At D23 Expo 2022, Chairman Josh D’Amaro Shares a Boundless Future for Disney Parks, Experiences and Products

“It’s terrific to be together in person and connect with our fans again at D23 Expo. I love sharing in the excitement with them for what we have ahead of us,” stated Josh D’Amaro. “As the world’s greatest storytellers, I’m thrilled to share the new and innovative ways we are bringing next-generation Disney magic to life across Disney parks and experiences.”

As D’Amaro welcomed hundreds of followers again to the final word Disney fan occasion for the primary time since 2019, the viewers was wowed by appearances from particular company, celebrities, never-before-seen characters and electrical performances that stuffed Hall D23 with music and pleasure.

Singer-songwriter Jordan Fisher kicked off the present with a rousing efficiency of the favored anthem “Happily Ever After.” Executive Producer and Disney Legend Jon Favreau joined to share a first have a look at the Mandalorian and Grogu earlier than they encounter company beginning in mid-November inside Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at Disneyland Park in Anaheim. Then, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige shared how Avengers Campus at Disneyland Resort will develop the Multiverse with a third attraction, together with the debut of the Incredible Hulk, who will seem in his Quantum Suit at Avengers Campus in California starting subsequent week for a restricted time.

The viewers was dropped at their toes with a stellar efficiency by Disney Legend and Tony Award-winner Anika Noni Rose, the voice of Tiana in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ “The Princess and TheF Frog,” as extra particulars had been revealed about Tiana’s Bayou Adventure coming to Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort in late 2024. As D’Amaro shared a nearer have a look at the Frozen-themed areas coming to Hong Kong Disneyland, Tokyo Disney Resort and Disneyland Paris, the viewers was handled to a shifting rendition of the “Frozen 2” hit tune “Into the Unknown” carried out in Cantonese, Japanese and French.

A spotlight of the morning included a have a look at what’s doable when Disney Imagineers and their collaborators dream massive. Disney Animation Chief Creative Officer Jennifer Lee, the Academy Award-winning author and director of “Frozen” and “Frozen 2,” shared how the studio is working with Walt Disney Imagineering on idea explorations for Dinoland U.S.A. at Disney’s Animal Kingdom park and potential growth alternatives at Magic Kingdom park, each at Walt Disney World. Finally, D’Amaro provided a have a look at Disney100, the largest celebration within the firm’s historical past, which can kick off in January.

The presentation was stuffed with thrilling bulletins with an unimaginable slate of experiences coming to Disney parks, resorts, cruise ships and past:

New Stories Coming to Disneyland Resort
Guests at Disney California Adventure park will quickly head into the Multiverse alongside fan-favorite Super Heroes, as particulars on a never-before-seen third attraction with a brand-new story was introduced for Avengers Campus. Joining in battle with the Avengers means going through foes from wherever and eachwhen, together with a new risk, King Thanos, a Multiverse variant designed particularly for Avengers Campus.

Just across the nook from Avengers Campus, Pacific Wharf shall be reimagined as San Fransokyo from the Oscar-winning Disney Animation movie “Big Hero 6,” full with a place to satisfy Baymax in addition to new spots to eat and store.

At Disneyland park, Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway will invite company into a cartoon world the place toon guidelines apply, and Mickey’s Toontown will step into a new period of inclusive experiences for households of all ages when it opens in early 2023.

Across the way in which, progress continues on the reimagining of the Paradise Pier Hotel to Pixar Place Hotel, the place company will really feel as if they’ve stepped into a Pixar artwork gallery that includes new interpretations of favourite Pixar friends. Over on the Downtown Disney District, greater than a dozen new and reimagined areas will open, together with a Southern Californian favourite, Porto’s Bakery & Café. For operating followers, runDisney races will return to the resort in 2024.

Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort
Imagineers joined D’Amaro onstage to debate new story particulars for Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, coming to Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort in late 2024. Several members of the unique movie solid will return to lend their voices to the attraction, together with Anika Noni Rose as Tiana, Bruno Campos as Naveen, Michael-Leon Wooley as Louis and Jenifer Lewis as Mama Odie. 

Walt Disney World Resort and the Transformation of EPCOT
The subsequent main milestone in EPCOT’s multi-year transformation will embody the completion of the World Celebration neighborhood in late 2023. Journey of Water, Inspired by Moana can even open in late 2023, inviting company to observe the story of water on the planet, impressed by Moana’s connection to the ocean. Fan-favorite character Figment can even seem dwell to park company by the top of 2023.

