Ep: 41 - Aug 11th - All the D23 News and more

Nuts about Theme Parks

This week's Theme Park News:

- The D23 Parks Panel, named Horizons, has just been completed. Here are there "Non-blue sky" announcements:

- Avatar experience based on the sequel films to DCA.

- Coco ride coming to Disney California Adventure.

- Disney Starlight nighttime Spectacular for Magic Kingdom in 2025

- Frozen land to open in Paris 2026

- Lion King land also coming to Disney Adventure World

- Walt Disney A magic life coming to Main Street Opera House

- All new Indiana Jones and Encanto Rides coming to Tropical Americas.

- Tiana's Bayou Adventure to open November 15th at Disneyland.

- New lounges for Epcot and Magic Kingdom

- Monster's Inc land for Hollywood Studios including Door coaster.

- Cars replacing part of frontier land at Magic Kingdom with two new rides.

- Two new attractions for Avengers Campus at DCA.

- Villains land with two major attractions coming to Magic Kingdom.

- Disney also did some financial reporting ahead of D23 this week, with reporting that it's theme parks division brought in $5.82 billion at its U.S. theme parks during the period, plus another $1.6 billion from its international parks. Due to Higher coast though, the US parks had a decline in operating income, which was down 6%, to $1.347 billion for the quarter.

- Universal Studios Hollywood have finished their house line-up for this year's Halloween Horror Night, with a featuring musician The Weeknd, called The Weeknd: Nightmare Trilogy. They also confirmed this week that the Terror Tram will return this year with the theme Enter the Blumhouse, featuring characters from M3GAN, The Black Phone, Freaky, The Purge, and Happy Death Day. They will also be bring back The Purge: Dangerous Waters show in the WaterWorld theater.

- Universal Studios Hollywood also announced this week that it has added Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge to the list of attractions eligible for its Universal Express pass

- Canada's Wonderland will open the longest, tallest, and fastest launch coaster in Canada next year, called AlpenFury. The Premier Rides coaster will feature 9 inversions, the most of any launch coaster in North America, and will be 115 km/h along 1 KM of track, with a 50 metres tall.

- Carowinds is planning a Camp Snoopy Expansion in 2025. They plan to add an ART Engineering family launch coaster call Snoopy's Racing Railway, similar to the one that opened at Canada's Wonderland last year. They will also b adding a Splash Battle ride call Charlie Brown's River Raft Blast.

- Reuters reports that a private equity firm behind Parques Reunidos, EQT, has enlisted JP Morgan to conduct a review of the Spanish theme park operator that could result in a sale of its US assets. Parques Reunidos's US assets are held by Palace Entertainment and include Kennywood, Lake Compounce, Iowa's Adventureland, Southern California's Castle Park and Raging Waters and the Noah's Ark Water Park in the Wisconsin Dells. Reuters cited a source that the Palace Entertainment properties could be valued at 1 billion Euro.