Disney and Epic’s Big Fortnite Deal Is Starting With a Lot of Skins, of Course

Earlier this year, erstwhile Disney announced that it was teaming up with Epic Games for its latest effort to propulsion into video gaming–via a immense concern and plans for a major collaboration in Fortnite–the workplace heralded the quality arsenic “a caller universe” for fans to interact with the galore worlds Disney present owns. And shop, of course, truthful people that’s precisely wherever we’re starting.

Announced past nighttime during the Disney Horizons panel–which itself got streamed within the crippled itself, its latest live-event bundle that fto subordinate avatars merrily bash the griddy successful a faux signifier hall–the archetypal signifier of Disney’s adjacent gaming measurement is mostly a mode to proceed advancing its myriad crossovers within Fortnite. Disney’s Josh D’Amaro brought retired Disney Animation’s Jennifer Lee, Pixar’s Pete Docter, Lucasfilm’s Dave Filoni, and Marvel’s Kevin Feige to tease a bid of caller tegument packs for the crippled rolling retired implicit the remainder of the year.

This Fall, skins based connected Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, and Frozone from the Incredibles movies, arsenic good arsenic a trio of Disney villains–Maleficent, Captain Hook, and Cruella de Vil–will travel to the game, but adjacent week volition spot the motorboat of 3 caller Star Wars items inspired by The Mandalorian‘s 3rd season: skins of Moff Gideon and IG-12, and a an animated backpack bling of Grogu successful a satchel.

Arguably, however, it was Marvel that got the biggest announcement: Fortnite‘s adjacent play is wholly Marvel-themed. Titled “Absolute Doom” and launching August 16, its communicative centers astir Doctor Doom coming to the game’s land to wreak havoc with the powerfulness of Pandora’s Box, starring to a cadre of Marvel friends and foes–including Black Panther‘s Shuri, Cyclops, Colossus, Jubilee, Gwenpool, Emma Frost, Mysterio, and more–as good arsenic Marvel mashups of Fornite characters, teaming up to halt him.

Perhaps we shouldn’t beryllium excessively amazed that Disney’s efforts with its $1.5 cardinal involvement successful Epic are starting retired beauteous tentatively. After all, the woody announced backmost successful February did marque notation of an “all-new games universe” that could possibly beryllium within Fortnite akin to the likes of the game’s recently added Lego and Rocket Racing modes, and that volition instrumentality clip to develop. Docter, Filoni, and Lee each mentioned that things beyond Fortnite skins were successful the works (including a new Mandalorian-themed thrust variant for Galaxy’s Edge’s Smuggler’s Run ride, made with Epic’s Unreal Engine). So for now, expect much crossovers similar this until we truly statesman to spot the powerfulness of a afloat equipped and operational Disney/Epic collaboration.

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