New details announced for D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event 2024

Mar 19, 2024 in "D23 - Official Fan Organization"

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D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event

Posted: Tuesday March 19, 2024 12:52pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney fans around the world will once again gather in Anaheim, California, on August 9, 10, and 11, 2024, for D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event presented by Visa.

Disney says that this year, D23 has been revamped to be more expansive and more immersive than ever before, offering fans access to more of what they love from across the worlds of Disney. The event will feature three days of marquee showcases and presentations, an expanded show floor with the latest from Disney brands and partners, increased shopping opportunities, and a week-long celebration of Disney fandom leading up to the event.

For Disney Park fans, all eyes will be on the Disney Experiences Showcase: Saturday, August 10, at 7 pm, where we expect to hear details of new attractions coming to Walt Disney World.

D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event

Highlights of what’s new

D23 Day at Disneyland Resort on Thursday, August 8
Three nights of marquee showcases at the Honda Center: Disney Entertainment Showcase: Friday, August 9 at 7 P.M., Disney Experiences Showcase: Saturday, August 10 at 7 P.M., and Disney Legends Ceremony: Sunday, August 11 at 5 P.M.
The largest, most expansive show floor in D23 history at the Anaheim Convention Center
Expanded shopping experience
D23 Day at Angel Stadium on Sunday, August 4
D23 FAN-tastic Prizes Sweepstakes – the biggest company-wide sweepstakes in Disney history

Event Programming

Honda Center

This year D23 is introducing a new venue for some of the programming, allowing bigger shows with more magic to the biggest audience of Disney fans in the world. For the first time ever, the Honda Center will be home to three nights of marquee showcases. Friday night will begin with the star-studded Disney Entertainment Showcase, featuring exclusive looks at the movies, series, and stage shows fans love and a glimpse of what’s next. Saturday night will showcase Disney Experiences, featuring the latest on new and highly anticipated projects in development around the world for Disney parks, experiences, and beyond. The weekend will conclude Sunday evening with a special ceremony to celebrate the 2024 class of Disney Legends, hosted by Ryan Seacrest. This year, the Walt Disney Archives is honoring Colleen Atwood, Angela Bassett, Martha Blanding, James L. Brooks, James Cameron, Jamie Lee Curtis, Miley Cyrus, Steve Ditko, Harrison Ford, Mark Henn, Frank Oz, Kelly Ripa, Joe Rohde, and John Williams.

D23 Day at the Disneyland Resort

Before the magic of Disney comes to life during D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, guests can kick off the weekend’s festivities at the first-ever D23 Day at the Disneyland Resort on Thursday, August 8. Disneyland Resort will welcome D23 fans from rope drop to late night featuring unique offerings for fans including a custom cavalcade and an energetic dance party at Disneyland Park, and special photo opportunities, specialty foods, themed merchandise, and more at both parks. Disney Junior will also join the festivities and host a music-filled celebration at Disney California Adventure® Park.

Show Floor

The Anaheim Convention Center will once again showcase the best of Disney storytelling and innovation with an immersive and expanded show floor full of great experiences and activities for all ages. Fan-favorites will return including pavilions from Pixar, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Disney+, Marvel Studios, Disney Experiences, Lucasfilm, and a first-of-its-kind exhibition from the Walt Disney Archives entitled “A Great Big Beautiful Car Show.”

Fans can take advantage of shopping opportunities including a dedicated space to shop and experience limited-edition merchandise and collectibles. Other fan-favorite shopping destinations will return including Mickey’s of Glendale, The Hollywood Studio Store, and The Emporium. Plus, The Walt Disney Company Store will make its debut and feature exclusive D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event branded products.
Guests will also have the opportunity to attend specially curated shows, panels, and presentations, along with conversations with storytellers, creators, and talent. These presentations will feature distinctly Disney content that will entertain fans of all generations on five different stages at the Anaheim Convention Center.

D23 Day at Angel Stadium

The first ever D23 Day at Angel Stadium will take place on Sunday, August 4, as the stadium comes to life with D23 fun. The first 23,000 fans through the gate will receive a commemorative and one-of-a-kind D23 Mickey Mouse bobblehead.

D23 Ticket Details

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DCBaker16 days ago

As a follow up, dates have been released for the D23 event in São Paulo, Brazil: November 8-10, 2024. Here's the website for D23 Brazil: https://www.disney.com.br/d23-brasil

DCBaker21 days ago

Updating this information as D23 has added more details on ticket transfers: NOTE: Tickets purchased from any other sources may not be valid. D23 is not able to honor, replace or refund invalid tickets. D23 will provide an official opportunity to transfer tickets to other guests prior to the Event, however the recipient email must be associated with a valid D23 Member account to claim the transferred ticket. When the ticket transfer process opens, D23 will be the only ticket service that is able to authenticate that a D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event ticket is valid. Other resellers may offer money-back guarantees, but they are unable to guarantee entry to the Event as they are not able to validate that a ticket or seat location is authentic. We encourage guests to report fraudulent ticket sales to the point of purchase and consumer protection agencies.

