D23 Expo 2024 - News & Rumors

[Nick]

Anyone know where I can look at all the information from the 1TB Disney leak? I get that you probably won’t be allowed to talk about it on here, but WDWMagic is banning discussion on it too and I can’t find a reliable site or Reddit or anything to view all the data.

I’d imagine if you really wanted to find this (I didn’t know there was a leak), Twitter or Reddit is where you would want to look. Maybe certain Facebook groups. Places where it’s like the Wild West essentially.

 

[kristenabelle]

I’d imagine if you really wanted to find this (I didn’t know there was a leak), Twitter or Reddit is where you would want to look. Maybe certain Facebook groups. Places where it’s like the Wild West essentially.

I’m really surprised deadline or other entertainment trades haven’t (as far as I’ve seen) reported on this? IDK I feel like the Sony leak was everywhere. I’m a smidge skeptical but considering all of AT&T was hacked anything is possible

 

[wutisgood]

Apparently this was internal slack messages so someone would would have to sift through a ton of data to find anything interesting.

 

[PerceptiveCoot]

Mis predicciones finales para los anuncios que se vienen en una semana:

Disneyland
Avengers Campus E-ticket details: The main villain is now God Empreror Doom with RDJ reprising his role. Instead of a rotating cast of Disney+ characters, the ride will instead focus on a core cast of Marvel heroes and villains from across the last twenty years of film, characters who have either self-evidently stood the test of time are have existing real estate on campus.

Avatar: Bob Iger makes the merciful decision to build this in the Simba lot, reasoning that expansion can't wait for the Eastern Gateway. Hope you guys enjoy the Toy Story parking lot.

Tomorrowland: Various things get teased as part of an Autopia reroute which includes modifications to the Monorail for the Eastern Gateway. Mostly this is just an excuse to reorient things so they can build Frozen Ever After, which they tease but don't announce here. In the meantime, the Matterhorn gets a holiday overlay that turns it into a strange mishmash with Oaken's Wandering Sleighs.

Galaxy's Edge: Smuggler's run mission update in 2026, inexplicably announced now.

WDW
Encanto, Indiana Jones, Moana, Lion King, and Coco attractions get announced and or detailed. Seems like a lot? Well I hope you enjoy these announcements because you won't get any new ones of this caliber till 2029 when it's all finished. A plan is also laid out for rolling rethemes across Epcot in lieu of new attractions, but details are sparse outside of Test Track.

Paris
Just the Lion King, the update to Space Mountain, and the Avengers E-ticket. A running theme of this panel will be clones and unification of the resorts outside of WDW.

Hong Kong
Avengers E-ticket

Tokyo
Space Mountain re-do

Shanghai
Coaster theme gets tweeted out in December.

 

[TheUniC6]

The main villain is now God Empreror Doom with RDJ reprising his role. Instead of a rotating cast of Disney+ characters, the ride will instead focus on a core cast of Marvel heroes and villains from across the last twenty years of film, characters who have either self-evidently stood the test of time are have existing real estate on campus.

Considering how controversial the announcement of RDJ playing Doctor Doom was, I think they should just stick with King Thanos. I think having a rotating cast of characters is a must as well to highlight what is current within the MCU with the legacy ones still sprinkled in.

 

[PerceptiveCoot]

I think having a rotating cast of characters is a must as well to highlight what is current within the MCU with the legacy ones still sprinkled in.

A preemptive apologies to all the kids who have to ride this when the Wonder Man advertising campaign is active then.

 

[belloq87]

Does anybody know if the parks panel on next Saturday night will be streamed anywhere?

 

[TheUniC6]

Does anybody know if the parks panel on next Saturday night will be streamed anywhere?

Probably on YT.

 

[Nick]

Probably on YT.

Disney has streamed the last few. Not sure if they plan on streaming this though now that they moved to a bigger venue.

 

[TheUniC6]

Disney has streamed the last few. Not sure if they plan on streaming this though now that they moved to a bigger venue.

