Is a Rollercoaster Coming to Magic Kingdom's Villains Land? Concept Art Suggests Yes

Aug 11, 2024 in "Villains Land"

Magic Kingdom Villains Land Concept Art
Posted: Sunday August 11, 2024 2:18am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Impressive concept art released today of Walt Disney World's new Villains Land coming to Magic Kingdom appears to include a major hint about one of the land's two attractions.

Lurking in the shadows of the concept art in the far corner is what looks very much like a rollercoaster track, possibly looping, themed to Maleficent.

Describing the land, Disney says, "The land will be home to two major attractions, dining, and shopping on an 'incredibly twisted grand scale.'"

Notably, Disney Parks head Josh D'Amaro said at the start of the event that everything shown today was real and not blue-sky plans, which means we should take this concept art seriously.

Disney has yet to confirm any details about the two attractions, but we know that construction on the Magic Kingdom's new villains land will begin in 2025.

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RSoxNo16 hours ago

I imagine it would be a totally different tone. I think they'll play this moderately safe and you'll get a Maleficent thorny coaster and a Villains cocktail party dark ride / boat ride. Both could be amazing attractions, I'm not meaning to demean that approach. Having said that, we played the armchair Imagineering game on our show and independent of one another we came up with an even more self aware approach. In our pitches, the villains know they're adjacent to the Magic Kingdom, adjacent to Fantasyland, adjacent to the most Magical Place on Earth. They want to take over the Magic Kingdom as the underlying objective. The ride we pitched was the villains going through existing and extinct attractions and causing chaos. Each scene of the ride would be a new scene in a different MK attraction. The ending was an elevator ride up to the top of Cinderella Castle to look out on the Magic Kingdom after the villains had completed their chaos. The other lesser ideas were taking existing attractions but re-told through the eyes of the villain. Splash Mountain would have been an obvious choice here, but Peter Pan's Flight also works.

HMF9 hours ago

It was more management's decision than WDI's. Not that WDI is blameless.

celluloid11 hours ago

Seeing them continously try to rip off of Uni's biggest hitters such as the new thanks ride I think it is not a concern. Lots of rides have an anatg9mist ensemble.

drkarcher2213 hours ago

Does anyone else wonder if they don’t do the multi villain ride because it’ll be too similar in concept to Monsters Unchained over at Epic? Although if it was done with a different ride system like say the Shanghai boats I’d suppose it wouldn’t be that similar especially since the tone of the rides will be vastly different

MisterPenguin18 hours ago

It never ends!

erasure fan118 hours ago

It should be great! Each third of the ride will be done by one imagineer who will create their own thing. And they will announce 12 different rides before they start one. It's gonna be awesome! :cautious:

danlb_200019 hours ago

I for one am looking forward to the Kathleen Kennedy dark ride. ;)

FigmentFan8219 hours ago

The true villains are the friends we made along the way.

celluloid1 day ago

The real villians, are the last decade of execs we made along the way.

ᗩLᘿᑕ ✨ ᗩζᗩᗰ1 day ago

They tried to retcon Hatbox and make him villainous but he'll always be a grim grinning ghost to me. The only true villains are the imagineers responsible for his placement in the mansion.

MisterPenguin1 day ago

The Host's non-stop punning is true villainy.

Brer Panther1 day ago

With the possible exception of the bride in the attic.

JohnD1 day ago

But the ghosts aren't "villians". They're "happy haunts".

JohnD1 day ago

My "issue" with Mansion would be seeing the show building from the coaster.