Not to mention all of Haunted Mansion's facade being fully behind scrim for at least the next few months, the castle is drained while it's being repainted, and Little Mermaid is down for refurb. It's rough rn for sure.
Kind of a weird time as a WDW passholder period. MK is a construction site. AK lost all of Dinoland USA and both the train & Conservation Station are under refurb. HS lost Muppets and is about to lose RNRC for a while. Etc. Not cancelling my pass by any means, but it's definitely feeling like a weird transitional period.
Definitely weird and transitional, but with most of these additions, I'm
very excited to see the end result. I'll take a bit of a weird temporary lull leading into so many potentially really exciting developments and additions, compared to more 2023 / 2024-style coasting by.
For myself personally, once we see stuff like TropAm, Piston Peak, Villainsland, Monstropolis, refreshed Animation Courtyard, RNRC, Soarin', Buzz, BTMR, CoP, etc etc., on top of all the already completed EPCOT and New Frontierland work, I feel like that is enough for me to feel like WDW is finally where it should be, had they not taken that slow holding period in the 2000s.
So much of the resort feels refreshed, built for modern Disney crowds and expectations. And it only makes me potentially more excited for what they decide to do
after this phase. I'm excited for the less obvious wave of expansions and renovations to these parks that will be opened up now that the obvious crop of dated Dinolands, Ellen's, and Aerosmiths have been tapped into.