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Walt Disney World has revealed a fantastic caller look astatine what to expect from the Most Magical Place connected Earth successful 2026, and it includes breathtaking updates to Frozen Ever After, Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, Soarin', and more, The Magic of Disney Animation, Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets, the instrumentality of Cool Kids' Summer, and a ton of different experiences to look retired for.
There is a batch planned for Walt Disney World successful the coming months, truthful we thought, with the assistance of Disney Parks Blog, that we'd make a Walt Disney World 2026 Guide that volition assistance you program your travel oregon larn what's caller and successful the works. And yes, we volition beryllium updating this usher passim the twelvemonth arsenic caller details are revealed!
Be definite to fto america cognize what you are astir looking guardant to and to cheque retired our Disneyland successful 2026 Guide!
Early 2026
Frozen Ever After Upgraded With Updated Audio-Animatronics of Anna, Elsa, and More
In February, Anna, Elsa, and Kristoff's Audio-Animatronics are getting a large upgrade astatine EPCOT's Frozen Ever After. The Imagineers person taken inspiration from the figures presently astatine World of Frozen successful Hong Kong Disneyland to make a "more true-to-film look" that volition nary longer usage projection mapping connected their faces.
2026 EPCOT International Festival of the Arts
The 2026 EPCOT International Festival of the Arts volition instrumentality from January 16 done February 23, bringing with it "artisanal dishes, beauteous artwork, and sing-your-heart-out Broadway showtunes" from Disney connected Broadway shows and stars." There volition besides beryllium Figment's Brush with the Masters Scavenger Hunt, a Disney Lorcana Trading Card Game Collection Quest, and overmuch more.
Disney After Hours
Disney After Hours events are acceptable to airy up the nighttime erstwhile much successful 2026, giving guests a accidental to acquisition Magic Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, and EPCOT with little hold times, awesome quality meet-and-greets, escaped snacks, and overmuch more.
These are separately tickets events and usually tally from 9:30pm oregon 10pm to 12:30am oregon 1am. However, guests tin participate arsenic aboriginal arsenic 7pm, allowing them to bask the parks earlier the authoritative lawsuit kicks off.
Spring 2026
EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival
Guests visiting EPCOT from March 4 done June 1 volition beryllium capable to bask the EPCOT International Flower & Garden Festival, which volition fto them "stroll past whimsical topiaries and lush gardens, savor mouthwatering bites astatine Outdoor Kitchens, and jam to unrecorded tunes during the Garden Rocks Concert Series."
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad Is Re-Opening With 'New Magic'
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad volition invited guests backmost with immoderate "new magic" successful outpouring for the archetypal clip since January 2025, including a caller country that volition beryllium an underground conception with earthy caverns afloat of phosphorescent pools, stalagmites, stalactites, and the colors of the rainbow each astir you. Don't get excessively comfy, however, arsenic a ace of thunder volition crook things overmuch much unsafe and bask the cave successful an "eerie red" glow.
Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin Returns With Improved Ride Vehicles, Blasters, and a New Robot Named Buddy
Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin closed connected August 4 of 2025 and volition reopen successful 2026 with immoderate large changes. There volition beryllium a caller thrust conveyance inspired by Buzz, and the blasters volition present beryllium capable to travel disconnected the conveyance for an adjacent much enjoyable experience. The targets are besides being improved and volition flash the colour of the blaster that changeable them (red oregon green!), and scores volition beryllium displayed connected a caller integer screen. Oh, and did we notation you'll beryllium capable to gain 1 cardinal points? Because you will!
Lastly, Imagineering and Pixar person created a caller charming robot named Buddy that volition invited guests into the attraction, springiness them tips, and adjacent assistance them to play the crippled the champion way.
Summer 2026
Cool Kids' Summer Is BACK
We loved Cool Kids' Summer erstwhile it archetypal debuted successful 2025, and it's officially returning successful 2026 from May 26 done September 8. Cool Kids' Summer is an inaugural by Walt Disney World to promote guests to sojourn during the warmest months of the twelvemonth with large deals, tons of fantastic experiences wrong and distant from the heat, and truthful overmuch more. To get an thought of what to expect, support speechmaking connected below!
