Disneyland is making extra elbow room for new attractions based on the Avengers, Avatar and Coco as the Anaheim theme park embarks on an ambitious $1.9 billion expansion plan over the next four decades.
Disney bought a 400,000-square foot warehouse in Anaheim about 2 miles from Disneyland for $124 million in January, according to the Orange County Business Journal.
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Disneyland was already the tenant of the Cerritos Avenue warehouse where the Anaheim theme park stored parade floats and seasonal decorations, according to OCBJ.
The purchase of the massive warehouse gives Disneyland extra storage space as the park embarks on the sweeping DisneylandForward project that will completely reimagine the 500-acre resort district over next four decades.
“Over the past several years, the Disneyland resort has reportedly moved a lot of their backstage facilities away from the parks to allow for more room for expansion via DisneylandForward,” according to WDW News Today.
Disneyland recently closed the Timon parking lot and mothballed the Red Car Trolley so construction could begin on the Avengers Campus expansion at Disney California Adventure.
The new Avengers Infinity Defense and Stark Flight Lab attractions will double the size of the Marvel super hero themed land. Disneyland has not yet announced opening dates for the new Marvel attractions – which are expected to debut in 2026 or 2027.
Construction will start at Disney California Adventure in 2026 on the world’s first Coco attraction that will take riders on a musical journey to the Land of the Dead along with Miguel and other characters from the 2017 Pixar film.
A new Avatar themed land coming to DCA based on “The Way of Water” and other upcoming films in the franchise will take visitors to the wide-open seas of Pandora.
Disneyland has not yet announced when construction will start or set an opening date for the Avatar-themed destination — which likely won’t debut before 2028 or 2029.
Beyond the Avengers, Avatar and Coco projects already in the pipeline, DisneylandForward has dangled eight more themed lands based on Tangled, Frozen, Peter Pan, Zootopia, Encanto, Toy Story, Black Panther and Tron as potential expansion projects in Anaheim.
Disney’s purchase of the 1968 warehouse was the largest industrial real estate transaction in Orange County over the past eight months, according to OCBJ.
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