Bucky - Squirrel Squeak Tutor will terrorize Disney Lorcana players no more.

Ursula’s Return brought two brand-new Starter Decks to Disney Lorcana. Here’s how to upgrade the Sapphire/Steel Starter Deck from Lorcana’s fourth set.

Production company We Are Royale (WAR) created a series of trailers for Disney Lorcana, an immersive trading card game by Ravensburger.

Disney Lorcana’s fifth set Shimmering Skies has finally been revealed. We’ve compiled everything you need to know about the new set including its release date, new products, and more.

Disney Lorcana fans have a new reason to visit their local hobby stores on August 9 and mass retailers on August 23, as the trading card game launches its fifth set, “Shimmering Skies.” This expansion introduces new characters, mechanics, and cards, enriching the gaming experience for both new and returning players.

Once again, it looks like the Disney Lorcana packing center has messed up and put some promo cards in its packs. This has created an even bigger incentive for collectors to rush to card shops and grab all of the Ursula's Return packs they can get their hands on.

According to the Discord statement, Disney told them: "Disney has intellectual property rights in the Disney Lorcana cards and that Disney has requested Pixelborn to respect these rights by not copying the cards in any way suggesting an affiliation with Disney."

Sergio forgets about 'Magic' for a moment to take a look and play a few games of Disney's foray into collectible card games in style.

Disney Lorcana's new decks lean heavily into cards that boost specific card classifications.

The Amber/Amethyst Ursula's Return deck is built primarily around the Madrigal family of Encanto fame.

Meanwhile, the Sapphire/Steel Ursula's Return deck leans heavily on the Hero classification, with several cards buffing up or taking advantage of Hero cards in play.

We may not talk about Bruno, but we will chat about this Enchanted Disney Lorcana: Ursula's Return card.

If you've not been keeping up with what is quickly becoming one of the best card games, Enchanted cards are by far the rarest in Disney Lorcana. They're alternate versions of standard cards with unique, borderless artwork that goes all in on the premium feel, and that makes them highly sought-after. Because there are so few of them, they can also go for an upsettingly high sum on reseller markets. Some have sold for tens of thousands of dollars, for example.

We've just completed uploading over 50 top-tier Set Champs Tournament with their top decklist for anyone searching for their upcoming Lorcana meta deck!

The first tournament prize card released for Disney Lorcana is selling for big bucks on secondary sites. Earlier this month, Disney Lorcana launched Set Championships for Into the Inklands, marking some of the first official tournaments for the new card game. The top four players in each in-store tournament receives a Stitch – Rock Star variant card, while the top two players receive a matching playmat.

Seems like it'd be very powerful with the amber singers.

Disney Lorcana will introduce a new twist to its Shift mechanic in Ursula's Return. The next expansion of the popular Disney-themed trading card game will feature Floodborn character cards with the ability to Shift without paying an Ink cost. Instead, players can Shift the card onto an existing character with the same name through "other means," including discarding specific kinds of cards from their hand.

Concluding the current story with an epic all-out war for Triton's trident, this set is sure to be a big one. Make sure you check back every day to see what new cards are revealed, ahead of Lorcana's Ursula's Return's launch on May 17.

One of these abilities is Ward, which keeps characters safe from being targeted by Items, Actions, and Songs your opponents control.

This list ranks Ward cards based on their power and utility.

Here’s a complete list of Disney Lorcana keywords:

• Lorcana Bodyguard
• Lorcana Challenger
• Lorcana Evasive
• Lorcana Reckless
• Lorcana Resist
• Lorcana Rush
• Lorcana Shift
• Lorcana Singer
• Lorcana Support
• Lorcana Ward

The comprehensive rules cover more gameplay details than the simple quickstart rules previously released and included with Disney Lorcana decks.

The rules are a “living document” so will be changed and updated as new sets are released. Visit the Disney Lorcana Resources Page for the most up-to-date version.

Ursula’s Return will release at local game stores, Walt Disney World Resort, Disneyland Resort, Disneyland Paris, and select Disney Store retail locations on May 17, 2024. It will then be available from mass market retailers on May 31, 2024.

• Rise of the Floodborn expansion failed to dethrone Ruby/Amethyst decks in Lorcana's meta, still dominating top finishes.

• Into the Inklands introduced new locations and discard tools, balancing out Ruby/Amethyst's dominance in the tournament scene.

• While Steel-dominated meta limits aggro decks, the expansion brings diversity and balance with multiple viable color combinations.

Disney Lorcana Enchanted cards are the rarest and most sought after artifacts in the entire Disney trading card game. Identified by their rainbow symbol, Enchanted cards have the same name and rules text as other cards from their set, but they feature unique borderless artwork that makes them valuable masterpieces.

In this guide we’ll take a look at every single Lorcana Enchanted card in the Into the Inklands set, all 18 of them.

I pulled this from a box I bought today at my LGS.

It's a $90 card on TCGPlayer!

