DISNEY PARKS DEBUTS DROID DEPOT APP

 BY GABRIELLE


To celebrate May 4 – otherwise known as Star Wars Day – Disney Parks has debuted its new Droid Depot app.

The app is designed to bring the magic of Droid Depot at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge into the homes of Star Wars fans everywhere. Users will be able to interact with droids at home. The app enables fans to build their own droids, enjoy virtual experiences and create a digital astromech companion.

Through the interactive app, users can customise their droids by name, programme the droids, see their profiles, and put them on virtual tours around their own home, while manoeuvring through the app.

Star Wars enthusiasts can even choose their favourite galactic songs by DJR3X and programme their droid to dance to their melodies of their top space songs.

The app is free to download on the Google Pay and App store for a limited time.

DISNEY’S ANIMAL KINGDOM TO HOST MULTI-DAY CELEBRATION FOR 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF EARTH DAY

BY GABRIELLE

Disney’s Animal Kingdom is to host a party in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Disney Conservation Fund and the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.

The celebration will take place from April 18 until April 22, 2020 and will feature a series of special activities and entertainment throughout the park. The party’s finale will be held on April 22, Earth Day.

The activities will include a panel of speakers and entertainers, behind-the-scenes-tours, food and drink options, limited edition merchandise signings, meet-and-greet sessions with characters, special Wilderness Explorer activities, and much more.

Animal experts at the park will carry out presentations as part of the Wild by Nature Speaker Series at the Theatre in the World, where visitors will be informed about ways in which conservation experts at Disney are working on saving wildlife and the planet.

Photographers and explorers from the National Geographic will also be at the park throughout the event, sharing stories about their wildlife adventures and showing animal photography during speaker series.

National Geographic merchandise will also be up for sale for the first time at Disney Parks.

NEW SUPERHERO-THEMED ATTRACTIONS TO OPEN AT DISNEY PARKS

BY GABRIELLE

To mark Marvel’s 80th anniversary, new Marvel and Avengers attractions are coming to Disney Parks around the world.

The superhero-themed attractions will include the Avengers Campus and the Worldwide Engineering Brigade (WEB), introducing the first Disney ride to feature Spiderman.

The Spiderman experience will give guests the opportunity to use a raft of superpowers and sling webs to collect Spider Bots.

Immersive lands at the Avengers Campus will be home to iconic Avengers’ characters, including Ant-Man, Black Widow, Iron Man, The Wasp and Doctor Strange.

The Avengers Campus will also be home to the Pym Test Kitchen, featuring Pym Technologies designed to grow and then shrink food.

The second phase of construction of the site will include the building of the Avengers Headquarters, which will be the entrance to a new e-ticket ride that will enable visitors ride a Quinjet and fly with the Avengers to Wakanda.

During the summer of 2020, Disney’s Hotel New York – The Art of Marvel will open at Disneyland Paris, featuring more than 300 pieces of superhero-themed artwork.

The Avengers Campus will open at Disneyland Resort in California in 2020, opening later at Disneyland Paris.