We’ve been watching pavement be replaced throughout Walt Disney World, including in Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom. Pavement work in Tomorrowland moved towards the land’s main thoroughfare a few days ago, which led us to speculate that the themed 1994 New Tomorrowland “gear” pavement would be replaced. Well, that replacement is now confirmed.
A large completed section in the center of the land is now just generic pavement. This coloring matches all of the ground that was replaced near the Tomorrowland Speedway recently.
With much of the ground around it already scored, we suspect it is only a matter of days until this grey pavement is covering all of Tomorrowland.
A few small segments are being completed overnight each evening.
Tomorrowland at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World have been through several major updates throughout their existence, but this is the first time we’ve seen it done in such slow phases and with so little actually being altered. It does feel like a budget-conscious update of the land just to allow TRON Lightcycle Run to fit in with the surrounding aesthetic (provided we still don’t even know if the proposed Wreck-It Ralph attraction will ever be put back on track thanks to the pandemic). All that we have really seen are a few signs getting replaced, some new pavement, a lot of white paint, and the removal of select props from 1994 that were easier to remove than others. What we are left with is a sad amalgamation of the 1971 Tomorrowland and the 1994 New Tomorrowland. Generally, the land feels confused as to what it is, and it feels like Disney is confused as to what it is too.
As usual with our exhaustive coverage here at WDWNT, we will update you on the pavement progress as it rolls along.
This is just one of many refurbishment projects Disney has been working on ahead of “The World’s Most Magical Celebration” beginning on the 50th anniversary of Magic Kingdom.
Keep checking WDWNT as we bring updates from Magic Kingdom refurbishment projects.
Let’s remove theming and leave different shades of brand new concrete thru our parks like six flags…. This is an abomination…
Y’all suck by the way I mean Disney not WDWnt, you guys had such a cool and original land and you ruined it to stuff more ips and make it as generic as possible
Not for nothing, but this website is awful. With ads and popups randomly inserted, it makes it impossible to read the actual article.
There should be two ads that aren’t in the article and they should be easy to close. If you are seeing something different, please let us know.
I get 1 on the top of the page that will scroll with the page that I can close, the video that snaps to the bottom right as I scroll past that I have to wait a few seconds to close, at least 1 or more embedded ads that can’t be closed in the body of the article (its between 1-3 depending on the length of the article), then at least 2-3 ads that pop up on the bottom of the screen that will scroll with the page. It’s so messy and it needs to be worked on.
This does not line up with what I am seeing, but we will look into it.
The cheap de magification of Disney continues to make Epcot more generic by the day.
I just can’t understand why they’re spending so much money to go out of their way to make everything more generic and bland.
Is it going to simply just be grey? Or will they add a nice unique color?