Overview

• Magic Kingdom’s Tom Sawyer Island, Liberty Square Riverboat and Rivers of America will close permanently on July 7, ending attractions that opened in 1973.
• Crews have cleared hundreds of trees overnight outside Frontierland to prepare a staging area for upcoming construction.
• Piston Peak National Park, a Cars-themed land featuring an off-road racing adventure, will replace the closed waterways with no opening date yet.
• Walt Disney Imagineering has begun initial work on a Disney Villains land beyond Big Thunder Mountain Railroad without a confirmed timeline.
• Disney’s Hollywood Studios is planning a suspended Monsters, Inc. roller coaster in a new Monstropolis section, though specifics remain unannounced.