{"id":31951,"date":"2013-12-23T04:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/?p=31951"},"modified":"2022-02-05T22:05:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T03:05:14","slug":"rikkis-mouse-bites-walt-disney-world-news-122313","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/rikkis-mouse-bites-walt-disney-world-news-122313\/","title":{"rendered":"Rikki&#8217;s Mouse Bites &#8211; Walt Disney World News 12\/23\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RikkisNews4resized3-300x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29385\" alt=\"RikkisNews4resized3-300x300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RikkisNews4resized3-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RikkisNews4resized3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/RikkisNews4resized3-300x300-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The monorail will be seeing some maintenance work over the next few months.\u00a0 Starting on January 21, the Express monorail and Resort monorail beam will see it&#8217;s service severely impacted from the Transportation and Ticket Center.\u00a0 The monorail will be unavailable to guests on weekdays from 11:30 a.m. \u2013 7:00 p.m.\u00a0 During the monorail closures, additional buses and watercraft will be available for guest use. This work is scheduled to last until the end of March 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Star Wars Weekends dates have been announced for 2014.\u00a0 The event will take place at Disney\u2019s Hollywood Studios on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from May 16 \u2013 June 8.\u00a0 The weekend&#8217;s exact dates are: May 16 \u2013 18; May 23 \u2013 25; May 30 \u2013 June 1; June 6 \u2013 8.\n<figure id=\"attachment_31952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31952\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Star-Wars-Weekends.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31952\" alt=\"Star Wars Weekend Dates 2014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Star-Wars-Weekends-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Star-Wars-Weekends-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Star-Wars-Weekends.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9Disney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Star Wars Weekends is an event where guests can enjoy meet-and-greet opportunities with Star Wars celebrities, purchase special edition merchandise, meet with characters from the film,\u00a0 and see special shows and presentations from the stars of the series.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31953\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DOC_MCSTUFFINS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31953 \" alt=\"Doc McStuffins \" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DOC_MCSTUFFINS.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9Disney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_31954\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31954\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SOFIA_THE_FIRST.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31954 \" alt=\"SOFIA_THE_FIRST\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SOFIA_THE_FIRST.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9Disney<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;re child is a fan of Disney Junior, then you are going to want to make an Advanced Dining Reservation for Hollywood and Vine.\u00a0 Sofia the First and Doc McStuffins will be joining the Disney Junior Play &#8216;n Dine character buffet starting on January 26. Sofia and Doc will be joining Jake from <em>Jake and the Neverland Pirates<\/em> and Handy Manny.\u00a0 Guests who would like to meet all four have the opportunity only during breakfast and lunch. Dinner at Hollywood and Vine has no characters. Agent Oso and June from <em>Little Einsteins <\/em>will be leaving the character meal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Camp Minnie-Mickey is scheduled to close on January 6 with the last day of operations being held on January 5.\u00a0 With the closure, the characters that could be found here for meet and greets will move to different locations around the park.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the updated list on where they will be able to be found.\n<ul>\n<li>Chip \u2018n\u2019 Dale will move to Rafiki\u2019s Planet Watch\u00a0on the walkway from the train station to Conservation Station.<\/li>\n<li>Musician Gi-Tar Dan will be relocated to Rafiki&#8217;s Planet Watch.<\/li>\n<li>Pocahontas will be found along the Discovery Island Trail.<\/li>\n<li>King Louie &amp; Baloo from <em>The Jungle Book<\/em> will greet guests along Bradley Falls between Asia and Africa.<\/li>\n<li>Donald Duck will move to the Cretaceous Trail in DinoLand U.S.A. Guests can join him for a photo with Cory the Dinosaur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a reminder, Festival of the Lion King&#8217;s last performance date is also January 5.\u00a0 The attraction will then see a 6 month or so closure, reopening sometime in Summer 2014. The area will reopen in 2017 as Avatarland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monorail will be seeing some maintenance work over the next few months.\u00a0 Starting on January 21, the Express monorail and Resort monorail beam will see it&#8217;s service severely impacted from the Transportation and Ticket Center.\u00a0 The monorail will be unavailable to guests on weekdays from 11:30 a.m. \u2013 7:00 p.m.\u00a0 During the monorail closures,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":29385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mouse-bites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82492,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31951\/revisions\/82492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}