Disney… we are begging you to stop playing with our feelings right now!
Cinderella Castle
You took away Doctor Seeker, the Miss Piggy Fountain is gone forever, and Aerosmith left Hollywood Studios. We understood these changes, even if they made us sad. Now, Disney has taken away something subtle, but our hearts are BROKEN.
Disney, we really can’t understand why you made this change. This news takes us into Fantasyland at Pinocchio Village Haus, where we unexpectedly had our worlds rocked today. If you don’t know, this quick service, which serves up flatbreads and more, has windows that look directly into the famous attraction “it’s a small world”!
A snack in front of the “it’s a small world” window!
These windows look directly into the ride so you can enjoy your bites while getting a new point of view of fun in Disney World. This is easily one of our favorite spots to sit in the restaurant because you can wave to the people below as they go on the happiest cruise ever. What was even MORE fun were the signs you could find at these tables!
The signs!
These signs gave riders below directions and silly prompts so you could interact with each other and make fun memories. We LOVED holding the signs up and seeing if other guests would play along. If you’ve noticed we’re talking in the past tense, it’s because Disney has permanently retired these signs!
Here it is on the table!
During a review today, our reporter asked the Cast Members where the signs were, and the Cast Member mentioned they were no longer available. Shocked, we proceeded to ask three more Cast Members to confirm. All four Cast Members confirmed the signs were gone forever. Some of the Cast Members mentioned that people had “taken” the signs, which caused problems with keeping them on the tables. They didn’t confirm if that is why Disney removed the signs for guests.
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This was just one subtle way that Disney created magical interactions between guests, so we are seriously sad to see this go. We’re hoping that this won’t be forever and one day the interactive signs will return to the restaurant, but there is no indication of that at the time of writing. Luckily, the Blue Fairy’s Wishing Book is still there for guests to write their hopes, wishes, and dreams down if you want a magical, interactive moment in the restaurant.
Pinocchio Village Haus
We are just hoping that this is a temporary pause rather than a permanent removal. Be sure to keep following DisneyFoodBlog for more Disney news, updates, and more.
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Behavior of the public with property that isn’t their’s is why we can’t have nice things.
I don’t necessarily blame Disney. If the Cast Members mentioned that people stole them, then I blame the people who steal everything that isn’t nailed. I believe in the far past, people didn’t even think of doing this! Oh, the changing World.
This restaurant is our frequent eating spot but in all these years we’ve never seen any the Blue Fairy’s Wishing Book, never saw windows, never saw a space to look over Small World and never saw any signs there or on the ride! All we’ve ever seen was a busy restaurant with good enough food reasonably priced and plenty of tables. I’m honestly not surprised at Disney taking more things away people have grown to love, and see no reason to do so, but we never knew this fun existed. We all probably need to accept that Wdw has changed forever. Sigh.