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Major changes are happening all around Disney World right now!
Cinderella Castle
DinoLand U.S.A. is being transformed into Pueblo Esperanza, and over at Magic Kingdom, new Villains Land and Cars attractions are coming, too. Magic Kingdom is about to look a whole lot different, and Disney just shared the opening date for a new shop coming to Frontierland!
Disneyland is getting a BRAND-NEW transportation hub, and it’s going to be a game changer!
Disneyland Entrance and Train Station
As part of its DisneylandForward decade-long expansion, the Southern California theme park resort has a bunch of fun stuff in the works. With all the new attractions and an entire Avatar land on the way, attendance is likely to go up, and that means an overhaul of how transportation at the resort works will be needed.
The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District (CFTOD) recently released information for its meeting on June 27th, 2025. The agenda includes a public hearing on amendments to the district’s current comprehensive plan, Comprehensive Plan 2045, which is intended to “provide the basis for future decisions regarding land use, development, conservation, and infrastructure.”
Island Tower
The plan serves as the district’s policy on land use. It provides a framework for expansion while “managing growth, protecting the environment, ensuring health and safety, and enhancing the quality of development.” The plan shows potential development and expansion over the next twenty years, but ONLY outlines potential development at Disney World. Just because the plan allows for specific development does not mean Disney will actually follow through with all of the approved development.
A LOT is changing in Disney World, including in Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
Disney’s Animal Kingdom
We’ve already seen parts of DinoLand U.S.A. closed down as Disney starts work on Pueblo Esperanza, a new Tropical Americas-themed land. We’ve also said goodbye to the “It’s Tough To Be A Bug” attraction in the Tree of Life…and we know that a new Zootopia-themed show will be taking its place. Well, we’ve now got a big update about the Zootopia show.
So Disney has teased us with an announcement about the new Disney Villains Land in Magic Kingdom, but since then, it’s been basically crickets.
The new Villains Land coming to Magic Kingdom will feature fan-favorite Disney Villains from popular Walt Disney Animation Studios films and two new attractions.
We’ve done a lot of guessing from the concept art to figure out what this new land might include, but as we all know, things change a lot from concept art to reality. We know that this new land will go behind Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and that it’s part of one of the biggest expansions in Magic Kingdom history. But what else do we know? Well, not a lot. So, when will we know more? Let’s take a look at when Disney might finally make some more Villains Land announcements.
Universal has been doing some serious expanding and coming up with new theme parks and experiences all over the world.
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Recently, a new Universal horror experience opened in Las Vegas. PLUS Universal is bringing a new park to the U.K. A new park, Universal Kids Resort, is under construction in Frisco, Texas. Well, we recently took a drive to Frisco to check out the latest construction progress of this new theme park, and things are moving right along.
Magic Kingdom is going through a lot of changes over the next few years — so much so that it’s sometimes hard to keep track of them all.
Cinderella Castle
Astro Orbiter has been put back together following a months-long refurbishment, we have a closing date for Tom Sawyer Island and the Liberty Square Riverboat to turn into the new Piston Peak land, and we know that Villains Land construction is underway behind Big Thunder Mountain Railroad (which is also under construction right now), but believe it or not, that’s not all! There’s also a change coming to the Walt Disney World Railroad you won’t want to forget.
Disney just dropped some exciting news about the new Tropical Americas — Pueblo Esperanza land coming to Animal Kingdom in a few years!
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This is the new area of the park that’s replacing DinoLand U.S.A., so while we’re certainly sad to see such an iconic part of the park go, we’re also looking forward to what’s new. We now know that The Boneyard will be closing on September 2nd, 2025 and Disney assured us that a new play area will be coming to Pueblo Esperanza. However, there is another smaller detail of this land that nobody is talking about enough– the new dining location coming to Pueblo Esperanza sounds like it’s going to be MASSIVE.
When you think of moseying through Frontierland in Magic Kingdom, going shopping probably isn’t the first thing that comes to your mind.
Jessie in Frontierland!
And we totally get why — there’s not a ton of shopping to do here! Instead, you may think about going to see Country Bear Musical Jamboree, riding Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, or find yourself pondering what the new Cars land, Piston Peak, will look like in the area. However, that might change soon, because as it turns out, there’s a NEW shop coming to Frontierland!
A LOT is going on in Disney’s Hollywood Studios. We just witnessed the arrival of two brand-new shows (The Little Mermaid — A Musical Adventure and Disney Villains: Unfairly Ever After). We also just said goodbye to Muppets Courtyard as it was closed recently to make way for a new Monsters, INC. land.
Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster
Well, as you may know, the Muppets will be moving over to Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster sometime in 2026, and we’ve just spotted a new permit that could hint at future work to get ready for the coaster’s closure and re-theming.
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