I don't see why they wouldn't. At the very least once stuff gets announced at the panel, fans will drop the news on Twitter/X.

 

[SkiBum]

Considering how controversial the announcement of RDJ playing Doctor Doom was, I think they should just stick with King Thanos. I think having a rotating cast of characters is a must as well to highlight what is current within the MCU with the legacy ones still sprinkled in.

Also, most people understand who Thanos is and it won't matter why he is King as much. RJD as Doctor Doom would be weird as non-MCU fans would not understand why RDJ is not in is Iron Man suit. I could be wrong but I'm thinking of it from the perspective of a non-comics person who knew most of the Avengers regardless.

 

[TheUniC6]

Also, most people understand who Thanos is and it won't matter why he is King as much. RJD as Doctor Doom would be weird as non-MCU fans would not understand why RDJ is not in is Iron Man suit. I could be wrong but I'm thinking of it from the perspective of a non-comics person who knew most of the Avengers regardless.

In the Multiverse ride the villains you will be fighting are working for King Thanos, I am guessing RJD's Doctor Doom will be working for Thanos. Interesting to think about...

On a side note, in the ride, I wonder how they are going to explain how Thanos got the villains to join him. Maybe he threatened them to join his side or he offered them the allure of power.

 

[Mad Dog]

The muti verse concept confuses so much, that a little more confusion will just be par for the course. As a long time Marvel fan, dating to their first superheroes in the 1960's, I always disliked the muti verse comic story arches. They just impressed me as lazy writing, and confused the Marvel Universe.

 

[Disneyhead]

The muti verse concept confuses so much, that a little more confusion will just be par for the course. As a long time Marvel fan, dating to their first superheroes in the 1960's, I always disliked the muti verse comic story arches. They just impressed me as lazy writing, and confused the Marvel Universe.

Oddly enough, DC created the concept of "The Multiverse" in 1961 in The Flash #123, with the story "The Flash In Two Worlds".

 

[Mad Dog]

Oddly enough, DC created the concept of "The Multiverse" in 1961 in The Flash #123, with the story "The Flash In Two Worlds".

So that's the original culprit. It's a concept that lends itself to mass confusion.

 

[TheUniC6]

So that's the original culprit. It's a concept that lends itself to mass confusion.

D23 is also where I expect Disney will show off the MCU slate of movies and D+ series post Secret Wars. I am going to guess that after the overall middling reception to this phase of the MCU, Disney will soft reboot the franchise (which has been rumored) and move away from the multiverse.

 

[Mad Dog]

D23 is also where I expect Disney will show off the MCU slate of movies and D+ series post Secret Wars. I am going to guess that after the overall middling reception to this phase of the MCU, Disney will soft reboot the franchise (which has been rumored) and move away from the multiverse.

They would be wise to do that and restore some stability to the characters and the stories. The problem is once you do these giant end of worlds battles with every hero and villain involved, how do you go back to simple stories of a hero against a villain that's not on a supreme being level.

 

[TheUniC6]

They would be wise to do that and restore some stability to the characters and the stories. The problem is once you do these giant end of worlds battles with every hero and villain involved, how do you go back to simple stories of a hero against a villain that's not on a supreme being level.

They can do a balance by dipping into the multiverse only on occasion.

 

[Nick]

D23 is also where I expect Disney will show off the MCU slate of movies and D+ series post Secret Wars. I am going to guess that after the overall middling reception to this phase of the MCU, Disney will soft reboot the franchise (which has been rumored) and move away from the multiverse.

Closing the multiverse is almost guaranteed by the end of Secret Wars. A soft reboot is certainly possible, but to me I think the “soft reboot” they are likely to do is just to clean up the universe. Simplify it again. It would still be a continuation but it would be bringing the scale down from how insanely huge it’s gotten.

 

[HandsomePete]

In the Multiverse ride the villains you will be fighting are working for King Thanos, I am guessing RJD's Doctor Doom will be working for Thanos. Interesting to think about...

Swap King Thanos for Doc Octopus and it sounds like a ripoff of IOA Spider-Man