This Week's Theme Park Information From Disney, Common, and Extra

It’s a battle of Halloween season bulletins with Common Studios—plus, summer time conventions are heating up with San Diego Comedian-Con, D23 Expo, and Midsummer Scream.

Peak trip season is in full swing at Disney Parks and Common Studios, the place the newest sights are drawing in main crowds. Whether or not you’re conserving cool on Tiana’s Bayou Journey or taking within the cinematic sights of Common Footage’ Cinesational, there’s one thing to do for everybody because the time attracts nearer for spooky season.

Lengthy earlier than Halloween arrives, nonetheless, main conventions like San Diego Comedian-Con 2024, Disney’s D23 Expo, and Midsummer Scream might be gathering style followers en masse. Discover out extra on this week’s theme park information and fan-tastical locations replace.

Common Studios Halloween Horror Nights 2024

Get able to tip-toe by the tulips as soon as extra! The most recent Halloween Horror Nights home theme introduced for Common Studios Hollywood (opening September 5) and Common Studios Florida (opening August 30) is James Wan’s Insidious franchise. For more information and tickets go to here.

Six Flags Fright Fest 2024

The response from the hang-out neighborhood has been a convincing “hell sure!” for this yr’s Fright Fest at Six Flags throughout North America. This yr’s occasion will function main IP in mazes together with WB’s Conjuring Universe, Netflix’s Stranger Issues, and extra! For more information on which mazes might be featured at your nearest Six Flags location, go to here.

Walt Disney World Nation Bears Jamboree

At Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, the Nation Bears Jamboree has reopened with its new slate of songs. The long-lasting characters at the moment are performing Disney classics sung by nation’s finest within the enterprise at this time, together with Mac McAnally, Allison Russell, Chris Thile, and Emily Ann Roberts. Learn extra about it here.

D23 Expo 2024

Beating SDCC to the punch by a day, D23 Expo unveiled its slate for this yr’s occasion in Anaheim, CA. Listed here are among the panels we’re tremendous enthusiastic about outdoors of the Honda Heart’s main occasions, which might be Friday’s Disney Leisure showcase and Saturday’s Disney Experiences showcase—the place we’ll see the way forward for all of the studio initiatives and theme park plans from beneath the Disney banner be teased together with main Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, and Disney Animation information!

30 Years of Toy Story
Have fun 30 Years of Toy Story with filmmakers and Pixar Legends as they mirror on the making of the groundbreaking traditional almost 30 years in the past and share never-before-heard anecdotes about how the historic movie got here to be.

Exploring New Elements of the Thoughts: Behind the Design of Inside Out 2 + a Dreamy Shock!
Be a part of Inside Out 2 manufacturing designer Jason Deamer as he offers an in-depth have a look at designing the brand new feelings becoming a member of Headquarters as Riley enters teenagehood. And stick round for a particular dreamy sneak peek of an upcoming Pixar collection!

Jolly Vacation: A D23 Musical Celebration of Richard M. Sherman
From Mary Poppins to Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room, a heartwarming and joyous musical tribute to our beloved Disney songwriting legend Richard M. Sherman—with unbelievable performances and pleasant shock appearances by among the individuals who knew and admired him finest.

Marvel Animation Sneak Peek
See what’s coming subsequent to Disney+ from Marvel Animation, with particular visitors and first appears at hotly anticipated collection together with Your Pleasant Neighborhood Spider-Man, Eyes of Wakanda, future seasons of What If…?, X-Males ’97, and extra!

MARVEL COMICS: Celebrating 50 Years of Wolverine
Look again at 50 years of Wolverine with Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski and author Jason Aaron as they dive into the legacy of Marvel’s hottest mutant (and what’s subsequent!). PLUS: an unique giveaway whereas provides final, and a sneak peek at what’s in retailer for Marvel’s eighty fifth anniversary!

Making A Goofy Film: The Highway to Lake Future
The creatives behind the A Goofy Film phenomenon reunite, reminisce, and share clips from a brand new documentary in regards to the unbelievable origin story of this beloved cult traditional.

