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WDW Refurb Update: Mad Tea Party, Blizzard Beach Extension, Other Date Changes

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We received a new update from Walt Disney World regarding upcoming refurbishments and have new additions as well as several date revisions. While we recommend verifying all of the changes by visiting our ReSearch page, here are some of the highlights:

  • Mad Tea Party at Magic Kingdom is scheduled to close on January 7, 2013 and re-open on February 19.
  • Splash Mountain dates revised to close on January 2 and re-open on March 20, 2013.
  • The Boneyard at Disney’s Animal Kingdom will have another 2-day closure, closing October 24, 2012 and re-opening on October 26.
  • Blizzard Beach refurbishment has been extended until May 17, 2013. It will also start on January 6, 2013, meaning Typhoon Lagoon will now re-open that same day, which is a little earlier than originally slated.

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Posted by Stitch Kingdom - October 15, 2012 at 10:31 am

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WDW Refurb Update: Splash Mountain Closure in 2013

It should come as no surprise, but now the official Walt Disney World Resort website has been updated to advise that Splash Mountain in Magic Kingdom’s Frontierland will be closing for its nearly-annual slow season refurbishment beginning on February 3, 2013 January 4, 2013 and re-opening on March 21.

In other news, while the official site still shows a tentative re-opening date for Test Track at Epcot, the Disney Parks blog has reported that it will re-open on December 6, 2012, the same day that New Fantasyland in the Magic Kingdom will have its grand opening.

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UPDATE #2: 10/12/12 The official website has been updated to now show a closure date of January 4. Please be advised that the hub (for cast members) reflects slightly different dates.

UPDATE #3: 10/15/12 We have been given another set of dates from another source of January 2 and re-opening March 20, 2013.

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Posted by Stitch Kingdom - October 11, 2012 at 6:19 am

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Splash Mountain Receives Lap Bar Restraints at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom (Photo)

Lap bar restraints added to Splash Mountain at Magic KingdomIt’s a perennial rumor each time Splash Mountain goes down for refurbishment, be it at the Walt Disney World or Disneyland Resort, but this time it’s confirmed: lap bar restraints have been added to Magic Kingdom’s Splash Mountain.

Screamscape confirms the report with a photo of the vehicles with the restraints in place as they have just begun been cycling through the attraction for testing purposes. The white boxes you see sitting in the logs are simply dummy weights designed to simulate the weight of guests to ensure the logs travel through the attraction properly.

According to Screamscape, the new vehicles will restrict each row to a maximum of two guests regardless of size and increase launch times between vehicles by up to 8 seconds each (for a total of 20 seconds) which ensures a slower loading process and a lower theoretical hourly ride capacity (THRC) which will likely also reduce the number of FASTPASSes issued per return window.

Splash Mountain is currently scheduled to re-open on February 1.

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Posted by Stitch Kingdom - January 21, 2011 at 10:13 pm

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WDW Refurb Update: Splash Mountain Closure for January 2011 Announced

With what should come as little to no surprise, the official Walt Disney World website has now posted a closure for Splash Mountain in January for the Magic Kingdom’s attraction annual refurbishment. Currently the site has the attraction as closing on January 3 and re-opening on February 1, 2011, but last-day-of-the-month dates are always suspect and suggest that the closure may continue on into the next month, although this is not the publicly available information at this time. Should we learn of the closure extending into February, we will update the article and note the changes via our official Twitter and Facebook pages.

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Posted by Stitch Kingdom - October 7, 2010 at 5:24 am

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Splash Mountain Closure at Magic Kingdom Confirmed for January/February 2010

After a couple of initial reports of a closure for an extended closure of Splash Mountain 2010, I have followed up on the request of a Stitch Kingdom reader and am sad to report that the attraction is in fact listed on at least one official Disney source as being scheduled for closure from January 3 through February 27, 2010. ReSearch has been updated to reflect this and subscribers affected by this change have been notified.

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Posted by Stitch Kingdom - October 8, 2009 at 3:03 pm

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Space Mountain Refurb Got You Down? Head to Frontierland or Liberty Square During Morning EMH

Beginning next week, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and Haunted Mansion have been added to the attractions open during morning Extra Magic Hours at the Magic Kingdom. Hang on to your hats and glasses and please, please, please don’t forget your death certificate. After all, you can’t run from trouble, there ain’t no place that far.

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Posted by Stitch Kingdom - April 17, 2009 at 12:15 pm

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