{
  "id": "hocus-pocus",
  "title": "Hocus Pocus",
  "description": "Salem’s witches from their seventeenth-century origins to the two different sequel stories: the films and the next-generation novel. Includes prose and audio adaptations, official animated retellings, a playable adaptation, stage narrative and qualified crossover material.",
  "continuities": [
    {
      "id": "screen",
      "label": "Films & connected stories",
      "note": "The two released films share one history. The first film’s 1693 origin leads to the Halloween 1993 return; the second film follows twenty-nine years later. Promotional performances and crossover games occupy qualified overlapping windows, not certified gaps between film scenes. Their real production dates are not automatically fictional years."
    },
    {
      "id": "prose",
      "label": "The All-New Sequel — next-generation book continuation",
      "note": "The original film is the shared starting story. A. W. Jantha’s sequel follows Max and Allison’s daughter Poppy twenty-five years later; it is not the Becca / Izzy / Cassie story of Hocus Pocus 2. Print and audio share each story position. Repeated opening records are shared references, not extra unique works."
    }
  ],
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": "young-sisters",
      "title": "Hocus Pocus 2 — young Sanderson sisters",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "1653; Winifred’s sixteenth birthday",
      "order": 1653,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2022",
      "description": "The sisters leave Salem and meet the Witch Mother.",
      "note": "Optional prologue: D23 explicitly identifies the Reverend’s 1653 setting. Forty years before the first story’s 1693 opening, rather than 2022 because of the release year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "origins",
        "film2"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "1653",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Official identity / synopsis and edition checked; complete film, book, audio or game script not directly inspected.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-293ff28f-94bc-4065-89aa-22e59017b3c1",
      "productName": "Watch on Disney+",
      "productMatch": "Exact second film, not the differently plotted prose sequel. Subscription / region availability applies.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch on Disney+"
    },
    {
      "id": "binx-origin",
      "title": "Hocus Pocus — Binx and the sisters’ hanging",
      "type": "Film / novel segment",
      "date": "October 31, 1693",
      "order": 1693,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1993; prose 2018",
      "description": "Emily and Thackery Binx encounter the witches before their execution.",
      "note": "Optional historical opening. The actual licensed Jantha excerpt prints the date and the Salem / 1693 chapter heading. This does not claim the full 1993 film or every novel chapter was inspected.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "film",
        "book-interior",
        "first-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "1693",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Official identity / synopsis and edition checked; complete film, book, audio or game script not directly inspected.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BTZ8K9F",
      "productName": "Hocus Pocus — home edition",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding first-film edition linked by Disney Movies, Amazon product title checked. Not the streaming sequel or an unrelated same-title novel.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "first-film",
      "title": "Hocus Pocus — first film",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "October 31–November 1, 1993; three hundred years later",
      "order": 1993,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1993",
      "description": "Max’s Halloween dare resurrects the sisters; the children must survive until sunrise.",
      "note": "The licensed excerpt explicitly heads the modern scene SALEM, 1993 and identifies Halloween, corroborating the three-hundred-year interval. One continuous night runs to dawn.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "film",
        "first-clock",
        "book-interior",
        "amazon-film"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "1993",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Official identity / synopsis and edition checked; complete film, book, audio or game script not directly inspected.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BTZ8K9F",
      "productName": "Hocus Pocus — home edition",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding first-film edition linked by Disney Movies, Amazon product title checked. Not the streaming sequel or an unrelated same-title novel.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "first-night",
      "productLinks": [
        {
          "productUrl": "https://movies.disney.com/hocus-pocus",
          "productName": "Official viewing options",
          "productMatch": "Corresponding Disney first-film viewing / edition page.",
          "actionLabel": "Official viewing options"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "strasser-novel",
      "title": "Hocus Pocus — Todd Strasser junior novelization",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "October 31–November 1, 1993; adapted first-film story",
      "order": 1993,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "1993",
      "description": "The original Disney Press junior novel adapts the candle resurrection and Salem rescue.",
      "note": "Grouped with the story it retells, not a later incident. Full legal interior not recovered; bibliographic record / exact edition checked.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "strasser",
        "strasser-isbn",
        "film"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "1993",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Official identity / synopsis and edition checked; complete film, book, audio or game script not directly inspected.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1562823736",
      "productName": "Hocus Pocus — original Todd Strasser junior novel",
      "productMatch": "Exact Disney Press ISBN 9781562823733 / 1562823736. Amazon request did not expose a readable page; this is a bibliographically matched older edition, not a stock guarantee.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "first-night"
    },
    {
      "id": "illustrated-novel",
      "title": "Hocus Pocus — Illustrated Novelization",
      "type": "Illustrated novel",
      "date": "October 31–November 1, 1993; same first-film story",
      "order": 1993,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2022",
      "description": "Jantha retells the original story with Gris Grimly illustrations.",
