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

[cjkeating]

This is an odd choice to me considering villains are coming to MK.

By 2030 if we are lucky. This really just feels like a stop gap solution. A bit like how the Cars show was a stop gap until a proper Cars attraction.

This may also help explain some of the conflicting MK vs HS rumours for Villains Land.

 

[Meeko77]

I know I'm in the minority, but I will be passing on this. I hope they will repurpose the Lightning McQueen audio-animatronic. Makes me sad for all the little kids and adults, too, who do enjoy the current show. I'm all for live entertainment; I'm just not the villains fan that others are.

 

[Jedi14]

So I spot Magic Mirror, Jafar, Maleficent, Hook, Cruella, Hades, Yzma, Queen of Hearts, Scar but I can't work out who this is:
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Ursula

 

[Andrew25]

This move is brilliant at so many levels, can't think of too many cons...

Pros

• Can test & adjust the "intensity" to determine how far they can go in a villains land (I already think HM is a decent indicator, but I guess they just want to test other items).
• 100% likely they will attach merch/F&B cart to start figuring out what sells
• ADDED CAPACITY - while it's a 1:1 match in theoretical capacity, this will certainly be far more popular and utilized than Racing Academy. Will help whenever they shutdown Animation Courtyard by "moving" people back there now just a bit.

Cons

• One less attraction at DHS dedicated to younger children, but the LM returning will at least help just a bit

Does Disney dare try and do a Halloween Horror Nights style event at DHS in the future?

I have to imagine once they work out the issues w/ Jollywood (which they kinda did last year) and have a solid year, they'll approve a similar event at DHS. I'd have to imagine they're limited at how many nights they can run MNSSHP, so having another event on property should help keep revenue up without having to to start not so scary in July.

While they could build "fun" haunted houses, Jollywood has proven that Disney really only needs to add 3-4 "exclusive" entertainment offerings to convince people to fork over $150+

 

[JustInTime]

The cars attraction was awful so I’m thrilled.

 

[RSoxNo1]

Incoming piece from Inside The Magic:

Cars attraction closing FOREVER at Disney Park.

Leads people to believe something is happening to Cars Land at DCA..

You must be new here... that's what ITM does now. It's clickbait for algorithms. Unfollow them, ignore them, don't post their content. It is an absolute garbage site.

 

[doctornick]

So, a live show. any idea how many shows a day would be planned?

 

[lentesta]

Finally it's announced! lol

Credit to @wdwmagic, who had this news months ago.

 

[dreamfinding]

The real power move: bring out the Mack float from PtN and have it haul Lightning McQueen to MK.

 

[tissandtully]

The cars attraction was awful so I’m thrilled.

I don't think it was awful. It served its purpose, or it would have if it wasn't so hidden back there. The Lightning AA is really nice. I know people who worked on it and I don't think they aimed for awful. They just worked with what they had.

 

[wannabeBelle]

I am pretty happy about this and think it is a good move. Also I wonder if they may stage more than one version of the show, maybe shows earlier in the day could be less intense and then as it gets later in the evening, it could more intense for those who prefer it? As far as the LMRA, it was a one and done for me. Cute , yes but not something I'd bother going to see again. The only thing with this location is that I always forget it is there and had to actually remind myself on one of my trips to go see Lightning McQueen!!! Hopefully the show wont suffer due to that. Marie

 

[mattpeto]

By 2030 if we are lucky. This really just feels like a stop gap solution. A bit like how the Cars show was a stop gap until a proper Cars attraction.

This may also help explain some of the conflicting MK vs HS rumours for Villains Land.

It's clearly a pilot to see what works.

It will help them determine what works and what to create and design for at MK.

 

[gerarar]

You must be new here... that's what ITM does now. It's clickbait for algorithms. Unfollow them, ignore them, don't post their content. It is an absolute garbage site.

Nah, nowhere new here.

And I do know they post insane clickbait. Even Google falls for it since they continually promote ITM. Just poking fun of their thing.

 

[Coaster Lover]

...with fiendish foes Cruella de Vil, Captain Hook and Maleficent each breaking through the glass to take the stage in live production numbers.

Cruella and Maleficent will for sure be face characters (I don't think they have ever appeared as non-face characters before anyways), but does that mean James Hook will be a face character too? If so, hopefully whatever they do is an improvement on what they had for Dream Along With Mickey!

 

[Starship824]

Nah, nowhere new here.

And I do know they post insane clickbait. Even Google falls for it since they continually promote ITM. Just poking fun of their thing.

They didn't go for the DCA angle with this one they claimed it was replacing a "classic attraction" at DHS. They're going for the MV3D angle here

 

[James Alucobond]

The only thing with this location is that I always forget it is there and had to actually remind myself on one of my trips to go see Lightning McQueen!!! Hopefully the show wont suffer due to that. Marie

Makes me wonder ... Is there a way to reconfigure the Tower of Terror queue to better visually connect it, RNRC, and Racing Academy? The three together (and Fantasmic to an extent, for that matter) could make an interesting "scarier" area if RNRC is eventually rethemed in a related way. Would be cool it they all took on a style similar to the Tower as well.

 

[Doberge]

Oof. My kid's only HS interests are Racing Academy, Muppets, PizzeRizzo, Runaway Railway, and Toy Story Mania. Anxious times!

 

[Disney Analyst]

What a fun out of the blue announcement!

They must have a bunch of small things planned, since they clearly held a bunch back at D23 not seen as “huge” news.

 

[tissandtully]

Oof. My kid's only HS interests are Racing Academy, Muppets, PizzeRizzo, Runaway Railway, and Toy Story Mania. Anxious times!

your kids have good tastes!

 

[Starship824]

Great to see more live entertainment! Although I do think it's a little weird that this is going to DHS while we're getting a villains land at MK but this year's before that'll open. I agree with many that this a testing ground for how intense villains land will be.