Former Show // latest change 2025.05.27
Sunset Blvd · Hollywood Studios · Walt Disney World
Former Show · the memorial record
This show is gone, but its history stays documented — the full lifetime log is below.
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Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After opened in the same Sunset Showcase theater, which Disney said was fitted with a brand-new stage and theater seating.
Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy played its final day of operation and closed permanently after five and a half years.
Disney announced that Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy would close permanently after October 7, 2024, to make way for a Disney Villains stage show in the same Sunset Showcase theater.
Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy opened at the Sunset Showcase theater on Sunset Boulevard, a 10-minute show pairing a Lightning McQueen figure on stage with a 17-foot-tall wrap-around screen stretching over 200 feet end-to-end.
In the courtyard outside the theater guests could meet Cruz Ramirez and join a Cars-themed dance party hosted by DJ.
Disney announced Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy, a Cars-themed stage show for the Sunset Showcase theater beside Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, with a debut planned for early 2019.
Per the documented record, Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy at Hollywood Studios opened in 2019.
The most recent closure/refurbishment documented for Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy is dated Oct 7, 2024: Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy played its final day of operation and closed permanently after five and a half years.
The latest documented change (documented May 27, 2025): Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After opened in the same Sunset Showcase theater, which Disney said was fitted with a brand-new stage and theater seating.
6 documented changes, dating back to 2018 — the fan-kept show changelog nobody else keeps.
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