Walt Disney World Shares New Pics & Details on Upcoming Entertainment

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Walt Disney World has revealed new details regarding the “Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After” coming to Disney’s Hollywood Studios and the new “Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away” nighttime parade coming to Magic Kingdom. It’s going to be an exciting year for Disney fans as these brand-new experiences will kick off this summer!



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Let’s start with the new Villains show that will give some of our favorite Disney villains their chance to air their grievances about how they’ve been treated over the years.



If you asked them, our villains would probably try to convince you that they’ve been treated pretty unfairly over the years. In this show, the Magic Mirror has summoned us to hear them out. Never ones to let a dramatic performance pass them by, fiendish foes Cruella de Vil, Captain Hook, and Maleficent will break through the glass and take the stage to prove once and for all why they are the most misunderstood. In the end, it will be on you to make the final call in a delightfully wicked finale filled with dozens of the most infamous evildoers awaiting your decision from within the Mirror’s realm.

Moving over to Magic Kingdom, the team working on the new Disney Starlight parade shared that “a nod to the past with our eyes firmly set on the future” has been a common catchphrase as they create the parade. Of course, Disney fans will likely be thrilled to hear this, as we love to see some of our cherished memories brought back to life in a new way.

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As they prepare this all-new nighttime parade for its debut this summer, the team is drawing inspiration from not only the rich history of nighttime parades at Magic Kingdom (trust me fellow parade lovers, there are more than a few Easter eggs), but also some of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ earliest animated features.

This reverence for the past will be on full display in the parade’s recently revealed princess unit, which pays homage to Disney Legend and artist Mary Blair’s original concept artwork for Disney Animation’s Cinderella. Anchored by a gleaming fountain of light that overflows to illuminate a cosmic ballroom, the float is just one piece of the constellation of classic and contemporary stories that make up this new parade. Moments from Disney Animation’s Moana, Peter Pan, Frozen, Encanto and more will unfold on a bed of starlight as the cavalcade floods Main Street, U.S.A. with some of your favorite tales.

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A great parade is about more than just the floats—the costumes complete the magic! The Disney Live Entertainment Costuming team has been busy creating a dazzling wardrobe for ‘Disney Starlight.’

With innovative lighting techniques and custom whimsical fabrics, Disney’s costuming team constructs each outfit to look as though it was “kissed by starlight.” Imagine the prototype in the image below “Swirling down the parade route, layers of shimmering fabric picking up the glow of the surrounding floats, each light twinkling in perfect synchronization with the music.” This one’s giving off SpectroMagic vibes and maybe even a little bit of the Main Street Electrical Parade!



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Disney says they’ll share more new details in the coming months, so stay tuned!



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Jackie Gailey
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