Destination D23 2025: The Biggest Reveals From the Disney, Disney Parks, Pixar, Star Wars, and Marvel Event

Destination D23 took spot this past play astatine Walt Disney World and, alongside being a instrumentality solemnisation of each things Disney, Disney Parks, Pixar, Star Wars, and Marvel, it besides gave a sneek peek astatine the future.

IGN was successful attendance astatine Destination D23 and we've gathered each the biggest moments from the amusement successful 1 spot to guarantee you don't miss a thing, from the Walt Disney Studios Showcase to Walt Disney being added to Disney World's Carousel of Progress to a elaborate look astatine the inspirations down Magic Kingdom's Villains-themed onshore and overmuch more.

Walt Disney Studios Showcase Was Filled With Toy Story 5, Zootopia 2, The Mandalorian and Grogu, Hexed, and Much More

The Walt Disney Studios Showcase kicked disconnected a play of panels astatine Destination D23, and it was filled with breathtaking surprises, including Toy Story 5's intro with an service of High-Tech Buzz Lightyears, the uncover of Walt Disney Animation Studios' Hexed, a clip of The Mandalorian and Grogu wherever Din Djarin evoked Darth Vader's iconic country from Rogue One, and more

Speaking of Toy Story, the clip progressive a radical of Hi-Tech Edition Buzz Lightyears getting stranded connected an land and learning to enactment unneurotic and flight aft they spot a prima that reminds them of Star Command. It was besides revealed that Conan O'Brien volition beryllium playing a caller potty grooming artifact named Smarty Pants. Additionally, Toy Story volition beryllium returning to theaters connected September 12 and Buzz volition erstwhile again alert successful Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Hexed is headed to theaters successful November 2026 and "follows an awkward teenage lad and his Type - A mom, who observe that what makes him unusual, mightiness conscionable beryllium magical powers that volition crook their lives and a concealed satellite of magic, upside down."

The Mandalorian and Grogu's clip featured a country that, similar we mentioned, gave america the aforesaid feeling arsenic the 1 of Darth Vader successful Rogue One. We besides got a ton of adorable Grogu moments and a country involving an exploding AT-AT connected a snowy satellite that shows wherefore this communicative needs to beryllium told connected the large screen.

We learned overmuch much astir Pixar's Hoppers, which follows a miss named Mabel who jumps into the caput of a beaver and has to enactment with different beavers and animals to halt Mayor Jerry from gathering a road that volition destruct each the quality and wilderness successful his path.

Other highlights included an extended look astatine Zootopia 2 and Patrick Warburton's hilarious Mayor Winddancer, a comic connection from the acceptable of Avengers: Doomsday, an breathtaking clip from Tron: Ares, the sanction of Ice Age: Boiling Plate for the adjacent movie successful the franchise, a clip of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw, and more.

Tron Lightcycle / Run Overlay Will Celebrate Tron: Ares With a Red Overlay and Nine Inch Nails, Tron to beryllium Remastered for the First Time

To observe Tron: Ares, Disney Parks' Tron attractions volition beryllium getting a reddish overlay and archetypal euphony from Nine Inch Nails. This acquisition volition beryllium added to Disney World's Tron Lightcycle / Run connected September 15 and Shanghai Disney Resort's Tron Lightcycle Power Run connected September 16.

Tron and Tron: Legacy volition besides beryllium afloat remastered successful 4K Ultra HD and volition beryllium disposable connected integer and Blu-ray SteelBook connected September 16.

Dates Revealed for D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event successful 2026

D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event volition officially instrumentality to Anaheim, California, from August 14 done 16 successful 2026, and it volition erstwhile again beryllium a solemnisation and look guardant of each things Disney, Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel, and more.

The quality was announced alongside a ton of different large D23 events fans tin look guardant to successful the aboriginal and that the main D23 lawsuit volition erstwhile again beryllium held astatine some the Anaheim Convention Center and the Honda Center.

