Overview
- Disney confirmed Tuesday that it has formed a strategic partnership with Heritage Auctions to run the "Disney Experiences Auction" with live and online bidding starting at D23 in August 2026.
- Heritage will operate the sales as a third‑party auction house and typically charges a buyer’s premium of about 22 percent on top of the winning bid, which raises the final cost to buyers.
- A Disney Asset Management/Property Control team led by Michael McCammon has been collecting props, signage, and set pieces from recently retired attractions and stored items after Park Operations hands over closed locations.
- The program reverses years of tighter restrictions on selling park memorabilia and follows earlier experiments in the 2000s and a halted 2018 effort, with talks renewed in 2025 and finalized after Josh D’Amaro became CEO.
- For fans and collectors this could mean greater access to official park artifacts but higher purchase fees and questions about provenance, preservation, and how many items Disney will convert into sellable lots.