Adventureland Gets a Makeover: Disney Installs Highly-Themed New Walkway in Magic Kingdom

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New Themed-Walkway Concrete Work in Adventureland - August 21 2024

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Posted: Wednesday August 21, 2024 10:00am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Crews are currently installing a highly detailed, themed walkway in Magic Kingdom's Adventureland, bringing a fresh look to the area.

New Themed-Walkway Concrete Work in Adventureland - August 21 2024

The new concrete design features intricate theming, including track marks, a variety of colors, textures, and distressed details, reminiscent of recent concrete work seen at Disney's Animal Kingdom and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.

New Themed-Walkway Concrete Work in Adventureland - August 21 2024

The completed section is just inside the Adventureland entrance, near Sunshine Tree Terrace and Club 33.

New Themed-Walkway Concrete Work in Adventureland - August 21 2024

In recent years, Disney has focused on upgrading the bare concrete throughout its theme parks, with EPCOT seeing significant improvements across many of the World Showcase pavilions. Now, attention has turned to Magic Kingdom, where a surprising amount of basic, unthemed concrete still exists, making this latest enhancement a welcome upgrade.

New Themed-Walkway Concrete Work in Adventureland - August 21 2024

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Mr. Sullivan5 days ago

The theming is in the details of the concrete. It gives off the appearance of walking on earth rather than pavement, or at least it’s meant to evoke that visual. It’s place making.

Ayla5 days ago

What is supposed to be the point of this? Like, how is haphazardly colored concrete "themed"?

wdrive5 days ago

Much appreciated, thank you

DCBaker5 days ago

Down to Sunshine Tree Terrace as of this morning: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53977654853_4e87d7a555_k.jpg

TrainsOfDisney10 days ago

“Helped” hide the switches? Haha. Same.

JoeCamel10 days ago

Finally going to fix that Frontierland sewage leak.... It's funny cuz it's true

peter1143510 days ago

They definitely added to the experience. Greatly. They just didn’t hide the switches. I rode during soft openings and AP previews.

TrainsOfDisney10 days ago

they definitely added to the experience. Did you ride during cm previews? Did you ever experience the advertised “snow” effect?

larryz10 days ago

You forgot the "brown ditch"...

peter1143510 days ago

Thats generous. I miss the fog effects but I think you’re way overselling them.

TrainsOfDisney10 days ago

The entire experience was much better when it opened. Not just the working yeti, which you definitely could see - he was literally lunging toward the train! - but also the fog effects that completely hid the track switches from view.

Mr. Sullivan10 days ago

Yes its money and it's one of the few times them being stingy with money is something I'll defend. It's a lot of time, effort, and money on something that's ultimately so futile. Yes, the yeti looks amazing in motion...with the lights on and you just get to watch it. I was too young to have ridden it when it was working properly, but everyone in my family who got to and many, many, many others who did that i've encountered in person and online have all said that you couldn't really see anything impressive about it and that it looked about the same as it does now because you go by it so quickly. The yeti not working doesn't ruin the ride experience and I think as such it'd be kind of dumb to close one of Animal Kingdom's most popular attractions for an extended period of time to fix a detail that won't really add all that much to the ride experience. The sheer amount of work they'd have to do to even get to it to fix it just doesn't make it worth it.