the News is brought to you courtesy of our friends at  WDWMagic.com . At Disney's Coronado Springs Resort, the Casitas leisure pool, the La Vida Health Club, and the Case de Belleza Salon are all closing for a lengthy refurbishment. The closure begins on July 5 2015, through to October 12, with a planned reopening to guests on October 13 2015. During the refurbishment the resort's other pools will remain open as normal. Splash Mountain has been added to the Magic Kingdom evening Extra Magic Hours line-up. Although the EMH line-up has varied over the years, Splash Mountain has not been in the line-up for several years now. Splash Mountain still remains unavailable during morning EMH. The refurbishment of the Flame Tree Barbecue at Disney's Animal Kingdom has been extended yet again. Originally planned to open in April 2015 - and then several other later dates, the refurbishment is now set to be complete on June 29. Following its closure on Janua

It’s happened to all of us.  You’re two Fastpass+ selections into your day at a Disney park and you have a while until you can use your next one.  Maybe it’s not meal time, or parade time, or you don’t feel like getting in the back of that 200 minute wait standby line for Soarin’ (I’m not making this up, guys!), so what do you do?  What attractions are accessible during those heavy crowd times, or what else can you do during that lull? Magic Kingdom There is so much to do at the Magic Kingdom, I don’t know that you can ever consider any of these things “killing time”!  My go-to’s when I’m looking for something with a short line are:
 Mickey’s PhilharMagic - SUCH a fun show, and something that’s always on my list of to do’s anyway!
 Swiss Family Treehouse - This is pure Disney nostalgia to me.  It dates back to not only the opening of Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, but had roots before that at Disneyland.  Since the Disneyland original has been re-themed to Tarzan, this is

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