New aerial photos from friend of the site Bioreconstruct reveal the latest work on the woodcarver carousel coming to the Tropical Americas land at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. In this article, we’ll combine the aerial photos with some recent on-the-ground photos to show you what we can see from areas around Disney’s Animal Kingdom. Here’s a look!
Structure Takes Shape for New Carousel at Animal Kingdom
Before we get to the aerial photos, here’s a little bit more context on what we’re looking at. As seen in the scale model below, the carousel is going to be in the “front left” of the land when utilizing the main entrance. For those familiar with the old layout of DinoLand USA, this is where the Boneyard playground used to sit.
The concept art below shows what the approach to the L-shaped, decagon building will look like.
At the 2024 D23 Expo, one of the ride vehicles was on display, showcasing the minute detail that we can expect to find when the carousel opens next year.
Ok, turning to the latest construction update, we’ll start with an on-the-ground look at what we can see over the green construction walls. On this main approach to the land across the Discovery Island bridge, we can see a structure rising in the foreground, along with the large Encanto ride building in the distance. We’re going to focus on the structure in the foreground in this article, which is the woodcarver carousel.
In our last update a couple of weeks ago, we started to see the concrete blocks barely peeking over the construction walls. Now, we can see not only the concrete block structure, but a new metal structure. We’ll soon see that this metal structure is the decagon structure that sits over the carousel itself.
Changing our perspective a bit, we can get a better view of the steel structure. When we stopped by, crews were soldering the structure together. The next day, Bioreconstruct would take to the skies to find a completed frame.
Here’s a look at the construction site from Bio. We can see the decagon frame around the concrete slab that will act as the carousel’s base.
For everything you need to know about the Tropical Americas retheme project for DinoLand USA, check out our article below!
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