WDW Magazine March 2021 | Page 55

OCTOBER 1 , 2021 Walt Disney World celebrates 50 years as the most Magical Place on Earth !
FEB . 22 , 2012 Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom debuts
MAY 31 , 2012 Art of Animation Resort opens
DEC . 6 , 2012 New Fantasyland opens
MARCH 9 , 2014 Festival of Fantasy Parade debuts
MAY 28 , 2014 Seven Dwarfs Mine Train opens
JULY 5 , 2014 For the First Time in Forever : A Frozen Sing- Along Celebration debuts
JUNE 30 , 2018 Toy Story Land opens
2018 Club 33 opens at Magic Kingdom
MAY 27 , 2016 Tree of Life Awakenings debuts

2010s

2011 Talking Mickey meet-and-greet experience debuts
First use of projection mapping on Cinderella Castle
2013 The My Disney Experience mobile app along with Magic Bands and FastPass + are introduced
JUNE 1 , 2013 Wilderness Explorers debuts
2015 Star Wars Launch Bay opens
SEPT . 29 , 2015 Downtown Disney is reimagined as Disney Springs
JUNE 17 , 2016 Star Wars : A Galactic Spectacular debuts
JUNE 21 , 2016 Frozen Ever After opens
JAN . 2017
EPCOT International Festival of the
Arts debuts
FEB . 17 , 2017 Rivers of Light debuts
MAY 12 , 2017 Happily Ever After debuts
MAY 27 , 2017
Pandora - The World of Avatar opens
MARCH 31 , 2019 Lightning McQueen ' s Racing Academy opens
AUG . 29 , 2019 Star Wars : Galaxy ' s Edge opens featuring Millennium Falcon : Smugglers Run
SEPT . 29 , 2019 Disney Skyliner takes flight
OCT . 1 , 2019 EPCOT Forever Debuts
DEC . 5 , 2019 Rise of the Resistance opens
DEC . 16 , 2019 Riviera Resort opens
2020 Bob Chapek becomes CEO of The Walt Disney Company
MARCH 4 , 2020 Mickey and Minnie ' s Runaway Railway opens
Festival of Fantasy Parade . PHOTO BY CLIFF WANG , Frozen Ever After . PHOTO BY COURTNEY REYNOLDS , Cinderella Castle in 2020 . PHOTO BY JUDD HELMS , Mickey & Minnie ’ s Runaway Railway . PHOTO BY JUDD HELMS , Bob Chapek . DISNEY . COM