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Tuesday, December 9, 2025

"Bah Humbug" - Pentatonix

Pentatonix Christmas in the City
Pentatonix

Pentatonix's latest Christmas album is filled with a delightful mix of songs both old and new. One of the new songs, "Bah Humbug", is based on Scrooge's journey in A Christmas Carol. It's fantastic.


Pentatonix's Christmas in the City is available as a CD, record, and from various music streaming services now.

Monday, December 8, 2025

Percy Jackson and the Olympians Special Look

Percy Jackson Season 2 Special Look
Disney

With just two days to go until the premiere of Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Disney has released a special behind-the-scenes look at the latest adventures of the kids from Camp Half-Blood. It looks rather epic!


In case you need a reminder of everything that happened in Season 1, here's a quick recap by Phineas and Ferb. It's hilarious! 


The first two episodes of Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians arrive on DisneyPlus and Hulu on December 10th. New episodes will debut each Wednesday.

Sunday, December 7, 2025

A Christmas Carol Quote

Nephew Fred
Jim Henson Company

"I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys."

- Nephew Fred, A Christmas Carol

Saturday, December 6, 2025

Retro Christmas at Hollywood Studios

Retro Christmas at Hollywood Studios

I love the retro Christmas decorations at Hollywood Studios. There are Santas, or reindeer, or bells on nearly every lightpost. Every time I see them, they make me smile. 

Friday, December 5, 2025

"All I Want For Christmas Is You" - Postmodern Jukebox

Postmodern Jukebox

I love the way Postmodern Jukebox takes familiar songs and gives them a retro twist. Their latest song is an Andrews Sisters-style version of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You."


Now, it feels like Christmas!

Thursday, December 4, 2025

Christmas Treats At EPCOT

Prototype Cookie
All images: Disney

EPCOT's Festival of the Holidays has returned with lots of holiday celebrations, music, and of course, tasty treats from around the world. And this year's Holiday Cookie Stroll has a delightful gift at the end: a Mickey cookie spatula and tube of mini M&M’S to make your own holiday cookies. These delicious delights will be available until December 30th.

Ginger-Molasses Cookie

CommuniCore Hall
Experimental Prototype Cookies of Tomorrow
  • Prototype Cookie: Sugar cookie with orange-cranberry icing and dark chocolate 🎄🍪 
  • Ginger-Molasses Cookie with cream cheese icing 🎄🍪 
  • Salted Caramel Spaceship Earth Cookie 🍪 
Gingerbread Milk Shake
  • Gingerbread Milk Shake 🧋  
  • Gingerbread Milk Shake with whipped cream vodka 
  • Hot Cocoa by Joffrey’s 🧋  
  • Hot Cocoa by Joffrey’s with whipped cream vodka 🎄  
  • Crooked Can Brewing Company Gingerbread Bock 🎄  
  • Gulf Stream Brewing Baking Spirits Bright Gingerbread Red Ale 🎄  
  • Ivanhoe Park Brewing Co. Frosted Gingerbread White Stout  
  • Beer Flight  
  • Seasonal Wine 
Panettone Holiday Trifle

CommuniCore Plaza
Favorites of Festivals Past 
  • Reuben Croquettes with pastrami, sauerkraut, and Swiss cheese with Thousand Island dipping sauce  
  • Brown Sugar and Mustard-glazed Ham Sliders with cranberry and apple coleslaw on a Hawaiian roll  
  • Panettone Holiday Trifle with eggnog custard topped with cranberry-cherry compote and sugared almonds 
  • Cigar City Brewing Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Brown Ale 🎄  
  • Keel Farms Pecan Pie Hard Cider 
  • Southern Tier Brewing Co. Tiramisu Imperial Stout 
  • Beverage Flight 
  • Seasonal White Wine  
  • Seasonal Red Wine  
  • Martin Ray Chardonnay 
  • Katherine Goldschmidt Cabernet Sauvignon 
Cranberry-Oatmeal Cookie

