Hours after announcing that they would be filing permits this week, Disney has filed the first permits related to the Frontierland expansion that will bring two Cars-themed attractions to Magic Kingdom, and Villains Land. The Cars-themed area will replace Tom Sawyer Island and the Rivers of America. Villains Land is expected to be located further north.
Here’s a look at a recently compiled topographical map of the area. There are low-lying areas to the north and west of the Rivers of America site, requiring water management efforts when constructing usable laydown yards.
As expected, the permits filed today relate to water management and construction laydown yards. There will be three laydown yards, two located west of Magic Kingdom guest areas, and one laydown yard that should be visible from within Magic Kingdom along the northwestern banks of the Rivers of America. Here are a few different screenshots that all pretty much amount to the same thing – out-of-park water management efforts and laydown yards for construction vehicle staging, earth moving, and more.
There will likely be more permits filed as work progresses this year and into next year. Disney says that guests will see construction kick into “high gear” next year, with work in the early portion of 2025 set to kick off a mutli-year expansion of Frontierland and the creation of Villains Land.
For more on how long this construction will take, check out our article below!
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