      "note": "Publisher explicitly identifies a first-film retelling. The 2022 publication is not the second film’s plot or another Halloween resurrection.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "illustrated",
        "amazon-illustrated",
        "film"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "1993",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Official identity / synopsis and edition checked; complete film, book, audio or game script not directly inspected.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1368076688",
      "productName": "Hocus Pocus: The Illustrated Novelization",
      "productMatch": "Exact illustrated hardcover ISBN 9781368076685; actual Amazon product title checked.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "first-night"
    },
    {
      "id": "jantha-part-one",
      "title": "Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel — Part One",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "October 31–November 1, 1993; with a 1693 opening",
      "order": 1993,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2018",
      "description": "The first half of Jantha’s two-part volume retells Max’s adventure.",
      "note": "Same story position as the film. This is the same physical book as the later Poppy sequel; shared record avoids counting the containing edition twice. Actual permitted opening excerpt read.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "book",
        "book-premise",
        "book-interior",
        "amazon-book"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "1993",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Actual Disney-permitted opening chapter excerpt read: explicit October 31, 1693 epigraph and SALEM, 1693 heading; not the full novel.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1368020038",
      "productName": "Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel — hardcover",
      "productMatch": "Exact two-part book, ISBN 9781368020039; one purchase contains both Part One and Part Two. Actual Amazon title checked.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "first-night",
      "shared": true
    },
    {
      "id": "audio-part-one",
      "title": "Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel — audio, first story",
      "type": "Audiobook",
      "date": "October 31–November 1, 1993; historical opening in 1693",
      "order": 1993,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2018; current edition 2025",
      "description": "Eileen Stevens narrates the first-film retelling in the unabridged two-part book.",
      "note": "Same complete recording as the later sequel segment; shared first-half record, not another audio product. Publisher and licensed audio metadata checked; complete recording not listened to.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "audio",
        "audio-original",
        "book-premise"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "1993",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Official identity / synopsis and edition checked; complete film, book, audio or game script not directly inspected.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/815639/hocus-pocus-and-the-all-new-sequel-by-a-w-jantha/",
      "productName": "Listen / view official audio edition",
      "productMatch": "Exact Eileen Stevens unabridged audio, 11h28m. Contains both time periods, not separate audio purchases.",
      "actionLabel": "Listen / view official audio edition",
      "storyGroup": "first-night",
      "shared": true
    },
    {
      "id": "chibi-short",
      "title": "Hocus Pocus: As Told By Chibi",
      "type": "Animated short",
      "date": "1993 Halloween story; compressed comic retelling",
      "order": 1993,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "October 2022",
      "description": "The original film is condensed into a miniature animated recap.",
      "note": "Promotional stylization of the first story, grouped with it. A 2022 upload does not make this Hocus Pocus 2; episode titles are used instead of conflicting regional numbering.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "chibi",
        "film"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "1993",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Official identity / synopsis and edition checked; complete film, book, audio or game script not directly inspected.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBTXJ-5FZY4",
      "productName": "Watch on YouTube",
      "productMatch": "Exact official Disney Channel Animation short; not an unofficial recap.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch on YouTube",
      "storyGroup": "first-night"
    },
    {
      "id": "emoji-short",
      "title": "Hocus Pocus — As Told By Emoji",
      "type": "Animated short",
      "date": "1993 Halloween story; emoji retelling",
      "order": 1993,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "Disney+ short; current series listing verified 2026",
      "description": "Emoji versions of the cast retell the familiar Halloween adventure.",
      "note": "Same underlying story, not a new resurrection. Current Disney+ catalogue labels it S6:E14; no unsupported original release day asserted.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "emoji",
        "film"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "1993",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Official identity / synopsis and edition checked; complete film, book, audio or game script not directly inspected.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.disneyplus.com/en-au/browse/entity-695df2c4-80be-41f2-b7ce-5025a83e40ca",
      "productName": "Watch on Disney+",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding official As Told By Emoji series; select Hocus Pocus. Regional labels / availability may differ.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch on Disney+",
      "storyGroup": "first-night"
    },
    {
      "id": "board-game",
      "title": "Hocus Pocus: The Game — cooperative film scenario",
      "type": "Board game",
      "date": "1993 Halloween scenario; possible gameplay outcomes",
      "order": 1993,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2020",
      "description": "Players disrupt the sisters’ potion before sunrise with help from Binx.",
      "note": "Actual rules opening recreates the candle / Salem / dawn setup. A playable adaptation at the first film’s position, not evidence of an additional literal resurrection. Variable win / loss states are game outcomes.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "board",
        "board-interior",
        "film"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "1993",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Actual rulebook opening visually inspected; six-page rules text checked. Not every physical card inspected.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.ravensburger.us/en-US/products/games/strategy-games/disney-hocus-pocus-the-game-60001875",
