Immersive Disney Animation at Lighthouse Artspace LA — floor-to-ceiling projections of the classics sounds incredible but I keep asking myself: is it the story that makes Disney magic or the animatio…
Walk through Disney's most iconic animated films rendered floor-to-ceiling at massive scale. The Immersive Disney Animation experience at Lighthouse ArtSpace redesigns the classics for a walkthrough format — Fantasia, Lion King, Sleeping Beauty, and more, all transformed into something that feels new. Give yourself 90 minutes. The final room alone is worth it.
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Aug 14 – Aug 16, 2026
Anaheim Convention Center, 800 W K…
Disney's biggest fan event of 2026 — August 14-16 at the Anaheim Convention Center, with city-wide fan programming beginning August 8. D23 is not a trade show. It is the largest gathering of Disney fans in the world and the event where the company makes its most significant announcements about the next two years of Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and Walt Disney Parks.
Disney Entertainment Showcase on Friday covers film and television. Disney Experiences Showcase on Saturday covers parks, resorts, cruise lines, and immersive experiences. The Disney Legends Ceremony on Sunday honors the people who shaped the company across decades. Expect MCU Phase Six reveals, Star Wars universe announcements, next-generation park experiences, animation premieres, and surprises saved specifically for this room.
The Anaheim Convention Center is walking distance from Disneyland, and the surrounding area fills with fan meetups, pop-up shops, and community gatherings for the full week. Tickets sell in tiers — General Admission gives you the main hall; premium tiers include reserved seating and exclusive merchandise. Buy early. The fan community around D23 is one of the most organized in the entertainment world. If you follow any Disney-adjacent fandom — animation, Marvel, parks, Star Wars — this is the event where things change.
The Epcot International Food and Wine Festival is Disney World's most beloved annual event -- a multi-month celebration running from late August through mid-November each year that transforms EPCOT's World Showcase into one of the most ambitious food-and-culture experiences in American theme parks. Drawing over two million visitors during its run, it is by any measure one of the largest food festivals in the United States. It is also free to enter with standard EPCOT admission, making it one of the most accessible major food events in America.
What it feels like to be there is difficult to explain to someone who thinks of Disney World as a place primarily for children. The festival's atmosphere is unmistakably adult -- wine, craft beer, international street food, live concerts (the Eat to the Beat series), and cooking demonstrations by culinary professionals fill the hours between the park's permanent attractions. The World Showcase lagoon path becomes a global food walk: French crepes alongside Canadian craft beer alongside Japanese sushi alongside Brazilian cheese bread. The scale is enormous but the pacing is deliberately relaxed; this is wandering, tasting, settling in at a lakeside table and watching the October sky come down over the water.
Worth it? If you have any affinity for food, international cuisines, or Disney -- yes. The festival is included with standard EPCOT park admission and the food kiosks are paid separately in small, affordable portions designed specifically for sampling. For non-Disney regulars: Epcot's single loop layout makes the festival more accessible than most of the park -- one path covers nearly all festival content. For Disney regulars: the August through November window is one of the best times to visit, with lower crowds than peak summer and the full festival atmosphere. The Epcot Food and Wine Festival is genuinely different from the rest of the Disney World experience.
What to know before you go: weekday mornings are the least crowded for the kiosk lines. The Eat to the Beat concert series (included with admission) runs multiple times daily at the America Gardens Theatre -- arrive 30 minutes early. The annual festival passport lets you stamp each global marketplace kiosk you visit; casual visitors ignore it and obsessives complete it on day one. Party for the Senses premium dinner events sell separately and book out quickly; reserve early if interested. Disney Transportation runs from most on-property resorts to EPCOT directly -- the parking lot is paid.
The Epcot International Food and Wine Festival earns its place on Falkor's Nation's Best list because it represents one of the largest annual convergences of food culture, international identity, and American leisure at genuinely accessible price points. More than two million people participate each year not because they are Disney fans but because the festival delivers something specific: the feeling that the world's food culture is on the same block and you can walk all of it in an afternoon. That feeling, at that scale, is rare.
Step into the most magical TCG tournament venue ever conceived: the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim. From August 28 to 30, 2026, Ravensburger and Disney are co-hosting the Lorcana North American Championship — the defining competitive event of the year for Disney Lorcana players across the continent. This is where months of grinding through qualifiers, mastering ink combinations, and reading the competitive meta has been pointing. The prize pool exceeds $13,000, and the competitor field spans every corner of North America.
The venue alone makes this unlike any TCG event you have attended: Disneyland's convention spaces carry the same design DNA as the park itself — immersive, detail-rich, purpose-built for the kind of experience where winning feels like it means something. Side events run throughout all three days, making this accessible even if you have not punched through the qualifier circuit. Local San Diego qualifier rounds preceded this event, meaning competitive players from SoCal have had a direct pathway in.
If you play Lorcana seriously — or even casually — this is the event your 2026 calendar was always building toward. Registration through the official Disney Lorcana Championship page. Side event space is limited. August 28-30, Disneyland Resort, Anaheim. Free to spectate during open rounds.