On March 12, 2018, during the Pixar in the Parks media event at Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale, Imagineer Jeffrey Shaver-Moskowitz announced the rebranded name and theme of the newly-overhauled King Triton's Carousel of the Sea: Jessie’s Critter Carousel, inspired by Jessie’s wilderness friends featured in the “Woody's Roundup" television show from Toy Story 2.