Rumor D23 2024 WDW Rumors, Predictions & Discussion

[Moth]

last year Josh asked singers from the Candlelight Processional choir to sing " Just One Spark " at the end of the presentation

Wait for tomorrow's presentation?!

 

[The Leader of the Club]

Tomorrow's won't be this long. There won't be any celebrity ovations to delay things or song performances.

Have you ever seen a Disney Parks Panel?
They brought out Dick Van in 2019 to do a performance of Step in Time. Anika Noni Rose did a performance of Almost There in 2022. These things always have songs and celebrities, so don’t be too shocked when Harrison Ford comes to announce Indy in Animal Kingdom after the performance of We Don’t Talk About Bruno.

 

[V_L_Raptor]

last year Josh asked singers from the Candlelight Processional choir to sing " Just One Spark " at the end of the presentation

Sounds like a requiem.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

There won't be any celebrity ovations to delay things or song performances.

there usually are both - not necessarily as many, but both will be present.

 

[vikescaper]

They are using charter buses for the ART routes after the show.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Have you ever seen a Disney Parks Panel?
They brought out Dick Van in 2019 to do a performance of Step in Time.

Don’t forget the target dog!!!! I never did use my target gift card it’s somewhere!

Also didn’t they perform the Magic Happens song that year as well?

 

[𝕴𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖊𝖗97]

Have you ever seen a Disney Parks Panel?
They brought out Dick Van in 2019 to do a performance of Step in Time. Anika Noni Rose did a performance of Almost There in 2022. These things always have songs and celebrities, so don’t be too shocked when Harrison Ford comes to announce Indy in Animal Kingdom after the performance of We Don’t Talk About Bruno.

Ha, good point. I'm usually drowning in my tears over what they've announced is closing, so I don't pay attention to those things.

 

[Moth]

last year Josh asked singers from the Candlelight Processional choir to sing " Just One Spark " at the end of the presentation

This threw me off guard, if this is for tomorrow's panel, could The Dream finally happen? I know the D23 Imagination rumor mill hasn't been active this time but, is there a chance?

 

[EricsBiscuit]

Disneyland is already an exponentially better experience than WDW.

Anybody who has experienced the Mickey and Friends parking disaster would disagree with that statement.

 

[TrainsOfDisney]

Anybody who has experienced the Mickey and Friends parking disaster would disagree with that statement.

What’s a disaster about it?

 

[MisterPenguin]

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[Jedi14]

Just got back from the panel. It was fun an I liked most of the reveals. I’m interested in seeing how tomorrow’s panel will go. I’m still waiting to see how many people will be confused at games showing up at what some will think is only a parks panel.

 

[Moth]

As someone who loves Fortnite and tonight got the Jubilee skin gifted by their best friend (I loveeeeee you @Solaris Knight ), and is obsessed with the parks, tomorrow's panel is definitely gonna be the hot ticket. Excited!

 

[BrianLo]

Hm. Are we expecting a longer panel tomorrow than the two and a half hours it's penned for?

Dare I say... Maybe some WDW love?

It’s scheduled for 90 minutes, but I assume it will run 2 hours.

Putting all entertainment together was quite a lot. Perhaps only achievable by the strikes. They’re normally been split presentations I think forever (either split animation v live action or streaming v theatrical).

I’m glad Sundays legend ceremony is at 5

 

[Stripes]

Hm. Are we expecting a longer panel tomorrow than the two and a half hours it's penned for?

Dare I say... Maybe some WDW love?

It’s scheduled for 1.5 hours (7:00-8:30) which is the same length as every parks panel has been scheduled for in the past. In the past parks panels often wrap early and have a lot of filler, but I think this one may go over.

Tonight was scheduled for 7:00-9:00, but it didn’t wrap till 10.

 

[Moth]

I need to get my duration of Disney panels straight, first I thought it was an hour, then I thought it was 150 mins... Sheesh!

 

[EricsBiscuit]

What’s a disaster about it?

driving into it, the lines move very very slowly. The security also moves slow. Finally, the line for the tram also moves slow. It just feels like the people who make the decisions on how to operate the arrival experience don’t actually experience it. They valet park at the Grand Cal and stroll on in.

 

[Advisable Joseph]

I think it is very doubtful that they will focus on a police station. It looks like some sort of "We are all part of the Tree of Life" story.

OK, @Loose Pebble and @Fox&Hound now that I said this, they might weasel in the police somewhere into the story, but in the poster for the new movie, Clawhauser the chubby cheetah seems to be a scout leader or a ranger:

Spoiler: Open for poster. Clawhauser is the the middle.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNWEwZjg2ODAtYjViOS00ZTZmLWI2Y2QtMzY4NzNjNzQ3NzBmXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_QL75_UX1640_.jpg

 

[Homemade Imagineering]

last year Josh asked singers from the Candlelight Processional choir to sing " Just One Spark " at the end of the presentation

Wasn’t that a joke?

 

[Sir_Cliff]

I am actually shocked at this. I follow the main broadway forum and see a number of shows every year. This sold well at Papermill (which is a testing ground often for broadway shows) due to hype, but was largely panned.

It was generally thought that the show would need a lot of work off broadway or some other market before it would be a viable production. The hunchback production that had it's own problems but also ran at Papermill was largely much more liked as a production people wished for on broadway.

The performance of hercules in the park in nyc also happened a few summers ago, but that has a much more community theater vibe so a lot of the limitations of the show were more forgiven although people also did not see it as a broadway level test run.

I don't follow these things that closely, but I am also surprised. The few reviews I have seen of the German production have been less than glowing and I thought it also got a pretty poor reception during an earlier British try-out. I guess we'll see if they've figured out how to make it work.