ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The wildest ride in the wilderness is back.<\/p>\n
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World will reopen May 3 after a lengthy refurbishment that has lasted since January 2025, Disney announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad reopens May 3 after over a year of refurbishment
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The ride has new tracks and refreshed trains for a smoother experience
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Updates to ride themes include new magical elements for fans to discover<\/p>\n
The reason for the downtime \u2014 Disney has installed all-new track for the ride, which should make for a smoother experience, and refreshed the passenger trains, the theme park announced.<\/p>\n
The height requirement has also been lowered to 38 inches, down from 40.<\/p>\n
In addition, updates were also made to the theme of the ride, with Disney revealing that it will reopen “with new magic for fans to discover.”<\/p>\n
Disney previously shared concept art of what is in store.<\/p>\n
The company previously revealed a refreshed scene that shows the train as it rumbles its way through a “beautiful” yet “menacing” Rainbow Cavern.<\/p>\n
Big Thunder Mountain isn’t the only ride park visitors can rediscover in Magic Kingdom.<\/p>\n
Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin reopened to all guests on Wednesday with new hand-held blasters, upgraded targets and ride vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The wildest ride in the wilderness is back. Big Thunder Mountain Railroad in the Magic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8564,274,2405,6859,28,2200,2204,115,1335,139,141,140,275,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-223892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-app-attractions-insider","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-attractions","11":"tag-disney","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-instagram-bn9","14":"tag-instagram-n13","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-orange-county","17":"tag-orlando","18":"tag-orlando-headlines","19":"tag-orlando-news","20":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","21":"tag-tampa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}