My question is, were they really "announced" this time? I certainly never saw anything on the Parks blog about it or anything like that (not that every "announcement" happens there) and they typically don't "announce" the addition of dates when it's not something new but is rather just an ongoing event (like dessert parties). On top of that, these dates were first opened up near the beginning of the month. On March 4, user Mrspeaks informed us on this thread that they were able to book September 3. In fact, on February 26, our moderator even posted that he could see 9/1 and 9/3 as bookable dates. So I guess I just find it a little suspect that some of these websites are suddenly posting articles about Disney making some sort of announcement about dates that have been available for a few weeks now.
The only reason I'm harping on it is that there are people in this thread and the DHS EMM thread who are anxiously hoping for this event to become bookable again and seeing these articles as some sort of sign but it all feels a bit like one site "discovered" these new dates and made some big post because they know people are looking at August/September right now because of Galaxy's Edge, so to get their clicks they're just looking for any morsel of "news" they can post, except this isn't NEWS at all. Call me cynical.
TL: DR - I suspect one website/blog posted an article after noticing that EMM dates were appearing in blue, and then a few other blogs wrote their own articles using the first website as their source and no one actually had any kind of press release or announcement directly from Disney. Just my analysis, I could be way off base.
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