Bold New Villains Look Coming to Sunset Showcase at Disney's Hollywood Studios

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Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After construction - May 16, 2025

Posted: Friday May 16, 2025 9:50am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

With just weeks to go until the debut of Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After, Disney is applying a bold new paint scheme to the exterior of Sunset Showcase at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Crews are on site this week using lifts to install the vivid new design, which features sharp, angular lines and a striking palette of purple, pink, and neon accents.

Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After construction - May 16, 2025

The dramatic new look is a major visual departure from the building’s previous neutral appearance and appears to reflect the theatrical, magical realm of the Magic Mirror—the central element in the upcoming villains-themed show. The geometric shards evoke the feeling of shattered glass, consistent with the show’s concept of villains breaking through the mirror to tell their side of the story.

Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After construction - May 16, 2025

Set to open May 27, 2025, Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After will feature appearances by Cruella de Vil, Captain Hook, Maleficent, and more, complete with original music, elaborate staging, and a guest-driven finale.

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Agent H1 day ago

I got to see this yesterday. This is actually really good. All the actors are great. The new song is amazing. There’s also a lot of fun stage effects. (The dragon breathing fire. The cannon in the Captain Hook scene) only thing is it would be nice if there were some other characters. Mr. Smee with Captain Hook Horace and Horace and jasper with cruella.

Comped22 days ago

Old Nemo was really the last breath of old WDE, years after it was dissolved, helped by the fact they had literal Broadway caliber writers involved. Shame we'll never see the 2 hour version ever. As for Lion King, it's cheap for Disney (relatively) and extremely popular. Disney has never really tried, beyond the Tarzan later Nemo, to put other shows in AK besides FOLTK - and it's unfortunate they haven't.

Professortango122 days ago

I'd say the old Nemo was the best show I've seen at WDW in ages. Lion King...while it was fun to see 90's California parade floats again, the show was the definition of overrated. This show feels a lot like when my friend was in Paw Patrol Live. Except that had more than one actor onstage and the dog puppets were visually interesting. This is just projected vague scenery and really bad material being carried by one actor at a time.

Professortango122 days ago

Thank goodness, as the full screen option posted by this site seems to be broken. Although every time you try and click the option, it forces the video to restart and play another ad, so the broken site feature is obviously adding revenue to WDWmagic's pockets.

LittleBuford23 days ago

UNCgolf23 days ago

I'd watch a Villains production of My Fair Lady.

wdwmagic23 days ago

'Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After' Song 'Magic Mirror' Now Available on Streaming https://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/magic-mirror-villains-show/news/30may2025-disney-villains-unfairly-ever-after-song-magic-mirror-now-available-on-streaming.htm With the release, YouTube has also now removed the block not he opening 3 minutes. Here is the full show.

Tori23 days ago

DisneyHead12323 days ago

Due to a surge in interest, an updated Villains show will feature Maleficent reciting “The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plane” until, to the audience’s delight, she finally achieves a perfect upper class London accent. Hook is rumored to have a dramatic act wherein the pirates are briefly transported to New Jersey and come back insisting that the stuff they are sailing in is called wooder.

eddie10423 days ago

This board is notorious for grasping at straws to make a point. If you don’t like the Villains show or think it should be better that’s fine. But don’t start throwing out random examples to prove something when it’s not that deep.

Disney Analyst23 days ago

Yeah, both shows are meant to be major attractions for their respective lands. Heck, Le Cirque Arcanus is the ONLY attraction in the land when Ministry is having issues. Which is... not ideal, for such a big grand land.

Andrew C23 days ago

That’s what happens when someone opens a new theme park in orlando. Which hasn’t happened in decades. People gonna talk.

Agent H23 days ago

Not to mention they are entirely different concepts. So mark this down as the 4000th random epic universe comment.

UNCgolf23 days ago

While I think the Villains show looks terrible, I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. The Universal HP show (as well as the HTTYD show) seems like it was designed as a relatively major attraction that will likely run for a long time, whereas Villains is a minor addition for extra (and needed) park capacity. It's a bit like comparing an E (or maybe D) ticket attraction to a C ticket. Not that that means Villains shouldn't be better than it is, though.