The Odyssey
Holiday Hearth Desserts
  • Cranberry-Oatmeal Cookie 🎄🥬🍪
  • Reindeer Chow featuring M&M’S Milk Chocolate Candies Holiday Blend  
  • Apple-Caramel Crumb Cake 
  • Chocolate-covered Toffee Brittle 
Red Velvet Cake Pop
  • Red Velvet Cake Pop with festive sprinkles 🎄  
  • Hot Cocoa by Joffrey’s 🧋  
  • Frozen Caramel Hot Cocoa featuring TWIX cookie bar pieces and Whipped Cream 🧋  
  • BRLO Winter Hard Cider 🎄  
  • Keel Farms Yukon Maple Bourbon Hard Cider 🎄  
  • 3 Daughters Brewing Peppermint Hard Cider 🎄
Cocoa Peppermint Warmer
  • Cocoa Peppermint Warmer: Hot Cocoa by Joffrey’s with peppermint schnapps
  • Wicked Weed Brewing Jack Frost IPA 
  • Ivanhoe Park Brewing Co. Cranberry Vanilla Wheat Ale 🎄  
  • Brewery Ommegang Gilded Noel White Chocolate Imperial Blonde Stout 🎄  
  • Beer Flight 
  • Hard Cider Flight   
Holiday Sugar Cookie

World Discovery
Connections Café 
  • Holiday Sugar Cookie 🍪 
Figment Holiday Sweater Liege Waffle

Connections Eatery
 
  • Figment Holiday Sweater Liege Waffle: Chocolate-coated gingerbread waffle with a flurry of blizzard-themed sprinkles and white chocolate garnish 
  • Spiced Caramel Apple: Minute Maid Cranberry Juice, apple cider, and caramel syrup garnished with a cinnamon stick 🎄🧋 (Spirited version available with Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey)
  • Mickey Toy Soldier Drummer Sipper
Tostada de Carne

World Showcase
 
Mexico
Las Posadas Holiday Kitchen
  • Tostada de Carne: Braised beef tips slowly cooked Mexican-style atop a fried corn tortilla with black beans, crispy onions, and queso fresco 🎄  
Tamal de Pollo con Mole
  • Tamal de Pollo con Mole: Shredded chicken and mole in corn masa topped with mole negro, queso fresco, crema Mexicana, slivered almonds, and sesame seeds 🎄   
Dulce de Leche Churro
  • Dulce de Leche Churro sprinkled with cinnamon sugar 🎄  
  • Chai-mazing Margarita: Chai-infused Dulce Vida Tequila Blanco, apple-ginger juice, and chai liqueur 🎄  
  • Horchata Margarita: Cinnamon-infused Ilegal Mezcal, Abasolo Corn Whiskey, agua de horchata, and cinnamon horchata rum 🎄  
  • Holiday Cerveza: Mexican artisanal craft lager with black currant liqueur  
BBQ Char Siu Pork Fried Rice

China
Shanghai Holiday Kitchen
  • BBQ Char Siu Pork Fried Rice with Chinese La Chang sausage, egg, yellow onion, green onion, and sesame 🎄   
  • Beef Noodle Soup Bowl with slow-braised beef shank, green onion, and house-made chili oil  
  • Vegetable Spring Rolls with citrus sauce  
  • Tiger Milk Tea with Assam black tea, whole milk, brown sugar syrup, and tapioca boba 🎄🧋 
  • Brew Hub Year of the Dragon: Dragon fruit lager 
  • Butterfly Lantern: Butterfly pea blossom gin, vodka, prickly pear syrup, lychee syrup, and white boba  
  • Lychee Martini: Vodka, lychee syrup, and vermouth  
  • Peach of Longevity: Peach schnapps, citrus vodka, piña colada mix, and Minute Maid Orange Juice  
Spiced Shrimp Stew with Jollof Rice

African Outpost
Refreshment Outpost
  • Spiced Shrimp Stew with Jollof Rice 🎄  
  • DOLE Whip Raspberry in a waffle cone 🥬  
  • Ivanhoe Park Brewing Co. Florida Ginger Snap Lager 🎄  
  • Crooked Can Brewing Company Chocolate Mint Cookie Stout 🎄  
  • Ciderboys Caramel Apple Hard Cider 
  • Boyd & Blair Chai Tea Mule
Pork Schnitzel

