Final 12 months, Disney introduced that Bluey is coming to Walt Disney World. It was an thrilling second for a lot of households with young children, as the favored pups will lastly make their first-ever meet & greet appearances within the parks. This affords an replace on the place issues stand and what’s occurred since with Bluey, Bingo and the Heeler household within the Disney Parks.
Issues began out promising sufficient for the prospects of Bluey’s arrival at Walt Disney World. Lower than a month after the announcement, Bluey and Bingo made their debut on the Disney Cruise Line! You could find these characters onboard Disney Marvel sailings originating from Australia and New Zealand via 2026. The pups can be found for character meet-and-greets and even an interactive sport and dance get together.
In accordance with Disney Cruise Line, that is for actual life. Prepare for enjoyable character greetings and a clue-filled sport that ends in a paw-some dance get together the place you’ll be able to unleash your flossing expertise. Plus, take pleasure in all of the immersive magic on board, together with imaginative eating, Broadway-style reveals and adult-exclusive areas. So pack your luggage—this vacation is ideal for teenagers, mums, dads… and even grannies! In order that’s nice and all that Bluey and Bingo have been aboard the Disney Marvel for a number of months now, however what about Walt Disney World?!
Per the unique announcement, the producers of Bluey are working carefully alongside BBC Studios and Disney on numerous particular activations for followers to take pleasure in. Particulars about how visitors can meet Bluey and her household at Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort might be shared “within the months forward.”
Within the months forward is sufficiently imprecise such that it may imply something. It could possibly be any time between this January and December. (Technically, it could possibly be past December 2025, however sooner or later, “within the years forward turns into extra apt.”)
Our hope had been that Bluey and Bingo would arrive by Memorial Day for “Cool Child Summer time,” which is the massive advertising push that’s closely geared toward younger households (see our Information to “Cool Child Summer time” at Walt Disney World). It will stand to purpose that Disney would need Bluey, the preferred character with this demo for the time being, to be entrance and middle throughout this celebration that runs from Could 27 via September 1, 2025. Or so that you’d assume.
Cool Child Summer time will see the Goofy takeover of CommuniCore Corridor, in any other case generally known as GoofyCore Corridor. Prepare to bop and play together with Goofy on this immersive expertise. Exhibit your greatest strikes in DJ-led dance events and be a part of your favourite video games with foolish twists, like Crazy Limbo and Parachutes ‘n’ Pipsqueaks.
Over at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Cool Child Summer time will happen in Animation Courtyard. Households will have the ability to leap into energetic enjoyable, with video games and crafts that’ll maintain children transferring and creating all day lengthy. From magicians and leap rope performers to shock character appearances, you by no means know what pleasant second is ready across the nook. Maintain the enjoyable going as you be a part of Mickey Mouse and Disney Junior associates at a vigorous indoor DJ dance get together the place little ones can transfer and groove.
Cool Child Summer time would’ve been the right time to roll out the blue carpet for Bluey and Bingo, and both CommuniCore Corridor or Animation Courtyard would’ve been excellent places.
Might you think about a blue wrap on the outside of BlueyCore Corridor or a literal blue carpet main via the DHS archway? Both would’ve beckoned visitors into these places, including actual meat to the in any other case kinda hole Cool Child Summer time.
It’s nonetheless potential that Bluey will make a shock look throughout Cool Child Summer time, because it does really feel like this occasion is being thrown collectively on the final minute. However each CommuniCore Corridor and Animation Courtyard have their slates set, so Bluey would simply be tossed in on the final minute (if in any respect) versus an providing that revolves across the Heeler household.
Extra probably, Bluey’s omission from the Cool Child Summer time slate means that these canines won’t be arriving at Walt Disney World till after Summer time 2025. Or that in the event that they do present up earlier, it gained’t be a distinguished presence.
As a result of, once more, if one thing had been taking place quickly, Walt Disney World would make a giant deal about it. There isn’t a lot taking place this 12 months at Walt Disney World, and it’s very clear that Bluey is a giant deal–larger than just about something outdoors of Starlight and Take a look at Observe 3.0 that’s taking place in 2025.
