{"id":328535,"date":"2025-12-03T19:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/328535\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T19:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T19:13:09","slug":"frozen-ever-after-closing-date-announced-for-animatronic-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/328535\/","title":{"rendered":"Frozen Ever After Closing Date Announced for Animatronic Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disney announced the closing date for Frozen Ever After at EPCOT, which will go through a brief refurbishment period to replace Audio-Animatronics figures of Anna, Elsa, and Kristoff.<\/p>\n<p>Frozen Ever After Closing<a data-fslightbox=\"1\" data-type=\"image\" aria-label=\"Open fullscreen lightbox with current image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-WDW-Audio-Animatronics-Frozen-1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" alt=\"An animated woman in a blue dress stands on an icy balcony, snowflakes glowing like at Frozen Ever After\u2014your 9\/9\/25 Disney recap.\" class=\"wp-image-1304788 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-WDW-Audio-Animatronics-Frozen-1-1.jpg\" data-eio-rwidth=\"1920\" data-eio-rheight=\"1280\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frozen Ever After will be closed beginning on January 26, 2026. It will <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/2025\/12\/update-disney-reveals-debut-month-for-new-frozen-ever-after-animatronics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reopen with new figures featuring physical faces<\/a> sometime in February.<\/p>\n<p>Frozen Ever After replaced Maelstrom in the Norway pavilion in 2016. Its projection or \u201cscreen-face\u201d figures were groundbreaking at the time. It was the first Disney attraction ever to have all-electric Audio-Animatronics and\u00a0the first to combine electric motors and 3D printing. Since then, these techniques have become standard implementations.<\/p>\n<p><a data-fslightbox=\"1\" data-type=\"image\" aria-label=\"Open fullscreen lightbox with current image\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-WDW-Audio-Animatronics-Frozen-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" alt=\"Anna, Kristoff, and Sven from Frozen Ever After on EPCOT\u2019s stage, set with twinkling stars\u2014no castle like Disney parks\u2019 iconic spires.\" class=\"wp-image-1304058 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-WDW-Audio-Animatronics-Frozen-2.jpg\" data-eio-rwidth=\"1920\" data-eio-rheight=\"1280\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2023, a new version of Frozen Ever After opened with World of Frozen at Hong Kong Disneyland. Among various technical updates were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/2023\/11\/photos-video-full-ride-pov-frozen-ever-after-animatronic-faces-instead-screens-world-of-frozen-hong-kong-disneyland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">impressive Audio-Animatronics figures<\/a>\u00a0of Elsa, Anna, and Kristoff with articulated, physical faces. Disney is now <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/2025\/10\/breaking-projection-face-audio-animatronics-being-replaced-on-frozen-ever-after-at-epcot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">bringing this technology<\/a> to EPCOT.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest Disney Parks news and info, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WDW News Today<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wdwnt\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WDWNewsToday\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wdwnt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>                                                                <a href=\"https:\/\/wdwnt.com\/author\/shannen-michaelsen\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" title=\"Shannen Ace\" class=\"author url fn\" target=\"_blank\">Shannen Ace<\/a>                                                                                                                                                                                                <\/p>\n<p>        \t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney announced the closing date for Frozen Ever After at EPCOT, which will go through a brief refurbishment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,166953,166950,166952,166954,206,166951,32614],"class_list":["post-328535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-epcot","tag-epcot-center","tag-frozen-ever-after","tag-frozen-ever-after-closure","tag-movies","tag-norway-pavilion","tag-walt-disney-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}