Germany
Bavaria Holiday Kitchen
  • Pork Schnitzel with mushroom sauce, spätzle, and braised red cabbage   
  • Cheese Fondue in a bread bowl with steamed baby vegetables and marble potatoes  
Hazelnut Linzer Cookie
  • Hazelnut Linzer Cookie with raspberry jam 🍪
  • Weihenstephaner Kristallweissbier 🎄 
  • Possmann Pure Hard Cider 
  • von Trapp Brewing Trösten Smoked Dark Lager 
  • Beverage Flight  
  • Regional Riesling 
  • Glühwein: House-made hot spiced wine. Served warm 
Sommerfest
  • Warm Apfel Cider with Jägermeister liqueur garnished with an orange wedge. (Served warm) 🎄 
Salsiccia e Peperoni

Italy
Tuscany Holiday Kitchen
  • Salsiccia e Peperoni: Sweet sausage, roasted peppers, and focaccia 🎄
  • Montanara: Fried house-made pizza dough with pomodoro sauce, Parmesan, and fresh basil 
Pizza e Cioccolato
  • Pizza e Cioccolato: Fried house-made pizza dough with sugar, cinnamon, and chocolate 🎄
  • Peroni Pilsner  
  • Tiramisu Stout  
  • Prosecco  
  • Moscato  
  • Chianti  
  • Italian Red Sangria  
  • Italian-inspired Blood Orange Margarita: Tequila, triple sec, and blood orange liqueur 
Apple Pie Sundae

American Adventure
Fife and Drum
  • Apple Pie Sundae: Apple pie filling with vanilla ice cream and caramel sauce topped with streusel 🎄 
Regal Eagle Smokehouse: Craft Drafts & Barbecue
  • Frozen Gingerbread Eggnog with gingerbread syrup topped with nutmeg 🎄🧋(Spirited version available with Thomas Tew Single Barrel Rum)
  • Mickey Toy Soldier Drummer Sipper
Apple Pie Frozen Slush

Block & Hans
 
  • Cinnamon-glazed Nuts 🥬 
  • Apple Pie Frozen Slush: Frozen Minute Maid Apple Juice with cinnamon syrup topped with cinnamon and sugar 🎄🧋 (Spirited version available with apple pie moonshine)
Chocolate Cookie featuring Snickers

American Holiday Table
  • Chocolate Cookie featuring SNICKERS bar pieces and salted caramel 🎄🍪  
  • Slow-roasted Turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, and cranberry sauce  
  • Blackened Catfish with Hoppin’ John and comeback sauce  
  • Victory Brewing Co. Chocolate Cherry Stout 🎄
  • Crooked Can Brewing Company Bah HOPbug IPA  
  • 3 Daughters Brewing Eggnog White Porter 
  • Beer Flight  
  • Regional White Wine 
  • Regional Red Wine  
Red Velvet Cookie Funnel Cake

Funnel Cake
 
  • Red Velvet Cookie Funnel Cake topped with powdered sugar, vanilla ice cream, cream cheese whipped cream, red velvet cookie pieces, mini chocolate chips, and chocolate syrup 🎄 
Strawberry Bun

Japan
Shi Wasu Holiday Kitchen 
  • Strawberry Bun: Soft pink dessert bao containing sweet strawberry cream filling finished with a light coconut sauce 🎄 
  • Sushi Tree Roll: Christmas tree-shaped sushi roll with krab meat and cream cheese garnished with spicy mayo and colorful rice pearls  
  • Toshikoshi Soba: Buckwheat soba noodles in hot dashi fish-based soup topped with shrimp tempura and chopped green onion  
  • Yuzu Refresher: Yuzu and passion fruit drink with Minute Maid Premium Lemonade and popping green apple boba pearls 🎄🧋 
  • Sapporo Premium Black Beer  
  • Chocolate Nigori Sake  
  • Japanese Punch: Shōchū, plum wine, white cranberry juice, and lemon juice
Moroccan Wrap

