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Happy New Year!
New Year’s Eve Fireworks
The Holiday season is one of the busiest at Walt Disney World, with events including Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party, Jollywood Nights, and EPCOT’s International Festival of the Holidays (including performances of the Candlelight Processional) drawing in huge crowds. Of course, the Holiday season culminates on New Year’s Day! We headed into Magic Kingdom on the first day of 2025 to see what the crowds were looking like.
2025 is going to be a BUSY year for Disney World!
EPCOT
Quite a few rides will be closing in 2025, with a mix of refurbishments and permanent closures due to construction projects. That means you’ve got to check those calendars before your vacation to make sure your favorite attraction is still operating! And now, we can add another ride to the list of those that will be unavailable.
Another Disney World ride will close in January 2025.
Cinderella Castle
We already know that Big Thunder Mountain Railroad will close for at least a year beginning January 6th, 2025. And over in Animal Kingdom, Kali River Rapids will close for refurbishment on January 6th. Also in Animal Kingdom, TriceraTop Spin will be closing permanently on January 13th, 2025, to make way for the new Tropical Americas land. Now, Disney has just announced that a Tomorrowland ride will close soon. Let’s take a look!
There are going to be some big closures in Disney World in 2025!
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
Next year, parts of DinoLand, U.S.A. begin to close as the land gets transformed into the Tropical Americas. Also, we have the scheduled closures of Tom Sawyer Island and the Liberty Square Riverboat as construction begins on the new Cars attractions for Frontierland. But what about seasonal refurbishments? Well, we’ve got some of those on the way too!
Disneyland Resort is always being updated and undergoing changes, and it looks like 2025 will be no different!
Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland
We are already seeing planned refurbishments included on the calendar, and we want to make sure you know what will be closed soon.
The time has come!
DinoLand, U.S.A.
Disney has shared that DinoLand, U.S.A. will be closing for good in Animal Kingdom to make room for the new Tropical Americas Land — Pueblo Esperanza. The first round of closures was announced for January 12, 2025, including TriceraTop Spin, Fossil Fun Games, and Chester & Hester’s Dinosaur Treasures. When Disney first confirmed that DinoLand would be closing, they shared that there was still time to “get that dino” on Dinosaur, but we didn’t know just how much time that meant. Well, now we have a clue.
Disney’s about to make some significant changes to Hollywood Studios!
Disney’s Hollywood Studios
A new Villains stage show that’s replacing Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy, a new version of The Little Mermaid stage show in Animation Courtyard, and of course, the brand-new Monsters, Inc.-inspired land that’s taking over Muppets Courtyard are all on the calendar. But what about the updates to Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster? We foresee a bit of a problem there!
The time has officially come in Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
Hollywood Studios
Yesterday, we said goodbye to an adorable attraction that was fit for all ages. Over on Sunset Boulevard, tucked away close to where Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster is located but even FURTHER behind it sat Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy, but as of today, it’s no more.
It’s not uncommon for Disney rides to be closed during your vacation.
Pirates of the Caribbean Disneyland
Disneyland Resort and Disney World are home to dozens of rides each, and many of those rides are a few decades old. For safety, attractions must get regularly scheduled refurbishments to keep them up to date. Thankfully, you can check the calendars online to see which rides will be closed during your trip!
From time to time, we see Disney rides get updates!
Disneyland
Many times, rides will close for refurbishment and just get general touch-ups and technology updates, but sometimes Disney takes that chance to change some scenes. (We saw this happen with rides like Jungle Cruise and Pirates of the Caribbean in the past!) Recently, Disney World made some interesting modifications to its version of Peter Pan’s Flight, and now it looks like that change will come to the West Coast as well.
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