Disney goals to reshape Disneyland, World, and past with new points of interest

Sunday, the final day of the 2022 D23 Expo, noticed a significant deluge of parks and experiences information. At the park-specific panel, Disney introduced some thrilling issues coming to theme parks all over the world. While the Disneyland Resort in California and Walt Disney World in Florida will get revamps within the subsequent few years, there’s lots happening past the U.S., the place the parks have grown almost as huge as land permits. This contains three separate Frozen-themed lands.

Now to be honest, a number of the information out of this panel isn’t tremendous new. But as beforehand introduced opening dates have shifted (thanks pandemic!), some plans have been swapped out and others rejiggered.

Here’s a roundup of all the brand new opening dates and freshly introduced points of interest coming to Disney parks worldwide over the following few years.

Disney’s Avengers Campus land will enter the multiverse

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California Adventure’s Avengers Campus will likely be getting a 3rd brand-new experience, which is able to happen in the midst of a multiverse-spanning battle. This is along with the still-to-open Wakanda-themed attraction. The yet-unnamed multiverse experience will characteristic King Thanos for the very first time within the MCU. There isn’t any date for when it will open, and contemplating the second Avengers Campus attraction continues to be in progress, it probably received’t be for a while.

Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway coming to California in 2023

The Orlando model of Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway changed Hollywood Studios’ The Great Movie Ride in early 2020. The Disneyland model was imagined to open this yr in Toontown, however it was delayed to early 2023.

Pacific Wharf will get a Big Hero 6 makeover

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The San Francisco-themed space of California Adventure will likely be rethemed as San Fransokyo, the futuristic metropolis as seen in Big Hero 6. This space will embrace a meet-and-greet with well being care companion Baymax and teenage genius Hiro. There isn’t any set date for when this makeover will likely be completed.

Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is lastly opening in 2024

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The long-overdue makeover of the controversial Splash Mountain attraction will open in late 2024. Coming to each Disneyland and Disney World, Tiana’s Bayou Adventure takes place after the occasions of The Princess and the Frog and follows princess and restaurant proprietor Tiana as she journeys to the bayou, inviting friends to a Mardi Gras celebration. The revamp was introduced in the summertime of 2020. Much of the unique voice forged — together with Anika Noni Rose as Tiana and Bruno Campos as Naveen — returns to voice the experience.

Epcot’s subsequent part will likely be full in 2023

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Three years in the past, at 2019’s D23, Disney introduced huge adjustments coming to Orlando’s Epcot park. And in 2023, lots of these huge overhauls will lastly be full. This contains the retheming of the opening space, now known as World Celebration, and the opening of the Moana-inspired Journey of Water. Additionally, fan-favorite parks character Figment the dragon will likely be getting his personal meet and greet.

Don’t neglect about Magic Kingdom

The Tron Lightcycle experience will open in Disney World’s Tomorrowland in 2023. And a meet-and-greet with the Haunted Mansion’s Hatbox Ghost will even debut in 2023.

Frozen-themed lands galore

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Three parks worldwide will likely be getting Frozen-themed expansions.

The beforehand introduced Frozen land for Hong Kong Disneyland will open in late 2023. And now, a Frozen-themed land will come to Disneyland Paris, alongside a Tangled-themed attraction. Frozen’s presence in Tokyo Disney Resort will likely be a bit totally different; as an alternative of a full-fledged land, it will likely be built-in into the Fantasy Springs enlargement alongside Tangled and Peter Pan.

Additionally, the Zootopia enlargement coming to Shanghai Disneyland continues to be underway, although it doesn’t have a gap date simply but.

The new Disney Treasure cruise ship launches in 2024

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The Disney Treasure will set sail in 2024, immersing friends in an adventure-themed setting impressed by Asia and Africa — in addition to the fantasy land of Agrabah, from Disney’s Aladdin. The primary statue on the heart of the atrium will characteristic Aladdin, Jasmine, and the Magic Carpet.

Before that, nevertheless, Disney cruise strains will supply limited-time engagements in Australia and New Zealand in late 2023, in addition to launch the road’s first South Pacific voyages.

New reveals for Disney’s a centesimal anniversary

The Walt Disney Company turns 100 subsequent yr, and it wouldn’t be full with no huge parks-wide celebration. Two new fireworks reveals will hit Disneyland Resort in Anaheim: World of Color — One, a revamp of the favored World of Color fireworks present, will debut in California Adventure, whereas Wondrous Journeys, a present that pays homage to all 60 Disney theatrical animated options, takes to the sky in Disneyland. Additionally, the favored Magic Happens parade will return subsequent yr.

Meanwhile, Epcot will likely be getting a brand new present in late 2023, although the specifics haven’t been introduced. And Hong Kong Disneyland will get a model new statue of Walt and Mickey.

And some thrilling hypothesis concerning the distant future…

At the presentation, Disney confirmed off some idea artwork for tentative concepts. One was an Encanto and Coco-themed space within the area past Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in Disney World’s Frontierland, and an alternate model imagined a land run amok with Disney Villains as an alternative.

Another theoretical revamp entails Zootopia and Moana rebranding within the outdated Dinoland U.S.A. part of Animal Kingdom. The Zootopia integration appeared fairly simple, however the Moana one would theoretically characteristic “creatures from the deep.” All of this was thrown out to D23 viewers as an enormous “What if?” which means reactions could be steering extra of Disney’s plans than ever earlier than.