Work is constant on the repainting of the city of Tumbleweed and new steel siding has been added to the newly constructed construction behind Big Thunder Mountain Railroad because the prolonged refurbishment challenge continues.
Huge Thunder Mountain Refurbishment Replace
Our WDWNT reporter first grabbed some pictures from simply exterior the doorway to Huge Thunder Mountain, which initially closed for an prolonged refurbishment in January 2025. Brown development partitions proceed to dam your entire queue pathway, in addition to the exit path to the precise of the doorway.
A number of of the principle queue buildings are nonetheless coated by a brown scrim. Development crew members will be seen working contained in the buildings on what seems to be repainting the partitions and exterior facade.
Crew members had been additionally engaged on among the fake rock work within the Huge Thunder Mountain queue.
Work additionally continues on the thriller constructing being constructed between Huge Thunder Mountain Railroad and Tiana’s Bayou Journey. In a recent update, a number of crew members had been within the course of of putting in sheets of steel throughout what seems to be the roof of the brand new constructing. Now, a number of extra sheets of steel have been put in on one facet of the constructing.
From the deck of the Liberty Sq. Riverboat we didn’t see any main updates, though there’s nonetheless a variety of development gear current.
In our final replace, a conveyable generator had been moved to the facet of the mountain simply above the queue constructing. That has now been eliminated. As a replacement is a small crimson ladder and blue warning column.
Shifting to the precise facet of Huge Thunder Mountain Railroad, the world is receiving extra of the brand new monitor items.
The monitor for this sharp curve part by the water was put in just a few weeks in the past. Now there’s some sort of vivid yellow gear getting used atop the monitor items. This can be an early testing car to verify the monitor is easy and related correctly.
We then boarded the Walt Disney World Railroad to get a view of Huge Thunder Mountain Railroad from the alternative facet. We noticed extra development crew members working within the Huge Thunder Mountain queue.
From the Walt Disney World Railroad, we acquired a greater view of the thriller constructing. Nearly the entire steel siding seems to have been put in on the left facet.
Previously, the backstage upkeep barn that usually housed non-operational trains was eliminated. The outdated constructing was changed with development gear, warning cones, and damaged concrete. Whereas this new constructing could possibly be a substitute for the outdated barn, it’s a lot bigger and could possibly be a part of the biggest Magic Kingdom expansion in history.
Crew members had been working collectively on repainting the facet of the Gold Mud Saloon. The constructing was previously a brown shade. It has now been painted a lightweight blue.
A lot of the buildings and facades in Tumbleweed have been wrapped in scaffolding identical to the saloon, so the entire buildings on this space will seemingly be repainted within the coming weeks.
Huge Thunder Mountain Railroad is predicted to reopen from its prolonged refurbishment someday in 2026. Whereas earlier development permits for the world expired in February and March, Disney not too long ago filed a brand new development allow that doesn’t expire till April 2026. Disney has teased that the attraction could have “a little bit of new magic” when it reopens, although no extra particulars have been shared but.
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