Disney Consumer Products at the D23 Expo

At D23 the Disney Consumer Products pavilion was full of exciting things you could get your hands on, and see what would be coming to a park or store near you soon. To make it easier to see the flow of things, I’ll take you through the booths in the order they were listed in the souvenir guide.

At the PLAYMATION section they were showing off Marvel’s Avengers, which definitely looks exciting to play. The goal is to take you inside of the game, where you will be joining The Avengers in their fight against Ultron. They were allowing you to try it out, and it looks to be good, as they’re calling it the world’s smartest play system. Hopefully it will live up to that title when it releases to the public!

Marvel had a decently large section that showed both “Collecting the Universe” and “Show Your Marvel Style”. The “Show Your Marvel Style” section was focused on clothes relating to certain characters or series, as well as accessories and other things you’ll be able to take with you. The “Collecting the Universe” showed several of the toys relating to the Marvel universe, especially the higher end Hot Toys and Kotobukiya figures.

“Celebrate the Power of Possible with Disney Imagicademy” was another section, this time geared toward the younger audience. It focused on the series of apps Disney has designed for learning in fun ways where you feel like you’re creating and actually doing something while you learn.

“Disney Publishing’s Digital Discovery Zone” was a small area showing the world of innovative storytelling with a series of digital experiences. Every hour they had a Disney Shout! Trivia game where you could win prizes.

“Journey to Disney Palace Pets Whisker Haven” was an adorable display showing new products for the Palace Pets, including some that are Toys R’ Us exclusive. The full name of their new place to adventure is the Animal Royal Kingdom of Whisker Haven, which sounds very fancy in its own right. While all of their new friends look adorable, I can’t help but be a little freaked out by the fact that their pony friend looks like it came from the 3^rd generation of My Little Pony.

Star Darlings is officially what I was most insanely excited for when it came to things shown in the pavilion. In the “Introducing Star Darlings” section they showed off the first line of dolls that will be coming out, as well as the first five or so books that will be arriving in the near future as well. A section of the dolls, if not the entire series, will be debuting this fall at Justice.

The dolls remind me of a much better looking version of the Equestria Girls dolls, so I can’t wait to get my hands on these. The Star Darlings’ faces are adorable, and they look great from head to toe.

Another thing that was exciting for me personally, as I’m a tad older than the target demographic for this series, is that Ahmet Zappa and his wife, Shana Muldoon Zappa, are the authors of the Star Darlings books! That’s so cool!! I’ve already gotten some of the books pre-ordered on Amazon, and I can’t wait for the new animated shorts to start as well. The first of the books should release on September 15^th, 2015, so consider me extra excited to have it arrive in my mail box!

At the “Discover Disney’s Descendants” section they shared some of Kara Saun’s concept sketches for the outfits worn in the show. They’re calling the style “Dirty Candy” and it looks pretty neat!

They had both a set of Descendants Signature Dolls and the Descendants Coronation Dolls on site for you to look at. All of the dolls were done by Hasbro and look great. The faces and outfits seems to pull the characters together quite nicely.

They also shared some clothes and accessories that look like they’ll be available at both Kohl’s and JCPenney soon, if they haven’t already arrived. I especially like the necklace that they showed off.

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“D-Style at D23 Expo” had a slew of items they were showing off including Tsum Tsums, accessories, clothes – you name it! The items will be debuting at DisneyStore.com this fall and were brought by the creative team in Japan to bring both the cute and the fashionable over to us in the US. There are a ton of new plushies, art supplies, jewelry, socks, anything your mind can think of. It will definitely be an exciting time over at the Disney Store this fall.

Putting together three separate booths, they had the “#TeamMickey” area where you could take photos in a photo booth to show off your Mickey Spirit, “Make It A Tink Moment” where you could get your hair done in a bun like Tinkerbell’s, and the “Rock Your #MinnieStyle” section where you could get your fingernails done in a Minnie Mouse design.

There was also “The Breadth of Frozen” where you could see some of the products available for the film, as well as do family fun activities that took place during the day.

Disney Junior was not to be left out at the Expo, as they had the “Disney Junior Fun Spot” where you could check out Miles From Tomorrowland and play with the new toys. They also had meet and greets with Doc McStuffins and Sofia the First, as well as giveaways.

Vans was in attendance, and among a lot of their products were some great Princess pieces to add to your collection. There were also several of the Princess toys for you to see, a lot of which are already available for you to purchase. Another neat thing they had was the “Key to the Kingdom” gate that they had set up for you to write an empowering message and leave it on the gate.

Pixar had a lot of awesome new items that they were showing off in the merchandise department. They had a 20^th anniversary Toy Story Crockpot! I don’t even cook, but for some reason this made me extremely excited, and I’d love to own it. They had a lot of great items for Inside Out, Toy Story, The Good Dinosaur, and much more.

Cars: Daredevil Garage is a new app that they were showing off at the “Calling All Stunt Drivers” area. They had all kinds of Mattel diecast cars on display, and said it was like taking your cars into a virtual world and using them to perform extreme stunts in crazy environments.

Last, but definitely not least, was the Star Wars section of the pavilion. “Evolution of the Stormtrooper”  showed several different designs, and versions, of the Stormtroopers, with a large display of customized Stormtrooper pieces as well. They also had people dressed as Stormtroopers that were taking pictures with people.

Although it wasn’t actually a part of the pavilion, and more so a part of the exit of the Disney Store, I wanted to take a second to show you the 3D Print Studio they had going. The pieces cost anywhere from around $1,000 and much further down to $120, but you could choose if you wanted to be a member of the Mickey Mouse Club, or if you wanted to be the new Tony Stark and be in an Ironman suit!

As you can tell, there were an array of different series and products on display, and it won’t be long until you can get your hands on many of these merchandise items as well! I know I’ll personally be on the lookout for the new D-Style items, and especially Star Darlings. What will you be looking for?