Experts Predict Three HUGE Changes for Disney in 2025

Disney4me · September 16

The only constant is change — and that’s especially true at Disney World.

Magic Kingdom

Walt Disney believed that the parks would never truly be finished, and we’ve seen that firsthand lately with new rides, restaurants, and even massive transformations like we saw at EPCOT. But, Disney isn’t showing any signs of slowing down at all and we’re predicting three huge changes for Disney World in 2025. Let’s get into it.

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Disney World is going through some major changes — and we’re predicting even more for 2025!

Impacted Crowds

In case you haven’t heard, a brand new theme park is coming to Universal Orlando Resort in 2025! Epic Universe will be a third gate featuring lands like Celestial Park, The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Ministry of Magic, SUPER NINTENDO WORLD, How to Train Your Dragon – Isle of Berk, and Dark Universe. And, because this brand new park is opening in 2025 — we have a hunch that Disney World crowds could be impacted.

Aerial overview of Epic Universe via bioreconstruct

We could see things going two different ways. On the one hand, it’s possible that folks will be forced to decide between a vacation to Disney World or a vacation to Epic Universe, which could lead to fewer crowds at Disney World if people ultimately decide to go to Epic Universe.

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On the other hand, though, people could just choose to combine vacations and tack on days at both Disney World and Epic Universe, which could lead to even more crowds at the Most Magical Place on Earth. Disney World also has quite a few new expansions and new lands in the works, but most of which aren’t set to open until after 2025. That doesn’t mean we won’t start seeing changes though!

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Construction Everywhere

Speaking of those changes coming to Disney World… remember all those walls all around EPCOT we all just recently got over putting up with for years? Well, get ready because construction walls will no doubt be back in 2025 — and they will be everywhere! The Cars Land retheme and Villains Land expansion at Magic Kingdom will no doubt bring quite a bit of construction to the park, along with the new Monsters Inc. Land wreaking havoc at Hollywood Studios.

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Construction walls up

And, of course — there’s the massive Tropical Americas retheme of DinoLand, U.S.A. at Animal Kingdom we’ll have to deal with. It’s unclear just how all of this construction will impact the parks, but you can likely expect to have to find some alternate routes on your 2025 visits — along with all those lovely, temporary construction walls.

No More Virtual Queues

Okay — hear us out. We know this one is kind of wild, but it’s quite possible that we could see no virtual queues at Disney World in 2025! Right now, there are only two virtual queues at Disney World: Tiana’s Bayou Adventure at Magic Kingdom and Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind at EPCOT. TRON also debuted with a virtual queue, but the ride officially switched to standby on September 9th, 2024.

Cosmic Rewind

Disney typically uses a virtual queue system when a new ride opens in an effort to manage capacity. But, after a while, the virtual queue usually goes away once the initial hype for a ride has died down. TRON didn’t have a VQ for nearly as long as other rides have, like Cosmic Rewind for example, which has had one of the longest-running VQs since opening.

Depending on the demand for Cosmic Rewind and Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, we could see those rides switch to standby before too long, meaning we could see a Disney World with no virtual queues at all.

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Tiana’s Bayou Adventure in Disney World’s Magic Kingdom

As of now, no new Disney World rides are slated to open in 2025 — except for the newly reimagined Test Track at EPCOT. It’s certainly possible that Disney could opt to use a virtual queue for Test Track when it opens, but as of now, we don’t have any official word on that. Cosmic Rewind could hang onto its VQ for a while as it is an incredibly popular EPCOT ride, but Disney did previously indicate that Tiana’s would switch to standby not too long after opening.

But, we don’t claim to know the future — so we’ll have to wait until 2025 to see if we’re right about that!

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TRON Lightcycle / Run

One thing is for sure, we’ll be on the lookout for the latest updates from Disney World and more, so stay tuned to the Disney Food Blog if you don’t want to miss a thing!