Disneyland Handcrafted Will Give a Never-Before-Seen Look astatine the Construction of Disneyland

We Call It Imagineering's Leslie Iwerks stopped by Destination D23 to driblet a caller trailer for Disneyland Handcrafted, which documents the operation of Disneyland successful a mode ne'er seen before. The movie volition debut connected Disney+ and Disney's YouTube aboriginal this winter, but fans tin cheque retired a look astatine the trailer close now.

Walt Disney Is Being Added to Carousel of Progress

Following Walt Disney – A Magical Life astatine Disneyland, Walt Disney is getting different Audio-Animatronics fig astatine Disney World’s Carousel of Progress astatine Magic Kingdom.

Walt volition present present Carousel of Progress successful a caller scene, and guests volition past witnesser 4 scenes to spot what John, Sarah, Rover, and the remainder of the household person been up to implicit the decades portion witnessing the improvement of beingness successful the United States.

Themed Drinks Headed to Disney Destiny Will Have You Feeling Like a Sorcerer Supreme, Pirate, and a Ghost

We got a sneak peek of the caller drinks headed to the Disney Destiny, the Disney Cruise Line vessel we visited earlier this twelvemonth successful Papenburg, Germany, to larn however it was built, and they look beauteous spectacular.

The Mirror Dimension volition beryllium an enactment astatine the Doctor Strange-themed Sanctum lounge, and it comes successful a peculiar solid that reacts to interaction and comes with an "electrifying particulate that volition permission your sensation buds tingling." We besides saw a portion being served connected a levitating platform, and it was beauteous impressive!

Following the opening of Disney World's Beak and Barrel, Disney Destiny volition besides beryllium getting a Pirates of the Caribbean-themed bar, but its volition beryllium called Cask & Cannon. In the bar, guests tin look guardant to the Dead Man's Chest, which comes successful a smoky treasure thorax and looks to "capture the existent tone of a pirate's beingness connected the precocious seas."

Fans of the Haunted Mansion Parlor aboard the Disney Treasure volition besides beryllium blessed to larn it is returning connected the Disney Destiny, but galore of the drinks volition diagnostic all-new ingredients.

Walt Disney World's Villains-Themed Land to Utilize 'Conjured Architecture,' Inspirations Revealed

We got a wicked tease of the upcoming Villains-themed onshore astatine Walt Disney World, including that the squad created the word "Conjured Architecture" to picture however they are utilizing "the magical, fluid, and integrated quality of some the animated villains and the Art Nouveau benignant of construction" to physique this caller space.

This was each made imaginable by a probe travel to Paris and Barcelona to survey Art Nouveau. From Paris, they took with them "the mode earthy motifs and swirling designs determination marque quality look to beryllium 'cursed' similar magic has frozen it into place."

For Barcelona, its benignant was really called Modernisme, and it has "less earthy patterns but gives architecture an otherworldly, unnerving appearance." May adjacent added that the buildings look arsenic though they are "melting with subliminal shapes and faces."

Disneyland Paris' World of Frozen to Open successful Spring 2026 Alongside Walt Disney Studios Park Becoming Disney Adventure World

Disneyland Paris' World of Frozen volition officially unfastened successful Spring 2026 alongside the authoritative translation of Walt Disney Studios Park into Disney Adventure World. We besides learned of the milestone of the operation of Elsa's Ice Palace, and you tin cheque it retired successful the representation above!

These colors were primitively chosen to "reflect the Florida sunshine successful a mode that makes the castle shimmer from each angle."

Cinderella Castle Getting New Colors That Harken Back to Its Original Look

Fans were delighted to larn that Disney World's Cinderella Castle is getting a look that is inspired by the "classic and archetypal look of the castle."

This caller overgarment scheme, which is inactive being finalized, volition diagnostic "grays, creams, blues, and touches of golden aiming to heighten the castle's architecture."

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