Final 12 months, Disney introduced that Bluey is coming to Walt Disney World. It was an thrilling second for a lot of households with babies, as the favored pups will lastly make their first-ever meet & greet appearances within the parks. This affords an replace on the place issues stand and what’s occurred since with Bluey, Bingo and the Heller household within the Disney Parks.
Issues began out promising sufficient for the prospects of Bluey’s arrival at Walt Disney World. Lower than a month after the announcement, Bluey and Bingo made their debut on the Disney Cruise Line! You will discover these characters onboard Disney Surprise sailings originating from Australia and New Zealand by means of 2026. The Heller pups can be found for character meet-and-greets and even an interactive recreation and dance occasion.
In response to Disney Cruise Line, that is for actual life. Prepare for enjoyable character greetings and a clue-filled recreation that ends in a paw-some dance occasion the place you’ll be able to unleash your flossing abilities. Plus, get pleasure from all of the immersive magic on board, together with imaginative eating, Broadway-style exhibits and adult-exclusive areas. So pack your baggage—this vacation is ideal for teenagers, mums, dads… and even grannies! In order that’s nice and all that Bluey and Bingo have been aboard the Disney Surprise for a number of months now, however what about Walt Disney World?!
Per the unique announcement, the producers of Bluey are working intently alongside BBC Studios and Disney on numerous particular activations for followers to get pleasure from. Particulars about how company can meet Bluey and her household at Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort will likely be shared “within the months forward.”
Within the months forward is sufficiently obscure such that it might imply something. It could possibly be any time between this January and December. (Technically, it could possibly be past December 2025, however sooner or later, “within the years forward turns into extra apt.”)
Our hope had been that Bluey and Bingo would arrive by Memorial Day for “Cool Child Summer season,” which is the large advertising push that’s closely geared toward younger households (see our Information to “Cool Child Summer season” at Walt Disney World). It could stand to cause that Disney would need Bluey, the preferred character with this demo in the mean time, to be entrance and middle throughout this celebration that runs from Could 27 by means of September 1, 2025. Or so that you’d suppose.
Cool Child Summer season will see the Goofy takeover of CommuniCore Corridor, in any other case referred to as GoofyCore Corridor. Prepare to bounce and play together with Goofy on this immersive expertise. Exhibit your greatest strikes in DJ-led dance events and be part of your favourite video games with foolish twists, like Crazy Limbo and Parachutes ‘n’ Pipsqueaks.
Over at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Cool Child Summer season will happen in Animation Courtyard. Households will have the ability to soar into energetic enjoyable, with video games and crafts that’ll hold youngsters shifting and creating all day lengthy. From magicians and soar rope performers to shock character appearances, you by no means know what pleasant second is ready across the nook. Preserve the enjoyable going as you be part of Mickey Mouse and Disney Junior associates at a energetic indoor DJ dance occasion the place little ones can transfer and groove.
Cool Child Summer season would’ve been the proper time to roll out the blue carpet for Bluey and Bingo, and both CommuniCore Corridor or Animation Courtyard would’ve been excellent places.
Might you think about a blue wrap on the outside of BlueyCore Corridor or a literal blue carpet main by means of the DHS archway? Both would’ve beckoned company into these places, including actual meat to the in any other case kinda hole Cool Child Summer season.
It’s nonetheless doable that Bluey will make a shock look throughout Cool Child Summer season, because it does really feel like this occasion is being thrown collectively on the final minute. However each CommuniCore Corridor and Animation Courtyard have their slates set, so Bluey would simply be tossed in on the final minute (if in any respect) versus an providing that revolves across the Heller household.
Extra doubtless, Bluey’s omission from the Cool Child Summer season slate means that these canines is not going to be arriving at Walt Disney World till after Summer season 2025. Or that in the event that they do present up earlier, it gained’t be a distinguished presence.
As a result of, once more, if one thing had been taking place quickly, Walt Disney World would make an enormous deal about it. There isn’t a lot taking place this 12 months at Walt Disney World, and it’s very clear that Bluey is an enormous deal–larger than just about something outdoors of Starlight and Check Observe 3.0 that’s taking place in 2025.