That’s what makes this so odd. It’s not as if Walt Disney World has a jam-packed slate and Bluey is being preempted by increased priorities. There’s probably not the rest–Cool Child Summer time isn’t going to maneuver the needle on new bookings, whereas Bluey and Bingo may. That’s how passionately some younger households (the goal demo!) really feel about these characters.
Nonetheless, we’ve seen this occur earlier than. Disney introduced the return of Figment as a meet & greet character again on the D23 Expo three years in the past, and it took over a 12 months for the character to lastly arrive at EPCOT.
It was an identical story with characters from Encanto, who didn’t seem in Magic Kingdom till far too lengthy after the film was a smash sensation. That was additionally round a 12 months, at the least for the meet & greet, after Mirabel first appeared at Disneyland.
In each of these instances, there are considerably legitimate explanations. The Figment choice was made comparatively last-minute, and a dressing up needed to be designed, as did backdrops. For Mirabel, the Fairytale Backyard was redesigned to characteristic whimsical décor impressed by La Familia Madrigal. Nonetheless, there’s nothing that justifies simply how lengthy both character meet & greet took. The unhappy truth is that Walt Disney World strikes glacially slowly in relation to characters and leisure. There are at all times no scarcity of excuses, however zero sense of urgency.
So the place does that go away the standing of the Bluey and Bingo meet & greet at Walt Disney World? Actually, who is aware of.
In all probability, there might be an announcement that Bluey and Bingo are coming, after which one other multi-month delay with the intention to fabricate an area and produce the characters to life, or no matter. So even a summer time announcement will probably put the character appearances within the fall.
It’s additionally solely potential that Walt Disney World plans to paywall Bluey and Bingo, including them to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration, Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Celebration, or Jollywood Nights. That might give these particular occasions one thing new, and incentivize households to buy tickets to these events. I hope that’s not what occurs, nevertheless it wouldn’t shock me–particularly not with Jollywood Nights, which has turn out to be extra character-centric and nonetheless isn’t practically as well-liked because the Magic Kingdom events.
For what it’s price, there isn’t a precise want for all of this to take so lengthy.
Blue and Bingo first appeared in a personality meet & greet finally 12 months’s D23 Expo. That have was insanely well-liked, so it ought to’ve confirmed to Disney that demand for these characters is sky-high. However that’s probably not the purpose.
Extra so, it’s that these character costumes have already been designed, as have backdrops and settings. All of these things has been designed and is already on the market within the wild, which is exactly how Disney Cruise Line was in a position to deploy Bluey and Bingo within the span of solely ~3 weeks from the unique announcement. Now ~6 months later, there’s actually no good excuse for radio silence from Walt Disney World. Deliver Bluey and Bingo to Cool Child Summer time!
Finally, it’ll be fascinating to see the place Bluey finally ends up touchdown at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. My hope is that Disney bets massive and goes daring on Bluey, and proves me fallacious with a splashy, shock announcement of Bluey and Bingo coming to the parks this summer time. In case you’ll be able to’t inform, I can not wait to Bluey myself–and for our daughter to fulfill these beautiful pups.
A personality meet & greet might be nice, simply posting triple-digit wait instances, however right here’s hoping there’s extra meaty leisure–like a cavalcade, stage present, dance get together, or interactive expertise–given the watch for the characters to come back to Walt Disney World. Bluey is a global sensation, and its theme park presence ought to be handled accordingly.
Disney already regrets passing on the theme park rights to Bluey, Bob Iger loves synergy and acquisitions, Bluey’s present rightsholders are clearly open to immersive experiences, and Walt Disney World wants a near-term shot within the arm. However at this level, I’ll settle for something within the near-term, so a personality meet & greet for Cool Child Summer time would suffice. I doubt we’ll get even that, so search for one thing throughout the Halloween or Christmas seasons.
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