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Antonio's Fiesta de Encanto announced for Tropical Americas, name confirmed at D23 2026, land opening 2027
Indiana Jones and the Myth of the Jade Serpent announced for Tropical Americas, opening 2027
Carousel announced for Tropical Americas, opening 2027
Expedition Everest - Legend of the Forbidden Mountain WDW News Today calls it the first marquee of any kind for Tropical Americas, and it is not at the main entrance. It sits on a scaffolded column along the side path over from Asia, cut to look like an old broken stone tablet. Photos went up Monday.
Indiana Jones and the Myth of the Jade Serpent Disney used its D23 parks showcase to give the Animal Kingdom Indiana Jones attraction a name, Indiana Jones and the Myth of the Jade Serpent, and to confirm that Harrison Ford is the model for its Audio-Animatronics figure. Disney says it is the first time Ford's face will appear on the character at any of its parks. The ride opens in Tropical Americas in 2027, on the site of DINOSAUR.
Expedition Everest - Legend of the Forbidden Mountain Thomas Mazloum interrupted Neil Patrick Harris at D23 to say the Yeti is coming back to life at Disney's Animal Kingdom. Disney gave no timeline, so the strobe light keeps flashing for now.
Antonio's Fiesta de Encanto Blog Mickey caught the Pueblo Esperanza entrance frame mid-build at Disney's Animal Kingdom on Monday, with one steel beam still suspended from the crane hook as crews maneuvered it into place. Elsewhere on the site, fresh steel columns now stand on a poured concrete wall near the green Encanto show building, and Blog Mickey believes they are the start of Casa Madrigal itself. Tropical Americas is still slated for 2027.
Avatar Flight of Passage A Reddit user posted video of a Sunday morning brawl in the Avatar Flight of Passage queue at Disney's Animal Kingdom and said the two groups had been arguing for the entirety of the 80 minute wait. A second angle went up on TikTok overnight, and a public Orange County Sheriff's Office entry logs an 11:21 a.m. battery call on a road that Inside the Magic says matches the approximate address for the attraction.
Mayor Brian Winddancer, the horse mayor voiced by Patrick Warburton in Zootopia 2, now opens the Tree of Life Theater show with a speech of his own. The new pre-show sequence debuts today, adds a few seconds to the roughly nine minute runtime, and is the first notable update since Zootopia: Better Zoogether! opened on November 7, 2025.
