Disney's annual D23 conference is taking place this weekend in Anaheim. All sorts of major announcements are coming out about Disney movies, TV shows and most notably for the purposes of this blog, parks news. I say "annual" but it's really every OTHER year, with the offsetting years being called "Destination D23" and taking place in Florida. The OG D23 is usually the "bigger" of the two events, though plenty of news is announced at both.
The last regular D23 event was a night filled with bombshell after bombshell, as Disney basically laid out their plans for the next ten years or so. That event was a commitment by Disney to spend billions of dollars in the parks, which was welcome news to fans around the world. But most of that work was backloaded, meaning that it would be years before any of these things came to fruition. Indeed, as we sit here in 2026, most of the biggest announcements from that conference are still being constructed.
