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Wildwood Inside Look

LAIKA

LAIKA's latest film, Wildwood, if full of magic and mystery. In this behind-the-scenes look, you'll get a glimpse of how LAIKA's artists created their version of the historic Pittock Mansion in Portland, Oregon for the film.

Here's the official synopsis from LAIKA: 

Based on the novel by The Decemberists' Colin Meloy, Wildwood is a tale of love, loss, sacrifice, and secrets, and of the magic you can find on your doorstep, if you’re willing to look for it.

Beyond Portland’s city limits lies Wildwood. You’re not supposed to go there. You’re not even supposed to know it exists. But Prue McKeel is about to enter this enchanted wonderland. Her baby brother Mac has been taken by a murder of crows into the forest’s depths, and she – along with her hapless classmate Curtis – is going to get him back. Prue might think she’s too old for fairytales, but she’s just found herself at the center of one. One filled with strange talking animals, roguish bandits, and powerful figures with the darkest intentions.

Wildwood arrives in theaters in 2026.

EPCOT Festival of the Arts Menus

All images: Disney

The EPCOT International Festival of the Arts returns tomorrow. In addition to incredible art and performances, there will also be a wide selection of colorful foods. Here's what you can expect to find during the festival, which runs from January 16-February 23. And don't forget to grab a Festival Passport and take part in the Wonderful Walk of Colorful Cuisine. Just collect 5 stamps by purchasing specific dishes, then stop by Deco Delights for a tasty prize.

World Celebration

Opening Bites - CommuniCore Plaza

• Soft Shell Crab Slider: Green papaya slaw and mango ketchup on a sweet roll
• Enchanted Rose: Dark chocolate mousse rose 🎨
• Crooked Can Brewing Company Fantasia Fusion IPA
• von Trapp Brewing Bohemian Pilsner
• Southern Tier Brewing Co. Caramel Cookie Bar Imperial Stout 🖼
• Beer Flight
• Charles Heidsieck Brut Réserve Champagne

Connections Eatery

• BBQ Chicken Pizza: Two slices of freshly baked pizza topped with smoked chicken, sweet barbecue sauce, cheese blend, peppers, and red onions 🖼
• Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich: Spicy hand-breaded chicken, roasted garlic aïoli, and southern slaw on a toasted brioche bun 🖼
• Classic Mojito with mint foam 🖼

The Deconstructed Dish - Near Test Track

• Deconstructed BLT: Pork belly, soft-poached egg, onion bread pudding, watercress espuma, and tomato jam
• Deconstructed Key Lime Pie: Key lime curd, key lime gelée, toasted meringue, and graham cracker crumbs with waffle cone triangles 🖼 🎨
• Deconstructed Strawberry Mint Julep: Frozen mint and simple syrup blended with strawberry purée 🧋
• Wicked Weed Brewing Blank Canvas Wheat Ale
• Deconstructed Strawberry Mint Julep: Frozen mint and simple syrup blended with strawberry purée with Old Forester 86 Bourbon

Figment’s Inspiration Station at The Odyssey

• Popcorn, Popcorn Chicken and Waffles with rainbow popcorn, popcorn chicken, mini mozzarella, and maple syrup 🖼 🎨

• Figment Fantasy Cake: Sponge cake filled with strawberry whipped cream topped with a white chocolate ganache, orange icing, and white chocolate Figment wings 🖼

• Color Scheme Cake: Fruit-flavored rainbow-hued cake topped with SKITTLES POP’d Sour and Original Freeze Dried Candy 🖼 🎨
• Figment Artist Bucket with Rainbow Popcorn
• Figment Imagination Lemonade: Simply Lemonade with choice of flavor 🧋
• 3 Daughters Brewing Black Cherry Hard Cider
• 3 Daughters Brewing Orange Cream Hard Cider 🖼
• 3 Daughters Brewing Strawberry Banana Hard Cider 🖼
• Hard Cider Flight
• Brouwerij Huyghe Floris Cactus Belgian Wheat Ale 🖼
• Playalinda Brewing Co. Port of Blue Stout 🖼
• The Bruery Enticing Boysenberry Sour Blonde Ale 🖼
• Beer Flight

World Showcase

El Artista Hambriento - Mexico

• Chile Relleno Taco: Flour tortilla filled with seared beef tenderloin, poblano pepper, black beans, and salsa roja 🖼

