One of the greatest original series to ever air on Disney+, Leslie Iwerks’ “The Imagineering Story” will return for season 2 in 2028.
Iwerks appeared on stage at D23 to announce the project, which she stresses will focus on projects currently in development (or recently opened) at the company’s global portfolio of theme parks. We can likely expect the same level of rigorous research and hyper-specific detail that made the original “Imagineering Story” episodes such essential, entertaining pieces of theme park history.
Iwerks’ latest Disney+ documentary, “Disney Worldbuilders,” which chronicles the Disney creatives and how they translate the stories into the parks, premieres at D23 tomorrow morning. It will arrive on Disney+ on August 20.
Earlier this year, Iwerks also unleashed “Disneyland Handcrafted,” an ingenious documentary that chronicled the year or so that it took to build and open Disneyland back in 1955. Using strictly archival photography, along with more modern interviews, the documentary was surprisingly unfettered, as it followed a ragtag group as they attempted to do the impossible.
But “The Imagineering Story” really is Iwerks’ magnum opus, taking you behind-the-scenes of the division of the company that was started by Walt Disney himself as a research-and-development arm that was the place where he could play and imagine without much corporate oversight. Imagineering is not only responsible for the rides, show, attractions and cruise ships that guests around the world enjoy, but they have filed an incalculable amount of patents and technological innovations.
“The Imagineering Story” season 2 debuts on Disney+ in early 2028.