Surferboy56722 days ago

https://www.themeparkinsider.com/flume/202404/10139/ “Disney CEO Bob Iger and Disney Experiences Chairman Josh D'Amaro confirmed Disney's plans during a presentation to invited reporters at Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale, California on Tuesday afternoon. (I was held to an embargo not to reveal that information until now.) The two projects will be an expansion of the Magic Kingdom on the park's west side and the expansion and conversion of Disney's Animal Kingdom's Dinoland USA into a Tropical Americas land…There are, as yet, no dates for either project, though Disney sources have said that more details will be announced at the sold-out D23 fan event at Anaheim's Honda Center in August.”

MarvelCharacterNerd26 days ago

I've gone to every Expo. :) I don't go to the panels because the interesting ones have lines that are too long. I really do go for the floor - shopping, displays, giveaways, seeing what people are wearing. :) I'm just annoyed at the price point to have to do so. I'm not sure it's worth it for me and may eventually find another home for the ticket if I decide not to use it. Or I'll give in to the FOMO and go even though it's not worth what I paid for what I do there.

vikescaper26 days ago

I remember walking around the convention floor like a zombie because I was so tired from waiting for the Hall D23 panels. While we were waiting in the “unofficial line” for the parks presentation in 2022, my sister sent me back to the hotel for a couple of hours so I could get some rest. I ended up falling asleep very hard and she was trying to reach me multiple times. I felt so bad but I was very exhausted. We stumbled into one of the Imagineering panels in 2022 and it ended up being one of our favorites!

BrianLo26 days ago

I'm very much looking forward to experiencing other aspects of the convention this year, more fully. I feel like all the energy had to go into the main panel attendance in the past. Not like I didn't wander around the convention, but there was very little energy left to attend the smaller panels after 8 hour commitments to the Hall D23 panels.

Salted Nut Roll27 days ago

Absolutely! Your ticket gets you into all the panels at the convention center. I don't care about the big news panels. It's stuff I'll find out later, anyway. There are plenty of other fun panels. In 2019, I got to go to the Disney on Broadway panel and watch Broadway actors perform musical numbers from various Disney Broadway shows live. Another panel focused on voice acting and featured most of the Disney princesses actors, plus Jim Cummings (the voice of my childhood!) and others, all discussing their experiences. I don't know how hard it's going to be to get into some of the panels this year. It was pretty brutal even in 2019. But there are a ton of them, so you'll probably at least get into a couple. Also, the show floor itself has a lot of different experiences. There's usually an exhibit put on by the Disney archives. One year it was a walk-through Pirates of the Caribbean museum, with a bunch of props and concept sketches from both the ride and the films. Another year it was a museum devoted to costumes from movies through the years. And there are various other activities and presentations, so there's definitely more to do than just shop (Though they have that, too! 😆)

BrianLo27 days ago

Probably a few factors. I think the event is bigger than it has been. The pandemic was still somewhat forefront in Jan 2022 when tickets were last sold (as in a segment wouldn’t have thought the indoor crowds of the convention were their jam). The tickets sales turnaround to the event is much shorter (by three months). The event this year is also in the summer when schools are out. But perhaps biggest of all is these tickets can be scalped this year.

vikescaper27 days ago

Remember that you will have access to the panels that are held at the convention center. While they aren’t the big ones, they can still be quite good!

MarvelCharacterNerd27 days ago

It's more local FOMO, I think. :) That's why I caved and got a ticket for one day when the day I actually wanted sold out before I got through the line. Spent $112 just to hang out on the stupid shopping floor, no panels. :( I may yet decide not to go at all, but at least I have the option if I choose. Only a certain percentage goes for park info. Plenty go for movies, shopping, cosplay, community, etc.

Surferboy56727 days ago

Thanks I checked and it really isn’t that much. Originally thought it was a lot more but then forgot I added genie. Figured I’m only going two days (at least so far) might as well make it easy on myself.

Indy_UK27 days ago

WOW, I didn't expect it to completely sell put that quickly. Do you think its really over peoples excitement that Disney are going to announce a lot of investment at the show?

vikescaper28 days ago

There isn’t that much of a discount. I compared a one day, one park pass at the regular price vs discounted and the discount is $9. A two day, two park ticket is about a $20 difference.