D23 2026 delivered — and we’re breaking down every announcement that matters, from the Villains Land details at Magic Kingdom to the Expedition Everest Yeti finally getting fixed after years of that strobe light nonsense. Chris covers everything new (Villains Land, Piston Peak Cars land, Monstropolis, Tropical Americas, Vision Quest, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Ghost Market, Avengers Campus expansion), and Kelli covers all the updates to things you already love (Carousel of Progress new narrators Bryan Cranston and Jamie Lee Curtis, Spaceship Earth update, Dreamfinder returning to Journey Into Imagination, Frozen 3, Coco 2, Incredibles 3, Star Wars Starfighter, live action Tangled, Lilo and Stitch 2, and Mando and Grogu).
In this episode:
- Disney’s new personalized attraction app — toggle flashing lights, sensory elements, and more on/off in real time during rides, now live in My Disney Experience
- EPCOT Food & Wine Festival 30th anniversary — 30 most popular dishes from the last 30 years are back
- EPCOT tabletop railings — five new mounted tabletops along the World Showcase promenade, starting in Mexico and Germany
- Vision Quest — the Vision/WandaVision/Agatha trilogy concludes October 16
- Oswald the Lucky Rabbit hybrid live action/animated series — directed by Jon Favreau, February 17
- Ghost Market — new Pixar movie set on the North Shore of Hawaii, early 2028
- Bluey Movie — August 6, 2027
- Ice Age: Boiling Point — February 5
- Disneyland Avengers Campus doubling in size — Avengers Infinity Defense and Stark Flight Lab, 2028
- Disneyland Tomorrowland total revamp announced
- Magic Kingdom Villains Land — Maleficent roller coaster, Magic Mirror dark ride (possibly boat ride), opening TBD
- Magic Kingdom Piston Peak Cars land — Ridge Run Rally and Miss Fritter’s Daredevil Spin Along
- Hollywood Studios Monstropolis — Doors roller coaster, Glob Theater, Harry Howson’s restaurant, starting 2027 with new Randy Newman music
- Animal Kingdom Tropical Americas — Indiana Jones and the Myth of the Jade Serpent (first Harrison Ford animatronic, massive snake animatronic), Antonio’s Fiesta Day Encanto boat ride, El Carrousel de los Animalitos, starting 2027
- Avengers Doomsday — December 18
- X-Men movie — cast announced including Sadie Sink as Jean Grey, Kit Connor as Cyclops
- Star Wars Starfighter starring Ryan Gosling — May 28, 2027, set five years after Episode 9
- Mando and Grogu coming to Disney Plus — September 2
- Live action Tangled — March 31, 2028, Kathryn Hahn as Mother Gothel
- Zootopia 3 announced
- Incredibles 3 — concept art revealed, release TBD
- Coco 2: Viva La Fiesta — older Miguel celebrating in Mexico, concept art released
- Gatto — new Pixar movie set in Venice, Italy, starring Mark Ruffalo and Laurence Fishburne, 2027
- Simpsons Movie sequel — September 2027
- Frozen 3 — Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, and Josh Gad performed live at D23
- Lilo and Stitch 2 live action announced
- Carousel of Progress new narrators — Bryan Cranston as John, Jamie Lee Curtis as Sarah, reopening spring 2027
- Spaceship Earth update — story shifting from human communication to human connection (Judi Dench status unknown)
- Journey Into Imagination revamp — Dreamfinder RETURNS
- Expedition Everest Yeti full restoration — he’s going to move again
⏱ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro & Download Shoutouts (Chapel Hill TN, Port Henry NY, Cairo Egypt)
3:02 Main Street News: EPCOT Tabletops, Food & Wine 30th Anniversary, Disney Personalized Attraction App
9:00 Tomorrowland D23: New Movies & TV (Vision Quest, Oswald, Ghost Market, Bluey, Ice Age)
17:06 Tomorrowland D23: New Parks (Disneyland Avengers Campus, Tomorrowland Revamp, Villains Land, Piston Peak, Monstropolis, Tropical Americas)
22:52 World Showcase D23: Movies & TV Updates (Avengers Doomsday, X-Men, Star Wars Starfighter, Mando & Grogu, Tangled, Zootopia 3, Incredibles 3, Coco 2, Gatto, Simpsons 2, Frozen 3, Lilo & Stitch 2)
33:40 World Showcase D23: Parks Updates (Carousel of Progress, Spaceship Earth, Journey Into Imagination/Dreamfinder, Expedition Everest Yeti)
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Transcript:
Chris 00:06
Hello, out there, Disney fam! Welcome to the next episode of Super Califrajic Awesome Disney Podcast. My name’s Chris, and I’m
Kelli 00:13
Kelli.
Chris 00:14
We are so excited to have you here. You’re wearing your super topic adjacent ears, at least for one little segment. But the
Kelli 00:23
ears are topic adjacent. The shirt is on topic, right?
Chris 00:27
Okay, that’s fair. Yeah, the
Kelli 00:28
shirt is from the Sunrise Spectacular. Ernesto de la Cruz’s Sunrise Spectacular went to that concert, and so the shirts from his Sunrise Spectacular. The ears are from Mexico.
Speaker 2 00:40
Okay,
Kelli 00:41
so the ears are actually, you know what? No, they’re on topic too. We’ll see when we get.
Speaker 3 00:50
All right.
Chris 00:52
This is a little bit of a different episode this week because we’re we’re all it’s all D 23 all the time. We haven’t had a chance to talk about D 23 on the podcast, so that’s basically an all news episode. Yes,
Kelli 01:05
that’s it. Right. So okay, but we’re pretty excited about that. So did anybody listen to us this week, hun?
Chris 01:10
Few people did. Some folks in Chapel Hill, Tennessee.
Kelli 01:14
Tennessee. You didn’t think
Chris 01:15
I was going to say Tennessee? I did
Kelli 01:16
not. I thought for sure you’re going North Carolina. Yeah, we’ve already
Chris 01:19
done North Carolina, but we have this is less than 2000 people in this little town, 45 minutes south of Nashville, and I love this. This is this is right where we
Speaker 3 01:30
lived.
