Author: Murray the Bellhop
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Knott’s Taste of Boysenberry Festival is FULL of Food and Fun and BOYSENBERRIES!
Knott’s Berry Farm is not open as of March 2021 because of the pandemic…but that hasn’t meant food and fun has stopped! The Taste of Boysenberry Festival brings the annual Boysenberry Festival to guests in a new way. The “Taste” implies there is not as much to do as a regular festival, but I would…
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Disneyland Legacy Passholders Can Take Advantage of Extra Discounts and Offers at Downtown Disney in March
The Disneyland Legacy Passholder program has announced extra discounts and offers throughout Downtown Disney for the month of March. This is in addition to the 30% off select Disney merchandise Monday-Thursday until next week. The discounts and offers will be from March 1-31, 2021. Some of the offers are exclusive food items and others are…
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Knott’s Berry Farm Hiring Soon for the 2021 Season – Find Out How to Join a Great Theme Park Team!
Knott’s Berry Farm has announced that they will be participating in National Hiring Day on March 13. Though through by virtual means, the resort hopes to hire 1700 new team members in various capacities. If you are interested, the link is provided in the press release below. What is most intriguing in theme park news,…
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Knott’s Taste of Boysenberry Festival Food and Drink Item Menu Released
Knott’s Berry Farm has released the menu for the Taste of the Boysenberry Festival on their site. And, yes, it is jam-packed with Boysenberry! This festival integrates the berry into unique dishes and drinks every year. There are some returning favorites and many new things to try. Information on the festival including a link to…
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Knott’s Welcomes the Boysenberry Festival Back in Taste of Boysenberry Festival Beginning March 5
Knott’s is continuing their “Taste of” festivals since the park has been closed, and the annual Boysenberry Festival is coming back in this form! This is one of the best that Knott’s has to offer since the Boysenberry first put them on the map. The regular festival has always been centered around food, and what…
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Downtown Disney Announces Opening Date for New Star Wars Trading Post Location and Preview for Legacy Passholders
Downtown Disney has just announced the opening for the new Star Wars Trading Post shop in the old Rainforest Cafe location. February 19 will be the opening for this new location, but it has already been taking shape with decor on the outside. The style will be a jungle themed Resistance base. Disneyland has also…
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Marvel Comics News Digest Featuring Vote For A New X-Men Member
There are quite a few things to note from Marvel Comics. Scroll toward the bottom to vote for the next X-Men team member. It is out of some classic X-Men characters, but it will be interesting to see who wins. Heroes Reborn is a big announcement of a concept that goes back to the 90s. …
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A Review and Guide to WandaVision – Marvel’s New Series on Disney Plus
WandaVision has debuted on Disney Plus with not just one, but two episodes! This keeps being touted as the first Marvel Studios series and it has made a grand debut. Before going further, I’m going to keep the first half as spoiler-free as I can with just trying to say whether or not it is…
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Knott’s Berry Farm Announces Extension to Season Passholders For 2022
Knott’s Berry Farm has just let Season Passholders know via tweet and email that passes will be extended. Originally, in 2020, they indicated that all 2020 passes would be good for a full year. Now, they are sharing that passes will be good for 2021 whenever it reopens, and there will be a “day-for-day” extension. …
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Why Festival of the Arts is My Favorite Festival at Epcot – According to Murray
Epcot at Walt Disney World is home to four annual festivals throughout the year. Flower and Garden, Food and Wine, and Festival of the Holidays are ones that have brought many guests to search about the park. One of them, a newer one, is my personal favorite. It’s possibly the best, and here are some…
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Disney Plus Up – Top 5 Good News Disney Stories of 2020 – #1
In the final good news story of 2020 for Disney, Disney Plus has had its first year and it was quite the year! And, yes, I might be cheating with this number one spot since it is another compilation type story. But, all roads point to Disney+. Investor Day 2020 The recent Investor Day highlighted…
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Bob Chapek, CEO – Top 5 Good News Disney Stories of 2020 – #2
We’re close to the end of the top 5 list and this one has some parts to it (as others do if you’ve been following along). This story could have been at the top, but there has been one more thing to top off the whole list. And this has been good news for the…
