A highlight of the D23 Expo show floor is always the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts pavilion where Walt Disney Imagineering pulls back the curtain to give you an a sneak peek at the latest and greatest coming to Disney Parks. This year, the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts pavilion showcased the upcoming Shanghai Disney Resort in exhaustive detail, giving the biggest look Americans have gotten of the Chinese theme park to date. Imagineering also offered a look at Walt Disney World’s upcoming AVATAR-themed expansion, featuring a short preshow video, concept renderings and a scale model of the new themed land.

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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

We’ve got a detailed look at D23 Expo’s Walt Disney Parks and Resorts pavilion for you today, so let’s get started!

WALT DISNEY PARKS AND RESORTS PAVILION
Welcome to Shanghai Disneyland

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A video look around the Shanghai Disneyland exhibit

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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

A Steamboat Willie fountain will greet guests at the entrance to Shanghai Disneyland.
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

A look inside the pavilion.

The exhibit featured numerous video screens showing construction footage, photos, and art including a large screen above the center of the room showcasing design and construction highlights from every area of the Shanghai Disney Resort. You can watch that in its entirety below:

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Mickey Avenue

First up, Mickey Avenue acts as the entrance to Shanghai Disneyland, replacing the traditional Main Street with a character-filled neighborhood
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Costume for Remy’s Patisserie
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Facade ornamentation
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Chip and Dale’s Treehouse Treats
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The Clip Joint Barber Shop
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Window display mock-up
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Maquettes for window display busts.
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Practical Pig Hardware shop
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

The west side of Mickey Avenue
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Silly Symphony Music Store
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Music store window displays
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Avenue M Arcade will be the equivalent of the traditional Emporium store, the largest merchandise location in the park.
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Ludwig Von Drake’s Fireworks Factory
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Gardens of Imagination

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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

The Wandering Moon Tea House will be a traditional Chinese restaurant and provide stunning views of the Enchanted Storybook Castle.
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The Fantasia Carousel replaces the traditional princess-themed Disney carousel with a Fantasia-themed alternative and it looks fantastic.
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Characters from the “Dance of the Hours” portion of Fantasia will be around the Carousel.
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

The Garden of the 12 Friends honors the Chinese zodiac in a lush garden setting.
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Adventure Isle

Adventure Isle stands in for Adventureland at Shanghai Disneyland but doesn’t feature any of Adventureland’s traditional attractions. Instead of tiki birds and jungle cruises you’ll instead find the thrilling Roaring Rapids where you’ll encounter the Q’uaraq, guardian of the water.
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Adventure Isle will feature the Storehouse Stage for live performances
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The Tribal Table will be Adventure Isle’s main dining location.
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Camp Discovery replaces the traditional Tom Sawyer Island and brings in a playground similar to Disney California Adventure’s Redwood Creek Challenge Trail
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Roaring Rapids
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Adventure Isle costume
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Treasure Cove

Treasure Cove is the first time Disney has created a theme park land exclusively themed to the Pirates of the Caribbean. Here, guests will find a next generation version of the classic Disney attraction, a major restaurant, a water play area, and the Fandango Theater.
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

New portraits of Jack Sparrow and Barbossa will be included in the land
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Land entry marquee
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Shipwreck Shore model
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Sunken Treasure is Shanghai Disneyland’s pirate ride and will be a significant departure from the Disneyland classic.
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

The land will be themed to the 18th century Caribbean.
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Pirates of the Caribbean costume
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Barbossa’s Bounty restaurant
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Siren’s Revenge will feature activities for guests of all ages.
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

El Teatro Fandango will be home to the “Eye of the Storm” stunt show and more.
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

El Teatro Fandango costume
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Fantasyland

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Enchanted Storybook Castle is the largest castle Disney has ever built featuring a boat ride, a walk-through attraction, a boutique, a restaurant and more.
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The Castle isn’t themed to any princess in particular but supposedly takes design queues from each of Disney’s princesses.
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Voyage to the Crystal Grotto is the boat ride that will pass through the Castle.
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Tile mosaics and details for the Storybook Castle
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

A new modern-day version of Peter Pan’s Flight
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

The ride will use roller coaster technology to bring a new thrill to the ride
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The Alice in Wonderland maze, based on the Tim Burton film
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

The Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, recently new at Walt Disney World, will also be present in Shanghai Disneyland’s Fantasyland.
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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh with spinning honey pots instead of tea cups.
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A couple of Fantasyland’s costumes
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Tomorrowland

Shanghai Disneyland’s Tomorrowland will, at least aesthetically, be the envy of every other Magic Kingdom-style park when it opens next year.
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In addition to a next generation Buzz Lightyear attraction, a spinner ride and a performance area, Tomorrowland will be home to the first TRON-themed Disney attraction in the world.
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Ride vehicle maquettes. Below, the TRON Lightcycle Power Run ride vehicle.
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Buzz Lightyear Planet Rescue ride vehicle model
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The Jet Packs spinner attraction
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Tomorrowland marquee designs
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Designing Tomorrowland
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The big E-Ticket for Tomorrowland is the TRON Lightcycle Power Run roller coaster
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Buzz Lightyear Planet Rescue appears to feature fully-realized sets in a less-cartoony environment, unlike the painted flats that characterize earlier version of the ride.
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

