Neil Patrick Harris hosted D23 announcements 2026 as Disney used the Horizons: Disney Experiences Showcase to put a reimagining of Tomorrowland at Disneyland Park on the board. The announcement landed during the second day of D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, with Disney framing the evening as a wider look at what is next for Disney Experiences.
Thomas Mazloum, chairman of Disney Experiences for The Walt Disney Company, said, "As we continue expanding and evolving Disney Experiences around the world, our fans remain at the heart of everything we do," and added, "Events like this allow us to celebrate the incredible connection fans have with Disney while sharing our vision for the future and the stories, adventures, and memories we’re creating next." For Disneyland Park visitors, the practical takeaway is simple: Tomorrowland is no longer being treated as static infrastructure.
Neil Patrick Harris at Honda Center
The Horizons: Disney Experiences Showcase took place at Honda Center and was hosted by Harris, giving the evening a live presentation format rather than a dry reveal dump. That matters because Disney did not stop at Tomorrowland; it used the same program to widen the scope of its park plans across Disney Experiences, turning one announcement into a broader map of what the company wants to reshape next.
Disney also said Journey Into Imagination at EPCOT will receive a complete reimagining, with Figment and Dreamfinder returning. The same presentation included project updates on Tropical Americas, Monstropolis, the Cars-themed area, and Villains Land at Walt Disney World Resort, plus the Coco attraction and the Avengers Campus expansion at Disneyland Resort.
Disneyland Park and EPCOT
Harris was not there alone. The showcase featured surprise performances from Sheryl Crow, Beck, Los Lobos, and Gloria Gaynor, which made the presentation feel like an event built to keep attention on the announcements rather than bury them in a routine corporate rollout. Disney also folded in headline-making additions tied to Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo, along with other updates across its parks business.
The complication for readers is that Disney gave the shape of the change without giving the operating details. The company announced the Tomorrowland reimagining, but the source material does not lay out the full scope, build schedule, or opening timing, and it points readers to the Disney Parks Blog for the rest. For now, the meaningful read is that Disneyland Park is getting another long-horizon reset, and Tomorrowland is one of the signature lands being pushed into that cycle.
Tomorrowland gets reset
That is the important business signal here: Disney is not treating Tomorrowland as a one-off refresh, but as part of a continuing run of large-scale Disney Experiences changes announced in front of fans at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event. If you care about Disneyland Park as a repeat-visit destination, the next useful question is how aggressively Disney reworks the land around existing capacity while it keeps the rest of the resort moving.
