Disney is finally fixing four theme park attractions longtime fans have complained about for years. At D23 2026, the company’s fan expo running August 14-16 in Anaheim, executives confirmed a restoration wave hitting Epcot’s Spaceship Earth, the long-dormant Yeti at Animal Kingdom, Journey Into Imagination, and Disneyland Paris’s Space Mountain, according to ABC News.

Key Points:

• Spaceship Earth at Epcot is getting its first substantial update in nearly two decades, expanding its story from human communication to human connection while staying, in Disney’s words, “classically Epcot,” according to the official Disney Parks Blog.
• Dreamfinder is returning to Journey Into Imagination alongside Figment, per the same Disney Parks Blog announcement.
• The Yeti animatronic at Expedition Everest, dormant since the ride opened in 2006, will finally be repaired to move again for the first time in two decades, according to ABC News.
• Hyperspace Mountain at Disneyland Paris will revert to its original Jules Verne-inspired concept, restoring the coaster’s original musical score, according to Disney Parks Blog.

The Spaceship Earth news carries the most weight for Epcot purists. The geodesic-dome centerpiece has run essentially the same version of its human-history narration for years, and Disney’s promise of “new magic to every scene” while remaining “classically Epcot,” per Disney Parks Blog, suggests the company is aiming for evolution rather than a total teardown.

The Yeti fix might matter more to hardcore ride nerds than any other item on the list. The animatronic has sat dormant since the ride opened in 2006, and its non-functioning state has been one of the most talked-about running jokes among theme park regulars for two decades. Getting it moving again, as confirmed by ABC News, closes out one of the most persistent unfinished repair jobs in modern theme park history.

Dreamfinder’s return is smaller news but a sentimental one. The character has been absent from Journey Into Imagination for years, and his reappearance alongside Figment signals Disney leaning back into the ride’s original, more whimsical identity rather than away from it.

Disneyland Paris’s mountain has changed identities more than once over the years, most recently taking on a Star Wars theme as Hyperspace Mountain. Reverting it to the ride’s original Jules Verne-inspired concept, original score included, effectively resurrects a version most of today’s riders have never experienced firsthand.

None of the four projects has a confirmed reopening date yet, and Disney hasn’t said which rides will close for construction first. But for a fan base that has filed the same four complaints for the better part of twenty years, getting all of them addressed in a single presentation is itself the story — proof that the company’s oldest, quirkiest attractions still have a future built into its newest plans.