Summer Deals Include 'Some of the Best Ticket Prices of the Year'
Some of the biggest deals of the twelvemonth astatine Walt Disney World hap during the summer, and you tin statesman booking them connected January 6. One of the deals allows guests to adhd 2 escaped country nights and taxable parkland days erstwhile they acquisition a prime 4-night, 4-day (or longer) Walt Disney Travel Company country and summons package. This circumstantial woody is bully for astir nights betwixt May 26 and September 15, but it has to beryllium booked betwixt January 6 and February 15.
Guests tin besides prevention up to 30% connected prime Disney Resort hotels from May 1 done October 4, and Florida Residents (35%) and Annual Passholders (40%) tin besides instrumentality vantage of large offers astatine Disney Resort hotels.
These deals, particularly erstwhile combined with the connection to get a escaped eating program for kids ages 3 to 9 erstwhile you acquisition a bundle that includes a eating program for guests property 10 and up and a country astatine a Disney Resort hotel, marque this clip 1 of the astir affordable times to sojourn Walt Disney World.
Early Theme Park Entry, Character Appearances, and More astatine Disney Resorts Collection Hotels
Those who take to enactment astatine a Disney Resorts Collection edifice volition beryllium capable to participate the parks 30 minutes earlier everyone else, but the amusive doesn't halt there. For summertime only, guests of Disney’s Pop Century Resort, Disney’s Art of Animation Resort, Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort, and Disney’s Port Orleans Resort – Riverside volition person scheduled visits from fan-favorite Disney pals.
Disney Water Park Admission Summer Vacation Deals
One of the much breathtaking offers during the summertime is that guests staying astatine a Disney Resort edifice betwixt May 26 and September 7 tin bask escaped admittance to 1 of the Walt Disney World h2o parks (Typhoon Lagoon oregon Blizzard Beach) connected their check-in day! It's besides breathtaking to enactment that some the h2o parks volition beryllium open, truthful you tin take wherever you privation to go!
Disney H20 Glow After Hours astatine Disney's Typhoon Lagoon
Speaking of Typhoon Lagoon, Disney H20 Glow After Hours astatine Disney's Typhoon Lagoon volition beryllium backmost this summertime arsenic a separately tickets lawsuit that lets guests "splash the nighttime distant with a DJ creation party, conscionable up with amusive Disney pals, bask your favourite watery attractions, and indulge successful complimentary crystal pick novelties, popcorn, and prime beverages – each aft the prima goes down and the h2o parkland closes."
Bluey and Bingo Finally Arrive astatine Walt Disney World astatine Animal Kingdom's Conservation Station
Bluey volition yet person a beingness astatine Walt Disney World arsenic guests volition beryllium capable to play and creation with Bluey and Bingo implicit astatine Animal Kingdom's Conservation Station. There volition beryllium peculiar games straight from Bluey episodes (Keepy Uppy?!), the accidental to drawback a photograph with the pair, and besides observe animals autochthonal to Bluey's location state of Australia.
Party With Your Toy Story Pals astatine Magic Kingdom's Diamond Horseshoe
At Magic Kingdom's Diamond Horseshoe, Jessie, Woody, and different Toy Story friends volition beryllium hanging retired astatine Jessie's Roundup, wherever guests tin "craft, dance, and yodel [their] hearts retired successful this occidental revue."
Disney Jr. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Live!
Disney Jr. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Live! is simply a caller signifier accumulation headed to Hollywood Studios that volition fto guests sing and creation with Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. Mickey and Minnie person invited Goofy, Daisy, and Pluto, but they haven't arrived yet, and we'll each request to find them to get the amusive started!
The Magic of Disney Animation and Off the Page!
Hollywood Studios' The Magic of Disney Animation and Off the Page! are going to beryllium 2 of the biggest additions to Walt Disney World this twelvemonth (and the 1 I'm astir excited for!), and they volition beryllium experiences inspired by Disney Animation's headquarters.
The Magic of Disney Animation volition beryllium a spot wherever 'kids and kids astatine bosom tin laugh, draw, dream, and research animated caller experiences." This volition see "silly" takes connected Disney Animation's office and its departments, "playful and interactive moments" similar portraits coming to beingness arsenic they did successful "Once Upon a Studio," a abbreviated movie filled with inspiration, a accidental to gully "your precise ain quality sketch," quality meet-and-greets, and more.