      "productName": "View official game",
      "productMatch": "Exact licensed board game; no unrelated card deck substituted.",
      "actionLabel": "View official game",
      "storyGroup": "first-night"
    },
    {
      "id": "second-film",
      "title": "Hocus Pocus 2 — present-day story",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "October 31–November 1, 2022; twenty-nine years after 1993",
      "order": 2022,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2022",
      "description": "Becca and Izzy accidentally summon the sisters on Becca’s sixteenth birthday.",
      "note": "Disney’s twenty-nine-year interval gives 1993 + 29 = 2022. The 1653 prologue is an optional earlier segment, not a separate prequel film.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "film2",
        "origins",
        "first-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "2022",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Official identity / synopsis and edition checked; complete film, book, audio or game script not directly inspected.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.disneyplus.com/browse/entity-293ff28f-94bc-4065-89aa-22e59017b3c1",
      "productName": "Watch on Disney+",
      "productMatch": "Exact second film, not the differently plotted prose sequel. Subscription / region availability applies.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch on Disney+"
    },
    {
      "id": "spell-book",
      "title": "The Hocus Pocus Spell Book — witch history & sisters’ commentary",
      "type": "In-universe companion book",
      "date": "est. seventeenth-century lore through a modern companion frame",
      "order": 2022.1,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2022",
      "description": "Spells and witch history are presented with comments from Winnie, Mary and Sarah.",
      "note": "Publisher verifies character commentary / lore. Broad anthology window overlaps the films; not a dated newly discovered book or 240 pages of verified new adventures. Full interior remains unavailable.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "spell",
        "books-archive"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "17th century–Modern era",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Official identity / synopsis and edition checked; complete film, book, audio or game script not directly inspected.",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1368076696",
      "productName": "The Hocus Pocus Spell Book",
      "productMatch": "Exact publisher ISBN 9781368076692; actual Amazon availability not independently verified.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "stage-story",
      "title": "Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular",
      "type": "Stage show",
      "date": "est. contemporary era; one Halloween night",
      "order": 2022.2,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2015–2026 performances",
      "description": "The sisters enlist Disney villains to make a spectacular Halloween party.",
      "note": "Official commissioned stage narrative kept visible. Seasonal performance years do not prove a position after Hocus Pocus 2 or establish that every guest villain shares Salem’s film history.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "stage",
        "stage-origin"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "est. contemporary era",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Official identity / synopsis and edition checked; complete film, book, audio or game script not directly inspected.",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/en_CA/entertainment/magic-kingdom/hocus-pocus-villain-spectacular/",
      "productName": "View official show information",
      "productMatch": "Exact show page; park admission is separate. This is information, not a free complete replay or ticket purchase.",
      "actionLabel": "View official show information",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "hulaween",
      "title": "In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover",
      "type": "Scripted reunion special",
      "date": "est. contemporary era; mockumentary resurrection frame",
      "order": 2022.3,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "October 2020",
      "description": "Elvira’s mockumentary search frames a scripted cast reunion.",
      "note": "Producer’s event record and contemporaneous recap verify narrative material. Not certified film canon; 2020 is its broadcast year, not an exact Salem year. Complete authorized replay not recovered.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "reunion",
        "reunion-story"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "est. contemporary era",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Official identity / synopsis and edition checked; complete film, book, audio or game script not directly inspected.",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.nyrp.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nyrp-annual-report-2021.pdf",
      "productName": "View producer’s event record",
      "productMatch": "Exact producer report of the 2020 special. No current official replay / Amazon product verified; document is not the show.",
      "actionLabel": "View producer’s event record",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "kingdoms-event",
      "title": "Disney Magic Kingdoms — Hocus Pocus 2 event story",
      "type": "Game story",
      "date": "est. contemporary crossover era; immortality quest",
      "order": 2022.4,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "October 2022 event",
      "description": "The Sanderson sisters pursue immortality in the game’s crossover kingdom.",
      "note": "Official quest premise verified, not merely skins. Does not reenact Becca’s film plot or turn October 2022 update dates into a fictional year. Retired event dialogue / all chapters unavailable.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "kingdoms"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "est. contemporary era",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Official identity / synopsis and edition checked; complete film, book, audio or game script not directly inspected.",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.disney-magic-kingdoms.com/news/patchnote_upd63",
      "productName": "Read official event information",
      "productMatch": "Exact historical event page; time-limited content is not promised playable now.",
      "actionLabel": "Read official event information",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "heroes-campaigns",
      "title": "Disney Heroes: Battle Mode — Sanderson friendship stories",
      "type": "Game stories",
