2024 Disney Legends Awards Ceremony Coming to Disney+ This August

Aug 09, 2024 in "D23 - Official Fan Organization"

D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event
Posted: Friday August 9, 2024 11:45amn ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has announced that the 2024 Disney Legends Awards Ceremony will be available for streaming on Disney+ starting Monday, August 12, at 5 pm ET.

The 2024 Disney Legends Award Ceremony will take place as part of D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event on Sunday, August 11, at the Honda Center, and hosted By Ryan Seacrest.

These individuals are being recognized as Disney Legends for various contributions in their fields, including costume design, film and television, parks and resorts, publishing, animation, Imagineering, and music.

  • Colleen Atwood
  • Angela Bassett
  • Martha Blanding
  • James L. Brooks
  • James Cameron
  • Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Miley Cyrus
  • Steve Ditko
  • Harrison Ford
  • Mark Henn
  • Frank Oz
  • Kelly Ripa
  • Joe Rohde
  • John Williams

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Tony the TiggerAug 21, 2024

From a friend’s post. Here’s what’s up with Shaboozey:

Sir_CliffAug 21, 2024

Yes, I'm puzzled why people are insisting he said all of this would be completed in 5 years when he clearly didn't: it's right there on YouTube for anyone who wants to watch it. Maybe Disney PR later briefed the media that all of this would be finished in 5 years, but I don't get why anyone would cling to that. None of the public statements from the company either through D'Amaro or the DisneyParks blog (to the best of my knowledge) have claimed everything announced at D23 would be completed within the next 5 years. I would trust what they are willing to actually say in front of the cameras or put in writing over what a PR person is quoted as saying given the potential for wires to get crossed along that chain. It would be odd for D'Amaro to say all the projects would only start to come to life if the plan is for them to be finished during that period. Then again, they announced a ride based on the original Lion King with artwork depicting the new Lion King, so who knows how thought through all of this was.

brb1006Aug 21, 2024

Mousesteps just uploaded the full D23 Parks Presentation for those that missed it.

BrianLoAug 21, 2024

There seems to be some poor memory of what the timelines actually looked like last decade. Galaxies Edge: "The lands were announced on August 15, 2015, and construction at both parks began on April 14, 2016. The Disneyland version opened May 31, 2019, and Disney's Hollywood Studios' version opened August 29, 2019." Really, Galaxies Edge is the most viable comp with two major attractions. We're currently a full year ahead of that timeframe. Now, I personally think Villains Land from a marketing roll out perspective is most likely a 2029 project. But 2029 is certainly not "fast" or even unrealistic.

TTA94Aug 21, 2024

Are we expecting anything to be announced or further details discussed at D23 Brazil? Will there even be a presentation?

wutisgoodAug 21, 2024

My assumption was villinans land does will not require reconfiguration of existing areas as a true expansion so they can start work sooner even if the area is more complex. I would think it was possible they would want to open villians land first for extra capacity while they take down frontierland to reconfigure it. In any case especially with with big thunder moutain retrack there has to be some clear phased opening plan. Disney wasn't really direct about what that was. I expect thatsome of this constuction may be accelerated if the Universal 3rd gate does prove sucessfull in taking marketshare away more than disney thought. I could also see timelines accelertaing or slowing base on other unnanouced projects being finalized.

SWGalaxys_EdgeAug 20, 2024

Maybe then add a "speeder chase" as depicted in the trading cards...

J4546Aug 20, 2024

i dont think so....it was gonna be a capacity and maintenance nightmare

SWGalaxys_EdgeAug 20, 2024

Maybe GE will reconsider the 3rd ride and put it into the park.

Andrew25Aug 20, 2024

Yes - but 2025's film slate is worrying... but WDW should benefit from increased travel to Orlando next year. (Even if people skip a WDW park or two, Disney's hotels should benefit).

doctornickAug 20, 2024

So I was just thinking... I know many of us are jittery about how the financial state of the company can impact decisions to cut funding or value engineer projects. And the stock price not doing well has me on edge a bit as to whether the planned parks investment will be cut. But I will say that the recent movie successes (Inside Out 2, Deadpool & Wolverine, now Aliens) means that that division will be healthier in the shorter term. and with streaming collectively turning a profit last quarter, can we be optimistic that they will let investments in the parks happen rather than siphoning off that profits there to support other branches of the company? The parks alone generate enough net profit to find the $6B/year that they planned.

bwr827Aug 20, 2024

Yup — setting clear expectations for the market. “As we previously shared, we’re on a multi-year path of investing $60B to turbocharge our parks…” (not an actual quote)

doctornickAug 20, 2024

But they are increasing their Capex spend. That's kind of the entire point of the "we'll be spending $60B on the parks division in the next 10 years" announcement.

Nubs70Aug 20, 2024

Why?? Fixed CAPEX expenditures. They seem to only want to spend a fixed amount for construction per month. If you build 2 projects at once, they will take 2x as long to complete.