• Tostada de Cangrejo: Crispy corn tortilla topped with guacamole, lump crab, mango, crispy onions, and hot sauce 🖼
• Passion Fruit Paleta: Tropical passion fruit ice pop filled with sweetened condensed milk and topped with chili-lime seasoning 🖼
• Mexican Craft Beer
• Matcharita: Contraluz Reposado Cristalino Tequila, matcha tea, strawberry liqueur, and sweet cream 🖼
• Pear-fect Margarita: Calenda Mezcal Joven, prickly pear purée, passion fruit purée, and LeJay Crème de Cassis with a potpourri salt rim 🖼

Kringla Bakeri Og Kafe - Norway

• Hazelnut Praline Boller: Cardamom bun with hazelnut cream 🖼

The Painted Panda - China

• General Tso’s Chicken Shumai: Dumplings filled with chicken, asparagus, onion, and water chestnut topped with General Tso’s sauce 🖼

• Char Siu Pork Bun: Sweet-and-savory Cantonese-style BBQ pork in a steamed bun 🖼
• Egg Tart: Hong Kong-style egg custard tart
• Strawberry Bubble Milk Tea 🧋
• Dragonfruit Lager
• Silk River Hard Lemonade with vodka, lavender-coconut syrup, and Minute Maid Premium Lemonade
• Butterfly Blue: Butterfly pea flower-infused cocktail with vodka, light rum, lychee syrup, and crystal boba pearls

Refreshment Outpost - Between China & Germany

• Artist Palette Jumbo Chocolate Chip Cookie
• Boyd & Blair Blood Orange Cosmo
• Parish Brewing Co. Blueberry Mochi Berliner Weisse
• Brewlando Liquid Art Pilsner
• Wicked Weed Brewing Abstract Blonde Ale 🖼

Pastoral Palate - Germany

• Red Wine-braised Beef Short Rib with parsnip purée, broccolini, baby tomatoes, and balsamic glaze
• Black Forest Cake: Chocolate mousse with morello cherries and chantilly cream
• 3 Daughters Brewing Rosé Hard Cider
• 81Bay Brewing Co. Rosé Blonde Ale
• Frozen Rosé
• A Play on Rosé Flight
• Hex Vom Dasenstein Pinot Noir 🖼

L’Arte di Mangiare - Italy

• Mozzarella Fritta: Flash-fried breaded fresh mozzarella with artist palette condiments
• Polenta Pasticciata: Polenta, bolognese, Parmesan, mozzarella, and tomato sauce 🖼

• Raspberry Spuma: Vanilla sauce, mint whipped cream, and puffed rice 🖼
• Peroni Pilsner
• Prosecco
• Moscato
• Chianti
• Italian Red Sangria
• Italian-inspired Margarita with Tequila and Fabrizia Blood Orange Liqueur 🖼
• Sicilian Sunrise: Canella Granriviera Mimosa and Luxardo Aperitivo 🖼

The Artist’s Table - The American Adventure

• Steakhouse Lobster Caesar Salad with romaine and red oak lettuces, warmwater lobster, radish, herbed breadcrumbs, and house-made Caesar dressing 🖼

• Peppercorn-crusted Striploin with grilled asparagus, potatoes au gratin, and au poivre butter 🖼

• Dark Chocolate Torte: Flourless chocolate cake, whipped cream, and raspberries 🖼
• Playalinda Brewing Co. Old Fashioned Playa Ale 🖼
• Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon

Funnel Cake - The American Adventure

• Wild Berry Funnel Cake: Funnel cake sandwich with vanilla ice cream and powdered sugar topped with brown sugar brandy-wild berry compote, whipped cream, and dark chocolate sauce 🖼

Goshiki - Japan

• Taiyaki: Crisp, flaky fish-shaped chocolate-flavored pastry filled with custard and served with whipped topping 🖼
• Sushi Doughnut: Doughnut-shaped sushi with salmon, tuna, shrimp, cucumber, and sesame seeds over a decorated plate of wasabi aïoli, sriracha aïoli, and eel sauce

• Tokyo Kawaii Roll: Crispy shrimp tempura wrapped in multicolor sushi rice and topped with refreshing yellow yuzu sauce and tangy plum sauce 🖼

• Wagyu Bun: Steamed bun filled with sweet-and-savory minced American wagyu beef 🖼
• Grapey Apple Boba: Crafted black grape beverage with green apple popping boba 🖼🧋
• Crooked Can Brewing Company Wasabi IPA 🖼
• Masu Sake served in a traditional personalized wooden cup
• Sake Flight: Peach, mango, and strawberry-flavored Nigori sake 🖼
• Yuzu-Pineapple Punch: Shochu-based cocktail with refreshing yuzu and pineapple flavors 🖼

