News Astro Orbiter closing for extended refurbishment in Mid-January 2025

[ToTBellHop]

A more “tomorrow ish” elevator experience to the top would be nice

So…blue lighting?

 

[trainplane3]

The planets spun again for a short period after the 2004 refurb. However, they did not spin after the 2014 refurb. My understanding was that during the 2014 the spinning hardware was removed and the planets were made permanently stationary.

Fair enough. I remember hearing about issues with them but couldn't recall when they last spun. Thanks for the info.

 

[Turtlekrawl]

So…blue lighting?

Perfect.
There, you fixed it

 

[ToTBellHop]

Perfect.
There, you fixed it

Well, I are the Magic.

 

[Bocabear]

Being closed for 6-7 months...Figuring they count the end of August as "Summer 2025" that is not enough time to do much other then some routine maintenance... If this were going to involve new lighting or any other plussing they would have already had a huge press release, and a 30 minute program with interviews of the Imagineers involved, showing their field trips to NASA and into Outer Space on SpaceX for research... With this amount of time, expect new seatbelts and a cleaning. Take THAT Epic Universe! lol

 

[AidenRodriguez731]

Being closed for 6-7 months...Figuring they count the end of August as "Summer 2025" that is not enough time to do much other then some routine maintenance... If this were going to involve new lighting or any other plussing they would have already had a huge press release, and a 30 minute program with interviews of the Imagineers involved, showing their field trips to NASA and into Outer Space on SpaceX for research... With this amount of time, expect new seatbelts and a cleaning. Take THAT Epic Universe! lol

The other guy was too early! Here's the random EU comment!

 

[Bocabear]

The other guy was too early! Here's the random EU comment!

that was totally the joke.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

If they're not going to fix the lighting or planets, they should turn it back into Star Jets

 

[James Alucobond]

Eh, I think the orrery is conceptually more timeless and therefore preferable, but they should adjust the styling (especially of the antenna and the globe mounts with the repeated circular punch-outs) to bring the style more in line with classic Tomorrowland.

 

[Rob562]

Just as long as they don't decide to rope Peoplemover into the same refurb I'll be ok.

-Rob

 

[ohioguy]

Hopefully they close it and keep it closed. Waste of space.

 

[peter11435]

Hopefully they close it and keep it closed. Waste of space.

Odd take. This is one attraction that doesn’t really take up any space at all. It exists on the roof of another atttaction that itself exists on the roof of a quick service location.

 

[donaldtoo]

So…blue lighting?

And, they could call them “Spaceolators”.

 

[Horizons '83]

Hopefully they close it and keep it closed. Waste of space.

It literally takes no space and has a very small foot print.

 

[MrPromey]

Hopefully they close it and keep it closed. Waste of space.

Waste of space?

It's literally on the third floor over the People Mover load/unload and a quick service restaurant.

By measure of square footage, this may be the most efficiently used plot of land in all of WDW.

There is a spinner that MK could probably be made better by them removing and returning the space it occupies to how it was previously used but it ain't this one.

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

So many construction walls in 2025...

 

[MrPromey]

So many construction walls in 2025...

That's a lot of dust they're expecting guests to pardon next year.