Chris 01:31
It’s home to the Lions Super Pool of the South tractor pull.
Kelli 01:36
God bless them.
Chris 01:38
Got it. That’s that’s their claim to fame. Chapel Hill, Port Henry, New York, also known as the San Francisco of the Adirondacks, because it sits on a steep hill overlooking Balago Bay and Lake Champlain within the Adirondack Park.
Kelli 01:55
All of those words you just said in combination with New York, I’ve never heard.
Chris 02:00
You’ve heard of the Adirondacks?
Kelli 02:02
Not in combination with New York.
Chris 02:03
Okay, they’re there. They’re also in New York.
Kelli 02:11
Wow. Okay. All right.
Chris 02:13
You’re gonna love this one, Cairo, Egypt. Ooh. I know. Been thinking a lot about it. I’ve got a
Kelli 02:18
friend that lives in Cairo.
Chris 02:19
Oh. Okay. Yeah,
Kelli 02:21
and she’s an amazing podcaster.
Chris 02:23
Well, she also thinks we are clearly
Kelli 02:25
podcasting at American University of Cairo. So, yep,
Chris 02:29
the heart at its heart is Tahrir Square and the vast Egyptian museum, a trove of antiquities including royal mummies and a gilded King Tutankhamun.
Kelli 02:41
Yeah, she posts some of the coolest pictures on the socials. Like she’ll walk to the pyramids for lunch.
Chris 02:45
It’s wild, isn’t it? It’s crazy.
Kelli 02:47
Kim, if it’s you, hey.
Chris 02:48
I thought you said I thought like her name was Kim if it’s you.
Kelli 02:55
Oh no, her name’s Kim Foxx. If it’s you, but if it’s you, Kim, hey. So let’s
Chris 03:02
do a little little short news segment. Okay. Why don’t we?
Speaker 4 03:05
Okay.
Chris 03:08
Okay. This this first item speaks specifically to I think what Josh Demaro is doing as the new CEO. Okay. So he came from Parks and Experiences. Right. Right. He was the one that greeted us on our little welcome, whatever, in the rooms. I think that somewhere, someone did a survey of what are the things you want most, and out of that survey came tabletops at Epcot. More than just more than just the little circular like you know ballroom type or the trash cans. What are we
Kelli 03:50
going to use the trash cans for now? Well, there’s
Chris 03:51
still plenty of opportunity because they have they’ve only put five of these in. These are though they’re they are rail mounted tabletops, so the railings by the water. Yes, they’ve they’ve mounted these Josh
Kelli 04:05
tabletops to them. Exactly. Yes. Right
Chris 04:08
now, there’s only five of them.
Kelli 04:09
It’s hard to eat and walk. It is, and you just walk with all that with all that amazing things. Stop for a second and eat, and then move on. Yes.
Chris 04:17
Yes. So there’s only five of them as of when when I got this article, but and and the the folks that we get we get a lot of our stuff from Blog Mickey, they went out to the park and they were like we haven’t really thought about the railings very much at Epcot, right? And we found the five tables, but not exactly sure where they’re going to be able to fit in more tables. Oh really? Because just the way the promenade is set up and the railings, and it’s just not. They think there’s not a lot of room, but I imagine that if these are successful, they’ll figure out a way
Kelli 04:51
for that. Yeah, they’ll figure
Chris 04:52
out a way.
Kelli 04:52
Five’s not going to do it, Josh. It’s
Chris 04:54
not, especially when they’re all on like the same size. I think the three of them are in Mexico and two of them might be in Germany or something.
Kelli 05:00
Oh yeah. Well, I sit down for my chips and queso anyway. So you do. You go into that little
Chris 05:04
cantina. I’m
Kelli 05:05
not gonna. That’s not gonna help you any. Not gonna help me in Mexico. The this is
Chris 05:09
the 30th anniversary of the Food and Wine Festival this year. Wow. That crazy. My gosh. And so they’ve brought back 30. 30 of the food items are 30 of the most popular food items over the last 30 years.
Kelli 05:23
Oh wow! Yeah, so there’s a whole shame that Italy’s not going to have a booth. Italy is trying something new this
Chris 05:30
year. We’ll we’ll get into that. They don’t have any
Kelli 05:31
popular. I think they’ve got a Stromboli
Chris 05:33
or something. But we’re we’ll you know we got so many bonus episodes we got to do. We do.
Kelli 05:38
I know. I know.
Chris 05:40
Okay, last news item.
Kelli 05:42
Okay, yeah, this
Chris 05:43
is this is so. I don’t know if this is cool or creepy or whatever. Probably both.
Kelli 05:47
Okay,
Chris 05:48
they they requested a patent. I think they’ve just gotten it. Maybe this goes back to 2025 when they first put the patent in, but it was for the, and this is how they titled the patent: personalized notification of attractions, including user preference or aversions. So it’s an app.
Kelli 06:08
Oh right. Okay. That sounds like yes. This is
Chris 06:10
an app that you can decide attraction by attraction, even if it’s a movie show. You know, something in a theater or a ride, or elements on that ride, that might be something that people either love or don’t love.
Kelli 06:26
Right? Give me everything in air conditioning.
Chris 06:28
Well, no, this is like while you’re on that ride, if you’ve got someone who’s sensitive to flashing lights, you could actually say
Kelli 06:41
no rides with flashing lights. No,
Chris 06:43
no flashing lights for me while I’m going through that section of the ride. Yes,
Kelli 06:51
that is brilliant. I thought you were saying I know, like you could pick the rides based on no,
Chris 06:57
no, no. This is within a ride. These are the things that a person might find of you know of that they’re averse to, or that they really like, and you can it’s like toggle on, toggle off type things. Or there’s also the ability just to free type, you know how you feel about it, and it will try to in real time adjust the ride system for you.
