Overview
- Walt Disney Imagineering released footage Tuesday showing a flatbed delivery and overnight crane install of the Sorcerer Mickey hat above The Magic of Disney Animation’s entrance.
- Disney set May 26 for the Walt Disney Studios Courtyard and the Disney Jr. Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Live show, with the indoor Magic of Disney Animation due later this summer featuring an Olaf-led drawing class, an art gallery, a short‑film theater, a Mary Blair–inspired playground, and character greetings.
- Following Disney’s social teasers, crews are embedding a “Character Walk of Fame” in the courtyard concrete with handprints, footprints, and signatures from favorites such as Cinderella, Mufasa, Simba, Maui, Moana, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Stitch, and others.
- The new hat is modeled on the Roy E. Disney Animation Building in Burbank and functions as a building marquee rather than a park icon, differing from the much larger hat removed in 2015.
- A permit filed Monday with vendor Kentavo to install signage at the Studio Theater signals exterior wayfinding and theming are nearing completion ahead of the courtyard’s opening.