What's New At Disney In 2025?

A new Test Track by Chevrolet opens this summer in EPCOT. Celebrating innovation, the racing ride will also highlight the past, present, and future. From a new queue to new show scenes, this will be a major overhaul of Test Track — the third so far. New scenes will showcase tech advances, on board technology, customization, personalization and how mobility connects us. The ride will still end with an outdoor route that reminds us of the pure joy of driving.

Alert the toddlers! Bluey and her sister Bingo, from the animated show “Bluey,” will appear around Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort starting this year. Details are still in the works but this is all park of an expansion of the relationship between Walt Disney Company and BBC Studios, who owns the series.

Goodbye “It’s Tough to Be a Bug,” the very unpopular 4D movie that terrorized many children in the Tree of Life in Animal Kingdom, and hello Zootopia as they will soon premiere “Better Zoogether” later this year. The show will take guests through different Zootopia biomes and will hopefully feature less creepy crawlies.

Yo-ho, yo-ho, what are those pirates drinking? In Magic Kingdom Park, a new lounge will debut in Adventureland, themed to the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Peg-Leg Pete AKA Barker Bird will be brought back as the Audio-Animatronic used to be at the entrance of the attraction. The tavern will extend the story of the ride and is scheduled to open in late 2025.

Geo-82 opens spring 2025 and it will be an adults-only lounge by reservation inside Spaceship Earth (the big golf ball that serves as icon of EPCOT). There will be elegant theming, innovative cocktails, small plates, and views of EPCOT's famous gardens and lagoon.

It’s time to get un poco loco on Main Street, U.S.A. in Magic Kingdom Park as a new parade, “Disney Starlight: Dream the Night Away,” debuts this summer. Featuring Mariachi music from the movie “Coco,” there will also be a giant Pepita and sugar skull fireworks. Other floats will feature movies like “Wish,” “Peter Pan,” “Frozen,” “Encanto” and “Pinocchio” as well as a princess-themed float.

Live from the Sunset Showcase theater at Disney's Hollywood Studios is this new stage show featuring your favorite baddies. Led by the Magic Mirror, you, the audience, must decide if Cruella de Vil, Captain Hook, or Maleficent is the worst villain in the kingdom. There will be songs, special effects, and an interactive finale. The show premieres May 27.

Ariel’s journey under the sea has been reimagined in an all-new “The Little Mermaid” stage show, premiering at Disney’s Hollywood Studios on May 27. The digital puppetry is said to be jaw-dropping, but original songs just for the show will keep you humming them all day. The show will reside in Animation Courtyard.

Disney has never passed up an opportunity to celebrate so the 70th Anniversary of Disneyland kicks off this May. Festivities include a Disney Jr. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Live! Show, World of Color Happiness nighttime spectacular, Better Together: A Pixar Pals Celebration! parade, and the debut of Rex from “Toy Story” at Pixar Pier, all at Disney California Adventure. Disneyland Park features Pixar Pals Playtime Party returning to Fantasyland Theatre, Stitch's Interplanetary Beach Party Blast returning to Tomorrowland Terrace, Wondrous Journeys projection show and the return of the Paint the Night Parade. There’s also a theme song by the Jonas Brothers, a new projection show on the façade of It’s a Small World, and special cavalcade down Main Street U.S.A.

Get ready to shop at brand new stores coming to Downtown Disney District at Disneyland Resort: Nectar Life, a luxury bath product store; Bopo Go!, selling boba/bubble tea and lululemon, hawking premium athletic apparel. New eats include Arthur & Sons Steak and Bourbon and Pearl’s Roadside BBQ.

Move over Mr. Lincoln as the Disneyland Audio Animatronics show, Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, will now be sharing space with a new Walt Disney-centered show. The two shows will rotate in the Main Street Opera House starting this year.

The fun doesn’t stop this year! Looking ahead, Magic Kingdom park will get a refurbished Big Thunder Mountain Railroad; Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin will feature new show scene, updated ride vehicles and gameplay enhancements like handheld blasters; the new Cars Land will have two new attractions, replacing Tom Sawyer Island and the Rivers of America; and the long awaited Villains Land featuring Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Gaston, Scar, Jafar and the Queen of Hearts, will be built beyond Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.