As Walt Disney as soon as predicted, Disneyland will “by no means be accomplished.” It can proceed rising “so long as there may be creativeness left on the planet.” Disney’s unique theme park in Anaheim, California, is celebrating its seventieth anniversary this 12 months, and there is a whole lot of new rides, experiences and reveals on the horizon — each at Disneyland and at its 53-year-old counterpart in Florida, Walt Disney World.
From new rides and new lands to very large park expansions, this is the whole lot new coming to Disney Parks and the Disney Cruise Line in 2025 and past.
Disneyland’s seventieth anniversary
Idea artwork of how Sleeping Magnificence Fortress will take a look at Disneyland throughout the seventieth celebration.
Kicking off in mid-Might is Disneyland’s seventieth birthday celebration. The unique Disney park opened on July 17, 1955, however the birthday celebration begins two months early, on Might 16, and continues for greater than a 12 months, working via summer season 2026.
“Rejoice blissful” is the theme, and new occasions will embrace a Mickey and Buddies cavalcade (together with Duffy and ShellieMay); a projection present at It is a Small World known as “Tapestry of Happiness” (in addition to Miguel and Dante being added to the journey!) and a projection present at Carthay Circle; new outfits for Mickey and buddies; and the World of Coloration Happiness present. The brand new World of Coloration present can be hosted by Pleasure from Inside Out, with the opposite Feelings manifesting film moments from Pixar and Disney movies together with The Incredibles, Turning Purple, A Goofy Film, Encanto and Tangled.
The esplanade between Disneyland and California Journey can be getting a 50-foot sculpture of Sleeping Magnificence Fortress, with extra decorations sprinkled all through Downtown Disney and Essential Avenue USA, in addition to inside Disney’s inns. There’ll even be seventieth anniversary decor included within the Toy Story Halfway Mania journey.
Idea artwork of the seventieth anniversary decor in Toy Story Halfway Mania.
The Paint the Evening parade, Pixar Friends parade and Wondrous Journeys fireworks present may also be returning for the celebration.
On the official anniversary day of July 17, Disneyland will debut a brand new verse for It is A Small World, in addition to a three-minute movie known as The Final Verse within the Essential Avenue Cinema. The film celebrates the Sherman Brothers, who wrote the music for the journey. There may also be a brand new gallery exhibition within the Opera Home on Essential Avenue USA, that includes never-before-seen pictures, artwork and artifacts from the event, opening and evolution of Disneyland. These embrace the unique rocking chair, lamp and desk from Walt Disney’s personal condo above the Fireplace Station on Essential Avenue; Walt’s 1955 Emmy award; and his Presidential Medal of Freedom from 1964. There can be a second exhibit on the historical past of animatronics.
The primary ever audio-animatronic determine of Walt Disney himself, as a part of the Walt Disney: A Magical Life present contained in the Essential Avenue Opera Home, may also debut on July 17.
How a lot are Disneyland tickets for the seventieth celebration?
One other massive drawcard for the seventieth anniversary celebrations: ticket pricing.
Should you’re visiting Disneyland between Might 16 and Aug. 14, 2025, you should purchase tickets which might be a part of the Disneyland Anniversary Ticket Provide. These will price $360 for a three-day, one-park-per-day ticket, or $400 for a four-day, one-park-per-day ticket.
Avengers Campus is getting two extra rides
The Avengers Infinity Protection journey
Disney’s California Journey, already residence to the Spider-Man Net Slingers and Guardians of the Galaxy sights within the Avengers Campus space of the park, can be getting two extra Marvel sights.
Throughout SXSW over the weekend, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, Imagineering chief artistic officer Bruce Vaughn and Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr., revealed extra particulars about these two new rides. Avengers Infinity Protection will see you assemble alongside the Avengers battling King Thanos, that includes appearances by Black Panther, Ant-Man and Hulk. Stark Flight Lab, the second journey, will see you assist check Tony Stark’s newest tech.
“In Stark Flight Lab, friends will sit in ‘gyro-kinetic pods’ and roll alongside a monitor earlier than stopping in entrance of an enormous robotic arm,” Disney explains on its Parks Weblog. “This robotic arm will hoist you into the air the place you will make a number of high-speed maneuvers impressed by Iron Man and another Avengers.”
Development begins this 12 months on the Avengers Campus additions.
A primary take a look at the Pixar Vehicles rally race
The brand new Vehicles rally race journey.
The Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer Island at Disney World’s Magic Kingdom are being repurposed so as to add an space themed round Pixar’s Vehicles films. This growth of Frontierland, which presently encompasses Tiana’s Bayou Journey and Massive Thunder Mountain Railroad, will get a Route 66 companion.
“To make method for this fully new frontier, the Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer Island can be remodeled into huge and rugged terrains for a rally race with a number of the world’s most iconic racers,” Disney mentioned in a weblog put up final 12 months.
SXSW this previous weekend additionally noticed Pixar chief artistic officer Pete Docter and Imagineer Michel Hundgen discuss in regards to the new journey automobile being invested for the Vehicles journey. You may watch a TikTok video of Disney Imagineers testing out off-road automobiles within the desert in Arizona in an effort to create what the journey will really feel like.
“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 says in a weblog put up. Docter added that every rally automotive may have its personal persona, title and racing quantity.
Disney final 12 months mentioned there can be a second Vehicles-themed attraction, too. Vehicles Land, which was added to Disney’s California Journey again in 2012, stays fashionable within the west, so it was solely a matter of time earlier than it was added to the east. Work is about to start this 12 months, although there is no time limit but for Tom Sawyer Island or the Liberty Sq. Riverboat.
Monsters Inc. land and journey at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Disney’s first suspended curler coaster will take you on a journey via the Monsters Inc. manufacturing unit.
One other new addition coming to Disney World at its Hollywood Studios theme park is a Monsters Inc.-themed space, to change the present Muppets space (with the Muppets to switch Aerosmith theming within the Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster).
Revealed by the voice of Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal), the land will allow you to stroll via Monstropolis from the Pixar films and shorts. A brand new journey may also take you thru the Monsters Inc. snort manufacturing unit aboard one of many doorways to the human world — aka a suspended curler coaster.
“The primary time I noticed Monsters, Inc., all I wished to do was journey on a kind of doorways like Mike and Sulley,” D’Amaro mentioned at D23 in August. “You may go into the manufacturing unit and expertise the primary suspended coaster ever in a Disney park. Bear 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 journey.”
Docter and Hundgen had been additionally on-hand to speak in regards to the new Monsters Inc. journey throughout SXSW, which “will characteristic the first-ever suspended coaster at a Disney Park, and the first-ever vertical carry.” The loading space will see you board the journey automobile after which “hoisted into the air.” This is the TikTok displaying the design idea for the Monsters Inc. journey.
Your final day to get pleasure from MuppetVision 3D is June 7. It’s going to shut completely on June 8. Work on the Monsters Inc. land will then start later in 2025. There isn’t any time limit but for the Rock ‘n’ Curler Coaster.
California Journey is getting a Coco attraction
Idea artwork for the brand new Coco journey.
Disney’s California Journey can be getting extra Pixar rides.
A Coco attraction can be inbuilt a yet-to-be-announced space of the park, nevertheless it sounds prefer it’ll be a darkish journey like Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean, populated by Audio-Animatronics.
“The attraction can be stuffed with the characters — and music! — you understand and love from the beloved film, as you be part of Miguel on a visit to the land of the useless,” Disney says.
Work begins on the Coco journey in 2026, so its launch continues to be some time away.
Bluey says hi there at Disneyland and Disney World
Meet and greets with Bluey and her household can be coming to Disneyland and Disney World, in addition to to Disney cruises, beginning at an unspecified time in 2025. Disney introduced this information after revealing {that a} Bluey film can be hitting screens in 2027.
“Bluey has turn into a family title for households all over the world, and we’re thrilled to deliver her story to life in new methods,” mentioned Disney Experiences Chair Josh D’Amaro. “We won’t wait to observe our youngest friends and their households make recollections with Bluey in our parks and on our cruises.”
The massively fashionable Australian TV sequence a few household of canine is a worldwide hit, with Disney to launch the film in two years’ time. (Within the meantime, you’ll be able to watch Bluey episodes and minisodes on Disney Plus.)
An Avatar space is coming to Disneyland
An aerial shot of the Avatar-themed space coming to Disneyland Resort.
The world of Pandora is increasing from Disney World’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando to California Journey in Anaheim. The world in California will take its design inspiration from the second Avatar movie, The Approach of Water, in addition to the upcoming Avatar sequels.
