Disneyland had an enormous 2025 when it kicked off its seventieth anniversary, a celebration that continues on the authentic Disney theme park this yr. Three new rides are additionally being constructed at California Journey, in addition to an entire new Avatar space.
And at Walt Disney World in Florida, 4 new lands are being constructed proper now, themed round villains, Pixar characters and extra.
This is all the things it’s essential learn about Disneyland, Disney World and Disney Cruise Line in 2026 and past.
Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge: New outdated characters
New characters have begun roaming across the Star Wars-themed lands in Disneyland, as the realm “expands its timeline” to incorporate Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa and Han Solo. The unique trio of Star Wars most important characters arrived in Batuu on April 29 and at the moment are interacting with company and different characters.
To assist tie them in with the extra trendy Star Wars land, there may even be new props, graphics and music (that includes the legendary John Williams rating) in Galaxy’s Edge.
“Black Spire Outpost will roll again in time a number of a long time, thoughtfully introducing beloved characters from throughout the Star Wars timeline,” the Disney Parks Weblog introduced in April. “Every period will probably be dropped at life with the identical care and a focus to element that the land was initially designed with, masterfully weaving collectively tales from throughout time and area in a single location.”
Darth Vader may even be becoming a member of the enjoyable, and you may nonetheless have the ability to see Ahsoka Tano, The Mandalorian, Grogu, Rey, Chewbacca and R2-D2.
To tie in with the Star Wars enjoyable in Galaxy’s Edge, Area Mountain has reworked into Hyperspace Mountain in Tomorrowland for a restricted time.
Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster starring The Muppets will get a gap date
Whereas MuppetVision 3D closed final yr to make manner for an total land themed across the Monsters Pixar motion pictures at Hollywood Studios, the Muppets are being moved to the Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster.
Apparently, that overlay did not take lengthy to finish — Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster Starring Aerosmith had its final day of operation on March 1, and the Muppets-themed model simply introduced its opening date of Might 26.
“The legendary experience roars again to life with a rock-charged remix that drops company straight into the center of The Electrical Mayhem’s largest evening but. With high-speed thrills, a pulse pounding soundtrack, and a VIP checklist like no different, this reimagined attraction hits all the suitable notes,” the Disney Parks Weblog posted on April 16.
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Changing the outdated Muppets space of Hollywood Studios, in the meantime, Monstropolis — residence of the Monsters, Inc. motion pictures, shorts and Disney Plus streaming sequence — will function Disney’s first suspended curler coaster inside town’s chuckle/scream manufacturing facility.
“The primary time I noticed Monsters, Inc., all I needed to do was experience on a kind of doorways like Mike and Sulley,” Disney Experiences Chair Josh D’Amaro mentioned at D23 in 2024. “Keep in mind within the film how these claws seize the doorways and hoist them up into the air to take them away? We’re doing that too. And you are going alongside for the experience.”
A TikTok reveals the design idea for the Monsters Inc. experience.
MuppetVision 3D closed completely on June 8, 2025, however we do not count on Monstropolis to be full for an additional yr or two.
Idea artwork of the Monsters, Inc. suspender coaster.
Bluey has arrived at Disneyland
Spring introduced an addition to Disneyland: Bluey and her household at the moment are internet hosting a stage present and themed space on the authentic Disney park. Debuting Sunday, March 22, Bluey’s Greatest Day Ever is positioned on the Fantasyland Theatre subsequent to Mickey’s Toontown and drew hours-long queues throughout its first week.
The theater has been reworked into Bluey’s college classroom and grounds, together with a gnome village and fairy backyard. Bluey and her sister, Bingo, will seem a number of occasions every day, together with actors and musicians, to “carry to life the favored music and video games emblematic of beloved Bluey episodes.” These video games will embrace “keepy uppy” and the “grannies,” in addition to appearances by Chattermax and Unicorse.
There are additionally puzzles, video games and photograph ops all through the Bluey space, and Disneyland is serving up Bluey-themed meals at Troubadour Tavern.
The vastly in style Australian cartoon a few household of canines is a worldwide hit, and Disney is slated to launch a Bluey film in 2027. (Within the meantime, you’ll be able to watch Bluey episodes and minisodes on Disney Plus.)
Idea artwork of the Bluey present coming to Disneyland in 2026.
California Journey celebrates 25 years
The second Disney theme park in-built Anaheim opened 25 years in the past on Feb. 8, 2001. Whereas the look of the park has modified quite a bit over these years, California Journey has a couple of methods it is celebrating the quarter-century milestone: It is switching the Soarin’ attraction again to Soarin’ Over California till July 1; dressing Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse on Buena Vista Avenue with new outfits, that includes solar motifs just like the one initially on the curler coaster; and providing numerous particular anniversary-themed meals gadgets, merchandise and drinks.