Tangierine Café: Flavors of the Medina - Morocco

• Moroccan Wrap with tomato-cucumber relish and garlic sauce served on warm Moroccan flatbread
• Chermoula Chicken
• Moroccan-spiced lamb
• Plant-based Falafel
• Stone-baked Moroccan Bread with assorted dips
• Rekorderlig Strawberry-Lime Hard Cider
• Keel Farms Blueberry Lavender Hard Cider
• Blake’s Hard Cider Co. Pomegranate Fizz Hard Cider 🖼
• Hard Cider Flight

Vibrante & Vívido - Between Morocco and France

• Chorizo and Potato Empanada with turmeric aïoli and annatto aïoli 🎨
• Spicy Ajiaco Soup with guajillo and árbol chili-spiced chicken, potato, avocado, corn, and crème fraîche
• Passion Fruit-filled Mango Cheesecake with coconut-pineapple cake, dragon fruit gelée, and dragon fruit-strawberry sauce

• Layered Berry-Piña Colada Smoothie: Wild berry, piña colada, and strawberry 🧋
• Collective Arts Brewing Guava Dream Blonde Ale
• Layered Berry-Piña Colada Smoothie: Wild berry, piña colada, and strawberry with spiced rum

L’Art de la Cuisine Française - France

• Crème de Brie en Petit Pain: Warm creamy brie in a house-made bread bowl
• Gâteau de Crabe, Bisque de Homard, Crème Citron et Aneth: Crab cake, lobster bisque, and lemon-dill sour cream 🖼

• Éclair au Chocolat et à l’Orange, Crème à l’Orange, Ganache au Chocolat, Croustillant de Noisettes et Oranges Confites: Chocolate-orange éclair, orange cream, chocolate ganache, crispy hazelnut, and candied oranges 🖼
• Chardonnay, Laroque, Cite de Carcassonne 🖼
• Charles Lafitte, Brut Rosé Prestige, Méthode Traditionnel Champenoise
• Frozen French Martini: Grey Goose Vodka, Vodka, Chambord Liqueur, DOLE Pineapple Juice, Minute Maid Orange Juice, and grape juice with lemon-lime foam

Gourmet Landscapes - Canada

• Wild Mushroom Risotto with aged Parmesan, truffle shavings, and zinfandel reduction 🥬
• Roasted Bone Marrow with onion marmalade, pickled mushrooms, and petite lettuce
• Citrus-braised Beet Tartare with golden beet “egg yolk,” mustard vinaigrette, pickled mustard seeds, pickled mushrooms, spiced pistachios, and “feta” snow 🥬 🎨
• Whole Hog Brewery Raspberry Chéret Double Radler
• Schlumberger Cuvée Klimt Brut
• Orin Swift Abstract California Red Blend 🖼
• Frozen Scotch Cocktail: Scotch and Twinings Chai Tea garnished with a chocolate nail

World Discovery

Fictional Victuals - Near Disney Traders

• Chapter 1: Beach Oysters: Grilled oysters, mustard seed-peppercorn sabayon, and creamed spinach 🖼

• Chapter 2: Plate of Impossible Bites: Roasted turkey breast, onion and bacon custard tart, cherry gel, brown butter toast milk foam, and pineapple-toffee butter 🖼

• Chapter 3: Tea Treat: Twinings Earl Grey Tea Treat Chocolate Pot de Crème, lemon madeleine, rose and raspberry jam, and a tea biscuit crumble 🖼
• Upside Down Shake: Yellow cake soft-serve featuring Twinings English Breakfast Tea 🖼🧋
• Central 28 Beer Company Rose Garden Red Ale 🖼
• Upside Down Shake: Yellow cake soft-serve with Twinings English Breakfast Tea and whipped cream vodka 🖼

Deco Delights - Near Port of Entry

• Sparkling Spectacle Gâteau: Vanilla bean mousse with a golden caramel center and apricot jam on a hazelnut cookie 🖼 🎨
• Crooked Can Brewing Company Buttercream Fresco 🖼
• Keel Farms Strawberry Shortcake Hard Cider
• Boyd & Blair Espresso Martini

Swirled Showcase - Walkway between World Showcase and Imagination! Pavilion

• Pink Vanilla Soft-serve in a Cone
• DOLE Whip in a Cone 🥬
• Lemon
• Lime
• Strawberry
• Imagination Cone: Pink vanilla soft-serve in a lavender cone, “sparks” of imagination, and white chocolate Figment wings
• Candy Trio Flight: DOLE Whip Strawberry with STARBURST MINIS fruit chews, DOLE Whip Lemon with SKITTLES POP’d Original Freeze Dried Candy, and DOLE Whip Lime with chili-lime seasoning and LIFE SAVERS gummies