      "date": "est. contemporary digital-city crossover era",
      "order": 2022.5,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2021–2026 character additions / service",
      "description": "Sanderson character interactions form part of the game’s crossover friendship stories.",
      "note": "Official containing game plus secondary narrative inventory verified. Not a Salem sequel. All individual friendship chapters, dialogue and internal order are not recovered; no claim that the full monthly event history is complete.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "heroes",
        "heroes-narratives",
        "heroes-shutdown"
      ],
      "continuity": "screen",
      "railLabel": "est. contemporary era",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Official identity / synopsis and edition checked; complete film, book, audio or game script not directly inspected.",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://perblue.helpshift.com/hc/en/3-disney-heroes/faq/689-patch-notes-7-11/",
      "productName": "View developer’s service notice",
      "productMatch": "Exact official retired-game notice. No currently playable official purchase / download promised.",
      "actionLabel": "View developer’s service notice",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "book-shared-origin",
      "title": "Hocus Pocus — shared first-film starting point",
      "type": "Film / shared story",
      "date": "October 31–November 1, 1993; 1693 prologue",
      "order": 1993,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1993",
      "description": "Max and Allison’s first encounter provides the novel sequel’s shared starting point.",
      "note": "Shared reference, not another film or a second count of the original. Select the film history for the other first-story editions and animated adaptations.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "film",
        "book-premise",
        "book-interior"
      ],
      "continuity": "prose",
      "railLabel": "1993",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Official identity / synopsis and edition checked; complete film, book, audio or game script not directly inspected.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BTZ8K9F",
      "productName": "Hocus Pocus — home edition",
      "productMatch": "Corresponding first-film edition linked by Disney Movies, Amazon product title checked. Not the streaming sequel or an unrelated same-title novel.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "shared": true,
      "storyGroup": "prose-first"
    },
    {
      "id": "book-shared-part",
      "title": "Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel — Part One, shared reference",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "October 31–November 1, 1993; 1693 opening",
      "order": 1993,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2018",
      "description": "Jantha’s opening part retells the original film.",
      "note": "Included before the twenty-five-year jump. One containing edition includes both parts; shared record is not counted twice.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "book",
        "book-interior",
        "amazon-book"
      ],
      "continuity": "prose",
      "railLabel": "1993",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Actual Disney-permitted opening excerpt read; not the complete first part.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1368020038",
      "productName": "Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel — hardcover",
      "productMatch": "Exact two-part book, ISBN 9781368020039; one purchase contains both Part One and Part Two. Actual Amazon title checked.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "shared": true,
      "storyGroup": "prose-first"
    },
    {
      "id": "poppy-sequel",
      "title": "Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel — Part Two",
      "type": "Novel",
      "date": "Halloween 2018; twenty-five years after the first story",
      "order": 2018,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2018",
      "description": "Poppy Dennison and her friends face another Sanderson threat to her family.",
      "note": "Publisher explicitly gives a twenty-five-year jump and Poppy aged seventeen. Calendar follows 1993 + 25; separate licensed continuation from the second film’s different twenty-nine-year return and protagonists. Full chapters / epilogue dates not directly inspected.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "book",
        "book-premise",
        "amazon-book"
      ],
      "continuity": "prose",
      "railLabel": "2018",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Official identity / synopsis and edition checked; complete film, book, audio or game script not directly inspected.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1368020038",
      "productName": "Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel — hardcover",
      "productMatch": "Exact two-part book, ISBN 9781368020039; one purchase contains both Part One and Part Two. Actual Amazon title checked.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "poppy"
    },
    {
      "id": "poppy-audio",
      "title": "Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel — audio, Part Two",
      "type": "Audiobook",
      "date": "Halloween 2018; same next-generation sequel",
      "order": 2018,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "2018; current edition 2025",
      "description": "The unabridged narration continues with Poppy’s next-generation Halloween.",
      "note": "Same story position as print. The full recording also contains the first story and historical opening; listed first-half references do not imply another purchase. Current 2025 audio edition is not a 2025 fictional sequel.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "audio",
        "audio-original",
        "book-premise"
      ],
      "continuity": "prose",
      "railLabel": "2018",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Official identity / synopsis and edition checked; complete film, book, audio or game script not directly inspected.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/815639/hocus-pocus-and-the-all-new-sequel-by-a-w-jantha/",
      "productName": "Listen / view official audio edition",
      "productMatch": "Exact Eileen Stevens unabridged audio, 11h28m. Contains both time periods, not separate audio purchases.",
      "actionLabel": "Listen / view official audio edition",
      "storyGroup": "poppy"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "film",
      "title": "Disney Movies — Hocus Pocus",
      "url": "https://movies.disney.com/hocus-pocus",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official film identity, Salem / seventeenth-century resurrection premise and home editions. Publication / rerelease dates do not alone date the story."