That’s what makes this so odd. It’s not as if Walt Disney World has a jam-packed slate and Bluey is being preempted by greater priorities. There’s probably not anything–Cool Child Summer season isn’t going to maneuver the needle on new bookings, whereas Bluey and Bingo would possibly. That’s how passionately some younger households (the goal demo!) really feel about these characters.
Nonetheless, we’ve seen this occur earlier than. Disney introduced the return of Figment as a meet & greet character again on the D23 Expo three years in the past, and it took over a 12 months for the character to lastly arrive at EPCOT.
It was an identical story with characters from Encanto, who didn’t seem in Magic Kingdom till far too lengthy after the film was a smash sensation. That was additionally round a 12 months, not less than for the meet & greet, after Mirabel first appeared at Disneyland.
In each of these circumstances, there are considerably legitimate explanations. The Figment choice was made comparatively last-minute, and a fancy dress needed to be designed, as did backdrops. For Mirabel, the Fairytale Backyard was redesigned to function whimsical décor impressed by La Familia Madrigal. Nonetheless, there’s nothing that justifies simply how lengthy both character meet & greet took. The unhappy reality is that Walt Disney World strikes glacially slowly in terms of characters and leisure. There are all the time no scarcity of excuses, however zero sense of urgency.
So the place does that depart the standing of the Bluey and Bingo meet & greet at Walt Disney World? Actually, who is aware of.
In all chance, there will likely be an announcement that Bluey and Bingo are coming, after which one other multi-month delay so as to fabricate an area and convey the characters to life, or no matter. So even a summer season announcement will doubtless put the character appearances within the fall.
It’s additionally solely doable that Walt Disney World plans to paywall Bluey and Bingo, including them to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Celebration, Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Celebration, or Jollywood Nights. That may give these particular occasions one thing new, and incentivize households to buy tickets to these events. I hope that’s not what occurs, however it wouldn’t shock me–particularly not with Jollywood Nights, which has turn out to be extra character-centric and nonetheless isn’t practically as standard because the Magic Kingdom events.
For what it’s price, there is no such thing as a precise want for all of this to take so lengthy.
Blue and Bingo first appeared in a personality meet & greet ultimately 12 months’s D23 Expo. That have was insanely standard, so it ought to’ve confirmed to Disney that demand for these characters is sky-high. However that’s probably not the purpose.
Extra so, it’s that these character costumes have already been designed, as have backdrops and settings. All of these things has been designed and is already on the market within the wild, which is exactly how Disney Cruise Line was in a position to deploy Bluey and Bingo within the span of solely ~3 weeks from the unique announcement. Now ~6 months later, there’s actually no good excuse for radio silence from Walt Disney World. Deliver Bluey and Bingo to Cool Child Summer season!
Finally, it’ll be fascinating to see the place Bluey finally ends up touchdown at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. My hope is that Disney bets huge and goes daring on Bluey, and proves me flawed with a splashy, shock announcement of Bluey and Bingo coming to the parks this summer season. In case you’ll be able to’t inform, I can not wait to Bluey myself–and for our daughter to satisfy these beautiful pups.
A personality meet & greet will likely be nice, simply posting triple-digit wait instances, however right here’s hoping there’s extra meaty leisure–like a cavalcade, stage present, dance occasion, or interactive expertise–given the look forward to the characters to return to Walt Disney World. Bluey is a world sensation, and its theme park presence ought to be handled accordingly.
Disney already regrets passing on the theme park rights to Bluey, Bob Iger loves synergy and acquisitions, Bluey’s present rightsholders are clearly open to immersive experiences, and Walt Disney World wants a near-term shot within the arm. However at this level, I’ll settle for something within the near-term, so a personality meet & greet for Cool Child Summer season would suffice. I doubt we’ll get even that, so search for one thing throughout the Halloween or Christmas seasons.
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