What’s New at Disney + April 2021
Little ones, gather around. Let me tell you a story about dark times in a galaxy far, far away. Before the prequels, sequels and animated series, there was a time after Return of the Jedi , when Star Wars just … stopped. George Lucas was not interested in making new films . Figurine sales were falling . The comic book series fizzled out . After the decisive battle against the Emperor and the second Death Star, fans who turned the three films into global blockbusters had nowhere to turn and nothing to expect. Except for the Ewoks. In 1984, Lucasfilm released Caravan of Courage , a televised film starring Ewoks, characters everyone loved unconditionally. Imagine there were no Star Wars novels, no Star Wars series – no animated series, no The Mandalorian – and instead, the only thing you should expect from Star Wars is something called “Day of the Porgs Rescue”. This is what it was like to be a Star Wars fan in the 80s.
Recognizing that nostalgia cares little for taste, Disney is giving you the opportunity to relive that era by releasing two Ewok television films on Disney + in April, Caravan of Courage and Ewoks: Battle for Endor . They both look pretty bad: low-budget, non-canon, cheesy, aimed right at the illegible kids. But are they … still Star Wars? As if? We took what we could get, that’s what I’m saying. There is much better in the way, in the form of Gendy Tartakovsky’s animated series The Clone Wars , which aired while the prequels were in theaters; these are all the actions of the Jedi that you could dream of, in short, for 3-5 minutes. Less fully endorsed, but still appreciated: the long nearly impossible to watch the EWOKS animated series from 1985 , which bodes well for the future additions of the sibling series, Droids , and the story of the Faithful Wookie , also known as animated segments from the infamous holiday issue of Stellar Wars, “ which gave us a first look at Boba Fett ( also known as the only, even slightly redeemable part of the Star Wars holiday special ).
Here’s a full rundown of everything coming to Disney + in April 2021.
The premiere of the series with new episodes is released weekly in April
- Big Shot (TV series premiere April 16)
- Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV series finale April 23)
- Mighty Ducks: Game Rules Changes
Films and whole series will be released in April
April 2
- Disney Secrets of Sulfur Springs: No Time Like the Present (S1)
- Disney Walk the Prank (S1)
- Disney Walk the Prank (S2)
- Disney Walk the Prank (S3)
- Heroes of Higglitown (S1)
- Heroes of Higglitown (S2)
- Island on top of the world
- The third person on the mountain
- The last ice
- Done in a day (S1)
- Zoo Secrets (S4)
- Sharks of the Bermuda Triangle
- Big year
- Night at the Museum
- Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Institution
- Caravan of Courage
- Ewoks: Battle for Endor
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Volume I
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Volume II
- Star Wars: Ewoks (S1)
- Star Wars: Ewoks (S2)
- The story of the faithful Wookiee
9 april
- Disney Future-Worm!
- Disney Kik Buttovki: Suburban Daredevil (S1)
- Disney Kik Buttovki: Suburban Daredevil (S2)
- Disney Secrets of Sulfur Springs: Time After Time (S1 Finale)
- Man from home
- Mark Twain and me
- Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale
- Cesar Millan: A True Story
16 april
- Earthy sentiments
- Treasure buddies
- White Fang 2: The Myth of the White Wolf
- National Geographic: Moods of the Earth, Volume I
- Primal Survivor (S5)
- The kid who would like to be king
- RIO
April 22
- National Geographic: Secrets of Whales
23 april
- Disney Junior Puppy Dog Pals (S3)
- Disney Liv and Maddy (S1)
- Disney Liv and Maddy (S2)
- Disney Liv and Maddy (S3)
- Disney Liv and Maddy: Cali Style (S4)
- Disney My Music Story: Sukimaswitch
- Be queen
- Day off baby
April 30
- Adventure in Wonderland
- Disney DuckTales (S3)
- Disney Junior World
- Assembled by Marvel Studios: Making The Falcon and The Winter Soldier
- Oklahoma!