• Liquid Nitrogen Minnie Cake Pop with cotton candy sponge cake, white chocolate ganache, and colorful chocolate splats 🖼 🎨

Pop Eats - Walkway between World Showcase and Imagination! Pavilion

• Grilled Cheese served with tomato soup
• Croque Monsieur-inspired Grilled Cheese with Black Forest ham, Gruyère, and béchamel sauce served with tomato soup 🖼
• Gulf Stream Brewing Company Pixel Perfect Pilsner 🖼
• Blanc de Bleu Cuvée Mousseux with fruit juice-filled pearls

The Craftsman’s Courtyard - Walkway between World Showcase and Imagination! Pavilion

• Beef Wellington-inspired Croissant Supreme with creamed spinach croissant pinwheel, mushroom-gorgonzola ragoût, mustard-grilled flank steak, red wine sauce, and pickled mustard seeds
• Cast Iron-roasted P.E.I. Mussels with sautéed tomatoes, garlic, and fresh herbs
• BrewDog Black Heart Nitro Oatmeal Stout
• Coffee Old Fashioned Cocktail: Joffrey’s Cold Brew Coffee, simple syrup, orange bitters, and Jim Beam Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

World Nature

Sunshine Seasons

• The Architecture of Drip: Blueberry-flavored gelato topped with scoops of banana and berry whipped cream, a waffle cone, and sprinkles 🖼

Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company - throughout the park

• Pop Art Latte: Espresso with choice of milk and vanilla syrup topped with lavender whipped cream and SKITTLES POP’d Original Freeze Dried Candy 🖼🧋 (Spirited version available with Baileys Original Irish Cream Liqueur)

And to make paying easy, be sure to pick up this Figment Gift Card, available at festival kiosks, Creations Shop, and other select stores. Just put it on and you can scan it to pay for food, merchandise, and more.

🖼 - New

🧋 - Non-alcoholic 

🥬 - Plant-based 

🥖 - Gluten-friendly

🎨 - Wonderful Walk of Colorful Cuisine

Avengers: Doomsday - Wakanda

Marvel

The latest trailer for Marvel's Avengers: Doomsday features a rather unlikely team up. King M'Baku and Shuri, the Black Panther, from Wakanda are meeting someone unexpected. And there's a glimpse of the Talokanil people as well.

Avengers: Doomsday arrives in theaters on December 18th.

Hoppers Special Look

All images: Pixar

Pixar's Hoppers looks so funny. Mabel definitely gets in over her head while living as a beaver. It seems she's started a revolution!

Here's the official synopsis from Pixar: 

What if you could talk to animals and understand what they’re saying? In Disney and Pixar’s all-new feature film “Hoppers,” scientists have discovered how to “hop” human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals, allowing people to communicate with animals as animals! 

The adventure introduces Mabel, an animal lover who seizes an opportunity to use the technology, uncovering mysteries within the animal world that are beyond anything she could have imagined. “Hoppers'" all-star ensemble features the voices of Meryl Streep (Insect Queen), Dave Franco (Titus), Kathy Najimy (Dr. Sam), Eduardo Franco (Loaf), Melissa Villaseñor (Ellen), Ego Nwodim (Fish Queen), Vanessa Bayer (Diane), Sam Richardson (Conner), Aparna Nancherla (Nisha), Nichole Sakura (Reptile Queens), Isiah Whitlock Jr. (Bird King), Steve Purcell (Amphibian King), Karen Huie (Grandma Tanaka) and Tom Law (Tom Lizard), along with previously announced voice cast members Piper Curda (Mabel), Bobby Moynihan (King George) and Jon Hamm (Mayor Jerry).

Hoppers arrives in theaters on March 6.

Wonder Man Trailer 2

All images: Marvel

The latest trailer for Marvel's Wonder Man looks hilarious. They are definitely poking fun at the fact that they've already made 37 superhero movies, so of course they're going to make another one.

Here's the official synopsis from Marvel: 

Aspiring Hollywood actor Simon Williams is struggling to get his career off the ground. During a chance meeting with Trevor Slattery, an actor whose biggest roles may be well behind him, Simon learns legendary director Von Kovak is remaking the superhero film “Wonder Man”. These two actors at opposite ends of their careers doggedly pursue life-changing roles in this film as audiences get a peek behind the curtain of the entertainment industry.

All 8 episodes of Wonder Man arrive on DisneyPlus on January 27th.

Ursula K. Le Guin Quote

Photo by Marion Wood Kolisch

"People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within."

- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind