We recently visited Magic Kingdom and you know what that means: it’s time for an update on the ongoing themed pavement project in Adventureland. We first noticed the work more than a month ago, and since then, Disney has slowly been expanding the new themed pavement. Here’s a look at the latest work, which stretches past Skipper Canteen and the Swiss Family Treehouse as the work continues toward Adventureland proper.
New Adventureland Pavement
The last time we checked in on the project, the pavement had been replaced from the Main Street USA entrance to Adventureland through to the Sunshine Tree Terrace. We’ll pick up our coverage from there, and walk past Skipper Canteen and the Swiss Family Treehouse as we make our way to the end of the work near the restrooms and cut through toward Liberty Square.
As has been consistent throughout the project, guests will find a more natural-looking (and feeling) pavement, complete with a mud-like color, animal tracks, small stones, and color variation. Here’s a closer look at some of the new pavement (which should be indistinguishable from the first wave of pavement).
Work will continue into October as the new pavement approaches some of the existing (old) themed pavement that starts closer to The Magic Carpets of Aladdin.
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The new pavement looks great and is bringing the park up to modern theme park standards. However, the buildings — while architecturally inspired — do not feel themed by current expectations. They seem stuck in the 1970s and are lacking weathering, textures, props, vintage era signage, and a feeling of “adventure” and inhabitation. Roofs should be ramshackle, with rusty corrugated metal and patches from long-past storms; barrels, crates and supplies should be seen indicating the land is a port-of-call or way-stop for travel, shipping, and exploration; the landscaping should be more colorful, layered, textured, and wild.
Keep going Disney, much of Magic Kingdom is a time capsule of 1970s theme park design that needs to be brought up to date.