Walt Disney World and Disneyland are adding new meet & greets featuring animated and live action characters from the tentpole holiday movie releases, Hexed and Avengers: Doomsday, that hit theaters around Thanksgiving and Christmas 2026. At least in Florida, this news is a pleasant and unexpected surprise! I’ve repeatedly criticized Walt Disney World for being slow to bring new characters to the parks or declining the marketing budgets for Disney+ shows…

I’m dubious of anything at Walt Disney World that goes viral. Lot of folks on social media don’t have great taste, just need content to feed the beast, jump on the bandwagon, offer arbitrarily contrarian takes for the sake of edginess, dismiss the mainstream popular thing as overrated, have no sense of value, don’t appreciate actual quality, etc. The list goes on and on, unfortunately. Admittedly, though, sometimes they get it…