Bringing the Worlds of Disney Animation to Life in Disney Parks
Staff members from Walt Disney Imagineering and Walt Disney Animation Studios talk about bringing the worlds of Disney Animation to life in Disney Parks world wide, together with such initiatives as World of Frozen (Hong Kong Disneyland), Zootopia (Shanghai Disneyland), Fantasy Springs (Tokyo DisneySea), and Tiana’s Bayou Journey (Magic Kingdom and Disneyland).

The Muppets 70: A Glamorous Miss Piggy Retrospective
Be a part of Walt Disney Archives director Becky Cline and the Muppets producer Dani Iglesias for a superb look again on the previous 70 years of the Muppets, however largely Miss Piggy! We are going to dive into the vaults to uncover nostalgic artifacts together with how we protect this assortment at this time!

For the complete lineup of present ground pavilions that followers can expertise at D23: The Final Disney Fan Occasion from August September 11 on the Anaheim Conference Heart, go to ultimatefanevent.d23.com.

San Diego Comedian-Con 2024

SDCC 2024 has begun to reveal its schedule for the conference occurring in San Diego this month, together with a panel celebrating Interview With the Vampire and AMC’s Immortal Universe. The total slate of occasions might be revealed this weekend.

Midsummer Scream 2024

One other huge Southern California fan gathering, Halloween and horror conference Midsummer Scream, might be held on the Lengthy Seashore Conference Heart July 26-28.

Right here’s what you’ll be able to anticipate:

• Over a dozen haunted sights, together with the Gears of Concern maze, a torturous immersive expertise filled with scenes from iconic Lionsgate movies.
• Shows from SoCal’s largest Halloween sights providing a preview of the scares coming this spooky season. (We’re most excited to search out out extra about Fright Fest)
• Celeb appearances from Cassandra Peterson aka Elvira, Mistress of the Darkish, the casts of “Black Telephone,” “Monster Excessive,” and extra.

Obtain the Midsummer Scream app to take a look at the official schedule.

The Little Mermaid Immersive at CAMP Shops

Beginning Friday, August 2, Disney followers and households can dive into Disney’s The Little Mermaid X CAMP in Los Angeles, a brand new musical and immersive expertise impressed by Disney’s The Little Mermaid.

Listed here are some particulars of actions that might be a part of the expertise:

• Sing and dance to their favourite songs from Disney’s The Little Mermaid, together with “Beneath The Sea,” “A part of Your World,” “Kiss The Woman,” and “Poor Unlucky Souls”
• Discover King Triton’s Palace, controlling the seas from his throne
• Uncover Ariel’s Grotto and embark on a scavenger hunt for devices and gizmos aplenty
• Climb by an deserted shipwreck by cargo internet tunnels and unlock treasure chests
• Watch a magic present in Ursula’s lair
• Store unique Disney’s The Little Mermaid X CAMP attire and equipment

Disney’s The Little Mermaid X CAMP is a restricted time providing at CAMP’s West Coast Flagship location at Westfield Century Metropolis. Tickets begin at $34 per individual and can be found here.

Willy’s Sweet Spectacular Premiere

Willy’s Sweet Spectacular: A Musical Parody of the notorious “immersive” Willy Wonka pop-up catastrophe has set its director for its Edinburgh Fringe run. The musical might be helmed by filmmaker and theatrical director Andy Fickman, identified for cult fave Heathers: The Musical and films like She’s the Man and The Sport Plan.

“I can’t stress sufficient what a thrill it was when the good Richard Kraft requested me to direct Willy’s Sweet Spectacular: A Musical Parody. Other than simply loving sweet, I fell in love with these songs—written by among the finest within the enterprise,” Fickman mentioned in a press launch. “On a private observe, one in all my first jobs in Hollywood was Director of Improvement for Gene Wilder, the unique Willy Wonka, so this chance seems like a really candy return dwelling.” The present runs August 9-26.

Tickets for the Edinburgh Fringe run at the moment are obtainable here.

Meow Wolf Las Vegas

A brand new immersive facet quest is coming to Meow Wolf’s Omega Mart in Las Vegas, as teased above!

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