Kelli 07:23
Wow,
Chris 07:26
that’s wild.
Kelli 07:27
That is so progressively accessible. It is. I love that. It really is. I love it. Yeah,
Chris 07:34
but also imagine the data they’re going to get from that. Well, I know, but I mean still, yeah. But yeah, that’s the idea. And the example they gave was a granddad who was who was going on a dark ride with his with his grandson, his young grandson, and so he might set the ride up so that it’s more enjoyable for his grandson.
Kelli 07:58
Okay, right, like less scary or whatever, and
Chris 08:01
then another example was if we have someone who might be autistic and averse to certain sensory issues, we can use you can you can adjust things so that it’s
Kelli 08:13
wow
Chris 08:14
or
Kelli 08:15
again so that Disney is accessible for all.
Chris 08:18
Yes, that’s the way that’s the way I chose to read it, which is magical. Yeah,
Kelli 08:22
I love that so much.
Chris 08:24
Supposedly the app went live august 20, but I couldn’t figure out. Like, is it is this embedded in? It’s got to be part
Kelli 08:32
of. Yeah, it’d have to be already part of my Disney experience. I would
Chris 08:35
think. I would think so. It would have to
Kelli 08:37
be. You wouldn’t want to put a second app,
Chris 08:39
another app out there, right? That’s sort of how I feel about it.
Kelli 08:41
Well, and from a data perspective, they’re going to want to link that to you as a user. I
Chris 08:45
think so.
Kelli 08:45
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Chris 08:47
Come on. That.
Kelli 08:48
Yeah. That’s. That’s that’s really cool. I love that.
Chris 08:50
I do too.
Kelli 08:51
Absolutely love
Chris 08:52
it. Okay. So, well, let’s let’s. That’s all the news that I’ve really got. So let’s go into tomorrow. Let’s go into Tomorrowland.
Kelli 09:00
Tomorrowland.
Chris 09:00
And
Kelli 09:01
so these are d2 three things that are going to be new to
Chris 09:05
us. Yes. So what? Yeah, we’ll both go through the same sort of sequence. It’s going to be movies and TV, Pixar, Disney animation, and then parks.
Kelli 09:14
Okay.
Chris 09:14
And I’m going to talk about things that were announced that are either things we’ve never seen or never experienced, and they’re making changes or whatever. Okay. And then in World Showcase, it’ll be all about things that we’ve done before. They’re either adding on to, or fixing, or improving, or whatever. Okay,
Kelli 09:33
great. All right.
Chris 09:35
Okay, so here we go. Updates from D 23. It was it was quite the D 23. I did not get the impression that people came out of it disappointed like they have in the past.
Kelli 09:45
Yeah,
Chris 09:46
they seem to really be listening to people. So, Tomorrowland D 23 updates. Vision Quest. Any idea what this is? Just. By me saying it,
Kelli 10:01
I’ve heard of Vision Quest.
Chris 10:03
Well, this is a this is a new TV show about Vision, Wanda’s man.
Kelli 10:09
Oh no,
Chris 10:10
Wanda Maximus Salvage. I
Kelli 10:11
know. I was thinking it was something in Epcot, over in that little area where you get to play with all the tech stuff after the Spaceship Earth.
Chris 10:22
Negative. No, this is a this is a TV show. It’s coming october 16. It’s right around the corner.
Kelli 10:27
Okay,
Chris 10:27
and this is basically the end of what they consider a trilogy between Wanda Vision, Agatha all along, and now we’re gonna finish out or at least move Vision story along. Because I don’t know if you remember, but at the end of Wanda Vision, he they had created another like white vision.
Kelli 10:45
Yeah,
Chris 10:46
right. Well, that’s who we are catching up to. Yes, white
Kelli 10:50
vision. Okay.
Chris 10:51
Yep. So, okay, vision quest coming out. People seem to be very excited.
Kelli 10:55
Okay.
Chris 10:57
I cannot wait for this Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
Speaker 5 11:00
Oh. Right. So we
Chris 11:01
know that a few years ago, Oswald was Disney’s first creation, but he lost the rights to it, right? Right, and then he created Mickey Mouse. Thank goodness, but not that long ago, they got the rights back for Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. You started seeing Oswald stuff all over the parks. Well, they’re going to release on february 17 next year a series for Oswald the Rabbit on I think on Disney Plus. It’ll be a hybrid live action animated series, and it was yeah,
Kelli 11:37
like Roger Rabbit or like the new
Chris 11:40
Coyote Acme movie.
Kelli 11:41
Okay,
Chris 11:42
it’s created and directed by John Favreau.
Kelli 11:47
Oh, yeah. Okay. So many fun things. Yeah.
Chris 11:50
And basically, the idea is an earthquake accidentally sets Oswald free from wherever he is at Disney Studios or whatever into the real world,
Kelli 12:01
okay. Very Roger Rabbit. Very
Chris 12:02
Roger Rabbit, and and so a young a young boy has to try to lead Oswald through navigating the real world.
Kelli 12:10
Okay.
Chris 12:10
So he it looks really really cute, actually. I mean,
Kelli 12:13
I will say that in like Dreamlight Valley, Oswald stuff is all looks hand drawn, whereas everybody else’s looks like it’s part of the valley, so it’s like Oswald is like 2d in the valley, and everything still looks hand drawn. So it’s sort of that experience already in the valley. I can’t
Chris 12:31
wait to see it. It should be good.
Kelli 12:32
Can I ask a random question about the vision thing? Yeah, and I’m worried this is going to set you off. I don’t
Chris 12:38
get set off
Kelli 12:38
right ever. Okay, so at the end of this, right? So in my in my world, Wanda and Vision and Agatha were sort of like back in a different time, right? They were like you know 50s, etc. For
Chris 12:58
a little bit.
