Indiana Jones Adventure Coming to Disney's Animal Kingdom: New Details Unveiled

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Indiana Jones Attraction Concept Art

Posted: Sunday August 11, 2024 11:30pm ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney has shared all-new details on the new Indiana Jones attraction coming to Disney's Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World in 2027, with construction beginning this year.

Indiana Jones Attraction Concept Art

The ride will feature an all-new story, unlike any other Indy attraction at other Disney parks. In this new venture, the man with the hat has recently discovered a perfectly preserved Maya temple, and that can only mean one thing: it's time to explore it. He's heard rumors about a mythical creature deep within the temple — and he's got to see it for himself. So, he brings us along on the adventure…

Indiana Jones Attraction Concept Art

The new Tropical Americas land where Indiana Jones will be located replaces the entire Dino-Land U.S.A. area, with Indiana Jones replacing the existing Dinosaur ride, and a new Encanto attraction replacing Dino-Rama. A closing date for Dino-Land U.S.A. has not yet been announced.

New experiences inspired by Encanto and the fan-favorite adventurer Indiana Jones are coming to the reimagined land at Disney's Animal Kingdom

Dinosaur is replaced in this concept art with Indiana Jones

Dino-Rama is replaced with Encanto

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JD802 hours ago

That carousel is going to look gorgeous at night (assuming the park is open past sunset).

James Alucobond16 hours ago

They removed it a while ago when they released the new wave of art. The outlining bushes remaining in the art are fun to take note of, though. https://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/animal-kingdom/gallery/11aug2024-tropical-americas-pueblo-esperanza-concept-art.htm#&gid=1&pid=1

Gremlin Gus16 hours ago

They removed it when they showed off the concept art at last year's D23, and funnily enough, you can kind of see where the river used to be with the plants around the river still there in the concept art. Kind of sucks that they removed as it does look cool, but eh, I can live without it.

Timothy_Q16 hours ago

Worth pointing out they removed the pink river in front of Casita in the concept art

EagleScout61016 hours ago

https://mickeyblog.com/2025/03/28/photos-new-tropical-americas-signage-makes-its-way-to-disneys-animal-kingdom/

Disney Analyst22 hours ago

I was mostly curious if anyone knows whether it's the ride system, or other errors causing downtime (i.e. peoples items falling onto track, etc.). We may have had times where we had lightning lanes switched to Multiple Experience passes due to downtime, but I honestly didn't keep track well enough to remember which ride gave us that pass, how long it was down, etc. All I know is ride downtime never impacted us in any real way. Apart from Rise going down a lot our first day.

Timothy_Q1 day ago

Also retheming Dinosaur to Indy doesn't mean the ride will suddenly get the same downtime DL Indy usually has There's no correlation between the 2 things

UNCgolf1 day ago

They may update some of the computer systems/controls, but they aren't going to replace the ride system with something else.

MisterPenguin1 day ago

The vehicles are on a track. They'll build the new 'story' around where those tracks go. They won't change the current placement of the tracks. The movement of the vehicles then get programmed as to stop and go and sideways spine breakers.

rle4lunch1 day ago

You got very lucky with your visit. When we were living in San Diego, we'd visit every few months and the ride is regularly down at least once daily (for hours at a time). I'd say in the last 10 years of riding it, we've had it break while riding at least 3 times and were given complementary fast passes for a different ride at least 10 times for it.

Disney Analyst1 day ago

How much of the downtime at Disneyland is due to the ride system, and not other circumstances? I can say on our trip last year, we never had an issue riding Indy.

Giss Neric1 day ago

I would expect they would at least upgrade the ride system knowing how much downtime the Indy ride at Disneyland has on a regular basis. Indy for sure will have more complex show scenes than Dinosaur.