'Villains: Unfairly Ever After' Exterior Theming Complete at Disney's Hollywood Studios

May 23, 2025 in "Disney Villains Unfairly Ever After"

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Disney Villains Unfairly Ever After Completed Signage

Posted: Friday May 23, 2025 11:30am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

With the May 27 debut just days away, Disney has now completed the exterior theming and signage for Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After at Sunset Showcase in Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After Preview Show

Disney shared a look at the completed additions via Instagram today, which include:

A bold, stylized mural on the Sunset Showcase facade with the word “VILLAINS” in gold lettering over a deep red and pink geometric design, framed by emerald green accents.

Disney Villains Unfairly Ever After Completed Signage

A spurple showtimes sign featuring gold theatrical mask accents and the Villains: Unfairly Ever After logo at the top. The board lists an extensive schedule of daily performances, starting at 10:00 am and running into the evening.

Disney Villains Unfairly Ever After Completed Signage

A large, themed backdrop near the entrance, showcasing the show’s logo against a backdrop of fractured glass—tying in directly with the Magic Mirror concept central to the storyline.

Disney Villains Unfairly Ever After Completed Signage

With exterior work now complete, updated signage in place, and Cast Member previews underway, Sunset Showcase is fully prepped to welcome guests to new show starting May 27, 2025.

Stay tuned for coverage from opening day and first reactions to Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After.

Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After Preview Show

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MisterPenguin4 days ago

Trying to hold onto the throne of the Candy Kingdom is a slippery proposition. Especially since half of it's a slide.

WorldExplorer4 days ago

King Candy's fine, but he never gets put in the villain group so he's clearly not marketable.

Agent H4 days ago

Is this an unpopular opinion? If so I wasn’t aware of it.

Brer Panther4 days ago

King Candy was a pretty neat villain.

WorldExplorer5 days ago

I would say this is true, and incredibly sad given a. That movie came out 16 years ago, and b. Just judging from the amount of solo merchandise sold for other ones he still seems low on the totem pole among the ones they regularly use. (I think Gothel, who is two years newer, is well done but they never use her despite the fact that she would be ridiculously easy to pull off so I presume she doesn't sell.)

MistaDee5 days ago

that would go pretty hard honestly...for related reasons I was also a fan of Spirit Lodge over at Knotts

ᗩLᘿᑕ ֊ᗩζᗩᗰ5 days ago

The one they didn't use in the lift hill.

MistaDee5 days ago

whatever that phenomena is that resulted in "Antz" getting published on the heels of hearing about A Bugs Life, this sort of a special effects driven entertainment show does remind me more of Cirque than anything else I've seen recently. I love this sort of in park entertainment genre: Tiki Room, Horror Makeup Show. Hopefully it's also a format that can be easy to keep fresh: in the short term by letting cast riff on their lines and be creative, and in the medium to longer term by investing in relatively low cost new focal point effect for a big new Villain, maybe a big Croc puppet from Pan or something like that. What's the most marketable/iconic villain to come out of the Disney empire's more recent efforts?

Pix E. Dust5 days ago

I loved the Nemo show so much. It blew me away thr first time I saw it. The quality was beyond that of a theme park.

Bocabear16 days ago

I would agree with this 1000%... The Nemo show when it opened was charming...the music was fun... It was probably the last theme park show I enjoyed....The rest have all seemed like poorly written Disney Jr. shows for the 3-5 year old set...with no further depth for the older audience... Lion King while extremely popular seemed way overrated to me too... that was definitely a One and Done....

Agent H19 days 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.

CompedMay 30, 2025

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.

Professortango1May 30, 2025

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.

Professortango1May 30, 2025

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.