Fly like Iron Man. Join a battle in Wakanda. Here are the major theme park projects Disney has announced

Natasha Chen, CNN

ANAHEIM, California (CNN) — On nan heels of an net report pinch slumping home parks attendance, Disney announced a slew of early taxable parkland and cruise projects to beryllium developed successful nan coming years, including a villains-themed land, an “Encanto” ride, an expertise to return formation for illustration Iron Man, and a caller level of audio-animatronic exertion that will bring Walt Disney to life successful beforehand of guests.

Fans astatine Disney’s biannual D23 normal had been eagerly anticipating specifications of these caller projects for respective years, complaining that erstwhile announcements had teased only vague concepts. But astatine Saturday night’s high-octane position astatine nan Honda Center successful Anaheim, California, 12,000 fans successful attendance learned really nan company’s promised $60 billion finance successful parks and cruises will return style complete nan adjacent decade.

In an question and reply pinch CNN, Chairperson of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Josh D’Amaro, said, “What we’re doing, I think, much aggressively than we ever person before, is taking advantage of technology, not for technology’s sake, but to create magical – almost mind-bending – experiences.”

Here are those recently announced projects.

What’s coming to Walt Disney World successful Florida

The biggest description ever to travel to Magic Kingdom will beryllium developed down nan existing “Big Thunder Mountain Railroad” ride, and will see 1 onshore themed to villains, arsenic good arsenic 1 onshore themed to Pixar’s “Cars” movie.

An artist’s rendering of Villain Land. | Disney via CNN Newsource

The conception creation shown Saturday for nan villains-themed area depicts an ominous setting, wherever Disney promises 2 awesome rides. The “Cars” announcement, marked Saturday nighttime pinch a unrecorded rendition of “Life is simply a Highway” by Shaboozey, elaborate a onshore that will not beryllium a replica of Cars Land successful California, but an “off-road” adventure, pinch 1 thrill thrust and 1 family-friendly ride. The Cars area will break crushed successful 2025.

Artist conception for an attraction astatine a caller ‘Cars’-themed area coming to Frontierland astatine Disney’s Magic Kingdom. | Disney via CNN Newsource

Magic Kingdom will besides beryllium getting a caller nighttime parade called “Disney Starlight,” successful summertime of 2025.

Also wrong Walt Disney World Resort successful Florida, Disney’s Hollywood Studios parkland will person a caller “Monstropolis” land, based connected nan “Monsters Inc.” franchise. Billy Crystal, who voiced nan characteristic Mike Wazowski, came connected shape connected Saturday nighttime to denote this development, which will characteristic nan first suspended coaster to look successful immoderate Disney park, wherever guests tin zoom done nan doorway vault successful nan Monsters Inc. factory.

In some Florida and California, Millennium Falcon Smuggler’s Run, located successful Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge, will spot a caller storyline featuring nan Mandalorian and Grogu.

At Disney’s Animal Kingdom park, nan antecedently announced Tropical Americas area is now confirmed to unfastened successful 2027. It will see nan first thrust based connected nan movie “Encanto,” and return spot wrong nan magical “Casita” wherever nan movie’s Madrigal family lives. Guests will beryllium capable to travel done nan time that nan characteristic Antonio receives his magical gift, pursuing him arsenic he opens his doorway to uncover a lush scenery afloat of animals pinch whom he tin talk.

The aforesaid area of nan parkland will characteristic an “Indiana Jones” thrust wrong nan erstwhile Dinosaur thrust building, but it will not replicate nan existent “Indiana Jones” rides astatine Disneyland successful California aliases astatine Tokyo DisneySea. Instead, group will thrust done an escapade wherever Indiana Jones discovers a Maya temple.

Oscar-winning character Ke Huy Quan, who appeared arsenic a kid successful “Indiana Jones and nan Temple of Doom,” was connected tract to present nan caller attraction.

“That sounds great,” he said of nan ride. “But will location beryllium immoderate snakes?”

Disney will build a cardinal “town” wrong Tropical Americas, called Pueblo Esperanza, pinch lush foliage, Spanish-style architecture, and a carousel pinch wood-carved characters.

Artist conception for Pueblo Esperanza astatine Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park. The caller abstraction will caller attractions centered astir Disney’s Encanto and nan Indiana Jones franchise. | Disney via CNN Newsource

Animal Kingdom will besides spot a “Zootopia” show, antecedently announced, astatine its theatre nether nan Tree of Life, opening successful precocious 2025 aliases early 2026.

At EPCOT, nan revamped Test Track will unfastened successful 2025. The parkland will besides beryllium getting a caller Spaceship Earth lounge that looks retired astatine Dreamer’s Point, wherever a statue of Walt Disney stands.

When asked whether nan Florida edifice would get a 5th taxable parkland successful coming years to compete pinch Universal’s Epic Universe parkland opening successful 2025, D’Amaro told CNN, “We’re ever reasoning astir nan adjacent thing. For correct now, we person truthful overmuch to observe and talk astir pinch what we’ll stock pinch our D23 fans, that I deliberation it will beryllium truthful overwhelming for them, this is each they’ll beryllium reasoning about.”

What’s coming to Disneyland Resort successful California

The original park, Disneyland, will observe its 70th day successful 2025. To people nan occasion, nan institution will create nan first-ever audio-animatronic type of Walt Disney, pinch a level of complexity of exertion that has yet to beryllium seen successful a Disney park.

Artist conception of audio-animatronic type of Walt Disney, group to unfastened successful 2025 astatine Disneyland. | Disney via CNN Newsource

He will beryllium presented connected a stage, while guests successful nan theatre tin spot him sitting successful his office, telling stories astir what it was for illustration during his clip astatine nan helm of nan company. This will beryllium a show successful rotation pinch nan existent “Great Moments pinch Mr. Lincoln” successful nan Main Street Opera House.