It’s going to possible be a part of the huge Disneyland growth coming to the theme parks that can push the boundaries previous Downtown Disney and into the close by parking tons. Whereas Disney was brief on particulars and dates, the Avatar expertise can be “dynamic, intense and emotional,” with a darkish boat journey very like Pirates of the Caribbean “taking friends all the way in which to the wide-open seas of Pandora.”
Disney World’s Magic Kingdom Villains Land
Disney World’s Magic Kingdom is getting a Villains Land.
Villains Land, which is able to rejoice all of the basic baddies from Disney movies, is coming to the Magic Kingdom at Disney World in Florida, and it will likely be “darkish and thorny,” in accordance with the Horizons Disney Experiences Showcase (a part of Disney’s D23 expo in August) and information that Disney has launched since.
Villains Land was first teased throughout D23 2022. It’s going to be positioned on the opposite aspect of Massive Thunder Mountain — aka, the highest left edge of the present Magic Kingdom map — and can stretch round to the place the Haunted Mansion is.
Two main sights can be inbuilt Villains Land, in addition to eating and purchasing “on an extremely twisted grand scale.” The land is already being constructed, however no phrase but on when it’s going to open.
A chilling trailer for the chaotic land on Instagram hints at parts within the land representing Maleficent, Dr. Facilier, Ursula, Gaston, Yzma, Queen of Hearts, Hades, the Evil Queen, Woman Tremaine, Captain Hook, Jafar, Kaa, Madam Mim, Cruella, Scar, King Magnifico and Mom Gothel.
Watch this: Disney Parks Bulletins at D23
Tropical Americas land at Animal Kingdom
Disney’s Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World is changing its DinoLand USA space with Tropical Americas. Although this had been beforehand introduced, Disney confirmed a couple of extra particulars in August: Pueblo Esperanza will really feel such as you’re strolling via an actual village and may have an enormous quick-service eating location, a fountain and a carousel.
Tropical Americas may also have a brand new Indiana Jones journey via a Maya temple and an Encanto-themed attraction the place you will discover Antonio’s rainforest room contained in the Casita.
Development started in fall 2024, however DinoLand USA is closing down in levels. The Dinosaur journey (which is able to turn into the Indiana Jones journey) stays open, however TriceraTop Spin and the halfway space closed down on Jan. 13.
Tropical Americas is deliberate to open in 2027.
The Tropical Americas space will change DinoLand USA and have an Encanto journey, an Indiana Jones journey and a carousel.
4 extra ships for Disney Cruise Line
Along with the Disney Want, which launched in July 2022, the Disney Treasure, which set sail in December 2024, and the Disney Future, which is about to embark later this 12 months, Disney is including 4 extra cruise ships to its ocean trip lineup.
The ship names and locations have but to be revealed, however the ships can be setting sail between 2027 and 2031.
Disney World and Disneyland: what else is coming?
Mando and Grogu are becoming a member of within the Millennium Falcon enjoyable.
This is what else is new and coming to the theme parks:
- Disneyland’s Tiana’s Bayou Journey opened on Nov. 15, with Critter Nation rethemed to Bayou Nation. The world nonetheless consists of the Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh journey and Davy Crockett’s Explorer Canoes, in addition to Pooh Nook and the Hungry Bear Barbecue Jamboree. Two merchandise shops, known as Ray’s Berets and Louis’ Critter Membership, are additionally now open.
- Disneyland and Hollywood Studios can be getting Mandalorian and Grogu missions added to the Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run journey in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in 2026, to tie in with the discharge of The Mandalorian and Grogu in cinemas.
- Epcot can be opening a Reimagined Take a look at Observe (now sponsored by GM) in 2025, which is able to rejoice “the previous, current and way forward for automation.” No phrase but on when the attraction can be reopened.
- Animal Kingdom can be changing its previous It is Robust to be a Bug present contained in the Tree of Life with a Zootopia-themed present. Zootopia: Higher Zoogether will characteristic Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde taking you thru a number of completely different areas from the town, and it will open subsequent winter.
- Magic Kingdom and Epcot are getting two new lounges: a Pirates Lounge and a Spaceship Earth lounge, respectively. They’re going to open in 2025.
- Magic Kingdom can be getting a brand new nighttime parade known as Disney Starlight in the summertime.
- Magic Kingdom can be getting a brand new present: Disney Villains Unfairly Ever After, additionally coming within the summer season.
