11/09/2022
LOTS of BIG news coming from the D23 Expo this weekend! Here are some of the highlights. What are YOU most excited about?? 🏰🚢✨
Disneyland-
➡️ Hulk meet and greet coming to Avengers Campus.
➡️ All new attraction is coming to Avengers Campus featuring a new villain, King Thanos.
➡️ Big Hero 6 land, themed after San Fransokyo and including a Baymax meet and greet, is coming to California Adventure.
➡️ Updates coming to Mickey’s Toontown including the addition of Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway.
➡️ A new Mando and Grogu meet and greet is coming to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.
➡️ Pixar Place Hotel coming to Disneyland Resort.
➡️ More than a dozen new retail locations are coming to Downtown Disney, including Din Thai Fun and Portos Bakery & Cafe.
➡️ RunDisney races are returning to Disneyland in 2024.
➡️ Tiana’s Palace Restaurant and Eudora’s Chic Boutique are coming to Disneyland Park
Walt Disney World
➡️ An updated Happily Ever After nighttime spectacular is returning to Magic Kingdom in 2023.
➡️ A new land is coming to Magic Kingdom, featuring CoCo, Encanto, and Disney Villains. This will be the largest expansion to Magic Kingdom.
➡️ Zootopia and Moana are coming to Animal Kingdom in a reimagined Dinoland.
➡️ The Hatbox Ghost is coming to Haunted Mansion in Magic Kingdom Park.
➡️ Figment will return to EPCOT with a meet and greet.
➡️ Moana: Journey of Water at EPCOT will open in late 2023.
➡️ Tron Lightcycle Run in Magic Kingdom will open in spring 2023.
➡️ A new “Walt the Dreamer” statue will be coming to World Celebration in EPCOT.
➡️ A 16-Foot statue of Te Fiti will be in Moana: Journey of Water at EPCOT.
➡️ Splash Mountain at both Disney World and Disneyland are getting a re-theme to The Princess and the Frog and will be called Tiana’s Bayou Adventure. The re-themes should be completed by the end of 2024.
Disney Cruise Line
➡️ Aladdin and Jasmine will be the atrium statue aboard the newest Disney Cruise Line ship, Disney Treasure.
➡️ The Disney Wonder is going to Australia and New Zealand. Repositioning cruises will be in the South Pacific. Destinations include Fiji and Samoa.
➡️ Construction on Disney’s new private island port-of-call in the Bahamas, Lighthouse Point, is still underway.