In early 2024, Disney invested greater than a billion {dollars} in Fortnite creator Epic Video games and introduced some form of new Disney-powered metaverse expertise. We’ve already seen a number of features 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 quite a bit 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 challenge stays shrouded in thriller. Let’s check out what we find out about it up to now.
What truly is the Disney x Fortnite mode?
We do not actually know. There’s been no teaser photographs or movies, and no one is speaking about it in phrases that we might think about concrete. However here is how Disney described it within the original announcement:
“Along with being a world-class video games expertise and interoperating with Fortnite, the brand new persistent universe will supply 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 of create their very own tales and experiences, specific their fandom in a distinctly Disney means, 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 may be that Epic’s new Disney expertise is described as being its personal factor that “interoperates” with Fortnite, fairly than being a Fortnite mode. The rationale for that distinction is that Disney x Fortnite shall be its personal walled backyard of content–not each Fortnite pores and skin will work with it, and there shall be skins that work within the Disney mode that do not work in the remainder of Fortnite.
“Not each outfit will be capable of do every part,” Epic govt Saxs Persson advised The Verge in October 2024. “A [Lego] minifig doesn’t maintain a gun. Manufacturers ought to be capable of implement the model tips to the diploma that they’re comfy 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 can have some interactivity with the Disney parks in the true world.
“Think about … what when you may go to the park and have an expertise in Smuggler’s Run [and] go on this wonderful mission, however then have that have an effect on or join your gameplay at dwelling?” mentioned 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 with the ability to watch Disney content in-game or buy Disney merch, and leaks point out the expertise will at the least partially be set in some form of digital adaptation of the real-world Disneyland park, and so maybe you’ll trip these Disney rides within the sport. And one other leak mentions cinematic cutscenes and story content, so it might have a marketing campaign to play by means of.
However though we have now this smattering of particulars about what shall be included, we nonetheless haven’t any actual thought of what the core gameplay shall be for this Fortnite x Disney factor. All these particulars are hints, however they do not add as much as any form of large image.
When is Disney x Fortnite popping out?
Contemplating how obscure the main points have been up to now, there is not any purpose to anticipate this Disney x Fortnite challenge to launch this yr, and a latest 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 numerous layers of Disney forms that must approve something Epic does with it. Nonetheless, Epic Video games CEO Tim Sweeney claimed the report was false and that Disney truly has been rather more responsive than they anticipated.
Regardless of what’s and is not true with that story, the entire lack of tangible information concerning the mode means there is not any actual purpose to suppose that the Disney x Fortnite challenge is near completion. Anticipate a 2026 launch on the earliest, until Epic has majorly improved its skill to maintain secrets and techniques lately.