    },
    {
      "id": "film2",
      "title": "Disney+ — Hocus Pocus 2 official fact sheet",
      "url": "https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/documents/hocus_pocus_2_fact_sheet_disney_72fa224a.pdf",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publisher synopsis explicitly states a twenty-nine-year interval since the Black Flame Candle resurrection. No invented fourth film or next adventure."
    },
    {
      "id": "origins",
      "title": "D23 — Meet the New Characters of Hocus Pocus 2",
      "url": "https://d23.com/meet-the-new-characters-of-hocus-pocus-2/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official character descriptions: Reverend Traske in 1653, Becca’s sixteenth birthday and the twenty-nine-year return. Not a full frame / prop audit."
    },
    {
      "id": "first-clock",
      "title": "Disney Rewards — first-film chronology quiz",
      "url": "https://disneyrewards.com/blog/fun-tips/the-how-well-do-you-know-hocus-pocus-quiz/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official retrospective describes the three-hundred-year return and asks about the opening year. The actual licensed prose excerpt independently prints 1693, avoiding reliance on an unanswered multiple-choice question."
    },
    {
      "id": "book",
      "title": "Disney Books — Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel",
      "url": "https://books.disney.com/book/hocus-pocus/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Two-part 528-page book, July 10, 2018; ISBN 9781368020039 / 1368020038. Not a novelization of the 2022 second film."
    },
    {
      "id": "book-premise",
      "title": "PRH / Disney — two-part novel and sequel interval",
      "url": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/727695/hocus-pocus-and-the-all-new-sequel-by-a-w-jantha/9781368020039/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Publisher text explicitly places Poppy, Max and Allison’s seventeen-year-old daughter, twenty-five years after the first story. The 2018 placement is 1993 + 25, not merely the book’s release date."
    },
    {
      "id": "book-interior",
      "title": "Disney-permitted Jantha excerpt — opening chapter",
      "url": "https://www.iberlibro.com/9781368020039/Hocus-Pocus-AllNew-Sequel-Jantha-1368020038/plp",
      "kind": "Primary / publisher-permitted excerpt",
      "note": "Actual legal excerpt read: epigraph October 31, 1693; headings SALEM, 1693 and SALEM, 1993; modern scene explicitly Halloween, Max sixteen, Dani eight. Seller credits Disney Book Group permission / Dial-A-Book. Full second-part interior not available here."
    },
    {
      "id": "illustrated",
      "title": "PRH / Disney — Illustrated Novelization",
      "url": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/728496/hocus-pocus-the-illustrated-novelization-by-a-w-jantha/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "A. W. Jantha / Gris Grimly illustrated retelling of the first film. Hardcover ISBN 9781368076685; the publisher does not describe it as a new sequel."
    },
    {
      "id": "strasser",
      "title": "Google Books — Disney Press / Todd Strasser original novelization",
      "url": "https://books.google.com/books/about/Hocus_Pocus.html?id=8EWdxgEACAAJ",
      "kind": "Bibliographic / publisher metadata",
      "note": "Bibliographic record identifies Todd Strasser, Disney Press, 1993, 103 pages. Original junior novelization is distinct from Jantha’s later adaptations; complete legal interior not recovered."