Soarin’ Throughout America from coast to coast
At Disney’s California Journey and Disney World’s Epcot, the Soarin’ Across the World attraction is getting a US-themed makeover. Soarin’ Throughout America will arrive on July 2, 2026, and can function scenes, sounds and smells from greater than a dozen cityscapes and scenic areas.
Disney launched a trailer starring Patrick Warburton, the unique Soarin’ narrator and pilot, through which he says we’ll quickly “sail throughout spacious skies” and may even see “amber waves of grain” and “purple mountain majesties.” It is a part of Disney’s celebration of America’s 250th anniversary.
Disneyland’s seventieth anniversary continues
Disneyland is constant to have a good time its seventieth anniversary this yr, following its kick-off in Might 2025. You may have loads of time to get there as its final day is Aug. 9, 2026 — after which it’s going to transition again to Halloween on Aug. 21, then the vacations on Nov. 18, earlier than totally returning to its pure state in early 2027.
There are various seventieth anniversary reveals to see, together with the Paint the Evening parade, Rejoice Pleased Cavalcade and the Wondrous Journeys fireworks and projection present on the fortress. Mickey and buddies are additionally carrying seventieth celebration outfits.
You possibly can catch seventieth anniversary-themed merchandise, food and drinks gadgets in addition to a projection present at Carthay Circle and a 50-foot sculpture of Sleeping Magnificence Citadel on the esplanade between Disneyland and California Journey; it’s also possible to discover decorations sprinkled all through Downtown Disney, Primary Avenue USA, Disney’s inns and even contained in the Toy Story Halfway Mania experience.
Take a look at the seventieth anniversary decorations all through the Toy Story Halfway Mania experience.
Disneyland growth begins because the Avatar space is constructed
Idea artwork displaying an aerial shot of the Avatar-themed space coming to Disneyland Resort.
Disneyland is lastly increasing after unveiling plans virtually 5 years in the past. The growth is anticipated to take a few years to finish and can push the park’s present boundaries previous Downtown Disney and into the close by parking heaps. It will additionally remodel “a portion of the present Hollywood Backlot space,” resulting in the closure of the Monsters Inc. attraction completely in 2027.
The most important a part of the growth will probably be including an Avatar-themed land, based mostly on the second movie, The Approach of Water, in addition to Avatar: Fireplace and Ash. It’ll embrace a darkish boat experience very like Pirates of the Caribbean, “taking company all the best way to the wide-open seas of Pandora.”
It follows the success of the world of Pandora, based mostly on the authentic Avatar movie, in Disney World’s Animal Kingdom. Disney has no dates or particulars but on when it’s going to be full.
Coming prior to the Avatar land, nonetheless, is a brand new esplanade entry “expertise” to interchange the present walkway entry on the east aspect of Disneyland, in addition to a brand new parking construction and pedestrian bridge over Harbor Boulevard. Building on this begins within the fall.
Idea artwork of the brand new pedestrian bridge that may cross Harbor Boulevard.
A Coco experience is coming
It will not be launching this yr, however building has begun backstage at California Journey to construct a brand new darkish experience. It will be themed for the beloved Pixar film Coco and populated by audio-animatronics.
The Coco experience will probably be positioned within the space close to Pixar Pier and Paradise Gardens, in what’s primarily backstage areas for forged members presently. It will have characters and music from the flicks as you journey via the land of the useless with Miguel.
Idea artwork for the brand new Coco experience.
California Journey: 2 extra Avengers rides
Avengers Campus already has two rides: Spider-Man Net Slingers and Guardians of the Galaxy. Quickly, this can double as Disney builds two extra Marvel sights at California Journey.
“We’re doubling the scale of the land with two new sights,” a structural engineer mentioned in a video posted to Walt Disney Imagineering’s Instagram account on Feb. 26. The engineer confirmed off how the Avengers Infinity Protection construction is wanting now, together with its columns, foundations and a catwalk that may “assist projectors, audio system and different varieties of present parts.”
Avengers Infinity Protection will see you assemble alongside the Avengers, battling King Thanos — set in a multiverse — that includes appearances by Black Panther, Ant-Man and Hulk.
Idea artwork of the Avengers Infinity Protection attraction coming to California Journey.
Stark Flight Lab, the second experience, will see you assist check Tony Stark’s newest tech.
