Disneyland Project/Rumor Tracker

BasiltheBatLord

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Original Poster
Sorry to update this so often, but I would like it to be as accurate and timely as possible.

Update
  • Nighttime Entertainment
    • New nighttime show "Mickey's Mix Magic" rumored to debut January 2019, likely modeled off of "We Love Mickey!" show at HKDL. Will be projection based with pyro/fireworks on weekends only. [source] [added]
 

BasiltheBatLord

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Updates
  • Parades
    • Soundsational returning January 2019 [confirmed]
      • Rumored to return with additional floats for Mickey's 90th birthday [source 1] [source 2] [added]
    • Pixar Play Parade ending November 4 [official] [removed due to completion]
  • Tomorrowland Changes
    • Jedi Training Academy ending permanently in November? Official entertainment schedule shows no performances after Nov. 4 [source] [removed due to completion]
 

BasiltheBatLord

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Original Poster
Updates

Disney California Adventure

Characters
  • Captain Marvel meet n' greet coming to DCA "for a limited time" in early 2019. [official] [added]
Disneyland Park
  • Matterhorn queue overhaul (under construction) [removed due to completion]
    • Queue is currently being re-built and re-routed to help with crowd control [source]
 

BasiltheBatLord

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Original Poster
Updates

Disneyland Park
  • Parades
    • Soundsational returning January 2019 [confirmed]
      • Rumored to return with additional floats for Mickey's 90th birthday [source 1] [source 2]
        • Mickey float now confirmed by Disney [official] [added]
  • Nighttime Entertainment
    • New nighttime show "Mickey's Mix Magic" debuting January 18, 2019, likely modeled off of "We Love Mickey!" show at HKDL. Will be projection based with rumored pyro/fireworks on weekends only. [official][source] [updated to reflect official confirmation]
 

VJ

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Updates

Disneyland Park
  • Parades
    • Soundsational returning January 2019 [confirmed]
      • Rumored to return with additional floats for Mickey's 90th birthday [source 1] [source 2]
        • Mickey float now confirmed by Disney [official] [added]
  • Nighttime Entertainment
    • New nighttime show "Mickey's Mix Magic" debuting January 18, 2019, likely modeled off of "We Love Mickey!" show at HKDL. Will be projection based with rumored pyro/fireworks on weekends only. [official][source] [updated to reflect official confirmation]
Soundsational returns a week after Mix Magic premieres (January 25), as confirmed by Disneyland News.
 

BasiltheBatLord

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Updates

Disneyland Park

Toontown Overhaul/Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway (planned)
  • Project is on-hold until at least 2019 in order to gauge future relations with City of Anaheim (November elections matter), but project may be complete before Superhero Land in DCA [source 1] [source 2]
    • Project has now reportedly been greenlit, but not being announced until D23 2019 at earliest [source 1] [source 2]
    • Attraction will not open until late 2021 at earliest [source] [added]
Parades
  • Soundsational returning January 25, 2019 [official] [updated with official confirmation]
Misc.
  • Permits suggest castle roof finally getting repaired after holidays [source] [added]
Disney California Adventure

World of Color
  • WoC encountered a major issue during a refurb in May and is currently on hiatus, returning late 2018 at earliest, if not early 2019 [source 1] [source 2]
    • Not returning in 2018 [source]
    • Testing spotted in November, is show returning soon? [source] [added]
Parades
  • Pixar Play Parade
    • Might return sometime in 2019 [source] [added]
 
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BasiltheBatLord

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Original Poster
Updates

Disney California Adventure
  • Pixar Pier Delayed Additions (under construction)
    • Bing Bong statue still behind construction wall in Bing Bong's Confectionaries #BingBongWatch [source] [removed due to completion]
Downtown Disney

DTD Hotel (cancelled/on hold)
  • The 4th hotel, announced to open in Downtown Disney in 2021 is on hold following a tax feud between Disney and City of Anaheim. [original source (L.A. Times)]
    • Disney finally confirmed the cancellation on October 10 [source (O.C. Register)]
    • Disney is waiting for future elections to see how relations with the City will pan out. [source 1] [source 2]
      • Reportedly cancelled again [source] [added]
 

Darkbeer1

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Based on the final election results, the Gavel was passed to Mayor Sidhu tonight.

The DTD Hotel is cancelled. Disney is not currently planning anything except some minor changes to the West end of DTD (Shops/Restaurants).

Eastern Gateway - good possibility of Disney submitting plans to the city in Mid-2019 based on comments from government, business and Disney sources, so On Hold is a good description.
 

GrizzlyAdams

Active Member
I hope Eastern Gateway gets green light as soon as possible... the delay is such a bummer for parking and for the expansion of DCA. To think where they could be with DCA coming on the heals of Galaxy's Edge... now it will be several more years.
 

BasiltheBatLord

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Original Poster
Updates

Disneyland Park

Tomorrowland Changes
  • Plans exist to eventually overhaul Tomorrowland at some undetermined point in time [source] [added]
  • The abandoned People Mover tracks are currently planned to finally be demolished, early 2020's has been mentioned as a timeframe [source] [added]
Toontown Overhaul/Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway (planned)
  • Project has now reportedly been greenlit, but not being announced until D23 2019 at earliest [source 1] [source 2]
    • Greenlight not a sure thing yet? [source] [added]

  • Tropical Hideaway
    • New quick service (?)/lounge restaurant opening Fall 2018, replacing Aladdin's Oasis [official 1] [official 2] [removed due to completion]
Disney California Adventure

World of Color
  • WoC encountered a major issue during a refurb in May and is currently on hiatus, returning 2019 [source 1] [source 2]
 

BasiltheBatLord

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Original Poster
Really minor, but here's the last updates of 2018

Updates

Downtown Disney
  • New Restaurants (under construction)
    • The following restaurants are all scheduled to open early 2019 [edited to reflect delay to early 2019]
New Hotel Food/Beverage (under construction)
  • Grand Californian
    • White Water Snacks getting re-designed, re-opening early 2019 [official 1] [official 2] [edited to reflect delay to early 2019]
 

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