D23 2026 Day 1 Live Blog: We’re on the show floor at the Anaheim Convention Center for the first day of D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, running 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. PT. Any news, reveals, or merchandise drops that come out today, we’ll be updating this article throughout the day. Tonight’s Honda Center headliner is the Disney Entertainment Showcase, covering film, television, streaming, and games. Follow that live blog separately once it kicks off at 6:30 p.m.
Once the show starts this Friday, we will be live blogging everything! We are getting all our posts ready for you to follow along. Bookmark this page and come back Friday at 12 EST/ 9 PDT.
We are now Live here! For the Entertainment Panel!
Updated 3:15 PM – We sat down with Greg Tito, Director of Communications for Trading Card Games at Ravensburger, at the Lorcana booth during D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event 2026 in Anaheim.
In this interview, Greg shares details on upcoming Lorcana releases, including the new cooperative game Illumineer’s Quest: The Great Hunny Rescue, available October 2, 2026, and Quest of Wonders: An Illumineer’s Lorebook, hitting stores September 1. He also reflects on how far Lorcana has come since its debut at the first expo back in 2022.
If you’re a Lorcana collector or just discovering the game, this one covers what’s coming next straight from the source.
Updated 1:35 PM – Disney Imagineering just showed a first look inside the brand new Cabins coming to Disney Lakeshore Lodge in 2027!
Updated 1:30 PM – Jon Favreau is visiting “Imagineering: Horizons” Pavilion at D23 Event 2026 today!
Okay, we may have signed up and gotten a paddle for the Heritage Auctions The Disney Experiences Auction Sunday – Rare and Remarkable Finds!
Lorcana has the Collection Quest going on all weekend at D23! Missing a card to finish? Guests are doing “Take a penny, leave a penny!”
Updated 9:40 – 40 minutes after opening and lines are forming everywhere. Check out the Heinz and Magic The Gathering entrances.
Updated 9:15 am PST:
Showroom floor is now open. Lets take a took at our first impressions of getting inside. There are reported long lines coming in.
New stuff on the showroom floor!
Updated 8:00 AM – There’s a great big beautiful tomorrow at the Walt Disney Imagineering Pavilion. DIsney has stated they have gone beyond the horizons into the next phase.
We got a first look at some of the new Disney characters that will be carved into wood for the new Carousel coming to Tropical Americas
The ride vehicle coming to the new Encanto Attraction at Tropical Americas, along with the first audio-animatronic.
A massive look at the new Piston Peak, including a new attraction that is under construction in the Magic Kingdom at Walt DIsney World.
Here is a closer look at the refurbishment happening to Carousel of Progress.
And finally at Walt Disney World, the new look (and only look) at some of the trees coming to Villains Land.