Kelli 12:59
For a little bit, right? Okay, so when when the Avengers didn’t they crush all of the stones from Thanos’s glove, and that’s what caused everybody to lose like like five years of their life, and so and so if Vision’s stone in his head was one of the stones that they crushed, right? I remember Vision had to like take the stone out of his head or whatever, right? And so then, but it so then wouldn’t he be dead? Don’t even know where it started. I don’t. I really don’t. But
Chris 13:39
Wanda created that whole world. She created it was a it was a fake world. That whole town that they were living in,
Kelli 13:48
right? But that still doesn’t that.
Chris 13:50
And so she she created vision there.
Kelli 13:52
Okay, so so so vision wasn’t real there,
Chris 13:55
right?
Kelli 13:55
Okay, but so still though he should be dead because they had to take the stone out of his. They were
Chris 14:00
rebuilding him. There was a there was a government agency that was that was rebuilding him.
Kelli 14:06
Okay, I think I must have just missed that bit of a storyline. We had
Chris 14:09
to go. We had to go. Got to watch it again.
Kelli 14:11
Well, I’m I’m all for watching Agatha all along right now. I mean, it’s about to be september 1. It’s Halloween. It’s basically Halloween. It’s gonna be Halloween overnight. It’s gonna be Halloween. I’ve been trying to decide. I’m gonna switch from lemon esthetic to a different esthetic, basically overnight,
Chris 14:27
just like they do, just like they do at Disney.
Kelli 14:29
Yes, and so I think we’re gonna go from lemon esthetic
Chris 14:32
token.
Kelli 14:33
I’m feeling ghost.
Chris 14:35
Okay,
Kelli 14:35
I’m feeling ghost esthetic. You know
Chris 14:37
what? The very next thing on my list,
Kelli 14:39
ghost esthetic,
Chris 14:40
ghost market. That’s a Pixar movie that’s coming out. I
Kelli 14:43
love it. Okay, all right. Ghost
Chris 14:45
Market. They released a teaser trailer. Comes out in early 2028, and it explores a hidden magical world where ghosts barter and trade.
Kelli 14:55
I love it so much. Yes, and
Chris 14:57
I think I think it’s actually set on the north. Shore of Hawaii.
Kelli 15:01
Ah, what a great place to be a ghost! I think
Chris 15:03
so too.
Kelli 15:05
Oh my gosh! So I, you know, you know, I have a list of people that I’m going to haunt.
Chris 15:10
Yes, that’s right.
Kelli 15:11
Um, I keep that as a running list. It’s short. I don’t want to be busy in the afterlife. But I hadn’t really given any thought to the fact that I could live on the North Shore of Hawaii. See,
Chris 15:24
and you wouldn’t need money; you just bartering trade.
Kelli 15:28
And I, so I could, I could shorten my list even more if I’m on the North Shore of Hawaii because I want to come back just to haunt y’all. Come
Chris 15:34
back to haunt people. I don’t want to haunt y’all. That’s right. Scattering your ashes. You don’t want to go far.
Kelli 15:39
You’re not doing my ashes? I’m gonna be a rock like Julia Child.
Chris 15:43
Oh well, I’m gonna drop you in the ocean. You’re gonna drop me
Kelli 15:45
in the ocean as a rock like Julia Child, where I can grow like reefs and stuff. Yeah,
Chris 15:50
yeah, okay, whatever. That’s where you’re gonna be.
Kelli 15:52
Yeah,
Chris 15:53
can’t wait.
Kelli 15:54
So I shouldn’t
Chris 15:55
wait to take that trip.
Kelli 15:56
I’m gonna have my destination funeral, so I should then. So I should definitely shorten my haunting list. You
Chris 16:03
should. You’re not going to want to. You’re going to be real bad. I don’t want to be
Kelli 16:05
that busy. The Bluey movie. They released a teaser trailer for the Bluey movie.
Chris 16:10
It’s coming out august 6, 2027.
Kelli 16:14
I’m telling you, you couldn’t pay me any amount of money. There’s
Chris 16:17
no. I love Bluey. I think Bluey’s great, doing wonderful things for the world. I won’t darken the door of that theater. No, I won’t darken the door of within three miles of a theater that we. Can you
Kelli 16:27
imagine the restrooms?
Chris 16:29
Yes, I can. Right in the middle of the movie. No. Thank you. Ice Age Boling Point being released on february 5 next year. Okay. Another Ice Age movie. They can’t make enough of them. I’ve not seen one minute of any one movie.
Kelli 16:43
Clips
Chris 16:44
on commercials. Yeah, that’s it. I’ve seen some clips. I know who stars in them. There’s a squirrel. I don’t think he’s a squirrel and
Kelli 16:51
a nut.
Chris 16:51
He’s called Scrat. Is his nut? And I think he plays a big role in the next
Kelli 16:56
one. Okay, well that’s all I got. All
Chris 16:57
right, Disneyland Avengers Campus will double in size, adding two new attractions in 2028: Avengers Infinity Defense and the Stark Flight Lab.
Kelli 17:07
Oh, that sounds fun! That sounds like a lot of fun. Does I love their Avengers campus? Yeah, it’s
Chris 17:14
great.
Kelli 17:14
It’s fantastic. Yes,
Chris 17:15
and they’re going to judge up their nighttime shows, their nighttime spectaculars. Remember, Dreams Come True is another one. is is one for Disneyland, and the World of Color is also getting an update. the The Fountain Show,
Kelli 17:28
the the shows at Disneyland are completely different than what we have here, and you can’t explain it in two. It’s really
Chris 17:34
hard to explain how it’s different.
Kelli 17:36
It’s like a dance party.
Chris 17:37
It really the the at least while while we were there, that’s what it was.
Kelli 17:40
Yeah, it was, and we didn’t get to see World of Color. No, we didn’t. So we’re talking about Disneyland specific. It was like a dance party.
Chris 17:47
Yeah, it was another one of the things I was skeptical about before going, and I was just dead wrong.
