Vacation Fun – An Original Animated Short with Mickey & Minnie reopened at Disney's Hollywood Studios on September 28. The Mickey Shorts Theater had been unavailable for six weeks while it hosted Annual Passholder magnet distribution, then missed its expected September 27 return.
We love this comeback for one wonderfully specific reason: a theater built for Mickey cartoons is a theater again, not a very elaborate Kermit magnet pickup. Hollywood Studios has plenty of headline-size change underway; restoring this small, strange, cheerful film gives the park one of its own quieter character beats back.
The theater is a theater again
Vacation Fun showings stopped while the Mickey Shorts Theater distributed the Kermit Annual Passholder magnet from August 11 through September 24. WDW News Today found the theater still closed on September 27, with a sign outside saying there were no shows that day, even though hours had returned to the schedule.
On September 28, WDWNT confirmed that the film and its exit-area photo opportunities were available again. That one-day delay is now history rather than an active warning; the fresh fact is the reopening.
The source does not provide a current daily showtime schedule. It confirms the attraction is operating again, but not how frequently performances are running.
Mickey and Minnie's vacation reel is back intact
The short stars Mickey and Minnie looking back at favorite vacation memories. It combines original animation with clips from nine Mickey Mouse shorts, including Panda-monium, Croissant de Triomphe, Potatoland and Outback at Ya! The exit area also returns the themed photo opportunities tied to those cartoons, including Potatoland.
This is a reopening, not a reported new cut of the film. WDWNT does not identify new scenes, a revised runtime or changes to the photo sets. The charm here is the restoration of a very particular Hollywood Studios intermission: Mickey and Minnie, a cartoon vacation scrapbook, and potatoes taking their role in show business with admirable seriousness.
One tiny calendar gremlin remains in WDWNT's new copy: it calls September 28 "yesterday" in an article published September 28. The dated reporting around it is cleaner than that sentence—the prior story identifies the missed reopening as September 27, and the new report confirms Vacation Fun returned September 28.