Furthermore, the 'Drawn to Wonderland' playground volition invited kids into an "oversized angiosperm plot with philharmonic instruments, a Mad Tea Party playset, and a Tulgey Wood exploration area. To marque it adjacent much special, these areas are each inspired by Alice successful Wonderland and its conception creation by Disney Legend Mary Blair.
There volition besides beryllium an country called 'Off the Page!,' which is simply a collaboration betwixt Walt Disney Animation Studios and Walt Disney Imagineering, and it volition beryllium a spot to conscionable beloved Disney characters crossed six departments from the animation studio, including Story, Layout, Hand-Drawn Animation, Computer Animation, Lighting, and Effects.
Each abstraction volition connection photograph opportunities, and 1 illustration fixed was Mulan successful the communicative department. What's much is she volition beryllium posing successful beforehand of an oversized storyboard panel. Rapunzel, connected the different hand, volition beryllium successful the Layout section successful a mounting inspired by the multiplane camera. So, not lone volition guests beryllium capable to person unthinkable Disney moments with characters, but besides larn and beryllium inspired astir animation and however our favourite stories are brought to life.
Oh, and we person to notation this country utilized to beryllium the location of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida, which was liable for specified films arsenic Mulan, Lilo & Stitch, and Brother Bear.
Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets Will Debut successful Summer 2026
Hollywood Studios' Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith is acceptable to adjacent connected March 1 and marque mode for Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring The Muppets. In this caller ride, J.P. Grosse purchases G-Force Records and asks his nephew, Scooter, to tally the place. This volition bring Electric Mayhem to the forefront arsenic they volition regenerate Aerosmith arsenic the headliner of this attraction.
The courtyard volition besides acquisition a transformation, arsenic the monolithic reddish guitar volition present person a "psychedelic wrap" and the soft motif astatine the bottommost volition diagnostic a golden cardinal successful grant of Dr. Teeth. Speaking of Scooter, helium volition go an Audio-Animatronic alongside immoderate penguin audio engineers!
The Mandalorian and Grogu Join Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run
The Mandalorian and Grogu is acceptable to being Star Wars backmost to the movies for the archetypal clip since 2019 connected May 22, but that's not each retired favourite brace from that postulation far, acold distant volition beryllium up to connected that day.
There volition beryllium a caller ngo successful Hollywood Studios' Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run (and astatine Disneyland!) wherever Hondo Ohnaka "catches upwind of a woody connected Tatooine betwixt ex-Imperial officers and pirates, mounting the signifier for a high-stakes pursuit crossed the galaxy. Guests volition squad up with Mando and Grogu to way them down and assertion a bounty successful a dynamic, galaxy-spanning adventure."
This caller choose-your-own-adventure-style volition fto Engineers instrumentality attraction of Grogu, and it whitethorn instrumentality guests to Coruscant, Tatooine, Bespin, and/or Endor. To larn more, we had the accidental to talk with Walt Disney Imagineering's Asa Kalama, and helium shared a spot much astir what we tin expect.
"Throughout the mission, we're going to beryllium giving the engineers the accidental to really get to pass with Grogu," Kalama said. "So, we deliberation it's going to beryllium a ton of fun. There whitethorn beryllium times erstwhile Mando has to deboard the Razor Crest and Grogu, near to his ain devices, mightiness get a small blessed connected the power panel. So, we emotion the thought of determination being these amusive small vignettes and moments wherever you're benignant of connected the comm with Grogu."
As for the choose-your-own-adventure broadside of it, Kalama tells america determination volition beryllium "sort of a captious infinitesimal successful your escapade wherever you are strapped for clip and person to marque a lightning speedy determination astir which of our peculiar bounties we privation to pursue. And that's going to beryllium the benignant of inciting incidental that allows america to determine which are the antithetic destinations we spell to."
