Disney lately reiterated opening dates and timeframes in 2024 to 2026 for brand spanking new rides, lands, eating places, resorts, and extra at Walt Disney World and Disneyland, the cruise ship growth and parks in Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Shanghai. This particulars the official timeline, plus our predictions about what opening dates are literally lifelike based mostly upon on-the-ground observations. (Up to date February 10, 2024.)
Usually, that is one thing we observe in our commonly up to date What’s New & Subsequent guides:
This timeline was first shared through the third quarter earnings name, which reiterated earlier bulletins and public timelines. An up to date model with new dates & particulars was then shared through the first quarter 2024 earnings name. Right here’s what stands out to us as noteworthy…
For one factor, there have been some conspicuous omissions from the earnings name slide sharing upcoming Parks & Resorts openings and occasions. It’s usually an indication when a significant venture simply quietly stops being talked about by the corporate, and there are a number of situations of that now.
Furthermore, this doesn’t but embrace something introduced throughout final 12 months’s Vacation spot D23 occasion. (Right here’s a full checklist of the Walt Disney World bulletins from that.) It’s like that occasion didn’t even occur, and was a hallucination.
It’s additionally notable as a result of nearly the entire information from Josh D’Amaro’s keynote speech didn’t have a begin date or a gap date. This contains quite a lot of tasks: Take a look at Observe 3.0, Pirates of the Caribbean Tavern, Zootopia Tree of Life Present, Tropical Americas at Animal Kingdom, and extra. To the perfect of our recollection, the one venture that did have a timeline that isn’t on the under checklist is the Nation Bear Musical Jamboree.
Right here’s a have a look at the slide in query from the earnings name in February 2024:
Regardless, we wished to share the consolidated official timeline for Parks & Resorts tasks, adopted by our predictions of when a few of these near-term additions will really open at Walt Disney World. (Something with an asterisk is official, however not listed on the slide.)
All of this could underscore simply how little is at present deliberate to debut in 2025 and 2026 at Walt Disney World…
Walt Disney World – Official Timeline
- NOW OPEN – Figment Meet & Greet at EPCOT
- NOW OPEN – Mirabel Meet & Greet at Magic Kingdom
- NOW OPEN – Moana’s Journey of Water
- NOW OPEN – World Celebration at EPCOT
- NOW OPEN – Minnie & Mickey Mouse Meet & Greet at EPCOT
- NOW SHOWING – Luminous: The Symphony of Us
- NOW OPEN – Summer season Home on the Lake at Disney Springs
Spring2024 – Ahsoka in Star Excursions: The Adventures ProceedSpring2024 – Cake Bake Store by Gwendolyn Rogers at Disney’s BoardWalk Inn*- 2024 – CommuniCore Corridor & Plaza
- 2024 – Tiana’s Bayou Journey at Magic Kingdom
- Summer season 2024 – Nation Bear Musical Jamboree at Magic Kingdom*
- 2024 – Disney Trip Membership at Fort Wilderness
- Late 2024 – Disney Trip Membership at Polynesian Resort
As you’re undoubtedly conscious, Common’s Epic Universe theme park opens in 2025. We already know that Walt Disney World gained’t have a brand new land or trip because the “reply” to Epic Universe. Even when building began as we speak (and it gained’t!), nothing model new might be completed till 2026 or 2027 on the absolute earliest.
We additionally know Walt Disney World has no plans for a fifth gate to compete with Epic Universe. Disney has prompt repeatedly and constantly that the plan is to construct out the present gates ‘past the berms’ and even the blue sky daydreaming displays this. (See Why a fifth Theme Park Will NOT Be Constructed at Walt Disney World within the Subsequent Decade for additional commentary.)
That leaves trip reimaginings and new leisure as just about the one choices for marketable additions in 2025 as quasi-competition with Epic Universe. It’s not too late so as to add issues to the schedule for the following couple of years at Walt Disney World, however the door is beginning to shut on 2025.
Many of the main trip reimaginings which were introduced or are rumored will take 6 months to a year-plus to perform, that means information must be shared and the closure must happen by late 2025. (It’s our understanding that DINOSAUR reworking into Indiana Jones Journey gained’t open in 2025.)
Disneyland Resort – Official Timeline
- NOW OPEN – San Fransokyo Sq. (Huge Hero 6 Land) at Disney California Journey
- NOW OPEN – The Villas at Disneyland Resort, New Disney Trip Membership Tower
- NOW OPEN – Tiana’s Palace Restaurant
- NOW OPEN – Adventureland Treehouse at Disneyland
- NOW OPEN – Pixar Place Resort
Spring2024 – Ahsoka in Star Excursions: The Adventures Proceed- 2024 – Tiana’s Bayou Journey at Disneyland
- TBD – Avatar Expertise at ???*
- TBD – King Thanos Multiverse Attraction at Disney California Journey*
Disney Cruise Line
- NOW UNDERWAY – Australia and New Zealand Sailings
- June 2024 – Disney Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Level Personal Island
- December 21, 2024 – Disney Treasure Ship Maiden Voyage
- Fiscal Yr 2025 – Disney Journey (Acquisition Ship – International Dream)
- Fiscal Yr 2026 – Third Want-class Ship
Disneyland Paris
- NOW OPEN – Disneyland Resort Royal Transformation
Spring2024 – Ahsoka in Star Excursions: The Adventures Proceed- TBD – World of Frozen: Kingdom of Arendelle*
Tokyo Disney Resort
- June 6, 2024 – Fantasy Springs Port-of-Name at Tokyo DisneySea
- 2027 – New House Mountain at Tokyo Disneyland*
Hong Kong Disneyland
- NOW OPEN – World of Frozen Arendelle Land
Shanghai Disneyland
- NOW OPEN – Zootopia Land
Walt Disney World – Our Predictions
CommuniCore Corridor & Plaza (2024) – The one purpose you’ll be able to inform the above picture is from the final month is due to the 2024 EPCOT Competition of the Arts mural on the development wall. In any other case, you won’t know whether or not I took that anytime between final summer season and February 2024. That’s as a result of CommuniCore Corridor has regarded materially the identical for the final six months.
