News The Hall of Presidents closing for refurbishment on January 20, 2025

[JohnD]

Disney World's Hall of Presidents Closes for Refurbishment as Trump Begins New Term, Closure Sign Raises Questions​

Disney World's Hall of Presidents Closes for Refurbishment as Trump Begins New Term, Closure Sign Raises Questions

Disney World's Hall of Presidents Closes for Refurbishment as Trump Begins New Term, Closure Sign Raises Questions

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2025 Sign

2021 Sign

What was the 2017 sign?

 

[JohnD]

Only speculation of course but he isn’t really a new president. He’s already in there, he’d just be changing positions. Maybe that’s what they’re getting at.

Well he is a new President as he's counted as the 47th President. Previously he was the 45th.

 

[EagleScout610]

What was the 2017 sign?

 

[JohnD]

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Thank you. Makes the 2025 sign even more interesting.

 

[The Empress Lilly]

Inside sources reveal they're going to replace the HoP with a revamped Mission to Mars...

 

[DisneyCane]

They should have had it open this morning with a final show timed to end at noon.

 

[Captain Barbossa]

I doubt it will take long to do this. Usually it takes months with a new President. But they have Trump already and basically all they have to do is switch him and Biden and maybe record a new message. It shouldn't take long, maybe a month or two if I were to guess?

Switching the current Trump and Biden figures isn’t “all they have to do”. The current Trump AA doesn’t have the mechanisms for facial movements/speaking. I’m also not entirely sure what arm movements it can do either. It’ll be closed for longer than a “month or two”.

The figure they used for his non-presidential role is entirely new and looks excellent. The sculpt will presumably transfer to the new Presidential speaking role.

That’s the best figure on stage in terms of accurately looking like its real life counterpart. Granted, it doesn’t have the mechanical components in the face, which is one of the reasons why it looks extremely lifelike. Even the post-presidency W. Bush and Obama figures didn’t look too much like them at the time they left office. With the mechanical face/speaking components taken into consideration, I still think this Trump will look a million times better.

 

[discos]

Switching the current Trump and Biden figures isn’t “all they have to do”. The current Trump AA doesn’t have the mechanisms for facial movements/speaking. I’m also not entirely sure what arm movements it can do either. It’ll be closed for longer than a “month or two”.


That’s the best figure on stage in terms of accurately looking like its real life counterpart. Granted, it doesn’t have the mechanical components in the face, which is one of the reasons why it looks extremely lifelike. Even the post-presidency W. Bush and Obama figures didn’t look too much like them at the time they left office. With the mechanical face/speaking components taken into consideration, I still think this Trump will look a million times better.

All they need to do is switch the head and body molds between the two figures. The internal components all remain the same. The old limited motion Trump becomes Biden and the full range Biden becomes Trump.

 

[Brian]

I wouldn't read too much into this.

ETA: I'm not basing this on any "inside" information. Rather, I'm basing it on my experience working at Disney and knowing how things like this can very easily get bungled.

 

[aladdin2007]

I wouldn't read too much into this.

ETA: I'm not basing this on any "inside" information. Rather, I'm basing it on my experience working at Disney and knowing how things like this can very easily get bungled.

Agree its just the sign they chose to use this time probably because were welcoming back a president and not a new one. I would imagine an improved Trump animatronic and other show updates/changes, tech upgrades etc. Putting the muppets into this would be an absolute abomination, unless the show were being removed completely. I think we would have known that was happening by now. Not to mention how awful it would look on Disney to remove it right now just because Trump was reelected. Also, if this show was being removed, I think all the signage out front would have been covered up/removed, and that didn't happen. The refurbishment sign has Hall of Presidents on it as well.

 

[Mr. Sullivan]

Well he is a new President as he's counted as the 47th President. Previously he was the 45th.

Correct he’ll carry both numbers, but based on how they handle Grover Cleveland, he’ll only be called in the roll call once. He also isn’t new to the HoP because he’s already in there and already has a movement profile and already has recorded dialogue.

Like I said above, I can’t see anything changing from what was there in 2017-2021. Unless they wanna go wild, I think they’ll just be reinstating that version of the show. I could see them not referring to the new president if they’re just gonna have it be the same as it was the first time. That wouldn’t really be new.

 

[Cooldip]

I really hope the roll call is changed to ”Grover Cleveland, Benjamin
Harrison, Grover Cleveland … Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Donald Trump.”

 

[ERED]

Inside sources reveal they're going to replace the HoP with a revamped Mission to Mars...

It will actually be an animatronic of Elon......