Overview
- Walt Disney World’s Carousel of Progress ran its final public performances on Sunday, July 5, and closed for teardown and construction beginning Monday, July 6.
- In its final days the rotating theater suffered frequent automated turntable halts called “carousel loop” glitches, repeated scene resets, and audio‑animatronic desynchronization that trapped audiences during shows.
- Walt Disney Imagineering will retire the 1994 script, add a lifelike Walt Audio‑Animatronic prologue, and replace every scene with a new timeline set in the 1960s, 1980s, 1999, and a reimagined future.
- Filed construction permits name industrial contractors and show plans that point to heavy structural steel work and a system‑level retrofit replacing six‑decade‑old hydraulic drives with modern electric actuators, which could affect the schedule if more permits are needed.
- Disney staged no official farewell events for the final day, leaving fans to organize grassroots goodbyes inside the theaters while reported wait times remained modest because of the attraction’s large seating capacity.