Liberty Square Riverboat Now Closed for Refurbishment at Magic Kingdom

Aug 20, 2024 in "Liberty Square Riverboat"

Posted: Tuesday August 20, 2024 7:20am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The Liberty Square Riverboat at the Magic Kingdom is now closed for a brief refurbishment.

The closure begins August 20 through August 22, reopening to guests on August 23, 2024.


This may be one fo the last refurbishments for the Liberty Square Riverboat before it is replaced by the recently announced Cars-themed attractions. Disney has confirmed that the Car attractions will be built on top of the Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer Island.

View all current and upcoming Walt Disney World refurbishments.

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larryzAug 20, 2024

The Claw chooses!

PurduevianAug 20, 2024

Just you wait for the rest of liberty square (Yes it is AI. Yes the bottom left car has 3 eyes. No I don't know why)

BrianAug 20, 2024

Found this on Facebook.

Tony the TiggerAug 20, 2024

They already told you they have new cruise ships coming. 😉

ppete1975Aug 20, 2024

I feel ive heard brief refurbishment before... like sept 5th 1994. kidding.... this aint that... yet.

PurduevianAug 20, 2024

It fits right in!

HauntedPirateAug 20, 2024

Ouch.

EricsBiscuitAug 20, 2024

They should move it to Paris.

Captain BarbossaAug 20, 2024

They’re not refurbishing it. This is an annual boiler inspection required by the state of Florida.

TrainsOfDisneyAug 20, 2024

It’s a scheduled inspection. Like the steam trains this is a real steamboat and it takes a day to let it cool down so you can safely inspect it.

yensid1967Aug 20, 2024

WHY even refurb it when they will be closing it soon!? Seems like a waste of money. They want to destroy Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer Island for 'retheming' in to CARS and VILLANS lands...so why waste money refurbing it? Could there be a sinister plan to get the Liberty Belle backstage and have an 'accident' with the crane damaging it like what happened to the Irvine years ago? Hmmmm🤔 Just for the record...Demo'ing RoA and TSI IS WRONG! it was a staple of the park from day one! There are other places they could put CARS and VILLIANS...CARS beyond BTMRR and VILLIAN behind Haunted Mansion...there is plenty of room...at least 20 acres or more!!! THEY DO NOT HAVE TO TEAR DOWN 2 beloved attractions!!!! I sincerely hope that someone from Disney DOES read this blogs and see how the fans feel! ----- Disney told us things that were coming to the parks, BUT THEY LEFT SOME OUT like Rivers of America/Tom Sawyer Island expansions and how it was going to accomplish them! ------- I still say that Disney is going to feel the wrath of the opening of Epic Universe and Disney is being ARROGANT and sitting back and not really doing anything except announcing things that will be coming in 3+years...we all know that Disney ALWAYS takes at least 5 years to do anything! Tron, 1 attraction, took 5 years to build a CLONE, so why should we expect anything less!?

Andrew25Aug 20, 2024

Ideally they can keep a sliver of the river and permanently dock it in Liberty Square, convert it into a public seating area that MK desperately needs. Parking it at the Grand Flo would be cool, but attaching it to the marina might block views. Port Orleans could work, but that would require some investment.

Smiley/OCDAug 20, 2024

How unfortunate… In that case, just move it closer to HM and turn it into a HM themed restaurant…just don’t destroy it! Even move it (permanently) docked outside American Adventure and use it for seating for the QS and the show…

Captain BarbossaAug 20, 2024

Echoing what @Figments Friend said. She’d basically have to be rebuilt from the ground up. That’s not going to happen. But if it did, I’d bet every penny to my name that they’d convert her to a diesel powered engine.