    },
    {
      "id": "strasser-isbn",
      "title": "Better World Books — original Disney Press edition",
      "url": "https://www.betterworldbooks.com/product/detail/hocus-pocus-9781562823733",
      "kind": "Secondary / edition catalogue",
      "note": "ISBN 9781562823733 / 1562823736 and Disney Press / Todd Strasser edition match; complements original book bibliography. Amazon page did not return a readable listing, so availability is not claimed."
    },
    {
      "id": "audio",
      "title": "Listening Library / PRH — Jantha unabridged audio edition",
      "url": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/815639/hocus-pocus-and-the-all-new-sequel-by-a-w-jantha/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Current July 15, 2025 audio edition: Eileen Stevens, 11 hours 28 minutes, ISBN 9798217291366. Same two stories, not a third sequel. A current reissue is not the first audio publication."
    },
    {
      "id": "audio-original",
      "title": "OverDrive — original Disney Press audio record",
      "url": "https://www.overdrive.com/media/4097875/hocus-pocus-and-the-all-new-sequel",
      "kind": "Primary / licensed digital edition",
      "note": "Unabridged Disney Press recording released August 14, 2018. Separates initial audio publication from the current Listening Library edition. Legal borrowing / sample depends on the user’s library."
    },
    {
      "id": "chibi",
      "title": "Disney Channel Animation — Hocus Pocus: As Told By Chibi",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBTXJ-5FZY4",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official October 2022 miniature retelling of the first film. Exact regional TV season / episode numbering varies; title identifies the actual story."
    },
    {
      "id": "emoji",
      "title": "Disney+ — As Told By Emoji, Hocus Pocus",
      "url": "https://www.disneyplus.com/en-au/browse/entity-695df2c4-80be-41f2-b7ce-5025a83e40ca",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official episode listing currently identifies Hocus Pocus as S6:E14 and calls it an emoji retelling. Season labels are catalogue metadata, not six fictional years. Full subscription-only short not inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "board",
      "title": "Ravensburger — Hocus Pocus: The Game",
      "url": "https://www.ravensburger.us/en-US/products/games/strategy-games/disney-hocus-pocus-the-game-60001875",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Exact licensed cooperative game; official rule PDF independently identifies the Black Flame Candle / before-sunrise scenario."
    },
    {
      "id": "board-interior",
      "title": "Ravensburger — actual six-page rulebook",
      "url": "https://www.ravensburger.org/spielanleitungen/ecm/Spielanleitungen/26946%20Anl%20Disney%20Hocus%20Pocus.pdf?ossl=pds_text_Spielanleitung",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Actual opening page visually inspected and rules text checked. Film-based Halloween scenario, Binx and sunrise objective; copyright 2020 is production metadata. Gameplay outcomes do not establish a further film resurrection."
    },
    {
      "id": "spell",
      "title": "PRH / Disney — The Hocus Pocus Spell Book",
      "url": "https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/728497/the-hocus-pocus-spell-book-by-eric-geron/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Eric Geron, 2022, ISBN 9781368076692 / 1368076696. Publisher specifically promises witch history and comments by all three sisters, beyond a blank prop replica. Full marginalia / history interiors not accessible; chronology cannot be certified from the blurb."
    },
    {
      "id": "stage",
      "title": "Disney World — Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular",
      "url": "https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/en_CA/entertainment/magic-kingdom/hocus-pocus-villain-spectacular/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official stage narrative: Sanderson sisters return for a night and enlist Disney villains for their party. Current performances August 7–October 31, 2026; those dates are performance dates, not a fixed film calendar."
    },
    {
      "id": "stage-origin",
      "title": "Disney — 2015 Halloween party official guide",
      "url": "https://wdpromedia.disney.go.com/media/wdpro-assets/parks-and-tickets/special-events/mickeys-not-so-scary-halloween/MNSSHP-Guidemap-2015-2-FINAL.pdf",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official 2015 event guide verifies this stage title already existed in 2015. Seasonal restagings are not automatically fresh chronological sequels."
    },
    {
      "id": "kingdoms",
      "title": "Gameloft — Magic Kingdoms Update 63: Hocus Pocus 2",
      "url": "https://www.disney-magic-kingdoms.com/news/patchnote_upd63",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official event synopsis: sisters pursue immortality, with narrative character activities; event began October 20, 2022. Explicitly time-limited, not permanent content. Retired complete quest dialogue not recovered."
    },
    {
      "id": "heroes",
      "title": "Disney — Heroes: Battle Mode official launch trailer",
      "url": "https://video.disney.com/watch/disney-heroes-battle-mode-official-launch-trailer-56c596b6a4394e5e698e03fd",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official containing game. Does not itself show all later Hocus Pocus friendship campaign scripts."
