Disney Lorcana Hyperia City: The Dates, Ink Drops and What Comes After

By CardSpicy Founder · October 6, 2026

Quick answer

CardSpicy describes a set from the publisher’s own pages rather than from a shop’s countdown, so this is Hyperia City as Ravensburger sets it out: a Disney Lorcana trading card game set that prereleases on 16 October 2026 in game stores and select Disney Parks and stores, and goes on sale everywhere on 23 October 2026. It adds one new mechanic, ink drops, and it brings Disney and Pixar’s Coco into the game for the first time.

Two dates, one new mechanic, and a product line that runs from a prerelease box to an Illumineer’s Trove holding eight booster packs.

The two dates, and why both matter

Lorcana releases twice. There is the date the set becomes available everywhere, and there is the earlier date on which stores and selected Disney venues run prerelease events. Both are printed on the publisher’s own pages, and they are a week apart.

The gap matters if you are buying sealed product rather than playing. Anything bought before 23 October comes from a prerelease allocation, which is a smaller pool than the general release and is the reason a prerelease box and a booster display box are not the same purchase even though both contain booster packs.

Ravensburger also runs a set notes broadcast before release, on 8 October, in which its rules manager takes questions about the set. That is the point at which rules interactions for a new mechanic are usually settled, and it falls between the two dates.

Ink drops: what the new mechanic actually does

Every Lorcana set has a headline idea, and for Hyperia City it is ink drops. Ravensburger describes one as a counter that provides a one-time-use ink, which you spend either to play cards from your hand or to empower other cards. Once it is used, it leaves the game.

The publisher’s lead game designer, Lukas Litzsinger, frames it as a tempo mechanic: ink drops, he says, can completely change the tempo of a game, and the set was deliberately built around a single mechanic rather than several.

Two details are worth separating out, because they are the parts most likely to be misread from a card preview.

• It is temporary ink, not extra ink. Unlike the extra ink that Sapphire cards are known for, an ink drop is spent once and then gone. Ravensburger notes that ink drops can be created by every ink colour combination rather than being tied to one.
• Having one in play is itself useful. Alongside paying for cards, holding an ink drop can let you draw additional cards, increase a stat, or upgrade an action. That means a card that creates one is doing something even if you never spend it.

Our glossary covers the general Lorcana vocabulary if terms such as inkwell and glimmer are new to you.

What is in the set

Three groups of characters carry Hyperia City, and they are easier to understand as an answer to one design question: what does a Lorcana city look like?

• Coco arrives. Glimmers of the Rivera family make their debut, including Miguel Rivera and Héctor Rivera, along with an Ernesto de la Cruz glimmer. The film’s songs are represented too, spread across Amber, Amethyst and Ruby inks. One location rewards you for having ten or more cards that have gone to your discard pile.
• The princesses get new jobs. Ariel appears displaying a collection of gadgets, Cinderella is making gowns for the city’s events, and Rapunzel is making art. Ravensburger’s art director describes these as Dreamborn princesses, which is to say versions of the characters reimagined for this setting rather than their film roles.
• Big Hero 6 sits at the edge of town. The Multidisciplinary Academy for Genius, Imagination, and Creativity is where Honey Lemon, Go Go Tomago and Wasabi work on the new ink drop technology.

The city has named districts rather than one flat background: City Center, Wandering Straits, Olde Towne Hyperia, and the Marigold District, where the Coco street performances happen. For a collector, that structure is the thing to watch later, because it is what will make a card read as belonging to this set rather than to the realm generally.

The two Iconic cards

Ravensburger treats two treatments as the rarest in the game: Enchanted and Iconic. Hyperia City has two Iconic cards, and both were named before release.

The Enchanted cards in this set share a deliberate visual rule: the main artwork is painted in daylight, while the Enchanted versions show the same characters at night. Ravensburger describes the intent as using after-dark lighting and dynamic poses, so that the rarest treatment in the set reads as a distinct scene rather than a recolour.

The product line, item by item

Three product types are confirmed for Hyperia City. Ravensburger’s product pages name them directly.

If you are buying a display to open rather than to hold, our pages on opening a box or keeping it sealed and on penny sleeves against toploaders cover the two decisions that come immediately afterwards.

Set Championship prizes, and organised play

Lorcana’s competitive structure rewards players at the set championship rather than only at the top. For Hyperia City the named prize is a Honey Lemon – Testing the Limits playmat.

• Participants receive the Honey Lemon – Testing the Limits playmat.
• Top 8 receive a foil version of the same card.

Prerelease events are run at local game stores, and Ravensburger keeps a store search for finding one. Note that the set championship and the prerelease are separate events: the first is about competing with the finished set, the second is about playing with it before it is generally available.

Into the Inkdark, and the first serialized Lorcana cards

Ravensburger used the Hyperia City announcement to describe the set that follows it. Into the Inkdark is the first Lorcana set of 2027, built around a Hades glimmer working in the depths beneath the realm.

