WDWNT Reporter Dirk Wallen takes us to all 4 Walt Disney World theme parks this time around, stopping to check progress on the Seven Dwarfs’ Mine Train, the Tangled restroom area, the Epcot International Flower and Garden Festival, the Big Thunder Mountain interactive queue, and more! Let’s take a look:
RFID entrance installation continues at the Studios
The large electronic scrolling sign at Sounds Dangerous is now gone, looks like we can finally officially say the attraction is dead
The new Disney JuniorL Live on Stage debuted a few weeks ago
Doc McStuffins was added to the show
As was Sophia the First
Whoops…
It was up there for some of the show…
The Epcot 30th reveal/conceal pin set came out recently
New Spring pins
85th anniversary of the Plane Crazy short
EASTER DUFFY!
New Muppet shirt
Moving over to Animal Kingdom
Kodak picture spots are still up…
RFID entrances still being installed at Animal Kingdom as well
More Kodak
Hard to believe, but they are still installing the nets at Tree of Life
This is taking forever…
Some areas look completed
Others look like no work has even started
Beastly Bazaar will soon open as the Adventurers Outpost, a Mickey and Minnie meet and greet
The Character Landing will soon host Donald and Daisy, Pooh and Tigger are heading to Camp Minnie-Mickey
Pocahontas has already moved out of Camp Minnie-Mickey
The old theater for Pocahontas and Her Forrest Friends is still stroller parking
Some walls up in Camp Minnie-Mickey
We believe they are installing FastPass+ behind these walls at Theater in the Wild
Moving to Epcot, Flower and Garden Festival preparation is in full swing
Some scrims still up near the Oz playground
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs near Germany
Toy Story characters in the American Adventure
Lady and the Tramp in Italy
All of the booths are up… it’s so weird to see these out so early in the year…
They are giving out seed packets to promote Oz: The Great and Powerful and the festival
The Mission: Space facade is being refurbished, the ride is open still
Don’t try to park at the Polynesian Resort, there is a ton of construction equipment sitting there…
Work continues on The Villas at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort. There’s some strange tower rising on the right…
Another somewhat similar structure is rising outside the building on the other side
It’s starting to look like the Grand Floridian
Moving to the Magic Kingdom, Main Street Apparel is behind tarps again
Work continues on Princess Fairytale Hall
Work continues on the Seven Dwarfs’ Mine Train
Work continues on the Tangled restroom area
You can see the tree-stump shaped charging stations gusts can use to charge electronics
Work is nearing completion on the exit of “it’s a small world” that has been behind tarps
Columbia Harbour House is still behind tarps
Work continues on Splash Mountain which is closed until mid-March
More and more progress is being made on the interactive queue at Big Thunder Mountain
I see Marc Davis and Blaine Gibson references…
The detail on the new props is stunning
A nod to Western River Expedition, the attraction originally designed for this space
Most of the work on the mountain looks complete
A few tarps still out there…
This looks like way too much fun…
YES… MUST BLOW STUFF UP!
