Overview
- Aerial photos published Saturday show the opening‑day Mike Fink Keel Boat Landing by Haunted Mansion has been fully removed, ending its use as an overflow queue space.
- Inside the drained Rivers of America, crews have installed massive curved concrete retaining walls and carved a sunken valley to hide the future off‑road rally ride below guest sightlines.
- Construction walls now line Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, guest views from lift hills reveal regrading, staged steel rebar, and foundation prep, and a widened pathway is taking shape where the dock stood to route traffic into the new areas.
- Operational changes continue as the Liberty Square Riverboat remains paused, Tom Sawyer Island is retired, Big Al’s closed May 10–11, and Westward Ho is scheduled to close June 22, affecting snacks, queues, and crowd flow in Frontierland.
- A January permit lists Walt Disney Imagineering’s general construction with MLC Theming on the site, and current reporting now pegs Piston Peak’s debut for late 2028 to mid‑2029 with Villains Land following in the 2029–2030 window.