
This project is very much in its early days so there weren’t a TON of details announced. With the collaboration of Imagineering and Disney Animation Studios, we MIGHT (?) be receiving a new mini-land in the Magic Kingdom. You can click on the photo to find more pics of the construction! Beyond Big Thunder Mountain The bottom photo is courtesy of Bioreconstruct and is from June 2022. Take a look at this progress! The photo on the top is a photo I took from the People Mover back in 2019. But nevertheless, I’m excited we finally have a general idea of when we’ll be able to ride this amazing attraction! Check out the sneak peak video that was released during this announcement as well!! You can never be too sure with these time frames because they tend to be so broad.

Now does this mean in time for spring break? Maybe.

While this isn’t the case, we finally have at least a time frame for this new futuristic rollercoaster’s opening date! Tron: Lightcycle Run will open for operation in “spring 2023”. Some even thought we would be able to hop on board a lightcycle before the end of 2022. With no opening date or time frame announced, fans were beginning to speculate for themselves. In the last few months, we’ve seen work ramped up to 100 on this project. Opening TIME FRAME for Tron: Lightcycle Runįor literal YEARS, we have seen Tron: Lightcycle Run take shape behind Space Mountain in the Magic Kingdom. I’m not sure if this means he will be leaving Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion once again or if Imagineering is working on a second Hat Box Ghost animatronic, but alas, we’ll have him back in MK and that’s what matters. For decades, this special ghost has made his journey back and forth between east and west coast. Well, sometime “next year” (2023), D’amaro tells us that we will see the return of the Hat Box Ghost at Haunted Mansion within the Magic Kingdom. If you don’t, it’s probably because you haven’t gotten the chance to see him yourself yet.

We all know and love the Haunted Mansion Hat Box Ghost. I knew the moment they started that the announcement we’ve all been waiting for was finally about to happen! Return of the Hat Box Ghost To foreshadow this announcement before it was made, we had the privilege of seeing Jordan Fisher and Angie Keilhauer perform the title song for the show and it was GLORIOUS. For this year’s announcements, I decided to compile the 2022 D23 Walt Disney World announcements that Josh D’amaro, Chairman of the Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products, had for us! D23 Announcements for Magic Kingdomĭ’amaro started off the Parks presentation portion of D23 Expo with a BANG! The one, only, and beloved Happily Ever After (presented by Pandora Jewelry) will light up the sky over the Magic Kingdom once again! This nighttime spectacular will return “sometime next year”, but we were not given a specific date, or even season, as we received with most of the later announcements. Instead, we held off for one more year to better ensure health and safety as well as a fun experience could be had by everyone. Thanks to our good ol’ friend COVID, we did not get to enjoy an expo last year, 2021. Generally this event occurs every 2 years, on the odds. Fans come from around the world to hear the company executives talk about the new projects they are working on and cast talk about the latest projects that have already been released.

D23 Expo takes place in Anaheim, CA and is known as “the ultimate Disney fan event”.
