Rumor Big Thunder Mountain to receive full retrack

Gusey

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Moth

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Lightning Lane Multipass Tier 1 attractions for Magic Kingdom are:
It seems they can't start this Retrack until Jungle Cruise comes back from refurb unless they want only 3 attractions in tier 1
Sounds like they should take another coaster off of VQ to balance it out...
 

Sneaky

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Lightning Lane Multipass Tier 1 attractions for Magic Kingdom are:
It seems they can't start this Retrack until Jungle Cruise comes back from refurb unless they want only 3 attractions in tier 1
Attractions actually getting refurbs warms my heart. Ik people are complaining about closed attractions, but if you don’t like a genuine Tokyo style refurb calendar, why did you ask for it?
 

Brer Oswald

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Attractions actually getting refurbs warms my heart. Ik people are complaining about closed attractions, but if you don’t like a genuine Tokyo style refurb calendar, why did you ask for it?
I think it goes to show how desperately these parks (even MK) need additional capacity. Tokyo can afford to have two or three headliners down because there are so many offerings. You do the same here (especially with LL+ tiers) and it cripples the park.
 

tinkerblonde11

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Closing in July or early August - oh the pain! My trip is in September... maybe they'll hold off a little (wishful thinking).

I'm very glad it will be getting some TLC though. Man, I miss those shaking rocks that worked when I was a kid.
 

zipadee999

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This probably should be in the Imagineering section, but I’ve always hoped they’d surprise us and bring back the Rainbow Caverns. What a fun surprise it would be to have a new path created by dynamite, taking a hard left into a new show building, exploring the caverns, and returning to Tumbleweed and the current ride finale.
This could even be a slow dark section after the finale that serves as an extended brake run. Disneyland has Rainbow Ridge, Paris has the tunnel beneath the river, and WDW has nothing. They could even just enclose the current stretch of track leading back to the station after the brakes and install two or three of the more famous Rainbow Caverns water features.

Do we know if the track replacement will necessarily be a massive, one-time undertaking? I wonder if they wanted to minimize downtime they could slightly extend Big Thunder’s annual refurbishments and replace a portion of the layout every year for three or four years until eventually the entire layout has been replaced.
 

ddisneyd

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What’s the current rumoured timeline?
August/September 2024 for 12 months? Or less?
Surely they would want it open again by Summer 2025?
 

DisneyRoy

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What’s the current rumoured timeline?
August/September 2024 for 12 months? Or less?
Surely they would want it open again by Summer 2025?
I don’t know. Can they retrack the whole coaster with a mountain around it in 12 months? Seems fast to me.
 

IanDLBZF

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This could even be a slow dark section after the finale that serves as an extended brake run. Disneyland has Rainbow Ridge, Paris has the tunnel beneath the river, and WDW has nothing. They could even just enclose the current stretch of track leading back to the station after the brakes and install two or three of the more famous Rainbow Caverns water features.

Do we know if the track replacement will necessarily be a massive, one-time undertaking? I wonder if they wanted to minimize downtime they could slightly extend Big Thunder’s annual refurbishments and replace a portion of the layout every year for three or four years until eventually the entire layout has been replaced.
Something tells me we're getting the Explosive Finale after all.
 

JoeCamel

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If they start it in the September that leaves it down for two sets of Halloween and Christmas crowds, you would think they would want to limit that and shut it down in January
You say that like they care? This is 12+ years in the making and now they can spread the budget between another project
 

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