Closing in Disney's Animal Kingdom in 2025
In mid-January, TriceraTop Spin, a Dumbo-style flying carousel ride that opened in 2002, was permanently closed in Disney's Animal Kingdom park. This leaves that park with one fewer attraction designed with small children in mind.
And there's more to come. By the end of 2025, the final date will be posted for the elaborate Dinosaur indoor ride, which has been going since 1998 and is expected to cease operations by early 2026. The company has said the ride will be changed, through renovations, to become an attraction themed to Indiana Jones. The existing track system will reportedly not change.
Those two rides must go because Disney is shifting the quadrant of the park that they occupy from a dinosaur-themed area to Tropical Americas, an area pitched to the Disney intellectual property Encanto.
The company says it will build a new ride based on that movie in the same area.
The long-running A Bug's Life–themed sensory show It's Tough to Be a Bug!, playing since 1998, is on the way out, too. After March 16, 2025, Disney will retire it and eventually replace it with a show themed to the more recent (i.e., more bankable) Disney franchise Zootopia. There used to be two locations for this attraction—the other one was once in Disney California Adventure—but as of March 17, they'll both be history.
Closing in EPCOT in 2025
One of EPCOT's most popular rides, Test Track, closed in June 2024 for a gut renovation that will yield the third version of the attraction since it opened in 1999, and the fourth ride in the same building since 1982. Test Track won't be operational again until sometime in the summer of 2025.
Out the International Gateway of EPCOT, Jellyrolls dueling piano bar announced that it will soon its location, too, although a date has not yet been announced. For nearly 30 years, Jellyrolls has been a staple in Disney's BoardWalk, a dining-and-entertainment district that has seen much recent upheaval..
Note that the maintenance schedule for rides at Disney World includes closures of several months for more rides that aren't on this list: Animal Kingdom's Kali River Rapids and EPCOT's Gran Fiesta Tour Starring the Three Caballeros have also closed for service periods of a few months in early 2025.
Other Walt Disney World parks closed in 2025
Disney World has two water slide parks, Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon. But ever since the Covid-19 pandemic, the company has been pinching pennies by only opening one water park at a time—even in the heat of summer.
Unless the company reverses course, vacationers will only be able visit to one or the other, depending on what's open when they're in town.
