Coco, Encanto, Moana and Zootopia May Arrive at Disney Parks

The greatest information out of the Disney Parks, Experiences and Products panel at D23 Expo (outdoors of the Avengers Campus Multiverse trip) revealed a “Blue Sky” presentation (doubtless code for, just pitched on the viewers) to tell us Disney Animation and Disney Imagineering have been in talks to deliver current hit movies like Encanto, Coco and Zootopia to areas of the Walt Disney World Resort. You know, these sure spots that would use some updates or may make approach for some vacant land we didn’t even assume to think about. These are some daring pie within the sky goals that we hope they make good on.

Imagineering’s Chris Beatty and Walt Disney Animation’s Chief Creative Officer Jennifer Lee joined Parks chairman Josh D’Amaro on stage to provide us a tease of what they’re considering so far as the probabilities go.

Animal Kingdom Expansion

In Animal Kingdom, DinoLand U.S.A. might be going the best way of their prehistoric counterparts to make approach for a full Zootopia space highlighting the varied boroughs seen within the movie. It would make sense that this one’s within the works, as some parks of DinoLand have already been cleared out and demolished simply as Shanghai Disneyland is ready to debut the primary iteration of a Zootopia space at their resort. The work’s been carried out and deliberate out, so we expect this one could be very doubtless on the best way. Also introduced was one other Moana space at Animal Kingdom—possibly a darkish water trip from the appears of the artwork.

Beyond Big Thunder Mountain

Let’s maintain Disney to creating their Magic Kingdom growth come to life, as a result of it’s bonkers and completely the route theme park fans have needed them to go along with current Disney options that felt primed for sights. The Mexican village of Santa Cecilia from Pixar’s Coco was featured as a walkable space celebrating El Dia de Los Muertos, and may have a darkish trip that may take park visitors to the land of the lifeless on fantastical Alebrijes like Pepita. Nearby, it’s also possible to enterprise to Encanto’s Casa Madrigal to discover the household dwelling. Honestly, that might be such an epic construct to seize the environments of every member of the family’s realm of powers. What’s actually thrilling is that they teased you might even discover a door of your individual.

And within the past past is the promise of a land of evil the place Disney villains are just roaming round wreaking havoc. This one is possibly somewhat far-fetched, however attention-grabbing in the event that they do lean into extra of a scary space. Sadly, that appears unlikely, as they stripped Disneyland’s Snow White trip of a few of its extra terrifying “for the kiddo” parts. It would make extra sense to possibly make that space into Halloweentown with A Nightmare Before Christmas trip, for the reason that east coast doesn’t do a Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay.

While all these concepts appear wonderful, and we positively assume a few of these movies will inevitably make their approach into the parks, this felt extra like a presentation to gauge curiosity. Right now, tlisted here are a number of areas in dire want of updates, like Tomorrowland (on each coasts) and the Treehouse at Disneyland (which was my guess for an Encanto walk-through). We’ll see what finally ends up occurring within the subsequent 5-10 years with these ideas.

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