 
Hello Sunday Wrap readers, Who doesn’t love a good villain? A couple of years ago, Josh D’Amaro teased a future Villains Land at Walt Disney World while running the parks division. Now, as CEO, he’s reimagining the long-simmering project. Old plans have been scrapped, Drew Taylor reports, and staff have been urged to think bigger and bolder. With theme parks central to Disney’s bottom line, the mandate is to make Villains Land not just an expansion, but a can’t-miss vacation destination. Check out Taylor’s piece for the inside scoop on D’Amaro’s opportunity to put his mark on the Magic Kingdom. If you like the kinds of stories we send you every Sunday, please consider signing up. We're offering a 2-week trial of WrapPRO for $1. If you’ve been wanting to check out our full coverage, now’s the time. Michael Calderone The Magic Kingdom’s proposed land dedicated to iconic Disney villains is getting a fresh rethink after the success of Universal’s Epic Universe By Drew Taylor 
The roar was deafening. In 2024, Josh D’Amaro, then head of Disney’s theme park division and now newly knighted CEO of the whole company, took the stage in Anaheim, California, for D23, a sort of all-Disney Comic-Con, to unveil a land themed to the media giant’s roster of memorable villains coming to Walt Disney World. The crowd erupted in thunderous applause. “We love our Disney Villains right?” D’Amaro, nary a hair out of place, asked the gathered sea of Disney fans, decked out in their theme park finery. “Their evil ambition gives us endless possibilities to tell brand-new stories... 
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