Disney Updates Villains Show Info, Removes Previously Listed Runtime

Feb 13, 2025 in "Disney Villains Unfairly Ever After"

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Posted: Thursday February 13, 2025 12:00pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Update (10:00 pm ET, February 13, 2025): Disney has clarified that the previously listed 40 minute runtime for Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After was an error and has been removed from the official website. Disney has not provided an updated runtime.

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The new villains show, set to debut in summer 2025 at the Sunset Showcase, will immerse guests in the Magic Mirror's mysterious realm, where characters like Cruella de Vil, Captain Hook, and Maleficent will take the stage to share their side of the story. The production will feature live musical performances, special effects, and a dramatic audience-driven finale.

Stay tuned for more details as Disney continues to release information leading up to the summer 2025 premiere.

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TrainsOfDisney9 days ago

I would say even more so - you could put another show in there tomorrow with some quick light and video programming! (Well…. At least a month for Disney but that’s not the point! Haha)

MisterPenguin18 days ago

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

WorldExplorer18 days ago

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

Agent H18 days ago

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

Brer Panther18 days ago

King Candy was a pretty neat villain.

WorldExplorer19 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.)

MistaDee19 days ago

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

ᗩLᘿᑕ ֊ᗩζᗩᗰ19 days ago

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

MistaDee19 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. Dust20 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.

Bocabear31 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 HJun 20, 2025

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.