Kelli 17:52
Yeah, because I mean, at Magic Kingdom, we’re elbow to elbow with people, and everybody’s got their cameras out recording the whole thing, and you can barely move. Well,
Chris 18:02
and there, and there, they were
Kelli 18:04
literally dancing in the show. Well, you can also
Chris 18:05
kind of go out into that promenade area between the two parks and still,
Kelli 18:09
yeah,
Chris 18:09
feel like you’re part of
Kelli 18:10
it. Yeah,
Chris 18:11
Tomorrowland out there is going to get a total revamp too, and it really needs it. This their Tomorrowland is not offering much,
Kelli 18:16
yeah. So
Chris 18:17
they’re going to get some new attractions and not a lot explained, but
Kelli 18:21
but they’re just gonna gonna give us a whole
Chris 18:23
new revamp there, and it needs it.
Kelli 18:25
Okay,
Chris 18:26
Walt Disney World. All right, Magic Kingdom, the Biggie, Villains Land.
Kelli 18:31
Yes, I
Chris 18:32
don’t know why you haven’t gotten your royalty check yet, because you basically described. I
Kelli 18:36
gave them the blueprints two years ago.
Chris 18:39
You did. Yes, this is so described as sprawling. It’s supposed to be humongous, and it’s it’s it was created by a cursed wishing well and all this kind of stuff. So there’ll be a whole story around it. Yeah, but the big the big ticket items are going to be a maleficent roller coaster that crisscrosses through the briar around her mountain, and a dark ride where the magic mirror leads you through the mirror realm, full of seeing things. That’s a boat ride. That’s a maybe a boat ride. I thought I think it might be a boat ride. Yeah, might be a boat ride. Also coming to Magic Kingdom is Piston Peak. This is a cars themed land featuring Ridge Run Rally. This is like an off-road suspension vehicle type of of event where you go up into the mountains, you go through some snowy areas, you go through all sorts of little climate changes and everything, and then you scoop down the mountain. Is that gonna be a Frontierland? Where are we putting that? This is gonna be. It’ll be over sort of in that area, but not necessarily. I don’t think it’s necessarily part of Frontierland,
Kelli 19:45
like a whole different thing. It’s a
Chris 19:46
whole. It’s Piston Peak will be its own thing.
Kelli 19:49
Wow! But I think
Chris 19:50
a lot of it sort of it fits the esthetic over there,
Kelli 19:53
right? Yeah.
Chris 19:54
But yeah, it’ll have the Ridge Run Rally, but also it’ll have Miss. Fritters, Daredevil spin along. This is supposed to be like kind of like that alien twirl ride over in Toy Story Land.
Kelli 20:07
Okay,
Chris 20:08
where it’s you know just kind of spinning. It’s gonna make some people throw up.
Kelli 20:10
Okay,
Chris 20:11
we hope
Kelli 20:11
fun. Yay! Who doesn’t want to throw up all the churros you just date? Hollywood
Chris 20:17
Studios, Monstropolis. That’s the big announcement at Hollywood Studios, right? There will be open. They’re going to open the area before everything in there is is actually ready. So it’ll start opening in 2027, and other elements will follow the next year. The highlights are the doors roller coaster.
Kelli 20:34
Yep. Right. Everybody wants to do that. That’s that’s got to be cool. Yeah.
Chris 20:38
Whoever I can’t remember whoever it was that was talking about making that movie, the second they saw that that scene, they thought that’s a ride. Yeah, that’s a ride. Absolutely, it is. The Glob Theater. We’ve talked about the Glob Theater. The Glob Theater and Harry Howson’s restaurant are three things that are specifically going to take part there.
Kelli 20:54
Yeah.
Chris 20:55
The whole land and attractions will feature a new music by Randy Newman, which is really cool.
Kelli 21:01
Okay, that’s awesome.
Chris 21:02
Last thing here for me is Animal Kingdom Tropical Americas, which will start opening up next year. The new Indiana Jones ride, which is taking the place of the dinosaur ride. Yeah, it’s called Indiana Jones and the Myth of the Jade Serpent.
Kelli 21:17
Okay,
Chris 21:17
this will feature the first Harrison Ford animatronic.
Kelli 21:22
That’s awesome.
Chris 21:22
That’s really cool. How
Kelli 21:23
much does Disney have to pay you to make an animatronic of you? Do you think?
Chris 21:28
I’d love the opportunity to figure that out.
Kelli 21:30
I want to see that contract. I love that opportunity.
Chris 21:35
And supposedly, there’s a snake animatronic at the end that is going to be absolutely mind blowing.
Kelli 21:42
Okay, I don’t
Chris 21:43
like this ride anymore. Typically, the ride system is done with those Jeep bouncy Jeep rides, you know. So it’s probably going to be that. That’s what Indiana Jones Out West was. They’re going to keep
Kelli 21:53
it as the bouncy Jeep ride. I think
Chris 21:54
so. I think they’re going to keep the same ride. I
Kelli 21:57
think
Chris 21:57
we’re yeah we’re going to tell a new story, but the ride system I think is mainly going to stay the same.
Kelli 22:02
Just it hurts your boobs so much. I think to be that’s my jumpy or my problem
Chris 22:07
with it too.
Kelli 22:07
Yeah.
Chris 22:08
Antonio’s Fiesta Day Encanto boat ride. Yes. This is going to be awesome. Takes place on the day that Antonio gets his gift.
Kelli 22:19
Gift,
Chris 22:19
and it includes voice cast, the original voice cast of characters.
Kelli 22:23
It’s awesome,
Chris 22:23
and then El Carrousel de los Animalitos.
Kelli 22:27
Oh, little tiny animals, a carousel, tiny animals. It’s a
Chris 22:30
carousel with animals from all the movies and whatnot.
Kelli 22:33
That’s cute. That’s cute.
Chris 22:35
So that’s Tomorrowland. Is
Kelli 22:37
there a casa?
Chris 22:39
That’s where Antonio’s ride takes place. Oh, inside is in casita.
Kelli 22:43
Casita. Okay. All right. That’s cool. I
Chris 22:45
believe. Okay.
