Credit: DisneyDisneyland Resort is officially updating its park entrance, which means there are some closures right around the corner.
The Walt Disney Company is currently making some major changes to its theme parks. From Disneyland Resort to Shanghai Disneyland, all of its locations are receiving major upgrades out of the $60 billion set aside to fund exciting new theme park additions, updates, and expansions over the next decade. Work is now beginning on several projects.
Some of these are massive in scale, such as the replacement of DinoLand U.S.A. at Disney’s Animal Kingdom with a Tropical Americas land inspired by Encanto (2021) and Indiana Jones (why Indiana Jones? Well, that’s a whole other conversation).
Elsewhere at Walt Disney World Resort, other exciting changes include Magic Kingdom Park’s very own Cars land, plus the upcoming Monsters, Inc. (2001) land at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
Over on the West Coast, updates are coming to Walt Disney’s OG Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park. Avengers Campus is doubling in size at the latter with two new attractions: Avengers Infinity Defense and Stark Flight Lab. It will also receive a new version of Pandora—World of Avatar and Disney’s first-ever Coco (2017) attraction.
Meanwhile, Disneyland Park is getting the first Walt Disney audio-animatronic, which will operate in rotation with Lincoln at Main Street Opera House, plus Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will open in place of Splash Mountain in what was previously Critter Country on November 15.
A much less elaborate update is also coming to the entrances of both parks. As we previously covered, new turnstiles equipped with MagicBand+ functionality were recently spotted being added to the entrance of Disney California Adventure.
Now, it’s been confirmed that Disney is accelerating the replacement of these turnstiles. Starting October 7, the resort is closing a section of entry gates at Disneyland Park. As per Scott Gustin, Disney will continue to close and update the other gates in phases, with work wrapping up in 2025.
Update: The work on updated entry gates at Disneyland Resort will begin in earnest on Oct. 7 when the first bank of entry gates at Disneyland Park (on the Disneyland west side) will close. The project is being done in phases and is set to be completed in 2025.
Update: The work on updated entry gates at Disneyland Resort will begin in earnest on Oct. 7 when the first bank of entry gates at Disneyland Park (on the Disneyland west side) will close. The project is being done in phases and is set to be completed in 2025. https://t.co/l9TgjtMZ0r
— Scott Gustin (@ScottGustin) September 27, 2024
Disneyland Resort has made some big updates to its infrastructure this year. In May, the resort added a new Downtown Disney security checkpoint near the Simba Parking Lot after previously closing the security checkpoint near the Disneyland Hotel, across from the Sorcerer’s Hat.
What else do you think needs updating at Disneyland Resort?