Magic Kingdom's Main Street Emporium Unveils Updates, Shortcut Now Open

Mar 04, 2025 in "Emporium"

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Posted: Tuesday March 4, 2025 8:25am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

The construction walls are down in a section of the Main Street Emporium at Magic Kingdom, revealing a refreshed look inside the store. The refurbishment included the installation of new light-colored tile flooring and the removal of a section of the dividing wall to create a more open space.

Emporium Refurbishment - March 4, 2025

As part of the changes, the rarely used register near Casey's Corner has been removed, allowing for better guest flow in that area.

Emporium Refurbishment - March 4, 2025

With the work now complete, the popular shortcut through the Emporium to Frontierland and Liberty Square is once again available, making it easier for guests to navigate through the park without detouring around Main Street U.S.A.

Emporium Refurbishment - March 4, 2025

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aladdin20077 days ago

Agree and with the last few comments. I still think its time for certain execs long overdue to go who are not helping (you all know a couple names already) but there is also middle management somewhere calling these shots in TDO that do not get it and operating the parks like they are going out of business, and are purposely de-theming and undoing everything for the worse.

TrainsOfDisney7 days ago

That’s a great point…. The closed merchandise and f&b packs people in which creates the operational issues that causes the theming to be stripped away.

larryz7 days ago

I think the Empirium is over in Batuu...

castlecake2.07 days ago

Magic Kingdom ops just keeps getting punished by upper mgmt cuts. How many stores are shuttered that could help spread out crowds from emporium? How many food venues closed that could take the demand off of Casey’s? They close things, yield management people to places that weren’t designed to handle it, then ruin the venue trying to make it work.

jmuboy7 days ago

Ageeed here. It plays into the narrative that the MK is truly the WORST of all castle parks. I honestly think that WDW IS TRYING to win this award sonehow. I always called the MK “the Walmart” castle park and DL “the Target” castle park. Both selling the same things. One just doing it with a bit more class and style.

jmuboy7 days ago

Honestly - this emporium update is infuriatingly bad and bland. Like for goodness sake a regional theme park could have “dressed up” this space better. The Empirium makes the recent bland-indication of Mickey’s of Hollywood look like the height of interior design!

Animaniac93-989 days ago

Boardwalk Candy Palace was recently renovated at DLP to tie in with the new M&M sponsorship and wasn't completely destroyed or dethemed in the process, unlike the Confectionary or Emporium at WDW. Disney is more then capable of making nice shops, but for whatever reason, WDW's Main Street is more about utility

Disstevefan19 days ago

Agreed, I forget to add my winky ;) to denote a joke. I was joking Seriously, its sad this is happening at the same time as we are seeing SUPER theming at EPIC! There is a candy store at EPIC where the theme is over the top and the store even has its own plush! Captain Cacao and the whole store is a sailing ship! Fantastic!

James Alucobond9 days ago

I do really hope that, at the very least, the scattered displays are temporary during construction. The chandeliers really need larger merchandise tables with significant displays beneath them to make some sense of their placement.

prberk9 days ago

Absolutely not. It is more de-theming. As Disney used to be known for, it can be meticulously themed and also squeaky clean. It does not have to look sanitary to be sanitary. (Think Adventureland.) Be it does have to be themed to be a theme park. The Emporium on Main Street, USA, should look like a turn-of-the century shop — not like an Apple Store or Target.

lazyboy97o9 days ago

An art would really tie it all together. Also, hooray for Bluebeam!

FerretAfros9 days ago

What in the McMansion Hell is going on here? The shape of the space and the (faux-)structural elements in it make absolutely no sense. Yes, this is a renovation of an exisitng space, but before adding superflous adornment they really need to look at how the space is put together. It's just so, so bad: And this is all before we talk about finishes, like the trendy tile floor that already looks dated, the mismatched wallpaper, and the unfinished(?) column. The whole space is such a mishmash that it really feels like nobody was talking to anybody else and there was no one person who was actually "in charge."