{"id":301458,"date":"2026-06-09T16:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301458\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T16:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:19:10","slug":"we-got-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-construction-on-this-popular-universal-orlando-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/301458\/","title":{"rendered":"We Got a Behind-the-Scenes Look at The Construction on This Popular Universal Orlando Attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Universal\u2019s most popular rides has been closed since the beginning of the year, and there\u2019s still a long way to go.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-689712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2024-uo-universal-orlando-islands-of-adventure-jurassic-park-sign-entrance-stock.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\"  \/>Jurassic Park at Universal Orlando<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allears.net\/2025\/09\/17\/this-popular-universal-orlando-ride-is-closing-for-almost-1-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jurassic Park River Adventure<\/a> at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/allears.net\/universal-orlando\/universals-islands-of-adventure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Islands of Adventure<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/allears.net\/universal-orlando\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Universal Orlando<\/a> has been closed since January 5th, and the refurbishment isn\u2019t expected to finish until November 19th. During this construction period, we haven\u2019t gotten to see much other than walls in front of the attraction. Well, now we\u2019ve got a look at what\u2019s going on behind the scenes!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to @bioreconstruct on X (formerly known as Twitter), we have aerial photos that give us a great view of the work being done on the ride. We can finally get a peek at what\u2019s going on past the walls.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-875001\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/2026-universal-orlando-islands-of-adventure-jurassic-park-river-adventure-construction-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\"  \/>Jurassic Park River Adventure construction<\/p>\n<p>Now that we\u2019re about halfway through the construction timeline, we\u2019re curious as to how much work has been done. For starters, we got a close look at the roofing progress at the entrance of the ride. You can see this from behind the walls, but this close-up shot gives us a better look.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-880019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/roofing-progress-jurassic-park.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"381\"  \/>@bioreconstruct via X<\/p>\n<p>Going way past the construction walls, take a look at this aerial photo of scaffolding at the paddock in the Jurassic Park River Adventure refurbishment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-880020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jurassic-park-river-adventure-scaffolding.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"  \/>@bioreconstruct via X<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s some more footage of the new wall construction happening over at the paddock area of the ride. You can see how high the walls are, and the scaffolding goes up all the way.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-880022\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jurassic-park-construction-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\"  \/>@bioreconstruct via X<\/p>\n<p>From the looks of it, this obviously is a pretty large part of the construction process.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-880023\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jurassic-park-construction-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"383\"  \/>@bioreconstruct via X<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really cool to get a new angle and look at the construction that\u2019s going on. We can\u2019t be the only ones who are realizing how big an attraction this truly is. Look at all the area!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-880024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jurassic-park-river-adventure-refurb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/>@bioreconstruct via X<\/p>\n<p>In one of the posts, @bioreconstruct noted that you can see the Ultrasaurus mechanical neck recently returned.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-880025\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/jurrasic-park-ride-construction.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"  \/>@bioreconstruct via X<\/p>\n<p>You can also see that a boat has recently returned. The boats for the ride had been wrapped in plastic and had been in storage near <a href=\"https:\/\/allears.net\/universal-orlando\/universal-epic-universe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Epic Universe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-880026\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/river-adventure-construction.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"  \/>@bioreconstruct via X<\/p>\n<p>We know November is quite a ways away, but clearly there\u2019s been a TON of work done on the attraction since the beginning of the year. We\u2019ll have to enjoy the rest of Universal while we wait for this fan favorite ride to return. We\u2019re always on top of everything happening at Universal, so make sure to follow us at AllEars for more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allears.net\/2026\/06\/06\/universal-kids-resort-just-made-spongebobs-glove-world-real-and-were-screaming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Universal Kids Resort Just Made SpongeBob\u2019s Glove World REAL, and We\u2019re Screaming!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you have a Universal trip coming up? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n<p> Post a Comment        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Universal\u2019s most popular rides has been closed since the beginning of the year, and there\u2019s still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-301458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301458","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=301458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}