Earlier this week, Disney announced that the Play Disney Parks app will be shutting down on Wednesday, September 16th, 2026. The app powers dozens of interactive games across Disney World, including Star Wars: Datapad, Batuu Bounty Hunters, and DuckTales World Showcase Adventure.
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Now that the Play Disney Parks app is shutting down with no replacement in sight, what’s happening to these games? And more importantly, what about DUCKTALES?!?
In DuckTales World Showcase Adventure, this interactive scavenger hunt takes you around EPCOT’s World Showcase, where Scrooge McDuck is hot on the trail of some of the world’s most precious ancient artifacts, and you can help him out using the Play Disney Parks mobile app!
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As you explore the countries, you’ll find clues to help you find the ancient artifacts, which can lead you all over the Pavilions. We usually end up at this rune in Norway, where you have to read the stone tablet for clues!
Runes at Norway’s Stave Church
Plus, you’ll also run into some classic DuckTales characters like Scrooge McDuck, Donald, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, but you can only make them appear by playing the game in the Play Disney Parks app. One of our favorite scenes was Donald being chased by a doll in the Germany Pavilion!
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Now that the Play Disney Parks app is being shut down, it looks like DuckTales World Showcase Adventure will shut down along with all of the games in the app, including Star Wars: Datapad, Batuu Bounty Hunters, Off to Never Land in the Peter Pan’s Flight queue, Playset Party in the Toy Story Mania! queue, Rocket Race in the Space Mountain line, Soarin’ Challenge at Soarin’ Around The World, and even general park trivia you can play at home.
Star Wars: Datapad
If you want to play any of these games through the Play Disney Parks app, you can play them until you’re unable to log into the app on Wednesday, September 16th. We’ll keep you updated on the future of these games now that the Play Disney Parks app is being discontinued. Stay tuned to Disney Food Blog for more Disney World news!
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Wow! This makes no sense at all…..!!!
Well, this will flat out kill any desire to return to Galaxy’s Edge. The Datapad and Bounty Hunter activities were quite a bit of fun and lead to some cool experiences in the parks. Plus, I play some of the games (I think we hit the 100+ games on the Toy Story board game) with my daughter when we travel. What will happen to the Fortune Teller Tales? Those were pretty cool to read especially if you can’t find the cards.
Oh no! We have some players who will be broken hearted about the Galaxy’s Edge games. I never even knew about the others, and I am so sorry that we missed out on those. I noticed several months ago that the trivia games were not updating anymore, which was one of my favorite pastimes when I was waiting for anything anywhere. Hopefully the point is that Disney is going to release something new – there’s so much tech that already exists to support these types of games, especially around GE. My fingers are crossed that it is just easier to roll out something new rather than update what already existed.
That really sucks!! I think more people would play if they knew about it. I especially liked the game you could play in the Soarin’ line.