After quite a lot of seen progress final spring, the tempo of this venture has slowed to a crawl. Again when the primary flurry of bulletins had been made about Disney100 at EPCOT, the timeframe for CommuniCore Corridor was “later this 12 months” and the implication appeared to be that the finished transformation of EPCOT could be central to the celebration…which is now over.
I wouldn’t be shocked if the primary pageant to make use of it’s the 2024 EPCOT Worldwide Flower & Backyard Competition, however I’m skeptical given the present tempo and because it hasn’t been talked about in any of the pageant bulletins to this point. As an alternative, my principle is that Walt Disney World goes to introduce a brand-new EPCOT Summer season Competition, and have that be the debut occasion for CommuniCore Corridor, which might be a splashier option to open it. (New occasions heart and new occasion!)
The premise for that is that Walt Disney World introduced that the tip date of this 12 months’s EPCOT Flower & Backyard Competition might be Might 27, 2024. That is actually notable, as final 12 months’s occasion ran till July 5, which has turn out to be the widespread finish date (inside a few days) within the post-reopening period. The 2024 EPCOT Flower & Backyard Competition is over a full month shorter than the occasion throughout any of the final 3 years.
Walt Disney World wouldn’t simply depart all of that candy, candy meals & beverage cash on the desk for no purpose, so anticipate a brand new occasion to kick off in June 2024, and CommuniCore Corridor to open then.
Tiana’s Bayou Journey (2024) – To the corporate’s credit score, Disney retains reiterating that 2024 opening date for each variations of Tiana’s Bayou Journey. As coated in our put up that covers Every part You Have to Know About Tiana’s Bayou Journey, we had been skeptical of this tight timeline even earlier than the venture started.
Not solely are they reiterating the opening subsequent 12 months, however they’ve really modified it from “Late 2024” to simply “2024” in quite a lot of advertising supplies. I’ve been advised that the dropping of “Late” is purposeful, and that the Florida model of the attraction is definitely forward of schedule. This seems to be correct simply be watching progress on the outside–they’ve already refilled the flume and began testing!
If Tiana’s Bayou Journey goes to open in Summer season 2024, Memorial Day weekend or early June take advantage of sense–if that early of a timeframe is possible. These are the dates in step with previous precedent. Of the current additions with summer season openings at Walt Disney World, Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind and Pandora – World of Avatar each debuted on Might 27; Toy Story Land opened on June 30.
As such, we’d anticipate Tiana’s Bayou Journey to open as near Might 27, 2024 as attainable. If that’s too aggressive–and it may be–that’s not an enormous subject. Summer season vacationer crowds don’t actually arrive in full power till mid to late June, so anytime earlier than the tip of the month could be good, timing-wise.
Disney Trip Membership Tasks (Late 2024) – There are two upcoming Disney Trip Membership tasks at Walt Disney World, the brand new Polynesian Tower and the Cabins at Fort Wilderness. The previous is shifting quick and the latter has but to begin.
Nonetheless, work has been taking place round Fort Wilderness to offer the campground attraction to a extra upmarket viewers, so the groundwork is already being laid. Not solely that, however the cabins are prefabbed, so it’s not like an incredible quantity of lead-time is important.
Nonetheless, this can possible be extra a matter of advantageous timing than the rest. Disney Trip Membership is just not going to flood the market with factors–whether or not each of those really open in 2024 depends upon the gross sales standing of Riviera, Disneyland Resort, and (to a lesser extent because it’s promoting effectively) Grand Floridian.
Disneyland – Our Predictions
Avatar Expertise (???) – This can be a bizarre one. Regardless of zero particulars in anyway, together with what the “expertise” will entail or the place it’ll go, Bob Iger has teased this on a number of events. Simply final week, he mentioned through the earnings name that “later down the street, we might be bringing an Avatar expertise to Disneyland, reinforcing the unmatched worldwide attraction of our manufacturers and franchises.”
Oddly sufficient, this isn’t the primary time this has occurred with Avatar. The unique announcement for Pandora at Animal Kingdom contained zero particulars, and it wasn’t till years later that the specifics had been shared. (Paradoxically, this fulfills a promise made then of Avatar growth taking place elsewhere after Animal Kingdom.) I’m beginning to assume that possibly Bob Iger is a diehard Avatar fan, talking fluent Na’vi, getting his face painted when he visits Pandora, sporting a type of tails, and so on. Maybe he pulled this concept out of skinny air and blurted it out, and now Imagineering is scrambling to provide you with an appropriate idea for an Avatar “expertise” at Disneyland.
As for when this occurs, my guess is between 2025 and 2028. Very concise timeframe, I do know.
King Thanos Multiverse E-Ticket (???) – As we’ve mentioned elsewhere, this was a Bob Chapek venture. It has not appeared on any timelines, BUT it was talked about briefly at Vacation spot D23. So I suppose which means it’s nonetheless taking place?!
I’m nonetheless skeptical it’ll occur earlier than 2027. On condition that the Avengers HQ facade has been constructed and there’s an growth pad behind it, one thing might be constructed right here finally. It most likely gained’t be the King Thanos Multiverse trip, although.
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