DHS New Villains Show Coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Summer 2025

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DisneyHead123

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solidyne said:
YOU'RE OFF TOPIC! THIS IS NOT THE PHONEMES THREAD!

Oh, wait... you're talking about pronouncing the name one of the villains? Nice loophole. Wake me when it's over, will ya?
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Due to a surge in interest, an updated Villains show will feature Maleficent reciting “The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plane” until, to the audience’s delight, she finally achieves a perfect upper class London accent. Hook is rumored to have a dramatic act wherein the pirates are briefly transported to New Jersey and come back insisting that the stuff they are sailing in is called wooder.
 
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UNCgolf

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DisneyHead123 said:
Due to a surge in interest, an updated Villains show will feature Maleficent reciting “The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plane” until, to the audience’s delight, she finally achieves a perfect upper class London accent. Hook is rumored to have a dramatic act wherein the pirates are briefly transported to New Jersey and come back insisting that the stuff they are sailing in is called wooder.
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I'd watch a Villains production of My Fair Lady.
 
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UNCgolf said:
I'd watch a Villains production of My Fair Lady.
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wdwmagic said:

'Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After' Song 'Magic Mirror' Now Available on Streaming​

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'Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After' Song 'Magic Mirror' Now Available on Streaming Platforms

'Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After' Song 'Magic Mirror' Now Available on Streaming Platforms
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With the release, YouTube has also now removed the block not he opening 3 minutes. Here is the full show.

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Thank goodness, as the full screen option posted by this site seems to be broken. Although every time you try and click the option, it forces the video to restart and play another ad, so the broken site feature is obviously adding revenue to WDWmagic's pockets.
 
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Casper Gutman said:
When was the last time WDW had a really good stage show? Other Disney resorts get them. Muppets in Liberty Square was great but not really a stage show. Lion King is strong but old. I remember liking Hunchback at MGM but that was a long time ago…
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I'd say the old Nemo was the best show I've seen at WDW in ages. Lion King...while it was fun to see 90's California parade floats again, the show was the definition of overrated.

This show feels a lot like when my friend was in Paw Patrol Live. Except that had more than one actor onstage and the dog puppets were visually interesting. This is just projected vague scenery and really bad material being carried by one actor at a time.
 
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Professortango1 said:
I'd say the old Nemo was the best show I've seen at WDW in ages. Lion King...while it was fun to see 90's California parade floats again, the show was the definition of overrated.

This show feels a lot like when my friend was in Paw Patrol Live. Except that had more than one actor onstage and the dog puppets were visually interesting. This is just projected vague scenery and really bad material being carried by one actor at a time.
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Old Nemo was really the last breath of old WDE, years after it was dissolved, helped by the fact they had literal Broadway caliber writers involved. Shame we'll never see the 2 hour version ever.

As for Lion King, it's cheap for Disney (relatively) and extremely popular. Disney has never really tried, beyond the Tarzan later Nemo, to put other shows in AK besides FOLTK - and it's unfortunate they haven't.
 
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I got to see this yesterday. This is actually really good. All the actors are great. The new song is amazing. There’s also a lot of fun stage effects. (The dragon breathing fire. The cannon in the Captain Hook scene) only thing is it would be nice if there were some other characters. For example Mr. Smee with Captain Hook and Horace and jasper with cruella
 
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Professortango1 said:
I'd say the old Nemo was the best show I've seen at WDW in ages. Lion King...while it was fun to see 90's California parade floats again, the show was the definition of overrated.
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I would agree with this 1000%... The Nemo show when it opened was charming...the music was fun... It was probably the last theme park show I enjoyed....The rest have all seemed like poorly written Disney Jr. shows for the 3-5 year old set...with no further depth for the older audience...
Lion King while extremely popular seemed way overrated to me too... that was definitely a One and Done....
 
Pix E. Dust

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Bocabear said:
I would agree with this 1000%... The Nemo show when it opened was charming...the music was fun... It was probably the last theme park show I enjoyed....The rest have all seemed like poorly written Disney Jr. shows for the 3-5 year old set...with no further depth for the older audience...
Lion King while extremely popular seemed way overrated to me too... that was definitely a One and Done....
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I loved the Nemo show so much. It blew me away thr first time I saw it. The quality was beyond that of a theme park.
 
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whatever that phenomena is that resulted in "Antz" getting published on the heels of hearing about A Bugs Life, this sort of a special effects driven entertainment show does remind me more of Cirque than anything else I've seen recently. I love this sort of in park entertainment genre: Tiki Room, Horror Makeup Show.

Hopefully it's also a format that can be easy to keep fresh: in the short term by letting cast riff on their lines and be creative, and in the medium to longer term by investing in relatively low cost new focal point effect for a big new Villain, maybe a big Croc puppet from Pan or something like that.

What's the most marketable/iconic villain to come out of the Disney empire's more recent efforts?
 
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The one they didn't use in the lift hill.
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I would say this is true, and incredibly sad given a. That movie came out 16 years ago, and b. Just judging from the amount of solo merchandise sold for other ones he still seems low on the totem pole among the ones they regularly use.

(I think Gothel, who is two years newer, is well done but they never use her despite the fact that she would be ridiculously easy to pull off so I presume she doesn't sell.)
 
TrainsOfDisney

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Gusey said:
Villains definitely seems to be as temporary as Lightning McQueen's was, supposed to be permanent but the Sunset Showcase building is like a black box and able to have a quick turn around if need be.
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I would say even more so - you could put another show in there tomorrow with some quick light and video programming! (Well…. At least a month for Disney but that’s not the point! Haha)
 

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