News Big Thunder Mountain to receive full retrack

[ToTBellHop]

Now when you say through the new year...could someone visiting on the week of January 3-10 maybe get the chance to get on before it goes down or are they closing the sucker the moment that calendar clicks over?

No idea. I doubt a wall goes up the second the ball drops.

 

[HauntedPirate]

BTMRR is “no longer operable”?

That’s simply untrue.

Last I’d heard, they’ll continue allowing us to risk our lives in the haunted mine through the New Year. Could move up
if they don't think they'll need it or the peak holiday weeks.

We were on it earlier this week. Barely made it out with our lives twice, but it was fun.

 

[Basil of Baker Street]

We were on it earlier this week. Barely made it out with our lives twice, but it was fun.

You were one of the fortunate ones.

 

[danlb_2000]

Interesting permit today for the Big Thunder maintenance building. It's from one of Disney's big general contractors and has an expiration of 9/30/2025.

5015 CARIBBEAN WY(WEST MAINTENANCE BLDG) - Dpr Construction - General Construction

 

[Coaster Lover]

Interesting permit today for the Big Thunder maintenance building. It's from one of Disney's big general contractors and has an expiration of 9/30/2025.

5015 CARIBBEAN WY(WEST MAINTENANCE BLDG) - Dpr Construction - General Construction

Interesting... nearly a full year... more than enough time to move/alter the position of it if they wanted to (I know there were talks of routing a path that way around BTMRR to Villians Land which would/could require altering the BTMRR maintenance barn, but that seemed unnecessary with the announcement of the removal of TSI as that freed up plenty of room for pathways beyond BTMRR...). It will be interesting to watch. If that's really what this is (moving/altering the maintenance building, if they are going to be doing a complete retracking, that would be the ideal time to also work on the maintenance building.

Alternatively, could this be similar to the Hagrid's project where they are expanding the maintenance building to allow for more trains (not to run more trains simultaneously, but so they can have more "spare" trains in the shed so anytime they need to remove a train for repairs/maintenance, they always have a train to replace it?

Or I guess it could be neither of these and it's just a gut and rebuild of the building to optimize the use of the space and available equipment to help expedite repair time... the ride is 44 years old and I'm sure they have learned a lot in that time as to what is optimal to maintain the ride... (I have no idea what's going on... just spit balling ideas)

 

[DCBaker]

Disney has announced Big Thunder Mountain Railroad will close for an extended refurbishment beginning January 6, 2025 and will reopen in 2026.

Here's the announcement:

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad will temporarily close for refurbishment on January 6, 2025. The attraction will reopen with a little bit of new magic in 2026

 

[BagOfGroceries]

There’s the retrack

 

[TheCoasterNerd]

HAHAHAHAHA I TOLD YOU (not to brag or anything)

 

[Disney Analyst]

Disney has announced Big Thunder Mountain Railroad will close for an extended refurbishment beginning January 6, 2025 and will reopen in 2026.

Here's the announcement:

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad will temporarily close for refurbishment on January 6, 2025. The attraction will reopen with a little bit of new magic in 2026

Disneyland lift hill upgrades finally? A new version for MK? What are the rumours?

 

[Delta-7]

HAHAHAHAHA I TOLD YOU (not to brag or anything)

***Rebel alliance theme plays as starfighters fly straight towards Death Star II***

 

[Brian]

Disneyland lift hill upgrades finally? A new version for MK? What are the rumours?

Encanto tie-in.

 

[Moth]

HAHAHAHAHA I TOLD YOU (not to brag or anything)

I kneel....

 

[marni1971]

Disneyland lift hill upgrades finally?

Only 9 years late

 

[Moth]

Oh worm we're actually getting the explosive finale? I think I said that before but I wasn't sure. Neat!

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Overlapping closures of BTMRR, Tom Sawyer Island and the Riverboat (and maybe Hall of Presidents)? If so, for how long?

 

[Chip Chipperson]

Disney has announced Big Thunder Mountain Railroad will close for an extended refurbishment beginning January 6, 2025 and will reopen in 2026.

Here's the announcement:

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad will temporarily close for refurbishment on January 6, 2025. The attraction will reopen with a little bit of new magic in 2026

OK, I'll be able to ride it in December before it's shut down for however long ("in 2026" certainly leaves a lot of wiggle room).

 

[JohnD]

So is Tiana going to have the annual winter refurb before BTMRR closes? Or, since it's so new no refurb for Tiana this year to make up for BTMRR slack. If the latter, I suppose it will go down for refurb a year later BTMRR re-opens in little more than year.

 

[RSoxNo1]

The Thunder Mountain page has been updated to reflect the closure, but nothing on Tom Sawyer Island or the Riverboat, that's a little surprising.

 

[IanDLBZF]

I think this is really it. We’re getting the explosive finale!!!

 

[Moth]

The Thunder Mountain page has been updated to reflect the closure, but nothing on Tom Sawyer Island or the Riverboat, that's a little surprising.

I think Sawyer and Riverboat will go down once BTMRR gets closer to reopening. They're trying to avoid a situation where the island, boat, Tiana and BTM are all down at once.