Soarin' Across America and a Celebration of the United States' 250th Anniversary
In solemnisation of the United States' 250th anniversary, EPCOT and Disneyland's Soarin' volition alteration into Soarin' Across America. This caller "bi-coastal offering volition showcase the United States - from oversea to shining oversea - highlighting immoderate of the country's earthy quality and iconic cityscapes."
This breathtaking update was introduced successful a video that erstwhile again sees Patrick Warburton acting arsenic our main formation attendant, and we besides learned much from the squad astatine the time.
“Our extremity was to connection guests a sampling of the diverseness of America’s quality and municipality wonders with the anticipation it would overgarment an affectional representation for the nation’s Semi-quincentennial celebration,” Tom Fitzgerald, Portfolio Executive Creative Director and Chief Storytelling Executive, Walt Disney Imagineering, said.
“Contrasting shots of antithetic American locales — scenic wonders, astonishing cities, and the quality of the coasts. The usage of the carnal scenery of the United States arsenic a unifying element,” Bernice Howes, Executive Creative Media Producer for Walt Disney Imagineering, added. “Then, utilizing continuous camera question to smoothly modulation betwixt these scenes, linking them unneurotic to amusement the geographical ‘whole’ of the nation, from earthy locations to ample cities to nationalist monuments that correspond America the beautiful.”
Soarin' Across America is portion of a caller inaugural called "Disney Celebrates America," which runs done July 4 and volition beryllium filled with celebrations, shows, deals and offers for U.S. Military work members, veterans, and their families, and overmuch more.
Banana Ball Arrives astatine ESPN Wide World of Sports For the First Time
Banana Ball is headed to ESPN Wide World of Sports for the archetypal clip connected May 29 and 30, and "whether you’re squad Loco Beach Coconuts oregon squad Party Animals, the instrumentality plays, diving catches, and on-the-field shenanigans are definite to present a location tally of fun."
Fall 2026
EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival
The EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival volition instrumentality this autumn and, portion dates and details volition beryllium released astatine a aboriginal date, Disney encourages guests to "Come Eat to the Beat (IYKYK) and research each that EPCOT has to connection portion soaking successful the autumn vibes … and munching connected immoderate delicious bites."
Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party
The 'gourd times" volition rotation this autumn erstwhile Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party erstwhile again takes residence astatine Magic Kingdom.
"Get acceptable to boo-gie with fan-favorite eerie entertainment, bask spellbinding sips and bites, and well-loved mysterious quality greetings to observe the spooky play with this separately ticketed lawsuit connected prime nights," Disney wrote.
Winter 2026
Disney Jollywood Nights
While nary dates person been announced, Disney is wants guests to "get acceptable to observe the play successful benignant with themed entertainment, festive nutrient and beverage offerings, quality greetings galore, and of course, each things glitz and glamour astatine Disney Jollywood Nights."
Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party
Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party volition extremity the twelvemonth successful a festive style, and volition erstwhile again beryllium "packed with seasonal entertainment, delicious food, and cozy merchandise that volition marque you autumn successful emotion with the vacation play each implicit again."
EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays
Lastly, the EPCOT International Festival of the Holidays volition beryllium successful afloat plaything astatine the extremity of the twelvemonth with Holiday Storytellers, delicious comfortableness foods astatine Holiday Kitchens, the Candlelight Processional, and overmuch more.
The Fun Is Just Beginning astatine Walt Disney World
This is lone the extremity of the iceberg of things planned for Walt Disney World, and we volition proceed to update this usher arsenic much details are revealed. We don't cognize everything going connected down the curtain, but we bash cognize immoderate of the breathtaking projects successful the works, including a Villains Land, the Cars-themed onshore called Piston Peak National Park, the Monsters-Inc.-themed land, the Tropical Americas onshore with Encanto and Indiana Jones attractions, the update to Carousel of Progress that volition adhd a Walt Disney Audio-Animatronic, and truthful overmuch more.
Until then, beryllium definite to cheque retired our Disneyland 2026 guide, the breathtaking details connected World of Frozen astatine Disneyland Paris' Disney Adventure World, and our thoughts aft sailing connected the Disney Destiny.
Adam Bankhurst is simply a writer for IGN. You tin travel him connected X/Twitter @AdamBankhurst, Instagram, and TikTok, and perceive to his show, Talking Disney Magic.
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