It’s not unusual when Disney World broadcasts one thing new coming to the parks for a lot of followers to be upset. One thing new opening typically means one thing previous closing, however one of many new additions to Disney World within the subsequent few years isn’t merely a brand new attraction, it’s a large redevelopment of Magic Kingdom and followers are completely letting Disney have it.
Over the weekend Disney Parks Chairman Josh D’Amaro appeared at SXSW and mentioned a number of of the brand new sights coming to varied Disney Parks world wide. This included the brand new Vehicles sights set to switch the Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer Island at Magic Kingdom. A video was proven revealing a few of the early take a look at work for the attraction. That video later appeared on the Disney Parks Twitter account.
Actual-world engineering meets Disney magic. 🚙✨ Walt Disney Imagineering shares a behind-the-scenes have a look at off-road testing for the brand new Vehicles attraction coming to the Magic Kingdom at @WaltDisneyWorld. https://t.co/oBkKleOwz8 #SXSW pic.twitter.com/jfpSYdsz59March 8, 2025
If Disney was anticipating followers to reply by speaking about how cool all this seemed, they have been mistaken. The put up has been totally “ratioed” with an absolute blitz of replies and quotes telling Disney World in quite a lot of ways in which they’re not pleased with this modification. Feedback embrace…
- Don’t do that. No one needs this.
- Not price sacrificing rivers of America can’t you set this in Hollywood studios?
- I might be excited for this if it was *past* Huge Thunder and never changing a quintessential side of the park in Rivers of America
- It’s like demolishing the fort to place up a tilt-a-whirl
To be honest, there are constructive responses to the video as nicely. There are some who appear legitimately enthusiastic about what’s to return, however these voices are being drowned out by the cacophony coming from those that don’t need to see this occur.
Each theme park attraction is any individual’s favourite so there’ll by no means be common reward for one thing being eliminated, except you are Quick & Livid: Supercharged. Nonetheless, the 2 sides of the argument, these enthusiastic about what’s new versus these offended at what’s being misplaced, appear extra lopsided than typical this time round.
Few if any are actively in opposition to new Vehicles sights on spec. Fairly, practically all people would appear to agree that the brand new sights look tremendous, even nice. The issue is what’s being misplaced to make room for them. The lack of the Rivers of America will utterly change not solely the best way Magic Kingdom appears, however the best way it feels. It’s even brought on me to rethink my emotions on closing sights.
Whereas the voices in opposition to the brand new Vehicles sights are loud, it appears all however sure that the complaints are in useless. Whereas it’s unclear when the work on Frontierland will begin and when the present sights will shut, that day will come. From that time, followers will simply want to attend and see what the brand new land appears like and hope that it seems nearly as good because it presumably can.