More importantly for collectors, it introduces a new product type and a new rarer-than-rarest category.

The serialized detail is the one that changes how the game is collected. A print run of 23 per card is a different proposition from a chase treatment printed in unknown but large numbers, and it applies to six cards per set rather than to one headliner.

After that: Cosmic Quest, and late 2027

Two further Lorcana releases are named but not dated. Cosmic Quest arrives in Spring 2027 and is described as a golden age of cosmic exploration, with glimmers of Ariel and Flounder, Stitch and his fellow alien experiments, and, for the first time, WALL•E and EVE. Late 2027 is described only as a magical mayhem arriving across the realm.

Neither has a date, and neither should be treated as scheduled. Ravensburger has named them as the shape of the year to come, which is useful for planning a collection and not useful for planning a purchase.

What this page does not claim

Three limits are worth stating plainly, because a set announcement is easy to read as more than it is.

• No card list. The full card list is published by Ravensburger on its own card gallery rather than in the announcement, and nothing here should be read as a count of cards in the set.
• No prices. CardSpicy quotes no prices for this set, and makes no valuation or investment recommendation.
• No claim about what will be worth money. Which cards become sought after is a question answered by the market after release, not by a preview. Our market report covers how the broader card market has been moving if that is the question you have.

Frequently asked questions

When does Disney Lorcana Hyperia City release?

Hyperia City prereleases on 16 October 2026 in game stores and select Disney Parks and stores, and becomes available everywhere on 23 October 2026. Both dates appear on Ravensburger’s own set pages.

What are ink drops in Disney Lorcana?

Ink drops are the new mechanic in Hyperia City. Each one is a counter providing a one-time-use ink that you spend either to play cards from your hand or to empower other cards. Once spent it leaves the game. Holding an ink drop can also let you draw additional cards, increase a stat, or upgrade an action. Ravensburger notes that ink drops can be created by every ink colour combination.

Which characters debut in Hyperia City?

Disney and Pixar’s Coco arrives in the game for the first time, including Miguel Rivera, Héctor Rivera and Ernesto de la Cruz, with the film’s songs represented across Amber, Amethyst and Ruby inks. Big Hero 6 glimmers including Honey Lemon, Go Go Tomago and Wasabi appear at the city’s academy, and returning princess glimmers of Ariel, Cinderella and Rapunzel appear in new roles.

What are the two Iconic cards in the set?

Mickey Mouse – Best in Town, which was first shown at D23: The Ultimate Disney Fan Event, and Cinderella – Unintentional Icon. Iconic cards are the rarest treatment in the game, alongside Enchanted cards.

What is Into the Inkdark, and what are Illustrious cards?

Into the Inkdark is the first Disney Lorcana set of 2027. It introduces collector boosters and a new card category called Illustrious cards, which the publisher describes as the first serialized Disney Lorcana cards. There are 6 Illustrious cards in each set and only 23 of each are printed, and they appear only in collector boosters.

Sources

Sources and scope

1. Ravensburger’s official Disney Lorcana press release, Disney Lorcana Trading Card Game Heads to Hyperia City, 22 September 2026 — the prerelease date of 16 October 2026 and the everywhere date of 23 October 2026, the debut of Coco glimmers, the description of ink drops as a one-time-use ink, the two Iconic cards, the city districts, and the announcement of Into the Inkdark, collector boosters and Illustrious cards.
2. Ravensburger’s official Hyperia City set page — the prerelease and everywhere dates as printed on the set page, and the product line of Prerelease Boxes, the Illumineer’s Trove with 8 booster packs and 6 damage dice, and booster display boxes and booster packs.
3. Ravensburger’s official Creative Spotlight on Hyperia City, 1 October 2026 — the night-time art direction of the Enchanted cards, the descriptions of the princess glimmers, the Coco card Remember Me, the mascot characters, and the October 16 prerelease reminder.
4. Ravensburger’s official Disney Lorcana news index — the 8 October set notes broadcast, the set championship prize structure naming the Honey Lemon – Testing the Limits playmat for participants and its foil version for the Top 8, the September rotation article, and the collection quest events at Disney Parks.
5. Scope note: only details published by Ravensburger are stated as confirmed. Card counts, prices and card-by-card contents are deliberately not stated. CardSpicy quotes no prices and makes no valuation or investment recommendation.

Release dates and product contents are set by the publisher and can change before release. Check Ravensburger’s own pages before pre-ordering.

Related reading

• The Collector’s Library
• The Card Protection Guide
• Protecting cards with sleeves
• Card sleeve sizes, explained
• Card storage boxes, explained
• Binders, boxes and frames
• Open a booster box, or keep it sealed
• Is it worth grading?
• The October 2026 card market report
• Card accessories

Where to go next

• The CardSpicy card index — every card we track, with its PSA 10 population and market history (195 cards).
• The illustrator index — every artist behind those cards, card by card (110 artists).