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Park Pass Reservations – Top 5 Good News Disney Stories of 2020 – #3
Continuing in the somewhat different top 5 Disney stories of 2020, we come to one that teeters on the edge of good news. The reason is that it, perhaps, would not have happened without the circumstances of the year. Yet, it still remained a hopeful light of a story in 2020. The Walt Disney World…
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Park Icons – Top 5 Good News Disney Stories of 2020 – #4
This year’s top 5 is looking a bit different. Where it’s usually taking a look back at the stories that topped news and social media for Disney, we’re constraining it to the more positive, hopeful stories of the year. This fourth spot is also a compilation of similar items. It’s about the parks, but the…
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Rise of the Resistance – Top 5 Good News Disney Stories of 2020 – #5
In this year’s top 5 Disney stories of the year, I’m taking a slightly different approach. It has been a hard year, as I think anyone could say. If we went straight to the top 5 stories there would be some that could dwell on the disheartening. Instead, here are the top 5 good news…
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Why The Emperor’s New Groove is My Favorite Disney Animated Movie (According to Murray)
It’s the 20th anniversary of The Emperor’s New Groove! Can you believe it? And would you also believe it’s my favorite Disney movie? Now, don’t get me wrong. As both a big Disney officianado and art history grad student, there are many of the Disney animated movies that I love and appreciate. Sleeping Beauty has…
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Star Wars Rival Run 2021 Moving to Virtual Races
RunDisney has just announced that the Star Wars Rival Run Weekend will move to virtual races in 2021. The races were originally to be held April 15-18, 2021 in Walt Disney World and included a 5K, 10K, Half Marathon and Kids Races. Participants will be receiving an email with more information and instructions by December…
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Many Exciting Marvel Series and Movie Announcements from Disney Investor Day 2020
Disney Investor Day 2020 had a slew of new announcements for the company and centered on their streaming and theatrical releases. Marvel Studios was no exception to this and there were some updates…and some surprises! WandaVision An updated trailer was released today with the meeting that highlights some more of the upcoming series that will…
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The Festive Experience of Taste of Merry Farm Brings the Holiday Spirit Alive
Knott’s Berry Farm is, unfortunately, still closed as a theme park. However, they still brought the Christmas festivities with the Taste of Merry Farm! Knott’s has always done a great job with their traditional Merry Farm park wide event every year. This year actually might have gone bigger than ever, even with much of the…
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Why It’s Good to Celebrate Mickey and Minnie’s Birthday This Year
Mickey and Minnie Mouse are celebrating their 92nd birthday today. With that age it seems like they’ve been around for ages and ages and ages. Milestones could be fewer coming (though 92 is nothing to sneeze at). Why celebrate the mice today? The reason starts at their origin. Walt Disney had just come back from…
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Was the Plot of Falcon and The Winter Soldier Just Revealed?
Today, D23 has continued their Fantastic Worlds Celebration with a tribute to Captain America, called Marvel Celebrates 80 Years of Captain America. First, this was a wonderful panel between Marvel Editor-In-Chief, CB Cebulski, and the Executive Editor of Captain America comics, Tom Brevoort. They really went in-depth with not just the comics history of Captain…
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The Full Menu of Knott’s Taste of Merry Farm Event
Knott’s Berry Farm has previously announced their food event Taste of Merry Farm, though not with the full menu. Now the menu has been released online under the event’s information on the Knott’s site. An interesting item to note is that Grizzly Creek Lodge will be open, which is located in Camp Snoopy. This area…
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More Disneyland 65th Anniversary in the Pop Up Shop Shows Off Retro Items
Downtown Disney and Disneyland has been having frequent pop-up shop times for special 65th-anniversary merchandise. In the past, it has included sippers and pins. This time around there were a couple of retro-inspired items for sale. A popcorn bucket in the style of the first park popcorn holders was for sale. It featured the 65th-anniversary…
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Disneyland and Other California Theme Parks Considering Legal Action to Reopen
In a press conference where Erin Guerrero, the executive director of the Californian Attractions and Parks Association, mostly spoke it was let known that the major California theme parks are considering legal action with the recent guidelines announced. Their hope is that there can be an ongoing conversation that would enable the parks to reopen…