Morocco 
Tangierine Café: Flavors of the Medina
  • Moroccan Wrap with tomato-cucumber relish and garlic sauce served on warm Moroccan flatbread  
    • Chermoula Chicken  
    • Moroccan-spiced Lamb  
    • Falafel 🥬 
  • Stone-baked Moroccan Bread with assorted dips  
  • 3 Daughters Brewing Golden Fig Hard Cider 🎄  
  • Keel Farms Frostbite Blueberry Ginger Hard Cider 🎄  
  • Gulf Stream Brewing Holiday Snakebite 
  • Beverage Flight  
  • Sparkling Holiday Fig Cocktail: Sparkling Wine, Kleiner Feigling liqueur, and white cranberry juice  
Mickey-shaped Almond Black & White Cookie

Between Morocco and France
L’Chaim! Holiday Kitchen 
  • Mickey-shaped Almond Black and White Cookie 🎄🍪  
  • Pastrami on Rye with house-made pickles and deli mustard  
  • Smoked Salmon Potato Latke 
  • Potato Latkes 🥬 
  • Rugelach: Pastry with raspberry jam, walnuts, and cinnamon 🍪
  • Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout 
  • Frozen New York Whiskey Sour: Manifest Whiskey and Manischewitz Blackberry Wine  
Macaron de Noël aux Épices

France
Le Marché de Noël Holiday Kitchen
  • Macaron de Noël aux Épices: Large gingerbread macaron with spiced filling 🎄   
Dinde Rôtie, Sauce et Garniture, servi avec Patates Douces
  • Dinde Rôtie, Sauce et Garniture, servi avec Patates Douces: Roasted turkey with mushrooms, pearl onions, bacon, turkey gravy, and roasted sweet potatoes 🎄   
  • Crème de Saumon Fumé en Brioche aux Grains de Sesames, Concombre et Radis: Smoked salmon spread on a sesame brioche roll with cucumber and radishes  
  • Pierre Sparr Crémant d’Alsace Brut Rosé 🎄 
  • Vin Chaud French Mulled Wine flavored with orange and cinnamon spices. Served warm 🎄  
  • Frozen Hot Chocolate Martini: Vodka, cocoa, and whipped cream  
Maple Leaf Shortbread Cookie

Canada
Yukon Holiday Kitchen 
  • Maple Leaf Shortbread Cookie with maple buttercream 🎄🍪  
  • Seared Salmon with butternut squash purée, maple-bourbon glaze, and fennel-arugula salad  
  • Beef Bourguignon with crushed potatoes 
  • Frozen Joffrey’s Coffee 🧋  
  • 81Bay Brewing Co. Peanut Butter Banana Porter 
  • Playalinda Brewing Co. Maple Cookie Blonde Ale 
  • Collective Arts Brewing Brown Sugar Coffee Porter 🎄  
  • Beer Flight  
  • Regional Ice Wine  
  • Regional Red Wine  
  • Frozen Joffrey’s Coffee with Tap 357 Canadian Maple Rye Whisky  
Turkey Poutine

Near Canada
Refreshment Port 
  • Turkey Poutine: Sweet potato fries with turkey gravy, cranberry relish, and crispy onions 
  • Keel Farms Cinnamon Sugar Donut Hard Cider 🎄  
  • Pasek Cellars Cranberry Wine 
Festive Flight

Near Point of Entry
Holiday Sweets & Treats 
  • Peppermint Sundae: Chocolate ice cream, whipped cream, and peppermint candy  
  • Festive Flight featuring Hot Cocoa by Joffrey’s 🎄🧋
    • Christmas Sugar Cookie Hot Cocoa topped with whipped cream and sprinkles 
    • Gingerbread Hot Cocoa topped with whipped cream and a gingerbread garnish 
    • Cookie Butter Hot Cocoa topped with whipped cream and speculoos spice 
  • Hot Cocoa by Joffrey’s 🧋  
  • Chocolate-Peppermint Shake featuring Twinings Peppermint Cheer Tea 🧋  
  • Carib Brewery Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree IPA 🎄  
  • Stevens Point Brewery Whole Hog Hazelnut Brownie Porter 🎄  
  • Hot Cocoa by Joffrey’s with choice of liqueur (Baileys Original Irish Cream Liqueur, Buffalo Trace Bourbon Cream Liqueur, or Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey)  
  • Chocolate-Peppermint Shake with Twinings Peppermint Cheer Tea and whipped cream vodka
Liquid Nitrogen Chocolate-Peppermint Mousse