    },
    {
      "id": "heroes-narratives",
      "title": "Disney Heroes — character / friendship inventory",
      "url": "https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Disney_Heroes:_Battle_Mode",
      "kind": "Secondary / game-story inventory",
      "note": "Secondary inventory records Sanderson sisters, character friendship stories and mutual Binx references. Used only for broad included-story inventory; original complete scripts / every chapter title not inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "heroes-shutdown",
      "title": "PerBlue — final update / shutdown announcement",
      "url": "https://perblue.helpshift.com/hc/en/3-disney-heroes/faq/689-patch-notes-7-11/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Developer announces shutdown: May 31, 2026. No official new playable download or paid workaround is promised; unofficial restoration is not an official edition."
    },
    {
      "id": "reunion",
      "title": "NYRP — 2021 annual report / 2020 Hulaween record",
      "url": "https://www.nyrp.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/nyrp-annual-report-2021.pdf",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Producer / beneficiary record identifies the 2020 virtual In Search of the Sanderson Sisters fundraiser. Record of an actual cast reunion, not proof of film canon or a current replay licence."
    },
    {
      "id": "reunion-story",
      "title": "SYFY — actual 2020 scripted reunion recap",
      "url": "https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/hocus-pocus-reunion-fundraiser-in-search-sanderson-sisters",
      "kind": "Secondary / contemporaneous narrative recap",
      "note": "Contemporaneous recap describes Elvira’s mockumentary search / resurrection frame. Complements producer record. No authorized complete replay recovered."
    },
    {
      "id": "books-archive",
      "title": "Disney Books — Hocus Pocus brand inventory",
      "url": "https://books.disney.com/brand/other/freeform/hocus-pocus/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Eight currently listed books checked: includes reference / cookbook / tarot / advent merchandise, not eight new fictional adventures. Original Strasser book and audio require separate bibliographic checks."
    },
    {
      "id": "season",
      "title": "Disney+ — Freeform’s 2026 Halloween schedule",
      "url": "https://www.disneyplus.com/explore/articles/freeform-31-nights-of-halloween",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Current October 1–31, 2026 official programming guide includes repeated Hocus Pocus screenings. Timely seasonal selection, not a claim that a third movie has released."
    },
    {
      "id": "future",
      "title": "Variety — Hocus Pocus 3 development report, May 2026",
      "url": "https://au.variety.com/2026/film/news/hocus-pocus-3-bette-midler-sarah-jessica-parker-kathy-najimy-36317/",
      "kind": "Secondary / trade reporting",
      "note": "Trade report: third film in development. No verified released story / story year; not counted as available."
    },
    {
      "id": "amazon-book",
      "title": "Amazon US — two-part Jantha hardcover",
      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1368020038",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Actual product title checked, matches ISBN 9781368020039. This is both the retelling and prose sequel, not Hocus Pocus 2 on disc."
    },
    {
      "id": "amazon-illustrated",
      "title": "Amazon US — Illustrated Novelization",
      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/1368076688",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Actual product title checked against publisher ISBN 9781368076685. Different product from the two-part sequel hardcover."
    },
    {
      "id": "amazon-film",
      "title": "Amazon US — Hocus Pocus home edition",
      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BTZ8K9F",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Corresponding film product reached from Disney Movies’ actual Amazon edition link; Amazon title checked. Disc / platform / stock details should be checked at the retailer."