• Combine characters strategically for powerful synergies and creative tactics to utilize in Disney Lorcana's new locations.
• Match locations with specific characters like Pua, Tinker Bell, or Jafar to unlock unique abilities and gain an advantage in the game.
• Create powerful combinations, like Maleficent at The Queen's Castle or Sheriff of Nottingham in The Bayou for near-infinite loops and maximum damage.

There’s also a new semi-infinite combo that uses Beast, Relentless; Sheriff of Nottingham, Corrupt Official; and The Bayou to clear the opponent's board and build a giant lore total in a single turn, so expect to see a lot of Emerald/Steel ping decks being played, at least early in the season.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/8108209

EXCLUSIVE: Disney & Sony Ink Deal for Sony to Take Over Disney's Physical Media Production, Disney Movie Club to Shut Down as a Result

by Bill Hunt

There are some significant developments happening within the home video industry of late, developments that I've been spending a lot of time investigating and really digging into these past few weeks here at The Digital Bits.

And I can now confidently report that one of them is this:

Disney and Sony have just inked a major deal for Sony Pictures Home Entertainment to take over all of Disney's physical media production going forward.

This means that Sony will handle and oversee the actual authoring and compression of discs, that they'll work with the replicators and packaging vendors, and that they'll oversee the titles as they go out to the distributors and on to retailers.

I first received word of this deal about two weeks ago, apparently within twenty-four hours of the ink drying, and I've now confirmed it with multiple independent sources within the industry---people that I trust and have known and worked with for many years.

This deal makes sense for Disney for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that Sony is far more efficient and cost effective at producing their discs, whereas Disney's physical media operation has been subject to no small amount of internal/organizational turmoil recently.

First, they were trimmed down in late 2019 and early 2020, after Disney's infamous and year-long 4K Ultra HD catalog title blow-out, then they were subject to many of the cost-cutting pressures and personnel losses that all the majors suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic.

It hasn't helped that the studio's physical media operation---which is now almost an afterthought in the shadow of its Disney+ business and activities---has been organizationally tied to Disney's digital and streaming operation ever since.

Based on reporting from multiple sources, what this has meant in recent months is that virtually every decision about which catalog titles to release on disc, and which features to include on them, not to mention every technical decision that naturally arises during the course of the production of those titles, requires scores of people to be involved at Disney. And the people who are actually working on the discs don't have decision-making power about anything---they have to kick decisions upstairs to their bosses, who have to kick it upstairs to their bosses, and so on. Multiple levels of management are involved, which means that decisions that should take two people five minutes instead take thirty people a week or more.

It would be pretty tough for anyone to make money on physical media doing it like that.

What's more, with Disney's constant cost-cutting measures, and the fact that the studio has wildly overspent on its streaming operation, everyone involved is naturally afraid for their jobs. So few people at Disney are willing to stick their necks out to make a decision, for fear of getting fired. Unfortunately, that includes the very people who know how to do physical media best.

Ironically, Disney turning over their physical media operation to Sony means that a lot of these people now probably are likely to lose their jobs, which is regrettable. (We hope at least that the studio is wise enough to keep the people who actually know what they're doing, as opposed to the middle-managers who aren't adding value to the process.)

But the hope for physical media consumers going forward is that---if Disney does get more efficient and profitable at releasing discs via this arrangement---they might actually start releasing more of them.

As cinephiles are well aware, Disney is currently sitting on a vault that's chock full of great live action film titles from the classic Disney, 20th Century (Fox), Hollywood Pictures, and Touchstone libraries. In fact, there are at least twenty classic Fox catalog titles that we've confirmed have recent 4K remasters, that Disney is doing absolutely nothing with---they aren't going to streaming or digital, they aren't appearing on Disney+, and they certainly aren't being released on Blu-ray or physical 4K Ultra HD.

This at a time when many other major studios are not only digging deep into their film libraries for Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD releases, they're also licensing many very deep catalog titles to boutique labels like Shout! Factory, Arrow, Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Indicator, Powerhouse, and more---an arrangement that is generating good profits for those other studios, even as production costs increase and vendor and retailer options shrink.

One way that indie studios in particular are working to adjust to this new climate is by creating their own online stores and thereby selling discs to their fans and consumers directly.

Unfortunately, as part of the Disney and Sony arrangement, we've learned that Disney plans to shutter their Disney Movie Club, which for several years now has been doing exactly that.

This is sadly also confirmed: We've now learned from Bits readers that DMC is beginning to inform their customers of this fact. Here's an example of the message DMC is currently sending out via email:

We think this is actually a terrible idea. It would be much better for Disney to let Sony take over DMC, and to ramp it up in order to more effectively communicate with the diehard cinephiles who are now the core of the physical media business.

Speaking directly to your best consumers, making them feel heard, and giving them what they want in terms of titles, A/V quality, and features is exactly how you build a thriving physical media business in 2024.

In any case, we've contacted Disney and asked for an official comment and clarification about this new physical media production deal, in particular what it means for Disney catalog physical releases going forward, and we'll share that with all of you here if and when the studio responds.

Rest assured, we'll continue investigating and reporting on this news in the days and weeks ahead.

Stay tuned...