“In Stark Flight Lab, company will sit in ‘gyro-kinetic pods’ and roll alongside a observe earlier than stopping in entrance of a large robotic arm,” Disney mentioned. “This robotic arm will hoist you into the air the place you may make a number of high-speed maneuvers impressed by Iron Man and another Avengers.”
Building started in 2025, however no launch dates have been revealed but.
Villains Land at Disney World: 1 yr nearer
Whereas it will not be prepared in time for 2026, building is effectively underway for Disney’s first villains-themed space. Villains Land, which is able to have a good time all of the basic baddies from Disney movies, is coming to the Magic Kingdom at Disney World in Florida.
Imagineers have been drawing inspiration from architectural constructions in Paris and Barcelona — like Gaudí’s buildings within the latter — to design Villains Land, Disney revealed throughout Vacation spot D23 in August 2025.
Idea artwork for the brand new Villains Land.
“Paris is a metropolis filled with basic Artwork Nouveau … pure motifs and swirling designs there make nature look like ‘cursed,’ like magic has frozen it into place,” Disney mentioned on its Parks Weblog. “Barcelona’s artwork model is Modernisme, which has much less pure patterns however offers the structure an otherworldly, unnerving look.”
Villains Land, first teased throughout D23 2022, will probably be positioned on the opposite aspect of Huge Thunder Mountain on the prime left edge of the present Magic Kingdom map and can stretch round to the place the Haunted Mansion is.
Two main sights are deliberate, together with eating and buying. Nonetheless no phrase but on when it’s going to open.
First peek at Piston Peak
Piston Peak Nationwide Park: the setting for the brand new Vehicles-themed land at Magic Kingdom.
The Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer Island at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom have been closed and faraway from the net map, as Disney works to assemble a brand new land themed after Pixar’s Vehicles motion pictures. Vehicles Land, which was added to Disney’s California Journey again in 2012, stays extraordinarily in style within the west, so it was solely a matter of time earlier than it was added to the jap outpost.
In an growth of Frontierland — which additionally contains Tiana’s Bayou Journey and Huge Thunder Mountain Railroad — Route 66 will function a glance impressed by the Rocky Mountains and the “American Frontier and its nationwide parks.”
The Disney Parks Weblog described the brand new space as “an awe-inspiring wilderness crammed with towering bushes, snowcapped mountains, breathtaking waterfalls, roaring rivers and spectacular geysers.” Disney Imagineers are “utilizing a mode of structure referred to as ‘Parkitecture,’ which was developed by the Nationwide Park Service to create constructions that harmonize with the pure setting.”
Idea artwork of the Vehicles rally race attraction coming to Disney World.
There will probably be two sights, considered one of which is a rally race. Pixar Chief Artistic Officer Pete Docter and Imagineer Michael Hundgen spoke in regards to the new experience automobile for this, and you may see a TikTok of Imagineers testing out off-road autos within the Arizona desert to create what the experience will really feel like. Every rally automotive may have its personal persona, title and racing quantity, Docter mentioned.
“These are all issues Lightning McQueen and Mater have not skilled earlier than, like racing over rocky terrain, ascending to mountain peaks and dodging round geysers — how do you are taking these real-world parts and put a Vehicles spin on it?” Disney Parks mentioned in a earlier weblog publish.
Whereas building has begun and Disney has even launched a map displaying what the land could appear to be (geysers taking pictures water, a working river, an off-road rally observe, mountains, a customer’s lodge, a Ranger HQ and strolling trails), we do not count on Piston Peak to open till at the very least 2027 or 2028.
Dinosaur closes to make manner for Tropical Americas Land
Idea artwork of Tropical Americas.
Animal Kingdom’s DinoLand USA space isn’t any extra, with the realm on the Disney World map now a clean sea of grass as Disney slowly builds out the brand new Tropical Americas Land.
Building started within the fall of 2024, with TriceraTop Spin and the halfway space closing down in January 2025. The Dinosaur experience remained open till Feb. 1 this yr however has now closed its doorways because it’s reworked into a brand new Indiana Jones experience via a Maya temple (a comparatively simple overlay since Disneyland’s Indiana Jones reportedly follows virtually precisely the identical experience observe as Disney World’s Dinosaur).
The Pueblo Esperanza space will probably be themed like a South American village, with an Encanto-themed attraction, the place you get to discover Antonio’s rainforest room contained in the Casita, in addition to an enormous quick-service eating location, a fountain and a carousel.
Tropical Americas is deliberate to open in 2027.
Discounted Disneyland tickets and a brand new Magic Key
Disneyland’s World of Coloration seventieth anniversary present.
