Forward of the Bluey “enjoy” that’s coming to Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney Global, a number of new closure dates & refurbishment announcements had been posted for sights & reviews within the Rafiki’s Planet Watch area of the park. Right here’s the most recent on those transient & everlasting closings to organize for the Bluey takeover.
If you happen to overlooked it, Bluey is in any case coming to Florida, with the preferred doggies making their first-ever appearances in Animal Kingdom as a part of Cool KIDS’ SUMMER (to not be perplexed with final 12 months’s Cool Child Summer time) in 2026. All the way through that, visitors will be capable to take a a laugh tour to Conservation Station in Animal Kingdom to play and dance with Bluey and Bingo!
Play a few of your favourite video games from Bluey episodes with a a laugh animal twist, like butterfly keepy uppy. Snatch the entire circle of relatives and snap some photos along your Blue Heeler buddies to bear in mind this one-of-a-kind journey. Plus, as a part of your wild tour, step outdoor to find an enjoy with animals local to Bluey’s house nation of Australia!
Exact information about Bluey and Bingo in Animal Kingdom have been first shared about 365 days later as a part of Walt Disney Global’s 2026 Calendar of Occasions. We nonetheless haven’t heard any concrete get started date, even if it’s assumed to be on or round Might 26, 2026 with the kickoff of Cool KIDS’ Summer time.
We now even have dates when the prevailing reviews in Rafiki’s Planet Watch will shut…
Listed here are the announcements:
- Conservation Station will briefly shut on February 23, 2026, to make manner for a brand new Bluey journey coming Summer time 2026.
- Natural world Specific Educate will briefly shut on February 23, 2026, to make manner for a brand new Bluey journey coming Summer time 2026.
- The Affection Segment at Animal Kingdom will briefly shut on February 23, 2026, to make manner for a brand new Bluey journey coming Summer time 2026.
- The Animation Revel in at Conservation Station will shut on February 23, 2026, to make manner for a brand new Bluey journey coming Summer time 2026.
No less than for now, the final day to enjoy all of those choices can be February 22, 2026.
Notice the slight verbiage adjustments, with the whole thing excluding the Animation Revel in briefly last.
This difference is obviously practical and signifies each that the Animation Revel in is an everlasting closure and the whole thing else isn’t. This would possibly appear to be unhealthy information for the Animation Revel in, however we totally anticipated this one, because the Walt Disney Studios Lot opens this summer time with an all-new “The Magic of Disney Animation” enjoy.
That may nearly definitely come with an Animation Academy, as teased through the announcement that visitors must “pencil in a while to discover ways to draw your very personal personality cartoon.” This enjoy makes a lot more sense there, and even if we wouldn’t be averse to more than one Animation Reports, that used to be all the time not likely.
Clearly, Conservation Station as an entire and the Natural world Specific have been all the time (essentially) going to reopen. One is the world the place Bluey will seem and the opposite is the one manner of having access to the Bluey enjoy. Can’t have an enjoy with no venue and manner of having there!
Or are you able to?! That will’ve been an effective way to give an explanation for the conspicuous omission of Bluey during the last 12 months of not-so-patiently looking ahead to this. “Bluey does meet within the parks, you simply can’t see her with out going via a secret underground tunnel with an invisible front.” Roughly just like the Walt Disney Global model of getting a female friend in Canada.
The larger information here’s that Affection Segment is reopening. There were scattered rumors about Affection Segment being changed through the Bluey enjoy. That will be disappointing however unsurprising.
It sort of feels most probably that the petting zoo goes to get replaced or supplemented through the previously-announced “enjoy with animals local to Bluey’s house nation of Australia.” I believe I discuss for everybody in hoping that is an interactive kangaroo boxing enjoy, but when Disney Prison received’t even permit 3rd celebration engagement photographers on the lodges, there’s no quantity of waivers on this planet that’ll make that fly.
It’s imaginable that they’re changing the goats with pleasant and pettable choices the Quokka, Wombats, Wallabies, wild canines, and so on. I’m no longer positive how a lot of that’s in fact viable, however regardless of the animals are, I’m hoping we will puppy them. It’s almost definitely secure to suppose the ones will change the goats, whether or not it’s without delay or not directly.
