An Aladdin drone show seen testing over a Disney movie studio facility in Southern California has Disneyland fans wondering if the Genie will grant their wish for a new nighttime spectacular at the Anaheim theme park.
Online video showing tests for an Aladdin drone show conducted over Disney’s Golden Oak Ranch were posted to social media by Disney Scoop Guy Matt Desmond.
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Demond’s Instagram post asked the question on every Disney fan’s mind: Could a new drone show be coming to Disneyland?
The video shows the Genie from Disney’s 1992 “Aladdin” animated film materializing in the night sky. Other drone sequences show Genie’s hand opening and closing, the Sultan’s Palace in Agrabah and Genie’s head appearing at the four ordinals of a compass.
A Disney drone show was just filmed over the Disney Ranch in Santa Clarita, California! Could a new drone show be coming to Disneyland?
Republished with permission from @plants_of_Disneyland pic.twitter.com/0TxcSnChX7
— Matt (@DisneyScoopGuy) October 21, 2025
The Disney-owned Golden Oak Ranch movie and TV studio backlot has been used since the 1950s to film everything from “The Mickey Mouse Club” to “Pirates of the Caribbean.”
The 900-acre movie-making facility in Newhall is located about 70 miles north of Disneyland.
The aerial tests over Golden Oak Ranch could be for a drone show tied to the Disneyland fireworks show, “World of Color” water show at Disney California Adventure, any Disney theme park in the world, the Disney Cruise Lines or an upcoming special event.
Disney theme parks in Florida, France, Japan and China all boast nighttime spectaculars featuring aerial drones.
Disneyland ultimately backed out of plans to include aerial drones in the “World of Color” water show after U.S. government regulations placed restrictions on the nighttime spectaculars featuring flying robots that Walt Disney Imagineering helped pioneer.
Disneyland conducted drone tests for a Tangled lantern sequence in the “Disneyland Forever” fireworks show that was ultimately abandoned due to lack of Federal Aviation Administration approvals.
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The Aladdin live-action musical stage show ran in Disney California Adventure’s Hyperion Theater from 2003 to 2016.