Scrim Installed Between Rock 'n' Roller Coaster and Sunset Showcase as Villains Show Progresses

Mar 20, 2025 in "Disney Villains Unfairly Ever After"

Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After construction - March 20, 2025
Posted: Thursday March 20, 2025 12:00pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

A scrim has been installed between Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster’s outdoor queue area and the Sunset Showcase at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, partially blocking views into the theater’s courtyard. This development comes as work continues on the new Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After show, set to debut in summer 2025.


While the scrim obscures much of the area, guests can still walk toward the entrance gate and get a glimpse into the courtyard. As of now, all of the Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy outdoor set pieces and signage remain in place, despite the show’s permanent closure in October 2024.

The installation of the scrim suggests that more visible construction work may soon begin in preparation for the upcoming villains-themed production.



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    MisterPenguin7 days ago

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

    WorldExplorer7 days ago

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

    Agent H7 days ago

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

    Brer Panther7 days ago

    King Candy was a pretty neat villain.

    WorldExplorer8 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.)

    MistaDee8 days ago

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

    ᗩLᘿᑕ ֊ᗩζᗩᗰ8 days ago

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

    MistaDee8 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. Dust8 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.

    Bocabear20 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 H22 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.