TriceraTop Spin Demolished Overnight as Dino-Rama Clearing Nears Completion at Animal Kingdom

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Dino-Rama Demolition Complete - February 25, 2025

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Posted: Tuesday February 25, 2025 11:20am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Another major milestone in the Tropical Americas expansion has been reached as TriceraTop Spin has now been completely demolished at Disney's Animal Kingdom. After what appeared to be a careful, phased disassembly over the past few weeks, the entire ride structure is now gone.

Dino-Rama Demolition Complete - February 25, 2025

Dino-Rama is Now Cleared—Except for Rubble

With TriceraTop Spin's removal, the entire Dino-Rama area has been cleared, with only piles of rubble and debris remaining from the demolition process. The once carnival-style section of Dinoland U.S.A. has now been reduced to an open construction site as work progresses toward its transformation into Tropical Americas.

Dino-Rama Demolition Complete - February 25, 2025

A Rapid Demolition Process

TriceraTop Spin's removal started with what appeared to be careful disassembly, leading to speculation that it might be repurposed. However, overnight, crews demolished the remaining structure.

Dino-Rama Demolition Complete - February 25, 2025

What's Next for the Tropical Americas Expansion?

With Dino-Rama now almost fully cleared, the next steps are likely to include:

Final debris removal and site leveling
Groundwork and infrastructure installation
Visible construction on new attractions later this year

The Tropical Americas expansion will feature a new Encanto-themed attraction, allowing guests to step inside the Madrigal family's casita, and a new Indiana Jones adventure replacing DINOSAUR after it closes in early 2026. The entire land is expected to open in phases, with full completion anticipated by 2027.

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JD801 day ago

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

James Alucobond1 day 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 Gus1 day 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_Q1 day ago

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

EagleScout6101 day ago

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

Disney Analyst2 days 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_Q2 days 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

UNCgolf2 days ago

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

MisterPenguin2 days 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.

rle4lunch2 days 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 Analyst2 days 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 Neric2 days 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.