Overview
- Multiple Disney-focused outlets reported on Wednesday that Happy Ice announced a new, brightly colored cart will arrive in the Downtown Disney District sometime in June 2026, though the company has not given a specific opening date.
- The Downtown Disney menu will be Happy Ice’s first fully all-natural offering and is made with real fruit, pure cane sugar, and premium ingredients with no high-fructose corn syrup or artificial dyes.
- Happy Ice said the location will introduce JOY-LATI, a layered dessert that combines Italian ice with vanilla sweet cream, house-made sauces, fresh fruit, cookies or pie crumbles, and nostalgic flavors such as Banana Pudding and Strawberry Shortcake.
- Launch choices will include specialty flavors like Berry Bonanza and Cloud 9 plus fruit-based sauces and monthly rotating exclusives intended to encourage repeat visits from park and district guests.
- Founded in 2017 as a single Los Angeles food truck by Philadelphia native Lemeir Mitchell, Happy Ice frames the Downtown Disney move as a return to a high-traffic retail corridor and a chance to scale the brand’s experiential, nostalgia-driven desserts for summer crowds.