Chris 22:47
So okay, awesome. So your turn for World Showcase.
Kelli 22:52
Yeah, and so like we said, World Showcase is updates to things that we have done, and so we’re starting with movies and TV shows. So the first one is Avengers Doomsday is releasing December the 18th, and there’s a new trailer.
Chris 23:07
Yeah. So I mean, it’s hard to avoid any of the Doomsday stuff that’s going around out there right now. Yeah.
Kelli 23:13
No, I’m I’m trying really hard to avoid
Chris 23:16
it. I know you are.
Speaker 6 23:18
It’s it’s
Chris 23:19
not exactly cluttering up your algorithm, like I
Kelli 23:22
don’t think it’s cluttering my algo. Okay, then there’s an untitled X Men movie with a release date TBD.
Chris 23:31
Yes,
Kelli 23:31
right. So we met Jean Gray, Sadie Sink in Spider Man: Brand New Day.
Chris 23:38
Yes,
Kelli 23:38
and people are loving the rest of the cast. It was a bunch of young
Chris 23:41
people. I don’t really know a lot of them except for Samara Weaving is going to be in it, and I’m assuming she might be playing Rogue or someone like that. I know her, but I don’t really. I really, I mean, Kit Connor, I think is is playing Cyclops, and that’s maybe the only ones I really could could pick out of a lineup and say
Kelli 24:03
Wolverine.
Chris 24:04
I don’t know. I don’t know what story. That’s the only
Kelli 24:07
one I know.
Chris 24:11
You know Professor X. He’s bald headed.
Kelli 24:13
Patrick
Chris 24:14
John Luke Picard.
Kelli 24:15
John Luke Picard. Yeah,
Chris 24:16
he played him, and and he was also played by. Now I’m not gonna get his name, but he played him in later. Someone else played him in later movies too.
Kelli 24:24
Okay.
Chris 24:25
So it’ll it it’s it’s gonna be basically Avengers X. I mean MCU is basically entering its mutant era, and so they’re gonna bring the X Men along, and they’re using Spider Man
Kelli 24:39
to do it. Okay, I blacked out a little bit there. See, see, see. So people like Spider
Chris 24:43
Man are mutates, not mutants. You see.
Kelli 24:48
Yeah, obvious difference. That’s an obvious difference, which leads us into Star Wars Starfighter, may 28, 2027, starring Ryan Gosling.
Chris 24:58
Gonna be awesome. I’m
Kelli 24:59
a huge fan. Ryan Gosling. I know
Chris 25:00
if he’s in it,
Kelli 25:02
can he be enough to be in Star Wars? I don’t know. Takes place five years after Episode Nine and is completely separate story from the Skywalker saga. Do you
Chris 25:12
even know what you said?
Kelli 25:13
Not a word. I don’t know a single word. I do know Skywalker. Those are people. Uh
Chris 25:20
huh,
Kelli 25:20
Luke,
Chris 25:21
Luke, yes, is a Skywalker. Yes,
Kelli 25:25
all those, right? Anakin,
Kelli 25:27
yeah, and
Chris 25:27
apparently Ray has has adopted the the Skywalker name.
Kelli 25:30
And what’s his face? Ben.
Chris 25:32
He was a solo.
Kelli 25:35
Oh, because oh, Ben Kenobi. Ben Kenobi. Yeah, he wasn’t a Skywalker. No, he wasn’t talking about Ben. That was that was Harrison Ford’s son.
Chris 25:43
He’s a solo, although he was he’s Leia’s also. So maybe you know Skywalker nephew.
Kelli 25:50
Okay, I’m blacking out. Mando and Grogu is coming to Disney Plus on September the second, and I’m excited to see that because I do love Mando and Grogu. Okay, and I’ve I’ve followed them, and you went to see that in the movie theater without me. Yes, and I love Grogu. I don’t know why you didn’t carry me to that, but you
Chris 26:13
clearly had some social engagement. I probably
Kelli 26:15
did. You know me. I did.
Chris 26:17
I mean, you’re all over the place. It’s good. It’s so I’m excited.
Kelli 26:20
That’s coming to Disney Plus september 2 because I want to actually see it.
Chris 26:23
Yeah, it’s it’s popcorn. It’s popcorn movie.
Kelli 26:25
Yeah, so
Chris 26:26
it’s good. It’s fun.
Kelli 26:27
Live action Tangled, march 31, 2028. Catherine Hun has been cast as Mother Gothel. I didn’t know who this was. I had to ask, and you told me this is Agatha. So love that. That’s phenomenal cast. She’s gonna be,
Chris 26:41
oh, freaking awesome Mother Gothel.
Kelli 26:44
Yeah. So I love her anyway. Yeah.
Chris 26:47
She’s amazing. Have they
Kelli 26:48
cast Rapunzel?
Chris 26:50
Yeah, they’ve all been cast. But I guess all we hear about as long as Zachary Levi is not Flynn Rider, I was good with
Kelli 26:58
it. Should we should we take a slight detour and talk about how women who are beyond middle age are always cast as evil witches in Disney movies, and they have hooked noses and like long gray hair, and they’re naturally the evil person just because they’re beyond like menopause,
Chris 27:26
I don’t think we should talk about that. I think we can. Why? You know what? Why don’t you and I discuss that later? I’d be super into talking about that. I bet
Kelli 27:34
you would. I bet you would. I want to
Chris 27:37
hear what your thoughts are. I bet all of them. I want to hear all the thoughts on it.
Kelli 27:41
I bet you do. Okay, Pixar Disney animation Zootopia Three is coming. Judy Hopps is huge. She’s a big deal. She’s all the rage. I only know like a couple of two-year-olds, and they are both massive Judy Hopps fans.
