Vacation spot D23, a small occasion at Walt Disney World that takes place in years the place the principle D23 occasion doesn’t, wrapped up yesterday, and should you’re a fan if Disney Parks, there was lots to be enthusiastic about. Whereas there have been no blockbuster reveals, there was a robust assortment of smaller bulletins that followers appear to be very comfortable about up to now.
Nevertheless, Disney Experiences is at all times good about not asserting something that is likely to be seen as “dangerous information” on an enormous stage. So it’s not precisely a shock, although it’s a bit irritating, that it simply determined to attend till the subsequent day to drop the information that Disney Animal Kingdom’s Dinosaur journey has an official time limit.
Dinosaur Is Closing At Disney’s Animal Kingdom Subsequent Yr
In a considerably stunning transfer, Walt Disney World confirmed the official time limit of Dinosaur at Disney’s Animal Kingdom not by an official press launch or new weblog submit, however by including the dates to an previous submit. Formally, February 1, 2026, would be the final day to expertise the journey. It can shut on February 2nd, making means for a model new Indiana Jones attraction. Begin the countdown to extinction.
A big portion of Dinoland U.S.A., the dinosaur-themed land at Disney’s Animal Kingdom has been closed because the starting of this 12 months. We’ve recognized that Dinosaur wouldn’t shut till someday subsequent 12 months, however precisely when the hammer would fall was unclear.
Whereas Vacation spot D23 solely simply ended, it’s not precisely a shock that this information wasn’t revealed there. Even couched within the focus of the brand new attraction, the affirmation that Dinosaur was closing would have been met with some upset followers. Nonetheless, the truth that the information drops the morning after, with out even a break, makes it clear this element was being deliberately held again. The identical factor occurred final 12 months when the brand new Piston Peak space of Magic Kingdom was introduced at D23, however the announcement of what was closing to make room for it did not occur till the present was over.
Vacation spot D23 had Tons Of Nice Information Too
In fact, this unlucky, however not surprising information is balanced by lots of nice stuff that obtained introduced at Vacation spot D23. Whereas Disney World is dropping one in style attraction, one other, the long-lasting Carousel of Progress, is getting a serious improve. That may embrace a brand new introduction sequence full with a Walt Disney audio animatronic. The primary one made its debut at Disneyland earlier this summer season.
For many who don’t like change and like to experience Walt Disney World’s nostalgia, their want might be granted in at the very least one type, because it was introduced that Cinderella Citadel will endure a brand new paint job, reworking it again to its conventional blue and white look that it had previous to the park’s fiftieth anniversary.
We’ll additionally see an overlay to Tron: Lightcycle Run to coincide with the discharge of Tron: Ares. The attraction will change from its conventional blue to purple, and the music of Daft Punk might be changed by the rating being dealt with by 9 Inch Nails.
Dinosaur was an amazing journey, and it’ll actually be missed. I’m actually hopeful I’ll have an opportunity to get out to Disney World earlier than February to offer it one final journey earlier than it goes extinct.