California residents can presently get a three-day Park Hopper ticket for $249, a 50% low cost. Time is working out to make use of it, although — you’ll be able to solely go to till Might 21 utilizing this ticket. After that may be a Youngsters’ Summer season Ticket deal, with a one-day Park Hopper ticket costing $50 per youngster, ages 3 via 9. You should purchase it now and use it between Might 22 and Sept. 7.
Disneyland can also be including (and eradicating) a Magic Key choice: The Discover Key will substitute the present Enchant Key. All California residents will have the ability to buy it — not solely Southern California residents. It’ll permit entry on weekdays in June and July, that are presently blocked out for Enchant Key holders.
The Discover Key went on sale earlier this yr. It prices $999, with a $99 down fee and 0% APR on repayments for 12 months. Disney mentioned its “full worth” will be unlocked in simply 4 visits to the parks, because of Park Hopper admission, 25% off parking, Lightning Lane Multi-Passes and 10% off merchandise and eating.
Disney World discounted summer season tickets
For what Disney World is asking Cool Youngsters’ Summer season, it is providing two free nights and two free theme park days while you purchase a four-night, four-day Disney resort and ticket package deal for a go to throughout Might 26 via Sept. 15. You too can save as much as 30% on some Disney inns between Might 1 and Oct. 4.
Additionally a part of Cool Youngsters’ Summer season is a free day at a Disney water park (Storm Lagoon or Blizzard Seashore) in your check-in day when staying at a Disney resort between Might 26 and Sept. 8; and a free eating plan for teenagers aged 3-9 while you purchase a eating package deal for company over 10 and a room at a Disney resort.
Disney Cruise Line: New ships
Disney has been all in on launching cruise ships over the previous couple of years, together with the Disney Want in 2022, the Disney Treasure in 2024 and the Disney Future in 2025.
The Disney Journey sailed on its maiden voyage from Singapore on March 10, the primary of 4 new ships set to embark quickly. Disney’s subsequent cruise liner, the Disney Consider, was unveiled by new CEO Josh D’Amaro on March 18.
“The Disney Consider will carry to life the magical worlds of Encanto and Frozen, the wishing wells of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and the depths of the ocean with Moana and The Little Mermaid,” Disney mentioned.
The Disney Consider is anticipated to set sail in late 2027. The opposite ship names and locations have but to be revealed, however they’re anticipated to sail earlier than 2031.
All the things else coming quickly
This is what else is new and coming quickly to the theme parks:
- A 3D-printed prop canoe was added to the Jungle Cruise experience in January.
- Buzz Lightyear’s Area Ranger Spin closed on the Magic Kingdom in August to obtain new experience autos with video screens and two handheld blasters that includes always-on lasers in two completely different colours (so you’ll be able to lastly see which laser is yours). It is also getting a brand new opening scene starring Buddy the pleasant robotic, and static Z targets will gentle up while you hit them. The experience reopened on April 8.
- Huge Thunder Mountain Railroad is reopening on Sunday, Might 3, at Magic Kingdom after a prolonged refurbishment. It’ll embrace “a journey via the spectacular pure phenomena of the Rainbow Caverns.”
- Disney World’s water park Blizzard Seashore reopened on Feb. 15, and Storm Lagoon is reopening on Might 12.
- Disneyland and Hollywood Studios are including Mandalorian and Grogu missions to the Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run experience in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, tying in with the discharge of The Mandalorian and Grogu in cinemas. The brand new missions will launch on Might 22, 2026.
- Bluey and Bingo meet-and-greets are coming to Disney World on the Conservation Station at Animal Kingdom as a part of the Cool Youngsters’ Summer season celebration, which works from Might 26 till Sept. 8.
- Cinderella Citadel at Magic Kingdom is presently being repainted in its authentic theme colours: grey, cream, blue and gold.
- From July onwards, you can e book a wedding ceremony on the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland. Weddings will probably be hosted on the courtyard proper exterior the mansion’s entrance doorways. The realm can seat as much as 25 company. Sadly, it does not embrace thematic midnight ceremonies — you’ll be able to solely host your wedding ceremony there within the early morning earlier than park opening. Different new Disneyland wedding ceremony venues embrace the Magnolia Park Gazebo (proper exterior Tiana’s Palace), Magnolia Park Terrace (proper exterior the brand new Haunted Mansion queue) and Fantasy Faire Backyard (reverse the fortress).
- Following the discharge of the Walt Disney animatronic at Disneyland, Disney introduced {that a} related animatronic will probably be added to Disney World’s Carousel of Progress at Magic Kingdom in a brand new introductory scene to the experience.
Idea artwork of the overhauled model of Buzz Lightyear’s Area Ranger Spin, which may have two completely different coloured lasers in every experience automobile.