The Jet Packs spinner attraction
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Shanghai Disneyland Hotel

The Shanghai Disneyland Hotel is the signature hotel of the resort, featuring an opulent art nouveau aesthetic throughout and including some of your favorite characters.
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Room interiors and beds
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Costumes
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Lumière’s Kitchen restaurant will feature a Beauty and the Beast theme
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Tinker Bell Gifts
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The indoor King Triton Pool
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The lobby will feature whimsical character statues
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Toy Story Hotel

A significant contrast to the Shanghai Disneyland Hotel, the Toy Story Hotel will act as the resort’s value resort, featuring a playful (if not garish) Toy Story theme.
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Rocket ship statue maquette
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Toy Story Hotel costumes
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Take a photo in a giant cardboard box!
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Disney Town

DisneyTown will fill in as Shanghai Disneyland’s version of Downtown Disney, a free public shopping mall complete with shops, entertainment venues, restaurants and more.
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DisneyTown will include a theater that will host Disney’s Lion King musical.
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DisneyTown will be broken up into five themed districts: Broadway Plaza, Broadway Boulevard, Spice Alley, Marketplace and Lakeshore.
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DisneyTown will feature a World of Disney store.
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DisneyTown will be filled with Disney-inspired shops and restaurants including Spoonful of Sugar, a cafe themed to Mary Poppins.
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Some Shanghai Disneyland merchandise
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WALT DISNEY PARKS AND RESORTS PAVILION
Journey to Pandora
The World of AVATAR

In addition to the massive Shanghai Disneyland exhibit, the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts Pavilion also featured a special sneak peek at the upcoming AVATAR-themed expansion at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida. The sneak peek consisted of a video introduction from the fictional Alpha Centauri Expeditions travel company that will be taking us to Pandora.
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A.C.E. travel posters for Pandora.
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Inside a small pre-show room, guests watched the introduction video from A.C.A.
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Imagineer Joe Rohde would stop in from time to time to do the honors.
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Joe Rohde video

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The preshow emptied out into a larger room featuring a quarter-scale model of the new AVATAR-themed land coming to Disney’s Animal Kingdom in 2017.
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The lighting in the room changed to show both day and night views of the land and black light paint simulated the bioluminescent plantlife in Pandora. You can see this in action in our video above.
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Whether you like or hate AVATAR, it looks like Pandora will be a visually stunning environment to explore and experience when this new land opens.
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The land looks like it will have two entry paths
D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

A large water feature
D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

A few pieces of concept art were on display
D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Bronzes of creatures and some items from Pandora on display
D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

Exiting guests could have their photo snapped with a bust of a Na’vi.
D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora
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D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora
Weekly News & Information Round-Up
Weekly Theme Park Hours
August 17-23, 2015
[B]Disneyland Park[/B] [B]California Adventure[/B]
Daily: 8 am – 12 am Daily: 8 am – 10 pm
[CENTER]For a complete listing of theme park hours,
visit the Disneyland.com Theme Park Calendar
[/CENTER]
[center]Closure and Refurbishment Schedule[/center]
[b][center]Disneyland Park[/center][/b]
  • Innoventions: To reopen later this year with new Star Wars Launch Bay exhibit.
  • Starcade: Closed indefintely.
  • Tomorrowland Theatre: Closed indefintely.
[b][center]Disney California Adventure[/center][/b]
  • Luigi’s Flying Tires: Closed for re-Imagineering into new attraction. Reopening expected in early 2016.
  • Muppet*Vision 3D: Dark indefinitely while theater is used for Frozen-themed show.
  • [B]Blue Sky Cellar:[/B] Closed indefinitely.
[b][center]Downtown Disney and Disneyland Resort Hotels[/center][/b]
    None.
Tomorrowplan Crowd Estimates for Disneyland Resort from Mouseaddict

August 17-23

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  • We expect crowds to dip now that summer is ending, however there is still pent up demand for the new entertainment from SoCal Passholders who have been blocked out.
  • Activate Tomorrowplan today and get crowd projections all the way through Halloween. Already a Tomorrowplan user? You’ll get the projections automagically. Tap Tomorrowplan in the Mouseaddict app.
  • Have you checked out the new Wait Watcher feature in Mouseaddict? When you don’t want to wait in a long queue, just tell us how long you’re willing to wait. Wait Watcher will notify you when the wait time reaches that time. Only in Mouseaddict.

The free Mouseaddict app for iPhone and iPad features more than five dozen categories of searchable resort information, weather forecasts, park and show schedules, the latest news and articles from MiceChat, and more. Download free on the App Store or at mouseaddict.com.

D23 Expo, D23 Expo In-Depth: Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Pavilion takes you to Shanghai Disneyland and Pandora

[center]Headline Roundup
A quick look at noteworthy Disney theme park headlines from around the web.[/center]
Alright, that wraps up today’s installment in our ongoing D23 Expo coverage. What do you think of Shanghai Disneyland? Will you be making a visit to the new Resort when it opens next year? Let us know in the comments section below!

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[B]- Andy[/B]

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Andy Castro
Andy is a Southern California native and a life-long fan of Disney theme parks and animation. From 2007-2016, Andy wrote the weekly Dateline Disneyland photo, news and opinion blog here on MiceChat. Today, Andy continues to produce occasional Dateline Disneyland articles and additional special guest content for MiceChat.