What You May Have Missed From Disney's D23 Expo Animation Presentation

Audience members at Disney's D23 Expo 2017 in Anaheim, Calif.

The Wreck-It Ralph 2 presentation was the definite the highlight of the day.

Filmmakers Rich Moore and Phil Johnston revealed a new teaser trailer, where we see that Litwak's Arcade has gained wifi capabilities; Ralph and Vanellope battle over how to pronounce the word "wifi" ("Wee-fee?"). As they peek into the web, they get stuck, and shoot down the ethernet into the World Wide Web. Within, avatars, which look kind of like the Funko toy version of people, are mulling around. Ralph keeps getting stopped by avatars trying to hook him in with spammy offers like "See what this child star looks like now," or “Here’s how you can make $5000 a week from home.”

The basic plot of the sequel is that the game in which Vanellope resides is broken and she has to travel with Ralph through the internet to find the piece to fix it. Yesss, a new character voiced by Taraji P. Henson, is an algorithm for a trend-making site Buzzaholic (👀) who knows everything about the internet and guides Vanellope and Ralph on their journey. The character looks like a cartoon fashionista with an undercut and fur like coat, though the filmmakers noted that Yesss is made of fiber optics and can constantly shift her clothes and hair.

In another Wreck-It Ralph 2 scene that was shown, Yesss brings Ralph and Vanellope to the site OhMyDisney.com where they see a crowd gathering by a door guarded by stormtroopers, and the crowd is there to see the Disney Princesses. Ralph and Yesss warn Vanellope not to bother them, but still she manages to break into the guarded room anyway. The princesses, which include Moana, immediately grab their weapons to defend themselves against Vanellope, but she tells them she's a princess too. They interrogate her (has she been "kidnapped or enslaved?") until finally they find common ground with the fact that people mistakenly think their problems are always solved by a big strong man.

The scene ends with Vanellope teaching the women how to dress more casually, with Ariel exuberant as she gets to wear a... "what is it called? Shirt!" Merida also chimes in with her heavy Scottish accent, but nobody seems to understand her ("She's from the other studio.").

The panel ended with the reveal that the filmmakers managed to round up all the original voices of those princesses for the scene. And out onto the stage walked Auli‘i Cravalho (Moana), Kristen Bell (Anna in Frozen), Kelly MacDonald (Merida in Brave), Mandy Moore (Rapunzel in Tangled), Anika Noni Rose (Tiana in The Princess and the Frog), Irene Bedard (Pocahontas), Linda Larkin (Jasmine in Aladdin), Paige O’Hara (Belle in Beauty and the Beast), and Jodi Benson (Ariel in The Little Mermaid) for "the largest gathering of Disney Princesses in history."

Director Brad Bird and the voice cast of The Incredibles — Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, and Samuel L Jackson, plus the new voice of Dash, Huck Milner — came out for The Incredibles 2. Bird, reminding the audience that the Incredibles family's house blew up at the end of the original film, unveiled their new home, looking like a posh pad in the Hollywood Hills with floor-to-ceiling windows and sharp edges (making it super hard to baby-proof for Jack-Jack).

Bird described a scene he was pitched for the original film that never made it into the final cut, but he was able to make it for this new film: Bob falls asleep with Jack-Jack in his arms, allowing for the baby to escape when he hears a mysterious sound, and head into battle... with a raccoon. He chases the creature while cycling through some of his new abilities, phasing through the glass door, flames erupting from his body, shooting lasers out his eyes, and multiplying, all before Bob wakes and shoos the raccoon away, finally aware of his youngest child's insane amount of superpowers.

For Toy Story 4, there was the big news that Josh Cooley would be helming the sequel, making Cooley the first former Pixar intern to direct a film for the studio. Cooley made a little video of him going around the Pixar offices to talk to his crew and showing off art from the film: There was a drawing of "Lulu," who looks like a Troll doll version of Bonnie from Toy Story 3, and some 3D models of stuffed animals. There was also a clip of an actor recording the first line for the film: Pixar employee Jeff Pidgeon doing the alien voice.

For musical Coco, the audience learned the film's screenwriter/co-director Adrian Molina also co-wrote some of the music, and that songwriters Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (Frozen) penned one new track called "Remember Me" for the film. The film centers on Miguel, a young man who loves music but is banned by his family from performing it; his favorite musician, the late Ernesto De La Cruz (Benjamin Bratt), was also his great great-grandfather, and a likely player behind the ban. When Miguel's parents take his guitar away before the town's big talent show, he goes to his great great-grandfather's grave to take the guitar that sits above it. However, upon strumming it, he's sent to the land of the dead, where he meets characters like Hector (pictured above, voiced by Gael Garcia Bernal), who reunites him with other members of his family that have passed away.

The filmmakers also showed a scene of Miguel with his family at the Office of Family Reunion, where he learns he can go back to the world of the living with the blessing of a deceased relative. But his great great-grandmother won't allow him to go back unless he agrees to give up music forever. Miguel decides the only way he can go back to the world of the living and still be allowed to perform music is if he tracks down De La Cruz.

The ceilings rained fake marigold petals and the audience nodded their heads to what's sure to be Disney's newest earworm.

The whole afternoon started with Lasseter presenting a Disneytoon Studios project they're calling Taking Flight.

The animated footage starts with a realistic shot of a decrepit plane flying down a deserted dirt road as a tumbleweed rolls by and a rusty streetlight flickers. But then there's a boom and two fighter jets begin racing each other over more the vast desert. Suddenly, an even bigger black plane flies all the way up past the atmosphere (as pictured above) and zooms back down to rush past the fighter jets. The planes are all anthropomorphized a la Cars.

The words Suburban Fantasy World splashed across the stage backdrop before director Dan Scanlon (pictured) came out and told a story of how his father died before he could remember him; all he had was a recording of his dad saying the words "hi" and "bye," which he played for the audience. That recording was the inspiration for his creation, a suburban fantasy world where there are "no humans — only elves, trolls and sprites, anything that would be on [painted on] the side of a van in the ’70s.”

The film tells the story of two teenage brothers — who are elves, naturally — who grew up unable to remember their late father. They decide to go on magical quest to spend one last day with him and to answer a question Scanlon often asked himself: "Who was my father?"