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

[Theme Park Nerdo]

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If you look closely, the middle half of the WEDway station platform has a blue color scheme now, when it used to be orange after it's 2014 repaint.

Plus, part of the ceiling after exiting from Space Mountain also has a new blue paint job too.

Part of me is hoping that the PeopleMover finally gets its 1971/1989 colors back in its track and canopy that was lost during the 1994 renovations.

The return of the Bubble Shuffle music loop (preferably the extended Tokyo version) would be appreciated as well ^^

 

[solidyne]

If you look closely, the middle half of the WEDway station platform has a blue color scheme now, when it used to be orange after it's 2014 repaint.

Plus, part of the ceiling after exiting from Space Mountain also has a new blue paint job too.

Part of me is hoping that the PeopleMover finally gets its 1971/1989 colors back in its track and canopy that was lost during the 1994 renovations.

The return of the Bubble Shuffle music loop (preferably the extended Tokyo version) would be appreciated as well ^^

More Larry Carlton is always welcome!

 

[gerarar]

Reassembly of the ride has started and the crane is back:

^grabbed from a livestream today (5/9)

Also to note, the crane currently being used is different than the one that was used for the disassembly. The previous one was yellow while this current one is black.

 

[Stupido]

I think the new color scheme goes a long way to unify Tomorrowland's aesthetic. It looks very clean, and while the old tower coloring had a real life reference, it looked garish and pulled focus in a bad way.

 

[fgmnt]

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fewer more obvious cases for addition by subtraction than just straight up removing that pedestal sign from 1994. i believe those signs are the last obvious 94 theming at the ground level.

 

[DCBaker]

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[Theme Park Nerdo]

Plus, part of the ceiling after exiting from Space Mountain also has a new blue paint job too.

I rode the PeopleMover today, and it's still the same white paint. It was probably either the camera from the recent POV i found it for, I don't really know, I think I may have miscommunicated on my end.