It’s still not entirely clear what Disney’s big ‘entertainment universe’ in Fortnite is but one year after its announcement, a leaker claims it’s in a ‘stable’ build. Last year, Disney invested a whopping $1.5 billion (about £1.2 billion) into Epic Games for the purpose of building an ‘expansive and open games and entertainment universe connected to Fortnite.’. Since then, the two have continued to collaborate on new Fortnite skins. Not just for more Marvel and Star Wars characters, but also ones based on Pixar’s The Incredibles and villains from classic animated films like Sleeping Beauty.
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As for Disney’s ‘persistent universe,’ there have been no real updates on it since, but a prominent Fortnite leaker has suggested progress on its development is going well. According to HYPEX on X, who is known for accurately sharing info on upcoming Fortnite updates, Epic Games moved the project into a ‘stable’ build on February 7, which so happened to be the same date that Disney and Epic announced their big partnership.
HYPEX theorised that this means ‘a lot of progress has been made’ and the team behind it has moved onto the next milestone on its internal roadmap. It’s unclear, though, if this means Epic Games and/or Disney will have anything meaningful to share about the project any time soon nor does it indicate when it’s expected to release. Epic Games and Disney never provided an estimated date for the project and it’s honestly not entirely clear what this ‘entertainment universe’ even is.
Although from the way it’s been described, it sounds akin to something like Roblox, with its ‘Play Watch Create Shop’ giving a vague indicator of the sort of things you’ll be able to do. ‘The new persistent universe will offer a multitude of opportunities for consumers to play, watch, shop and engage with content, characters and stories from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, Avatar and more,’ said Disney at the time.
Epic has found success in a similar collaboration with Lego, which sparked the separate Lego Fortnite survival mode that has continued to receive updates since its late 2023 launch, as well as a Brick Life spin-off more focused on social role-playing. Even if the Disney universe is still a long way off, you can definitely expect more Disney themed Fortnite skins throughout the rest of 2025. For instance, skins based on the new Captain America movie have already been rumoured.
More recently, another Fortnite leaker simply named Leaky shared images of cosmetics based on the Avatar movies by James Cameron, including two skins based on protagonists Jake Sully and Neytiri. Email gamecentral@metro.co.uk, leave a comment below, follow us on Twitter, and sign-up to our newsletter. To submit Inbox letters and Reader’s Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here.
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