Chris 28:00
Yeah,
Kelli 28:01
Judy is very popular with the under three crowd. I love that for her. I love that for her. Yeah, you know, both of them just call her Bunny, and so I feel like Judy is just as easy to say
Chris 28:19
as Bunny
Kelli 28:19
as Bunny, and
Chris 28:20
easier to spell, so
Kelli 28:21
maybe they need to work her name into it a little bit more, as opposed to just Bunny. But Judy’s huge with the under three crowd, and I love that for her. So I’m happy about Zootopia three. Yeah, I
Chris 28:34
mean, and Jason Bateman gets another big check. He plays to Fox.
Kelli 28:40
Great, Judy Hopps is in there. Why you want to constantly bring up the white man? They’re making money. I’m talking about a marginalized bunny.
Chris 28:50
She is not marginalized. I’m just saying. Not these days. You know
Kelli 28:52
how hard it was. I had to look to find a stuffed Judy to give that little two year old. It’s very difficult. There’s not a lot of Judy Hopps merch. Don’t tell me she’s not marginalized. She’s absolutely marginalized.
Chris 29:04
Okay.
Kelli 29:05
Incredibles three. We only got concept art of the new hero costumes and a silhouette of the villain. Release TBD. You saw this. I didn’t. Does the villain have a cape?
Chris 29:17
Oh, I don’t. I didn’t really. Couldn’t really tell.
Kelli 29:20
Their outfits. I mean, did
Chris 29:23
they’re fine?
Kelli 29:25
They’re fine. They’re
Chris 29:26
fine. Look, I am. I am. Or they could have. They could have not changed anything. They could have re-released the first one, and I would. I’d be at the movie theater. I Incredibles are good. Love Los Increebles.
Kelli 29:37
I know. I love The Incredibles too. So we don’t know anything about who designed the costumes. Edna. So I’m making sure Edna. I’m sure Edna Mode. I mean, I don’t know, but Edna Mode original.
Chris 29:48
I’m sure it’s Edna Mode.
Kelli 29:49
Check in. You you know seem to not know. Okay, so then here we go. These are my ears, my shirt. Viva Life is a party. This is Coco Two. The concept art is really showing up. Older Miguel celebrating in Mexico. There you go. There you go. Right. You did that. You did. I’m on topic for both. I love Miguel.
Chris 30:11
Yeah.
Kelli 30:11
I love, love, love Miguel. And I hope, and I hope it’s the same kid who played the original Miguel, like just older, older.
Chris 30:18
Yeah.
Kelli 30:18
Um, because he did a phenomenal job. He did. Yeah, they did a great job casting that. Yeah, and I
Chris 30:22
understand that actually we didn’t have it in here, but there’s a new Coco ride, boat ride, I think, coming to Disneyland.
Kelli 30:30
Oh, I love Coco.
Chris 30:32
I think it’s California Adventure, maybe.
Kelli 30:33
Yeah. Okay. The next one is Gatto, and this is a cat. Did you misspell this here in our notes? Does it actually have 2t’s? I think
Chris 30:44
it’s got 2t’s. Okay, so
Kelli 30:46
it’s so it’s like a play on the word ghetto. No, no, no. It’s
Chris 30:50
Italian for cat. Gatto.
Kelli 30:52
Gato. Just 1t.
Chris 30:55
Okay.
Kelli 30:56
Any case, that is set in Venice, Italy.
Chris 30:59
Yes. And
Kelli 31:00
he’s down on his luck,
Chris 31:03
trying to decide if he’s if he’s living his lives the way he should be living his lives. And he gets intertwined with the
Kelli 31:11
Italian mob, which you never want to get intertwined with. Don’t we? We spent time in Godfather. We
Chris 31:16
spent time in Venice. We managed to avoid the mob. You
Kelli 31:19
don’t want to get in with the mob? I want to get sideways. The Italian mob. Lawrence
Chris 31:23
Fishburne plays the cat that is like head of the Italian mob in Venice, which is a good casting, also.
Kelli 31:31
All right. The Simpsons. Mark Mark
Chris 31:34
Ruffalo, by the way, plays the cat. Nero. I love Mark Ruffalo. Nero is our cat. He’s the hero character in Nero.
Kelli 31:40
Releasing 2027. The Simpsons movie a sequel September 2027. Is that is that Pixar Simpsons?
Chris 31:47
Disney owns them all now because they bought they bought 20th Century Fox or they bought Fox. Okay. So now they they own all the Simpsons properties. Okay.
Kelli 31:55
All right. All right.
Chris 31:56
So they’re releasing a new movie.
Kelli 31:58
Okay. So Frozen Three, Adena Menzel, Kristen Bell, Josh Gad sang one of the new numbers live at d2 three. Yeah, did they introduce her as Adele Dezem, or did they introduce her as Idenna Benzell? My
Chris 32:11
understanding is that the person introducing her did not have a stroke live on TV.
Kelli 32:15
Didn’t call her Adele Dezem. No, I will never forget that he called her Adele Dezemb. I don’t think
Chris 32:20
anybody will. I remember thinking,
Kelli 32:25
did he just her name? Adele was that to be her name? Maybe I don’t know
Chris 32:28
her name. Maybe I’m the one that’s wrong. I
Kelli 32:32
love Adeta, Kristen, and Josh together. Yeah. Why wasn’t Jonathan Groff there?
Chris 32:40
I’m sure he’s very busy.
Kelli 32:43
Okay, he’s very busy because I like for all of them to sing together. I
Chris 32:46
know you do.
Kelli 32:47
Okay,
Chris 32:47
I know you do.
Kelli 32:48
All right, last one on the show’s list is Lilo and Stitch Two. This is a live action, so supposedly this is a sequel of the original live action, not
Chris 32:58
that’s my not a
Kelli 32:59
not a live action of the sequel of the original animated. Man, I don’t know. I have no
Chris 33:04
idea now. I have no idea
Kelli 33:08
if that’s right or not. We don’t know. We don’t have no idea. But any case, the live action got some pretty bad reviews. They didn’t like that they changed the storyline. That wasn’t cool. So it is interesting that they’re doing another live action. Going
Chris 33:22
back to the well.
