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[ford prefect]

Love IASW.  Pure Disney.  Yes, it is closed from 29/7 until early 2016.  The ride mechanics are in great need of an over haul.

Tha animatronics als need servicing.

[samuelvictor]

I am not surprised at all that Small World will be completely overhauled - in all the times I've been to DLRP (2011 onwards) I've never seen it where every doll is working as they should be. Plenty of dolls with stuck/twitching mouths or arms for example. It was repainted and cleaned for the 20th anniversary, but still no broken dolls were fixed.

Now that Disney corp have taken over, they will simply not allow this for the 25th anniversary, as you can tell by many of the comments in recent interviews. I imagine that all the motors and recievers in the audio animatronics will be simply replaced - easily affordable for them (assuming that they are identical to the Florida and California mechanisms), whereas before the costs and paperwork etc involved would have been difficult for DLRP to manage themselves. This seems to be slowly happening (one at a time) for figures in Star Tours and Phantom Manor, which get removed, then reappear a week later moving far smoother, but obviously IASW is a far bigger job, and the water makes it more akward. I imagine a similar overhaul of Pirates may happen, though I didn't notice many problems with it in our last trip (unless the skelleton pirates are meant to move - not a single one has ever moved when I've ridden it).

[deltaandthebannermen]

Yeh if looks like small world is going 2 be closed !!!!!
We have had to make up an excuse for my younger daughter saying that it has broken. She is devastated!!!!
Can anyone plz comment on my post "rides for young children" and give examples of other rides to make up 4 small world being closed
Thanks again !!!!!

My 3 year old daughter loved Slinky Dog.  Storybook Cansl Boats and Casey Jnr are good.  The dumbos of course.  Is the carousel running when you visit?  It was closed off for us at half term but she would have loved that.  Alice's Curious Labyrinth and Tea Cups are also good.  It's a shame about Small world but rides have to be refurbished sometime.

[DisneyGagaChick]

Aw no.

[Remco K.]

Scaffolding is getting down at "it's a small world", revealing it's new colors.



Above picture is courtesy of DisneylandBerry (Twitter).

[Remco K.]

More and more of the facade and its new colors is becoming visible.







Above pictures are courtesy of ED92Live (Twitter).

[rebecca20]

It looks so much prettier!!!!!

[A&S&O]

Can anyone post a before and after pic?

[rebecca20]

I have a before (how before do you want to go I have some circa 1993 ) and can take an after in March.

[Remco K.]

Can anyone post a before and after pic?

'Before picture' from rides.nl:


'After picture' from ED92Live:

[rebecca20]

I would literally love to be that construction worker - how awesome.

[RockNRoller]

The colour changes are very subtle but the whole thing looks so much fresher and brighter. Loving it, hope the inside looks just as good.

[DisneyGagaChick]

Ooo it looks nice!!

[Rocketeer]

Although its a subtle change, it seems like they've moved it away from looking like it was built in the early '90s with its overly saturated pastels.

[A&S&O]

Do we know the reopening date yet?