It now additionally turns out like Affection Segment will go back as soon as the Bluey takeover ends. Or possibly extra as it should be, if it ends. Perhaps Affection Segment is indexed as a brief closure as a result of Australian animals are changing goats on an everlasting foundation and that have will nonetheless be referred to as Affection Segment.
I’m nonetheless having a difficult time visualizing the place this Bluey enjoy goes to move at Conservation Station with out changing one thing. There are unused spaces indoors that will be appropriate if this have been merely a meet & greet. Nevertheless it isn’t. It’s extra like GoofyCore Corridor in accordance with what we already know from casting calls.
Perhaps the top of the Amination Revel in frees up enough room. Possibly the closure is a couple of months lengthy (possibly) as a result of they’re in fact going to refurbish the construction and unencumber house within the atrium to show this right into a flex house appropriate for long run summer time Cool Youngsters’ Summer time occasions. It’s additionally imaginable that I’m overestimating simply how fashionable this can be because of the friction of having there. However Bluey could be very well liked by youngsters. It could also be not possible to overestimate the attraction.
Possibly it finally ends up being each indoors and out of doors, with a core play element indoors changing the Animation Revel in, plus crafting, critters, and who is aware of what else open air changing the Affection Segment and central courtyard. This moves me as probably the most logical choice, and I believe an indoor/outside part (past animal interactions) would possibly breathe new existence into Rafiki’s Planet Watch. Time will inform, despite the fact that.
As we’ve mentioned formerly, Walt Disney Global finding the Bluey and Bingo enjoy out at Conservation Station in Animal Kingdom is a daring transfer. It’s, no doubt, the in-park location that the fewest lovers have visited; which is to mention that if there’s anything else within the parks you haven’t performed as a WDW common, it’s in all probability to be Conservation Station.
For individuals who are unfamiliar with it, Conservation Station is situated at Rafiki’s Planet Watch, which is out there simplest by means of the Natural world Specific Educate. Trains leave periodically, with the final from Harambe Station at 4:30 PM. Conservation Station gives animal-themed actions, conservation strategies you’ll be able to do at house, and extra.
Present highlights of Conservation Station come with the Veterinary Remedy Room, the place you’ll be able to see Disney taking good care of animals; the Diet Middle, the place mavens get ready foods for animals; critter home windows with insects and stuff; and the Science Middle to be informed about what Animal Kingdom scientists are running on.
Walt Disney Global has combined issues up at Conservation Station during the last a number of years, including meet & greets and choices for the Lion King. It’s additionally been time and again rumored as at the reducing block, however its far flung location and difficult get admission to makes it an illogical candidate for alternative. Realistically, not anything “too fashionable” might be positioned again right here because of the logistics of transporting visitors through educate to Conservation Station.
We seldom talk over with Rafiki’s Planet Watch because of this, but if we do, we all the time say “we must talk over with right here extra incessantly” after making the trek out. It’s a pleasing little house to flee the crowds and the animal procedures are in reality attention-grabbing to look at–I want there have been a solution to see the agenda of them within the My Disney Revel in app.
And but, nearly each time we’re offered with the chance to return, we decline as it’s an excessive amount of of a trouble. I might believe that many Walt Disney Global lovers percentage an identical sentiment–considering Rafiki’s Planet Watch is underrated in accordance with their uncommon visits, however most commonly no longer opting to return very incessantly. It doesn’t matter what other people would possibly say, they necessarily “vote with their ft.” Conservation Station has been a ghost the town each time we’ve visited.
Because of this it’s a daring wager on Walt Disney Global’s section to position Bluey and Bingo again right here. Probably, the considering is that Bluey will draw other people again to this underutilized house whilst additionally including some friction to control call for for the vastly fashionable doggies.
My hope is that Walt Disney Global makes it price everybody’s whilst. Confidently that is formidable as “Bluey’s Easiest Day Ever!” at Disneyland, and it turns into a win-win for Disney and visitors through respiring new existence into an underutilized nook of the park. Cool Child Summer time punched above its weight and this Bluey factor will most probably get a wholesome finances, so I’m quite assured Walt Disney Global can ship one thing sturdy right here. We will be able to’t wait to enjoy it!
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