Between World Showcase and Imagination Pavilion 
Swirled Showcase
  • Liquid Nitrogen Chocolate-Peppermint Mousse featuring M&M’S Holiday Mint Chocolate Candies 🎄  
  • Soft-serve in a waffle cone 
    • Vanilla
    • Apple-Cinnamon
    • Dark Chocolate
  • Soda Float: Barq’s Red Creme Soda or Barq’s Root Beer with vanilla soft-serve 🧋  
  • Yuletide Float: Fireball Cinnamon Whisky and Barq’s Red Creme Soda with apple-cinnamon soft-serve  
  • Coffee Float: Dark chocolate soft-serve with Joffrey’s Cold Brew Coffee and choice of Mozart Chocolate Cream Liqueur or Mozart White Chocolate Liqueur  
Kālua Pork

Mele Kalikimaka Holiday Kitchen
  • Kālua Pork with coconut, sweet potatoes, and mango salad 
  • Lomi Lomi Salmon with tomatoes, onions, salmon roe, yuzu mayonnaise, and yuca chips 
  • Coffee-Mocha Cookie topped with coffee-infused buttercream, cocoa nibs, and chocolate-covered espresso beans  🍪
  • Maui Brewing Co. Mango Stickee Rice IPA 🎄  
  • Florida Orange Groves Winery Pineapple Sparkling Wine 
  • Melon Breeze: DOLE Pineapple Juice, lime juice, melon liqueur, and Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum  
Pan de Jamón

Nochebuena Cocina
  • Pan de Jamón: Traditional Latin Christmas bread, rolled ham, raisins, and green olives 🎄 
  • Plant-based Chorizo Tamale with plant-based cotija and spicy red chile sauce 🥬 
  • Cinnamon-spiced Chocolate Crinkle Cookie 🍪
  • Ponche Navideño: Christmas punch with apples, pears, guava, oranges, dried hibiscus, brown sugar, tamarind, cinnamon sticks, and cloves (Served warm) 🧋   
  • Left Hand Brewing Co. Mexican Hot Chocolate Milk Stout 
Fire-roasted Chestnuts

Chestnuts & Good Cheer Holiday Kitchen
 
  • Cinnamon-glazed Almonds 🥬 
  • Cinnamon-glazed Cashews 🥬 
  • Cinnamon-glazed Pecans 🥬  
  • Fire-roasted Chestnuts 🥬  
  • Eggnog 🧋 
  • Southern Tier Brewing Co. Chestnut Praline Imperial Ale 
  • Eggnog with choice of liqueur (Fireball Cinnamon Whisky or Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey)  
Cookie Milkshake

The Land
Sunshine Seasons 
  • Peanut Butter Cookie featuring M&M’S Minis Milk Chocolate Candies Holiday Blend 🍪 
  • Cookie Milk Shake: Spiced gelato with whipped cream, a cookie wreath, Mickey-shaped holly, and sprinkles 🎄🧋  
Holiday Cookie Latte

Joffrey’s Coffee & Tea Company
  • Holiday Cookie Latte: Espresso, caramel sauce, almond syrup, and choice of milk topped with whipped cream and merry sugar sprinkles 🎄🧋 (Spirited version available with Baileys Original Irish Cream Liqueur) 
Mickey Elf Bucket

Various popcorn carts
  • Mickey Elf Bucket
🎄 - New
🍪 - Holiday Cookie Stroll
🧋 - Non-alcoholic
🥬 - Plant-based 

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

We Call It Imagineering Episode 7

We Call It Imagineering Episode 7
Disney

The We Call It Imagineering series is an amazing glimpse behind the magic with Disney Imagineers. The latest episode focuses on the various robotic creations Imagineers have developed for the Parks. Each one is incredible, but that giggly walking Olaf is absolutely amazing!


All 7 episodes of We Call It Imagineering are available on YouTube.