In early 2024, Disney invested greater than a billion {dollars} in Fortnite creator Epic Video games and introduced some type of new Disney-powered metaverse expertise. We have already seen a number of elements of this deal come to fruition, like Fortnite skins for the Incredibles and the Disney Villains, plus new Marvel and Star Wars-themed seasons. There’s been loads of Disney in Fortnite since that announcement, in different phrases.
However the large Disney x Fortnite metaverse mode has but to see the sunshine of day, and the venture stays shrouded in thriller. Let’s check out what we learn about it up to now.
What truly is the Disney x Fortnite mode?
We do not actually know. There’s been no teaser pictures or movies, and no one is speaking about it in phrases that we’d think about concrete. However this is how Disney described it within the authentic announcement:
“Along with being a world-class video games expertise and interoperating with Fortnite, the brand new persistent universe will provide a mess of alternatives for shoppers to play, watch, store and have interaction with content material, characters and tales from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Avatar and extra. Gamers, avid gamers and followers will be capable to create their very own tales and experiences, categorical their fandom in a distinctly Disney method, and share content material with one another in ways in which they love.”
Whereas most of that is too nebulous to precisely break down with any actual confidence, the important thing element there’s that Epic’s new Disney expertise is described as being its personal factor that “interoperates” with Fortnite, quite than being a Fortnite mode. The explanation for that distinction is that Disney x Fortnite will likely be its personal walled backyard of content–not each Fortnite pores and skin will work with it, and there will likely be skins that work within the Disney mode that do not work in the remainder of Fortnite.
“Not each outfit will be capable to do every little thing,” Epic govt Saxs Persson instructed The Verge in October 2024. “A [Lego] minifig doesn’t maintain a gun. Manufacturers ought to be capable to implement the model pointers to the diploma that they’re snug with that model being related to specific rankings.”
In March 2025, in the meantime, a Disney Imagineer, talking at South by Southwest, indicated that Fortnite’s Disney expertise could have some interactivity with the Disney parks in the actual world.
“Think about … what in the event you might go to the park and have an expertise in Smuggler’s Run [and] go on this superb mission, however then have that have an effect on or join your gameplay at residence?” stated Asa Kalama, head of interactive experiences at Disney.
OK, however what’s going to the sport/expertise truly be like?
Regardless of the quotes above, we nonetheless do not know something actually tangible concerning the moment-to-moment expertise of this Fortnite x Disney factor. Sure, they’ve teased sure options, like having the ability to watch Disney content material in-game or purchase Disney merch, and leaks point out the expertise will not less than partially be set in some type of digital adaptation of the real-world Disneyland park, and so maybe you can experience these Disney rides within the recreation. And one other leak mentions cinematic cutscenes and story content material, so it might have a marketing campaign to play by way of.
However although we now have this smattering of particulars about what will likely be included, we nonetheless don’t have any actual concept of what the core gameplay will likely be for this Fortnite x Disney factor. All these particulars are hints, however they do not add as much as any type of large image.
When is Disney x Fortnite popping out?
Contemplating how obscure the small print have been up to now, there is no cause to count on this Disney x Fortnite venture to launch this 12 months, and a current Wall Avenue Journal report indicated it may be some time earlier than all of it comes collectively. The report claimed the mode is being held up by the various layers of Disney paperwork that should approve something Epic does with it. Nevertheless, Epic Video games CEO Tim Sweeney claimed the report was false and that Disney truly has been far more responsive than they anticipated.
Regardless of what’s and is not true with that story, the full lack of tangible information concerning the mode means there is no actual cause to assume that the Disney x Fortnite venture is near completion. Count on a 2026 launch on the earliest, until Epic has majorly improved its capability to maintain secrets and techniques lately.