Over at Magic Kingdom, TRON / Lightcycle Run will invite company to enter the Grid in spring 2023. Popular anthem “Happily Ever After” will play once more when an up to date nighttime spectacular returns to gentle up the skies over Cinderella Castle in 2023. At the Haunted Mansion, the Hatbox Ghost will materialize in 2023.

New Horizons for Disney Cruise Line and the Disney Treasure
The sixth ship within the Disney Cruise Line fleet, the Disney Treasure, will set sail in 2024. Imagineers have dreamed up a new design idea impressed by the theme of journey, celebrating Walt Disney’s lifelong love of exploration. The Grand Hall — the magnificent three-deck-tall atrium that welcomes company on board — is impressed by the grandeur and thriller of a gilded palace, drawing on real-world influences from Asia and Africa, and paying homage to the far-off land of Agrabah. At the middle, the signature statue will function Aladdin, Jasmine and their Magic Carpet.

For the primary time, Disney Cruise Line is bringing the magic of a Disney trip to households and followers in Australia and New Zealand throughout limited-time cruises that immerse company in Disney, Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars tales starting in late October 2023. Additionally, repositioning cruises for the Disney Wonder would be the first South Pacific voyages for Disney Cruise Line, giving company the possibility to expertise locations like Fiji and Samoa.

In the Bahamas, progress continues on a lovely new island vacation spot at Lighthouse Point, which can carry the pure magnificence and wealthy tradition of the Bahamas to life for Disney Cruise Line company.

Three Frozen-themed Lands Highlight Expansions at Parks Around the World
Inspired by Disney Animation’s gorgeous movies, World of Frozen will open within the second half of 2023 at Hong Kong Disneyland – the primary of three Frozen-themed areas coming to worldwide Disney parks. It will mix Arendelle with the park’s pure landscapes on Lantau Island.

At Disneyland Paris, the Frozen-themed land would be the subsequent main milestone within the ongoing transformation of Walt Disney Studios park. This land will provide a attractive lakeside promenade and will immerse company in the identical magical wintry setting from the movies. A brand new Tangled-themed household attraction will be part of the brand new gardens main into the land. Frozen can even be a part of the transformation of the Disneyland Hotel, reopening in 2024. As a part of the grand finale of the 30^th Anniversary celebration underway, a new stage present, “Pixar: We Belong Together,” will debut subsequent 12 months in Walt Disney Studios park.

At Tokyo Disney Resort, Frozen is likely one of the tales coming to life as a part of the Fantasy Springs growth at Tokyo DisneySea, becoming a member of two different Disney Animation tales, “Peter Pan” and “Tangled,” plus a brand-new lodge built-in proper into the park. Fantasy Springs will function a number of new Audio-Animatronics figures, together with Elsa, who sings in Japanese and whose actions sync with the rhythms of the language.

Shanghai Disney Resort would be the first Disney resort to carry the world of the Oscar-winning Disney Animation movie “Zootopia” to life. At Zootopia Central Station, company will discover animals going about their day by day lives. At the Zootopia Police Department, which doubles as the doorway for the land’s new household attraction, company shall be greeted by an Audio-Animatronics determine of Officer Clawhauser.

Mickey’s favourite teddy bear, Duffy, is a favourite of followers in all three Disney resorts in Asia, and D’Amaro shared that Duffy & Friends will star of their very personal six-episode, stop-motion animated collection on Disney+ subsequent 12 months.

Disney 100 Years of Wonder
D’Amaro concluded the presentation with a first have a look at how Disney Parks, Experiences and Products will mark Disney 100 Years of Wonder (Disney100), the largest celebration within the historical past of the corporate. New décor, specialty meals and drinks, character experiences and extra will come to parks world wide, with the center of the celebration rooted at Disneyland Resort.

• Two new nighttime spectaculars — “World of Color – One” and the brand new fireworks present “Wondrous Journeys” — will kick off in late January at Disneyland Resort. “World of Color – One” at Disney California Adventure will have a good time the storytelling legacy began by Walt Disney a century in the past. It’s going to be World of Color such as you’ve by no means seen it earlier than, with an all-new inspiring story instructed by way of some favourite characters. “Wondrous Journeys” at Disneyland park will ignite the surprise in everybody and function nods to all 60 Walt Disney Animation Studios movies thus far, taking viewers on a journey crammed with artistry, music, storytelling and coronary heart. Special leisure moments can even pop up throughout the resort, together with the long-awaited return of the “Magic Happens” parade this spring.
• A brand-new nighttime spectacular will come to the World Showcase Lagoon at EPCOT in late 2023 as a part of the Disney100 Celebration.
• Hong Kong Disneyland can even unveil a new statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse close to Cinderella’s Carousel as a part of the Disney100 Celebration. 

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