    }
  ],
  "scope": [
    {
      "title": "Film history versus Poppy’s book sequel",
      "type": "Continuity contradiction",
      "status": "Two continuation routes, one shared original",
      "note": "The book’s twenty-five-year jump to Max and Allison’s daughter and the film’s twenty-nine-year jump to Becca’s group are different licensed sequel stories. Neither is silently removed or declared an adaptation of the other.",
      "sources": [
        "book-premise",
        "film2"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Print, audio, Emoji, Chibi and the cooperative board game",
      "type": "Adaptation review",
      "status": "Same-story formats grouped",
      "note": "Illustrated novel is not a new adventure; Jantha’s two-part containing book and complete audio are not sold as separate volumes. Shared first halves avoid counting the same edition twice. Rulebook interior confirms the film reenactment premise.",
      "sources": [
        "illustrated",
        "audio",
        "emoji",
        "chibi",
        "board-interior"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Hocus Pocus 2 novelization / graphic novel claims",
      "type": "Negative inventory check",
      "status": "No separate official second-film novelization or comic verified",
      "note": "Search results often call Jantha’s Poppy sequel Hocus Pocus 2, but publisher describes an original prose continuation. Do not invent an Eric Geron film-two junior novel, manga, comic or unrelated Hocus & Pocus title without publisher evidence.",
      "sources": [
        "books-archive",
        "book-premise",
        "spell"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Witches Run Amok; cookbook; tarot; 13 Frights; Art of Coloring",
      "type": "Reference / activity products",
      "status": "Inventoried, not automatically new narrative entries",
      "note": "Disney brand catalogue includes eight current books. Behind-the-scenes essays, recipes, tarot cards, countdown gifts and blank coloring activities are not assumed to be new fictional stories. Spell Book is retained because publisher explicitly identifies character commentary / witch lore.",
      "sources": [
        "books-archive",
        "spell"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash; Begin the Magic; concert screenings / Halloween projections",
      "type": "Retrospectives / reused film material",
      "status": "No extra independent story verified",
      "note": "Cast reunions, making-of documentaries, music performances and projected film scenes are not automatically new sequels. The 2020 scripted Hulaween mockumentary and stage party narrative are separately retained because narrative framing is verified.",
      "sources": [
        "reunion",
        "reunion-story",
        "stage",
        "season"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Hocus Pocus 3",
      "type": "Upcoming film",
      "status": "In development; no released entry or story year invented",
      "note": "May 2026 trade report describes another film in development. No verified release, complete plot or in-universe date for inclusion as a released story.",
      "sources": [
        "future"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Emoji Blitz / Sorcerer’s Arena and other crossover appearances",
      "type": "Crossover coverage boundary",
      "status": "Character availability alone is not narrative proof",
      "note": "No new Sanderson plot is inferred from playable characters, collectible emotes or mobile update branding. Story-bearing Magic Kingdoms premise and Heroes friendship inventory are included with their specific script-recovery limits. More crossover script evidence can refine the inventory.",
      "sources": [
        "kingdoms",
        "heroes",
        "heroes-narratives"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "audit": {
    "checked": "2026-10-21",
    "status": "Research edition — verification gaps disclosed",
    "checks": [
      "Dated expansion log checked: Hocus Pocus not already present. Selected for current official October 2026 Freeform / Disney+ programming and seasonal stage performances, varying from recent game-origin additions.",
      "Pre-build research table reviewed for two films, original Strasser / Jantha print adaptations, Poppy sequel, original and current audio editions, official Emoji / Chibi retellings, actual board-rule narrative, companion lore, stage story, scripted reunion and qualified crossover games.",
      "Dates cross-checked: 1653 official character setting; licensed prose epigraph October 31, 1693; three-hundred-year return gives 1993. Publisher sequel intervals independently give 2018 (25 years) and 2022 (29 years). No release-year shortcut.",
      "Actually read the Disney-permitted Jantha opening excerpt and visually inspected Ravensburger rulebook page 1; copyright / release dates were separated from story dates. No full-book or film-frame inspection claimed.",
      "Same-story formats grouped. Shared book / audio first halves and original-story branch references are not counted again as new containing editions. No unsupported additional movie, comic, game or second-film novelization invented.",
      "Amazon US two-part and illustrated book titles matched directly; original Strasser and Spell Book use verified ISBN matches with availability limitations. Film / game / special entries use exact official access or edition information when an Amazon product is not verified.",
      "Complete pre-build omission / contradiction review accepted with access boundaries explicitly retained. Shared fictional origin and genuinely different sequel plots do not collapse into one contradictory chronological lane."
    ],
    "gaps": [
      "Complete film interiors, full Jantha / Strasser / Spell Book text, complete audio and every animated frame were not inspected. The legal prose opening establishes its printed date but not every chapter’s internal timing.",
      "Poppy sequel calendar is supported by the publisher’s 25-year interval; finer chapter / epilogue transitions remain uninspected. The 2022 screen sequel is a separate story route, not a substitute source for the book’s ending.",
      "Retired Heroes friendship scripts / full Kingdoms event chapters and every historical crossover quest are not recovered. Publisher notices verify time-limited or retired access; no current playable content is promised.",
      "No complete authorized replay of the 2020 scripted Hulaween special recovered. Stage restagings / musical variants and commentary-book marginalia have not been audited scene by scene.",
      "Original Strasser novel and Spell Book Amazon stock were not directly verified; their ISBN matches are explicit. Current audio reissue and limited-service viewing may differ by marketplace or region."
    ],
    "publishReady": true
  }
}