On its quest to insert itself into every corner of relevancy on the Internet, Fortnite may be eyeing up a crossover with another huge game. Notable leaker HypeX has found evidence that a Fortnite Kingdom Hearts collab may be on the horizon, and they're rarely wrong. Apparently, it could be coming in a few months, leaving us with plenty of time to speculate. I have to wonder: how much of a miracle can Fortnite pull off? Can Epic get Disney to hand over Goofy, or is it just Sora and the original characters we can expect to see?
With Kingdom Hearts having celebrated its 20th anniversary last year, we hope the crossover will go big or go home. However, we're not convinced that Goofy or Donald Duck will join the fray, as Disney is famously cagey about its characters, especially when it comes to them when depicted as violent or not family-friendly - when Super Smash Bros. Ultimate featured Kingdom Hearts, it conveniently left out some of the more iconic Disney characters. So while we might miss out on that, we can at least expect to see Sora, Riku, and Kairi skins, alongside the potential for pickaxes and back bling.
That being said, there's still a chance to see Mickey Mouse in Fortnite because of public domain laws. Mickey's first appearance in any media was the 1928 short film Steamboat Willie, which went into the public domain - meaning Disney no longer has copyright over it - back in 2024. You might have noticed some indie horror games featuring Mickey and Minnie in more recent years for this reason.
I still don't think there's a huge chance of it happening, though: Donald and Goofy are still in copyright jail, for now, and I'm not sure Epic would choose to poke the bear by going over Disney's heads, even though the latter no longer owns its signature mouse in the way it once did. Mickey and Goofy or not, trusted leakers like HypeX say that the collaboration will be with us soon, and I'm hoping it brings another layer of silly to Fortnite.
Not that it can get much more silly. With the scope and pace of collaborations, we're seeing the likes of Fortnite Kim Kardashian and Michael Scott's Fortnite skin fighting alongside Kingdom Hearts characters. Such interesting times we live in. This is the golden age of globalization we were promised when the Internet was born, I guess. Keep an eye out for more Fortnite x Kingdom Hearts news as leakers reveal more details of the collaboration soon. In the meantime, I'll be very busy with the Honkai Star Rail Fortnite collab.