The second annual Disney Junior Fan Fest is in full swing at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, CA during the five-year-long Disney's 100th Anniversary CenTOONial celebration. To celebrate the release of the new Disney Junior interstitial series Playdate with Winnie the Pooh where the Hundred Acre Woods residents get transformed into Nickelodeon's Rugrats ripoff imposters, Disney held this year's DJFF as the Disney Junior & Friends Playdate Weekend event running this weekend August 18-20th.
To kick off the event, Anna Davis and Nancy Kanter have announced huge plans for the company's two preschool networks Playhouse Disney and Disney Junior with more new content to be released in the next two years from September 2023 up until at least May 2025. Among the content announced include the official premiere dates for last year's announced Doc McStuffins stop-motion shorts revival, a new Mickey Mouse Funhouse Halloween special and the launch of the second season of Firebuds which premiered on the network last summer.
New projects announced includes the reboot of the iconic Playhouse Disney smash hit series Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and the official voice cast announcement for Ariel The Little Mermaid and Robogobo both set to premiere in 2024.
Here's the full lowdown of upcoming content for Disney preschool broadcasting.
COMING IN 2023
Doc McStuffins in Stop Motion: The Doc & Bella Is In premiering Wednesday September 6th - The wait is over, America's favorite preschool doctor is back after three years off the air. But this time, she's in new Coraline/Rankin & Bass-esque stop-motion puppetry animation and she's not alone. These new stop-motion shorts see Doc team up with her new nurse assistant Bella Bynose (voiced by Kate Miccuchi) as they ventureon new incredible adventures in the wide world of McStuffinsVille's Clinic.
MARVEL Comics' SpiderMan and his Amazing Friends will ring in the Israel two-day Jewish New Year with the specially written Hebrew episode "An UnBEEliveable Rosh hashannah" set to premiere on Friday September 15th.
Big Halloween Party! 2023 throughout September/October 2023 - Disney Junior will kick off the Halloween season in style with new primetime premieres of Mickey Mouse Funhouse "The Curious Case of the Kooky Kangaroo Scientist" and its two recent hottest new preschool series of the year SuperKitties "The Halloween Cats" and Pupstruction "Happy HOWLoween/The House of Howls" in primetime on Monday-Wednesday September 25th-27th at 7:00pm ET/6:00pm central.
Mickey & Minnie's Tricks and Treats premieres Sunday October 1st - In this new Halloween special, Mickey and his friends are going over to Count Mickula's castle for a Halloween party, but things turn for the worse where Donald dares them to visit the most spookiest and most inappropiate FNAF jumpscaring mansion that the Toontown residents have ever seen. Featuring new spooktacular music from Disney television veteran Beau Black from The Lion King Guard.
Mickey Mouse Funhouse will later be back the next month as another first in children's television history as Mickey tackles the unfortunate tragic November 1st holiday of the Day of the Dead in the episode "Stink, Stank, Stunk!/El Dia de los Muertos" premiering Friday October 6th
Firebuds Season 2 (25 episodes) - Wednesday November 1st - Get ready to rev up your fire engines because those crazy Cars imposter firetrucks are back for more adventures than you can shake a fire hydrant at!
Star Wars: The Young Jedi Adventures Episodes XIV-XXIX to premiere on Weednesday November 8th - Join Luke and Liya Skywalkers, Yoda, C3PO, 42D2, Darth Vader, Stormtroopers and all their friends and foes as they venture on more adventures throughout the galaxies on the island of Tatooine as they continue to conquer their quest to become Jedis of the Force Universe.
Ariel The Little Mermaid - Off the heels and fins of the successful live-action remake which all the stupid social media haters will be forced to watch or else Mickey Mouse will kill off their YouTube channels, Disney has announced a new series based on the adventures of everyone's favorite 1989 aquatic singing mermaid who just wanted to live on the surface for once in her life. The new series features the voice talents of That's So Raven's House' Mykal Michelle-Harris, Broadway legendary RENT star Taye Diggs who will spend the next 525,600 minutes under the sea and diva from one of the worst comedies created of all time, GlEE Amber Riley. In addition, Ariel's underwater world will also be inhabited by The Christmas Chronicles' Elizabeth Phoenix Caro and Disney Junior veterans Cruz Flaetau from SuperKitties and Gracen Newton from Puppy Dog Pals joining in all the aquatic fun.
Robogobo - The new series follows the adventures of a young kid named Dax as he invents cute adorable pet robots as they go on an epic quest to save those pets in need and taking down bad bots who are trying to kill off all the pets and make them extinct. The upcoming cartoon features a who's-who of superstar-studded talent including the likes of Cynthia Erivo, Valerie Benitelli, Alan Cummings, Susan Kalechi Watson, Anna Gustayer, Allison Pills and Dule Hills who join amongst the already announced cast listings of Racing Dion's Jasiah Young, Slumberkins children's entertainer Brayden Morgan, Azul Handy Jones from the recent Cartoon Network and Adult Swim smash hit My Adventures with Superman, the aformentioned Gracen Newton from Puppy Dog Pals, the legendary iconic Disney Legend voice actor Dee Bradley Baker who's done everything from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse to SpongeBob SquarePants to Phineas and Ferb and everything in betwen and newcomer voice actor Lelli Ahmadyer in her first big break on national television.
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 2.0 - And finally to save the best for last, Disney has announced the highly much-awaited return of the series that gave the company's Toontown mascots their first big break in the 3D CGI computer-generated animation department. When it comes to childhood classics, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse from 2006 is one of the first things that comes to millennials' mind whenever Playhouse Disney or Disney Junior gets mentioned. For the first time in nine years, Mickey and his friends and the incredibly-talented They Might Be Giants reunite for a new season of the network's flagship preschool series for nearly 20 years where the characters return to their usual roots with the clubhouse, the catchy and irresistable Hot Dog Dance and Toodles voiced by Rob Paulsen presented and accounted for and there's so many new adventures to be had in the comeback Mickey deserves. No roadsters, motor labs or funhouse imposters, just Mickey and his Sensational Six just enjoying themselves. Following the death of Mickey's wife Russi Taylor in 2019 three years after the series originally ended, Kaitlyn Rubrock has now handed over the crown as the new voice of Minnie Mouse.
These new series, specials and content renewals join Disney Junior's growing three-year roster announced in April 2022, which includes the recently premiered series Alice in Wonderland's Bakery, Eureka!, Firebuds, Pupstruction, SuperKitties and Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures, new interstitial series Me & Mickey and Playdate with Winnie the Pooh and six more upcoming programs for the channel including five new original series Hey AJ, Kindergarten School Musical, Tiny Trailblazers, Dusty Dunree and Sofia the First reboot spinoff Royal Prep Academy and new acquisition Morphie set to premiere across Disneyy Junior, Disney Channel, DisneyNOW and Disney+ SVOD in 2024 and 2025 respectively.
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