“For maine it’s an affectional thing,” D’Amaro said. “It’s an important point for our guests, it benignant of showcases our bequest connected 1 hand, but it besides showcases nan unbelievable exertion and invention that we person wrong nan halls of Imagineering.”

D’Amaro said nan task is being developed pinch nan endorsement of Disney’s family.

Disneyland’s erstwhile Splash Mountain has now turned into Tiana’s Bayou Adventure and will unfastened connected November 15, a thrust which has likewise been transformed and opened earlier successful nan summertime astatine Disney World successful Florida.

Across nan esplanade astatine Disney California Adventure park, Avenger’s Campus will much than double successful size, pinch building opening successful 2025.

The first awesome attraction added to this area will beryllium a thrill thrust called “Avengers Infinity Defense,” wherever guests will observe that a portal exertion has gone missing, causing King Thanos to wreak havoc crossed aggregate worlds. Guests will conflict alongside Avengers successful defending New York City, arsenic good arsenic battles successful Thor’s Asgard and Black Panther’s Wakanda.

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The 2nd awesome thrust successful this expanded area will beryllium called “Stark Flight Lab,” wherever guests tin thrust a trial formation for illustration Iron Man, successful a two-person pod picked up by a robot limb that makes nan pod fly. There will beryllium different trial flights to experience, and nan thrust will not impact virtual reality effects. The robotic limb will beryllium doing nan activity of physically carrying nan thrust vehicle.

Disney California Adventure will besides beryllium getting a caller thrust themed to Pixar’s “Coco,” a family-friendly adventure, breaking crushed successful 2026. Guests will beryllium capable to travel Miguel’s travel done nan onshore of nan dead, walking done colorful scenes and seeing animatronics of nan skeletal characters from nan movie.

An all-new Avatar onshore will besides beryllium coming to California Adventure, based connected “Avatar: The Way of Water” and early Avatar films. It will see a caller attraction different from what’s presently astatine Pandora successful Florida.

Disney fans successful attendance at nan position appeared astir excited astir nan attractions pinch elaborate conception creation and “shovel to soil” commencement dates. Tom Bricker, who writes Disney Tourist Blog, told CNN that those specifications and astonishment plans will easiness caller skepticism among nan parks’ astir loyal visitors, but immoderate whitethorn clasp disconnected connected visits arsenic well.

“These projects won’t do thing for adjacent word attendance,” Bricker said.

As antecedently reported, Disneyland Resort will vastly expand its expertise to build taxable parkland attractions connected its existing property, to nan tune of astatine slightest $1.9 cardinal complete 10 years.

Victoria Wade, a D23 instrumentality and a contented creator who attended nan presentation, told CNN “[Disney] fundamentally sewage connected our level and showed america that they heard our feedback, they [listened] to america and that they want nan parks to turn and win conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic we do.”

Wade said she and her friends summarized nan evening this way: “We are truthful back, baby.”

What’s coming to nan Disney Cruise Line

Disney Cruise Line presently has 5 ships, pinch 4 much successful production. The institution announced connected Saturday that it will adhd different 4 ships by 2031, astir tripling nan size of nan existent operating fleet.

“The request is truthful precocious against our comparatively mini fleet today, we person immense assurance successful our expertise to put and present unthinkable experiences – and this past portion is important – astir nan world,” D’Amaro said. Specific locations for nan ships’ journeys person not yet been announced.

The caller Disney Destiny vessel will beryllium getting a Hercules shape philharmonic connected board.

Robert Niles, laminitis and editor of Theme Park Insider, said nan biggest astonishment of nan nighttime mightiness person been this cruise statement description : “That’s a immense turnaround from conscionable 4 years ago, erstwhile group were predicting nan decease of nan cruise manufacture because of nan pandemic.”

What’s coming to nan world Disney Parks

Shanghai and Hong Kong Disney parks will beryllium getting caller Marvel rides. Shanghai Disneyland will get a thrill thrust astir Spider-Man, nan first clip Marvel will look successful that park. In Hong Kong, different awesome Marvel attraction featuring Spider-Man and 1 of his foes will beryllium added to nan “Stark Expo” area of Tomorrowland.

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In Paris, Disney’s first-ever taxable parkland attraction based connected “The Lion King” will beryllium built astatine nan renamed Disney Adventure World park. Visitors will spot this caller log-flume style attraction, pursuing Simba from cub to king, successful a onshore themed to nan pridefulness lands.

Artist conception of Disney’s first taxable parkland attraction based connected “The Lion King,” group to unfastened successful Disneyland Paris. | Disney via CNN Newsource

A nighttime show will travel to nan reservoir being built successful nan aforesaid park, called “Adventure Bay.”

Disneyland Paris’ original parkland on pinch Tokyo Disneyland will besides get caller nighttime shows. Paris will spot its show commencement successful January, pinch projections connected nan castle and (for nan first clip there), connected Main Street. Tokyo’s show, called “Reach for nan Stars,” will statesman connected Sept. 20.

What’s coming to Epic Games

Disney had antecedently announced a $1.5 cardinal equity finance successful Epic Games. At Saturday’s D23 event, nan institution announced caller players successful Fortnite, a information of nan position that was watchable via livestream connected that platform.

The caller characters  see ones from Disney, Star Wars and Pixar’s “The Incredibles.” The adjacent Marvel play coming to Fortnite will travel connected August 16 and characteristic Dr. Doom.

“This is what Disney needed coming – a big, affectional triumph pinch its biggest fans. The adjacent measurement is to amplify that excitement to tie successful casual fans and occasional visitors. That’s Disney’s adjacent challenge, going forward,” Niles said.

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CNN’s Megan Thomas contributed to this report.