Kelli 33:23
Yeah.
Chris 33:24
Maybe he felt like he’s. I got to fix this. I got to fix this. People are hating. You can go back and hating my creation
Kelli 33:29
and fix a total storyline change. Whatever. Okay. All right. Walt Disney World, Magic Kingdom, Carousel of Progress is getting new narrators when it reopens in spring 2027. We’ve got Bryan Cranston playing John and Jamie Lee Curtis playing his wife Sarah. I love that so much. So much. I love that. I love that. Epcot Spaceship Earth is getting a major update, changing from the story of human communication to the story of human connection.
Chris 33:58
Yeah, it was just sort of describing. I’ll say
Kelli 33:59
that’s just sort of a nuance update. It’s very much
Chris 34:02
of a nuance update. I hope that whatever they actually do gives some weight to that,
Kelli 34:08
right? Right,
Chris 34:09
because they’re they’re the way it was described on the d2 three website was they’re just they’re going to broaden the idea of that ride that attraction. Are they taking away Judi
Kelli 34:18
Dench? Because nope, that was a huge deal when they they were going to redo it earlier. They shut it down a couple of years ago. They were going to redo it, and there was a massive backlash over you cannot take Judi Dench out of Spaceship Earth,
Chris 34:32
which is funny because she wasn’t the original voice. It doesn’t
Kelli 34:35
matter.
Chris 34:36
Charles Curalt was the original, but she
Kelli 34:38
is it now. Everybody loves Judi Dench. I’m
Chris 34:41
worried the dame is going away.
Kelli 34:45
It’s narration. I know she’s got some eye troubles, but this is narration. Like she can still do this.
Chris 34:52
Let’s call her. I hope somebody’s on the phone with her. I
Kelli 34:55
do too. Okay, Journey into Imagination is going to get revamped. Big news is the return of the Dreamfinder. I saw this announcement on the socials. Huge, huge deal.
Chris 35:05
I am so excited.
Kelli 35:07
I don’t. This is another example,
Chris 35:09
though. Of I think they’re they they’re listening to people.
Kelli 35:11
Finally, like I think it must have been the popcorn bucket that put it over the edge, and they’re like, “Oh my gosh, people actually like Figment.
Chris 35:19
They love Figment. We love
Kelli 35:21
Figment. Figment is a massive draw in Epcot, and it’s like they toned him back over the years, but he still got this huge cult following. I love Figment.
Chris 35:33
Figment’s great, but like the Dream Finder created Figment.
Kelli 35:37
Yeah,
Chris 35:37
originally. So
Kelli 35:38
let’s go back.
Chris 35:39
Go back to that.
Kelli 35:40
Bring it back!
Chris 35:41
I love it.
Kelli 35:41
Vintage is in, Josh tomorrow. Okay, Animal Kingdom Expedition Everest is getting a full restoration of the Yeti. It’s gonna start moving again. What I want to know is, are while they’re fixing the Yeti, are they gonna remove all of the hair ties?
Chris 35:58
For sure, they won’t.
Kelli 35:59
Better up at the top of that track. I’m
Chris 36:01
sure they won’t.
Kelli 36:02
Do you think the Yeti is broken because one of those hair ties got in his stomach? I
Chris 36:05
don’t know what. Well, that’s that’s on our minds this week, given the way our dogs have acted. But I don’t know what caused the Yeti to break in the first place. But somewhere along the line, they decided we’re not going to fix it. We’re just going to strobe like that Joker and make it look like he’s moving,
Kelli 36:22
right? What a bobo way to do that! Come on, Disney. We,
Chris 36:26
the the Disney zeitgeist, have been asking for the Yeti to be fixed for years,
Kelli 36:32
right? The strobe light is not fixing it. That is very much a band aid. It’s
Chris 36:36
basically gaslighting us. It
Kelli 36:37
is gaslighting us. It’s absolutely gaslighting us. I
Chris 36:41
thought that Joker’s not moving.
Kelli 36:42
No, he’s not moving.
Chris 36:44
Strobe light. Maybe the
Kelli 36:45
hair ties have gotten into his system, and he’s like all tangled up on the inside. He’s
Chris 36:53
gonna move again. I don’t. I don’t know if they’re gonna really judge it up or they’re just gonna fix him, right? So that he’s like,
Kelli 37:02
what’s he like again? Do that. He’s like, that’s got to be on the thumbnail for our YouTube VM. It’s got to be it. That’s got to be it. Okay, and so so that’s it. That’s the end of World Trade. Yeah, there were
Chris 37:18
other announcements that we just didn’t get in here. Like they they’re doing things in the international parks, and they’re doing lots of cool stuff on the cruise lines.
Kelli 37:28
Yeah,
Chris 37:29
lots of new ships are coming out. You know the big, you know the gold statue that they have. That’s like the the center point of the cruise ships in the prominent of the main local area. Yeah, yeah. Moana will be Moana, Pua, and Hey Hey are going to be the statue on the Believe. I believe.
Kelli 37:48
How has Moana not already been a statue on a cruise ship?
Chris 37:51
Well, I mean, they got lots to choose from. She’s
Kelli 37:54
a wayfinder.
Chris 37:55
She is. That’s a solid point. That’s a solid point. Are you kidding me? If anybody, if anybody should be the the star attraction on a ship, it ought to be. It
Kelli 38:08
ought to be Moana. I I don’t know about Pua and Hey Hey, but boat snacks, whatever it
Chris 38:15
is. Can I argue with you? Can I argue that that point? Solid point, as per usual. All right, folks. That’s this week’s show. We hope you enjoyed it. We certainly love to do it. It has it has literally, honestly, raised the spirits in this house today. It’s been fun. So, so you know what to do now. Go out to wherever you get your podcast from, leave us a five star rating, and if it allows you to leave a review, do that because that really drives the juice and brings people to the show.
Kelli 38:41
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Chris 38:58
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Kelli 39:00
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Chris 39:05
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