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Disney's construction decade: foundations pouring at Magic Kingdom, Villains Land still dirt
noted Aug 31, 2026
Three years into Disney's $60 billion parks decade, the work is visible but uneven. At Magic Kingdom, crews are pouring concrete foundations and erecting a tower crane for Piston Peak, the Cars land replacing the Rivers of America that closed in July 2025 — while Villains Land next door remains cleared ground used for staging, with major work not expected to ramp until 2027. Animal Kingdom's Tropical Americas is furthest along: its tower crane just came down and the Encanto building's steel is up ahead of a 2027 opening. At D23 in mid-August, Disney named the new rides but still gave no opening dates for the Magic Kingdom lands.
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